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List: Top 10 Most Popular Television Shows in the USA during 1988

Date: 1988

Source: Televisionista.net

Base: Only counts 'regularly scheduled programming' - no special events. Average TV audience figures by millions of homes.

Notes: In 1988 there were an estimated 88.6 million homes with TV in the US, therefore 28% of the nation's TV homes watched the top ranked program "The Cosby Show." To see the top twenty please click on the link above.

Show	Channel	Average Audience (millions of homes)
The Cosby Show	NBC	24.6
A Different World	NBC	22.2
Cheers	NBC	21.0
Golden Girls	NBC	19.3
Growing Pains	ABC	19.0
Who's the Boss?	ABC	18.8
Night Court	NBC	18.8
60 Minutes	CBS	18.2
Murder, She Wrote	CBS	17.9
The Wonder Years	ABC	16.8