Events
During the actual events, the buyout of MTV Networks by Viacom would initially end Warner's first venture into cable television until returning in 1990, when it brought in HBO and Cinemax as part of its merger with Time Inc.
Television series debuts
- The Bradys
- His & Hers
- Down Home
- Tim Conway's Funny America
- Wings
- Ferris Bueller
- American Dreamer
- E.A.R.T.H. Force
- City
- Bagdad Cafe
- Top Cops
- Evening Shade
- You Take the Kids
- True Detectives
- America Tonight
- On the Television
- SK8-TV
- Wild & Crazy Kids
- Outta Here!
- Afterdrive
- Access America
- BET's Screen Scene
- American Chronicles
- Preview the Best of the New
Films
- January 12 - Internal Affairs
- February 2 - Flashback
- March 2 - The Hunt for Red October
- April 13 - Crazy People
- May 4 - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
- May 11 - A Show of Force
- June 8 - Another 48 Hrs.
- June 27 - Days of Thunder
- July 11 - Wheels of Terror
- July 13 - Ghost
- August 10 - The Two Jakes
- September 21 - Funny About Love
- October 12 - Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
- October 26 - Graveyard Shift
- October 31 - Nightmare on the 13th Floor
- December 14 - The Kid Who Loved Christmas
- December 19 - Almost an Angel
- December 25 - The Godfather Part III
Other
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