In 1988, 7 ' den 77 ' ye ( From age 7 to 77 ), a TV show directed and presented by Manço began to run on TRT 1, the national TV channel of Turkey.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

During the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, Musik for Insomniaks, which was later expanded and released as two CDs in 1988.

Over the course of the 1988 – 89 television season, his TV show suffered a decline in viewership, resulting in many markets downgrading its time slot ; even flagship station WWOR moved Downey's program from its original 9: 00 PM slot to 11: 30 PM in January 1989, where it was followed by the then-new Arsenio Hall Show.

Gellar appeared in TV series such as Spenser: For Hire and Crossbow, and had minor roles in the films Funny Farm ( 1988 ) and High Stakes ( 1989 ).

* Michael Palin visited the Suez Canal in 1988 as part of his TV adventure series, Around the World in 80 Days.

* War of the Worlds ( TV series ), the 1988 television sequel to the 1953 film

** In the TV series Quantum Leap ( 1988 – 1993 ), the Quantum Leap project is said to be launched in New Mexico, in 1999.

The manga was adapted into a ninety-six-episode TV anime series which ran on Fuji TV from March 26, 1986 to March 2, 1988.

* Xerxes ( TV series ), a 1988 Swedish TV series

* Death in the Seine ( French TV, 1988 )

Frederick Abberline in the 1988 TV series ' Jack the Ripper '.

This scene has been recreated many times ; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, in The Three Stooges short Idle Roomers ( 1944 ), in The Pink Panther ( 1963 ), in the TV series Gilligan's Island (" Gilligan vs. Gilligan ", 1966 ), in the film Big Business ( 1988 ), The X-Files (" Dreamland ") and Family Guy (" Road to Germany ").

In Europe, prior to the launch of Astra 1A in 1988, the term DBS was commonly used to describe the nationally-commissioned satellites planned and launched to provide TV broadcasts to the home within several European countries ( e. g. BSB in the UK, TV-Sat in Germany ).

Showtime logo used from 1984 to 1997 ; a 3D circle containing a TV screen was included with this logo from 1984 to 1988.

* Mr. President ( TV series ) ( 1987 – 1988 )

A soundtrack was released in 1988 titled " Steve Dorff and Friends: Growing Pains and Other Hit TV Themes.

* Wired ( 1988 TV series ), see Tim Graham ( TV producer )# Television career

Apart from the infamous appearance of several of Kenton's streets in one episode of the cult BBC TV series " Fawlty Towers " starring John Cleese, the only known reference to Kenton in modern popular culture is the song " Kenton Kev ", by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album " Beyond Believable ", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988.

The TV series In The Heat of the Night was filmed in Covington from 1988 to 1995.

He sold TV Guide, Seventeen, and a few other publications to Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch in 1988 for US $ 3 billion, announcing that he would devote the rest of his life to philanthropy.

This special, set in the English Civil War, was shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 5 February 1988.

The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988.

To date the 20th anniversary special from 1988 hasn't been issued on DVD.

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

Later in 1988, the group made their second film appearance in Tougher Than Leather, a would-be crime caper that was directed by Rick Rubin and featured special guest performances by the Beastie Boys and Slick Rick.

He drove for them on their debut in 1985, scored their first point in the 1988 United States Grand Prix, although he had been running 5th for quite a long time during the race until being passed by Tyrrell's Jonathan Palmer, took their only front-row start at 1990 USA Grand Prix ( aided by special Pirelli tyres ; several of their other drivers had surprise qualifying results that day ), their only lap leading a race in the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix, where he finished 5th, and scored their joint-best F1 result of 4th.

The Broads in East Anglia are not in the strictest sense a National Park, being run by a separately constituted Broads Authority set up by a special Act of Parliament in 1988 and with a structure in which conservation is subordinate to navigational concerns ( see Sandford Principle below ), but it is generally regarded as being " equivalent to " a national park.

A two-hour special " Young Talent Time at Universal Studios " aired on 13 August 1988.

Three special trains transported Liverpool supporters to Sheffield for a match fixture in 1988, whereas only one train ran in 1989.

A Soviet Spetsnaz ( special operations ) group prepares for a mission in Afghanistan, 1988.

* Christmas Crunch: A special edition named Christmas Crunch was first released for the 1988 holiday season and contained Cap ’ n Crunch with red and green Crunch Berries in a green box with the Cap ’ n wearing a Santa Claus hat ( originally also containing a toy or Christmas tree ornament inside the box ).

The Broads, and some surrounding land, were constituted as a special area with a level of protection similar to a National Park by The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act of 1988.

HC Andersen is a strong ale-type beer, first brewed in 1988 when the Albani Breweries decided to create a special beer to celebrate Odense's 1, 000th anniversary.

The series was scrapped, and the completed pilot aired as a special, Christmas in Tattertown, in December 1988.

Ten years later, it had become clear that a statutory body was needed, and a special Act of Parliament, The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 ( referred to as the Broads Act ) made the Broads Authority into a Special Statutory Authority which gave it parity with national park authorities.

On September 5, 1988, ABC aired a special called " The Best of SCTV ".

This special was ordered amidst the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike.

Pardo squeezed in many other assignments at NBC, including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ( until 1999 ), WNBC-TV's Live at Five news program, NBC Nightly News, and Wheel of Fortune ( during two special on-location weeks in 1988, when the show originated from New York and was using substitute announcers after Jack Clark's death ).

The programme's run ended with a live New Year's Eve special broadcast through to the early hours of New Year's Day 1988 ; material included " Hotel California " by The Eagles, live from 1977, and " Bat Out of Hell " by Meat Loaf.

* 1988: Angoulême Festival, 15th anniversary special Grand Prix de la ville d ' Angoulême

* Dave Broadfoot ( 1973 – 1988 ); retired in 1988, occasional " special guest " on the series, his appearances becoming less frequent over time on both the radio and television shows.

In 1987, Simon also sang the theme for the 1988 Democratic National Convention, " The Turn of The Tide ", for a Marlo Thomas television special Free to Be ... A Family.

Also, in the 1988 Grand Final, Ross presented a special trophy to Phillip Westwick who completed the adventure course in the fastest time.

It also features a violent decapitation scene ( caused by a horizontal sheet of plate glass ), one of mainstream Hollywood's first: " If there were a special Madame Defarge Humanitarian Award for best decapitation ," wrote Kim Newman in Nightmare Movies ( 1988 ), " this lingering, slow-motion sequence would get my vote.