Season 1989

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

Hollywood as nightly news, invented before social media could do the job for free. Mary Hart's durability, red-carpet stand-ups, and the grammar of the entertainment newsmagazine — tease, clip, smile, next — still run every awards-season broadcast. Appointment gossip infrastructure: the industry talking about itself, on purpose, every weeknight.

TV Flash files Season 1989 of Entertainment Tonight (1981–present) on Syndication as a mid listed season (1989; 6 of 36) — 16 listed hours, 1989-05-13–1989-05-26 from “2000TH EPISODE, Family Ties Finale, Hill Street Blues cast reunited” (S1989E01) to “Matthew Broderick” (S1989E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S1989E01 2000TH EPISODE, Family Ties Finale, Hill Street Blues cast reunited

   The 2000th Episode stacks a sitcom finale and a Hill Street reunion as the same newsmagazine breath — numbered monument as the brand.