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Bereitschaft Dr. Federau is a German seven-part family television series based on a screenplay by Karl Heinz Klimt, broadcast between 1987 and 1988.

Teen Win, Lose or Draw is the teenage version of the sketchpad charades game show, Win, Lose or Draw. It was produced by Burt & Bert Productions and Buena Vista Television; the show was co-produced by Jay Wolpert Productions for its first season and Stone Stanley Productions for the last two. The show aired on the Disney Channel from April 29, 1989 to April 28, 1990, and again from September 10, 1990 to September 26, 1992. The first season of shows were taped at the Disney MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida, and then moved to Hollywood Center Studios in California for the rest of the run.

German biochemist Dr. Peter Lester, his wife and 15-year-old son Michael, become the victims of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company in Australia, as young Michael disappears from the heavily guarded research camp in the outback.

Drama Series of the Life of twice married couple Herbert and Mary Browne Lacey.

About the problems scientists face in seeking mutual understanding between humans and dolphins. The work of scientist Sergey Chernikov, who dedicated many years to studying dolphins, led to the bold hypothesis that dolphins are a 'sea people' endowed with intelligence.

Animal folk tales set in the titular community, in which local eccentric Ohahai retells several popular fairy tales with considerable license.

"Yuuyake Nyan Nyan" was a Japanese variety show on Fuji TV in which members of all-girl idol group Onyanko Club would showcase their various talents, perform skits and interview guests.

A 1983 six-episodes series, made by Massimo Sani, which recounts the WW2 battles involving Italy between 1940 and 1942: from the attacks to France and Greece to the clashes in Africa and the disastrous expedition to Russia.

Tales of King Matthias is a Hungarian television animated film series about King Mátyás, shown in 1984, produced by Pannónia Filmstúdió from 1981 to 1982. The director of the animated feature film series is László Újváry. Ábel Kőszegi and László Újváry wrote the script, the music was composed by the band Kaláka and produced by Ferenc Mikulás. It first aired between February 18, 1984 and May 12, 1984. In Hungary, it was broadcast by M1, M2, Duna TV, Fox Kids / Jetix, Kiwi TV and Super TV2.

The show centers around a fictional town in Philadelphia that has more Spanish-speaking immigrants coming, making it hard for some of its' residents to live. One of these people is a old store owner named Mr. Wiggins, whose customers are suddenly disappearing to buy food that the majority of residents would like to eat. A Spanish adult named Mina decides to help him by teaching him Spanish in order for more customers to go to his store.

Tang Ko (Feng Chun-Fan) is a martial arts director at a TV station. During the height of martial arts films, he was once very popular, but as the genre declined, so did his career. He became a man who could only talk about his past glories. Having long since divorced his wife, custody of his daughter Sin Yi (Ho Bik-Sing) was awarded to her mother. Tang himself is now dating a girlfriend, Li Yim-Hung (Ching Ho-Wai). One day his daughter arrives at his home, announcing that she wants to move in and live with him. After Sin Yi moves in, the father and daughter clash frequently and get into many amusing situations. Although the two share a genuine bond, Tang eventually comes to realise that he is not a capable father. Sin Yi ultimately moves back abroad to live with her birth mother. His girlfriend Yim-Hung also leaves him, marrying a wealthy man instead.

The series shows the daily life of a Turkish family in Germany and focuses on their problems which arise in part from an inadequate command of German language and its relation to Turkish and German neighbors. The Korkmaz family consists of a mother Pembe, mistress of the house, father Dursun, daughter Hatim, the problem child Cengiz, and the youngest daughter Sanem.

In 1987, ITV franchise HTV made an obscure anthology horror series, Night Voices, which has mostly vanished into the ether almost as surely as the wiped episodes of Late Night Horror.

Palibhasa Lalake was a Philippine TV sitcom series on ABS-CBN which ran fron 1987 to 1998 and directed by Johnny Manahan.

One part drama starring Kuniko Yamada and Ken Utsui

Aladdin achieves some of his goals with the power of the genie and the lamp, and when he lost them and was forced to use the abilities God gave him, such as intelligence, patience, and willpower, he was able to achieve his goals, and it is a call to man not to rely on anything except his abilities that God has given him, which are a blessing that he must appreciate.

A series of puppet animated shorts based on the stories of Mailen Konstantinovsky about amazing phenomena in nature and the animal world

Michael Nesmith in Television Parts is a summer TV series run by NBC in 1985. It was a 30-minute comedy-variety series created by Michael Nesmith as a continuation of his Grammy Award-winning video production Elephant Parts, and earlier series PopClips. The first episode was a stand-alone television special which aired on March 7, 1985. The following series premiered on June 14, 1985. The show was a mix of music videos mixed in with comedy sketches, commercial parodies, and general silliness. It was hosted by Nesmith himself, who also participated in many of the sketches. Television Parts also featured guest appearances by a number of comedians, including Martin Mull, Whoopi Goldberg, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Martin, The Funny Boys and Garry Shandling, whose appearance on the show was the seed for It's Garry Shandling's Show. One of the show's featured pieces, "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" was later picked up by Saturday Night Live. The show was cancelled after one short summer season that same year. It would return in 1985 as two separate home video releases on VHS and Betamax, Television Parts Home Companion and Dr. Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce. The first was a 40-minute compilation of original show featuring the comedy skits and music by Michael Nesmith only. Dr. Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce was a 90-minute montage of sketch comedy with a variety of stars and music videos. The stars included Bobcat Goldthwait, Ed Begley, Jr., Jimmy Buffett, Rosanne Cash, Whoopi Goldberg, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld and Garry Shandling.

"Test Pattern," MuchMusic's inaugural game show in the late 1980s to early 1990s, featured Bill St. Amour on music and sound, with announcer Bill Carroll. Hosted by Dan Gallagher and produced by Sidney M. Cohen, it included Canadian musicians and used foam bricks to select topics in a points-based contest. Season one had four five-time champions who won trips, later competing for a home stereo in a "Tournament of Champions." Notably, winning a 2-slice toaster became an iconic prize. The show concluded after two seasons.

The New Hollywood Squares is the third Hollywood Squares television series. The program aired between September 15, 1986 and June 16, 1989. It was produced by Century Towers Television with Rick Rosner serving as executive producer and Orion Television as distributor. After the first season, became known simply as "Hollywood Squares."

Seaview is a British children's television series produced by the BBC in 1983. Written by Chris Barlas, the series was a light-hearted comedy drama centred around a teenage girl, Sandy Shelton, and her younger brother George growing up living at her parents' guest house in Blackpool. Two series each consisting of six episodes were made between 1983 and 1985. The second series introduced a boyfriend for Sandy played by Mark Jordan who went on to star as PC Phil Bellamy in ITV's Heartbeat.

KBS1 1988 Seoul Olympics Drama Special adaptation of the Legend of Chunhyang

Trivia Trap is an American game show produced by Mark Goodson Productions. It was created by producer Goodson and originally ran from October 8, 1984 to April 5, 1985 on ABC. The game featured two teams of three contestants each who competed against each other to answer trivia questions in various formats. Bob Eubanks was the host, and Gene Wood announced during the first two weeks. Charlie O'Donnell announced during the third week and was replaced by Bob Hilton for the remainder of the series.

Ryoko, the daughter of kidney surgeon Shiro Tachibana, suffers from chronic kidney failure and is forced to undergo regular dialysis treatment. Tachibana conducts a tissue compatibility test to transplant either his own or his wife Hisako's kidney into Ryoko, but during the test it is discovered that Ryoko is not the Tachibana couple's biological daughter. Tachibana works hard to find a biological parent who can donate a kidney to Ryoko.

Stripy is a funny multi-coloured animal resembling a cat by a long snout and by a very contagious laughter. The victim of his jokes is an ugly grumpy and touchy man who at the end of each episode ends up being affected by Stripy’s catchy hysteric laughter.

This programme is the original version of the popular Channel 4 words and numbers show, Countdown Countdown.Yorkshire Television purchased the format and commissioned a series of eight shows under the title Calendar Countdown, which were to be a spin-off of the regional news programme Calendar. As the presenter of Calendar, Richard Whiteley was the natural choice to present Calendar Countdown his daily appearances on both shows earned him the nickname "Twice Nightly."

A team of space explorers, young and old alike, take a journey to Pluto, facing many perils along the way.

Country music variety/talk show featured performances by country artists, comedians, and other performers, along with interviews and discussion of the country music industry.