In 1987, he directed eight episodes of the satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer !, including the episode, " Hammer Hits the Rock " in season two, where he made an uncredited appearance as " Zeke " ( prisoner in cell No. 76 ).

Hilda Ogden's final episode on Christmas Day 1987, remains the highest-rated episode of Coronation Street ever, with nearly 27 million viewers.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

** episode: 1. 12 Faith Healer ( 1987 )

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 ).

* MacGyver ( 1987 – 1988 ) as Nicole Anne " Nikki " Carpenter / she also played Lisa Kohler / Kosov in the double episode " Lost Love "

Kelley reprised the role for the " Encounter at Farpoint " pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 ), insisting upon no more than the minimum Screen Actors Guild payment for his appearance.

He appeared as himself in the first episode of ITV comedy The New Statesman, coming second in the 1987 election, ahead of the Labour and SDP, which saw Alan B ' Stard elected to Parliament.

* Playing a moaning stranger in an episode from 1987 of In Sickness and in Health.

1987 also saw the band embark on another national tour, appearances on national television – including playing the final episode of Countdown and the lead single " At First Sight " making the Young Einstein soundtrack.

* The April 28, 1987 episode of the U. S. series Max Headroom entitled " War " featured a terrorist group known as the " White Brigade " who was dedicated to ' neo-radicalistic anarcho-syndicalism.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

In 1986, he was a regular in the LWT sitcom The Two of Us, and guested in an episode of Super Gran in May 1987, which was the last role he filmed.

* In 1987, fictional music group Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for " Ask Alvin ," an episode of their TV series.

Much of the episode Return of the Technodrome in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series take place near the Niagara Falls and its hydroelectric plant.

You Can't Do That on Television resumed production in 1989, but the only child cast members to make the transition from 1987 to 1989 were Amyas Godfrey and Andrea Byrne, although a few minor cast members seen in 1986, including Rekha Shah and James Tung, returned for an episode or two.

* Most of the Once Upon a Time Machine episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series is set in the year 2036.

TV alien puppet ALF, supposedly on a dare from host Davidson, actually guest hosted half an episode, and on a 1987 April Fools ' Day prank on Davidson, the two contestants were actually actors whose argument led to the female " contestant " shoving the male off the set's raised contestant stage.

* David Ogden Stiers played a murderer in the season 2 episode " Blind Justice " ( 1987 ) and a crook in the season 3 episode " The Ambassador " ( 1988 ).

* Famous silent film actor Eddie Quillan made his last television appearance on Matlock in the season 1 episode " The Author " ( 1987 ).

* " Northern Lights Out ", an episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon TV series

In 1987, he also had a cameo in " Encounter at Farpoint ", the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as by-that-time Admiral Leonard McCoy, Star Fleet Surgeon General Emeritus.

* " Divide and Conquer " ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode )

Other intimations to his dubious medical training include the episode " Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles ," in which he comments, " I'm no doctor, but this machine guy could really use a lozenge.

The episode " Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles " indicates that young Decapodians progress through various crustacean, invertebrate, and fish-like forms before reaching their adult form.

* During one episode of the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, Jenny fights hopping vampires.

In the episode " Sibling Tsunami " of the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character replied, " The usual, life, the universe, everything " a reference not only to Marvin, but the " Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything " a central tenet of the series ' storyline ( as well as the title of the third book ).

In 1999, Bonaduce appeared in the Christmas episode, " Sabrina, Nipping at Your Nose ", of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, after Salem buys a Twelve Days of Christmas package at the 89 Cents Store, Bonaduce appears sitting in a pear tree, which Salem then exclaims, " Danny Bonaduce!

* The 1987 cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had an episode entitled " Turtles on the Orient Express ".

* The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon spent the better part of an episode on the train.

This scene is also parodied in the season 4 Family Guy episode 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter.

* In the episode " Dummy for Love " on Season 2 of the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Salem the cat has digitally inserted images of himself with various celebrities such as Mother Teresa to give to Zelda so she will put in a good word for him at the Witches Council, hoping for leniency.

The episode also faced competition from ITV's screening of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

* 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon episode " Big Cufflink Caper " of season 4 ( 1990 ) features the " Cufflink of Cathay ", an explosive of Ancient China, hidden inside a cufflink.

He also played a cameo in an episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch in 1998, " My Nightmare, the Car ".

In the season 6 episode " I Was a Teenage Taylor ", a small child comes trick or treating at the Taylor house dressed up as Buzz Lightyear.

Other parts came-movie roles in I Was a Teenage Werewolf, High School Confidential, and the notorious God's Little Acre, as well as many roles on television, such as Crossroads ( three episodes ), The Restless Gun ( pilot episode aired on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ), Sheriff of Cochise ( in " Human Bomb "), Crusader, The Rifleman, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, Johnny Staccato, Wire Service, General Electric Theater, The Court of Last Resort, State Trooper ( two episodes ), Tales of Wells Fargo, Tombstone Territory ( in the episode " Rose of the Rio Bravo ", with Kathleen Nolan ), among many others.

According to one version, suggested by a Hermes flashback, and also by a reverse aging process shown in the " Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles " episode, a newborn Bender possessed a baby-like body.

* In the episode Attack of Big MACC in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, the " thinking " robot MACC leaves his time ( 2390 ) and time travels back to the late 1980s.

For example, an episode of Futurama that dealt with a character's devotion to Star Trek is named " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", a level in the videogame Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time is called " Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before ", and an episode of DuckTales parodying Star Trek is entitled " Where No Duck Has Gone Before ".

He appeared on one episode each of The Love Boat: The Next Wave ( episode " Captains Courageous ") and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ( episode " The Crucible ") and in two episodes of Nikki as The Big Easy ( episodes " Gimme Shelter " and " Stealing Nikki ").