Annual Premiere Index ยท 1988

1988 Movie & TV Premieres

Explore upcoming and released 1988 movies and TV series, theatrical drop dates, community ratings, and streaming availability in US.

Movie โ˜… 7.8
Stand and Deliver

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

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Stand and Deliver

1988
TV โ˜… 5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark

A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

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LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988
Movie โ˜… 8.1
My Neighbor Totoro

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

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My Neighbor Totoro

1988
TV โ˜… 6.4
Home and Away

Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.

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Home and Away

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.8
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Die Hard

High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.

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Die Hard

1988
TV โ˜… 7.3
+4
Garfield and Friends

The animated stories of Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into. And also Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with his fellow farm animals.

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Garfield and Friends

1988
Movie โ˜… 8.4
Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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Cinema Paradiso

1988
TV โ˜… 6.5
American Experience

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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American Experience

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.4
Beetlejuice

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

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Beetlejuice

1988
TV โ˜… 8.0
The News Puppets

A parody of a newscast, the show is a caricature of the political world, the media, personalities or more generally of French society and the current world.

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The News Puppets

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.9
Akira

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

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Akira

1988
TV โ˜… 6.9
Pili

Pili is a puppet show from Taiwan. It is made by Pili International Multimedia. The TV series started in 1985, and it still continues today. It is one of the most popular TV shows in Taiwan. Pili puppet show is performed by many kinds of puppets, some of them are cool, some are intelligent, and some are funny. Unlike traditional puppet shows, Pili puppet show uses state-of-the-art animation to help present its fighting art. The delicate design of the appearance and characteristics of each puppet has made Pili puppet show a well-known entertainment in Taiwan.

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Pili

1988
Movie โ˜… 6.8
+2
Child's Play

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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Child's Play

1988
TV โ˜… 5.4
Countryfile

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

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Countryfile

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.5
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988
TV โ˜… 8.4
The Wonder Years

The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.

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The Wonder Years

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.3
+2
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988
TV โ˜… 7.9
Kiteretsu Daihyakka

The main character is a scientific genius boy named Kiteretsu, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He frequently travels in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine he built. Miyoko is a girl in his neighborhood who is basically his girlfriend. Tongari is his rival, who happen to share some similar traits of Honekawa Suneo. Buta Gorilla is a typical neighborhood bully, who also share similar traits of Gian except that he often antagonizes Korosuke (though they are in grade school).

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Kiteretsu Daihyakka

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.2
+1
Big

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

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Big

1988
TV โ˜… 6.5
Murphy Brown

Murphy Brown is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.

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Murphy Brown

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.2
The Land Before Time

An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.

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The Land Before Time

1988
TV โ˜… 8.1
Red Dwarf

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

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Red Dwarf

1988
Movie โ˜… 7.7
+3
Rain Man

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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Rain Man

1988
TV โ˜… 7.8
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

An American animated children's television series inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

1988
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