* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

Desi Arnaz ( March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986 ) was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer.

A Monkees television show marathon (" Pleasant Valley Sunday ") broadcast on 23 February 1986 by MTV resulted in a wave of Monkeemania not seen since the group's heyday.

Enya was contracted to provide music for the soundtrack of the 1986 BBC television documentary The Celts.

Over time, Godzilla 1985, though not a hit, was partially profitable for New World only with the addition of home video and television syndication ( the film debuted on television on May 16, 1986 ).

Until 1986, television broadcasts in the city were restricted to two channels: TVT-6 and the ABC.

Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

After the weapon sales were revealed in November 1986, Reagan appeared on national television and stated that the weapons transfers had indeed occurred, but that the United States did not trade arms for hostages.

* 1986 – Rachel Riley, British television presenter

* 1986 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American reality television personality ( d. 2006 )

* 1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.

In 1986 Libyan state television announced that Libya was training suicide squads to attack American and European interests.

The government-backed Luxembourg satellite company " Société européenne des satellites " ( SES ) was created in 1986 to install and operate a satellite telecommunications system for transmission of television programs throughout Europe.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

Penguins have also found their way into a number of cartoons and television dramas ; perhaps the most notable of these is Pingu, created by Silvio Mazzola in 1986 and covering more than 100 short episodes.

* Mentioned by Frank Zappa on CNN television series Crossfire March 28, 1986.

They were famously banned permanently from Saturday Night Live after performing drunk before a national television audience on January 18, 1986.

Independent stations, even more than network affiliates, were feeling the growing pressure of audience erosion to cable television in the 1980s and 1990s, and there were unaffiliated commercial stations in most of the major markets, at least, even after the foundation of Fox in 1986.

This included almost all the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television library with the exception of those owned by United Artists ( i. e. James Bond franchise ), although some UA material were included such as the a. a. p.

She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1986 and received a recurring role in the television series Brothers.

Television in the United States has long been dominated by the Big Three television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, but Fox, launched in 1986, has gained prominence and is now considered as part of the " Big Four.

The Fox Broadcasting Company network, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, was launched on October 9, 1986 after the company purchased the television assets of Metromedia.

In 1986, a screening of the entire Monkees television series by MTV led to renewed interest in the group, followed by a single (" That Was Then, This Is Now " reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S .), a 20th Anniversary Tour, a greatest hits album and a brand new LP, Pool It!

She also co-starred in Ferris Bueller, a television adaptation of the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS / 6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

A series of largely unsuccessful 5-year plans initiated in July 1986 in partnership with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attempted to reform the foreign exchange system, liberalize imports, reduce restrictions on international transactions, diversify exports, and reform the coffee industry.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

Chapterhouse Dune ends with a cliffhanger, and Herbert's subsequent death in 1986 left some overarching plotlines of the series unresolved.

* The comic series Concrete ( 1986 -) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

" In John Byrne's 1986 origin version The Man of Steel, instead of adopting him through an orphanage, the Kents passed Clark off as their own child after their farm was isolated for months by a series of snowstorms that took place shortly after they found his rocket, using their past medical history of various miscarriages to account for their reasons for keeping Martha's pregnancy secret.

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1986 TV series ), An animated TV series

He played " Faceman " from 1982 to 1986 ( although the series didn't air until January 1983, and the final episode wasn't shown until 1987 re-runs ).

Plato actually returned for several appearances during the show's final 1986 season, which appeared on ABC, including an episode ( Plato's final appearance in the series ) in which Kimberly suffers the effects of bulimia.

She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts.

The series began as an open specification, then tyres were standardized from 1986 onwards, followed by engines and chassis in 1996.

The series was staged as the Formula 3000 European Championship in 1985, as the Formula 3000 Intercontinental Championship in 1986 and 1987 and then as the Formula 3000 International Championship from 1988 to 2004.

* Macqueen, J. G. ( 1986 ) The Hittites, and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor, revised and enlarged, Ancient Peoples and Places series ( ed.

The first of what became a series of films, Highlander, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was released on March 7, 1986, with the tagline " There Can Be Only One.

The 1986 National League Championship Series against the New York Mets was noted for great drama and is considered one of the best postseason series ever.

The Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.

Following the tentacle scene in Guyver: Out of Control in December 1986, the Urotsukidoji anime series by Toshio Maeda was released on OVA beginning in 1987 and released in America in 1992 by Anime 18.