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The Tracey Ullman Show

Season 4

24 listed hours · 1987–1990 · Fox

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How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

Fox's early identity crisis in the best way: Ullman's accents, songs, and sketches, plus those Simpsons bumpers that accidentally founded a dynasty. Variety as network-building. A British polymath on a baby network, then the origin-story lawsuit that followed when yellow cartoons ate the universe. The sketches still reward a rewatch.

TV Flash files Season 4 of The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1990) on Fox as the last listed season of 4 — 24 listed hours, 1989-09-10–1990-05-26 from “7W01” (S04E01) to “Best of...” (S04E24). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S04E24 Best of...

    Best of... is the closer: four seasons of Fox variety, then the origin-story lawsuit when yellow cartoons ate the universe.

  1. S04E01

    7W01

    7W01 — Season 4, Episode 1 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-09-10. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  2. S04E02

    7W02

    7W02 — Season 4, Episode 2 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-10-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  3. S04E03

    7W03

    7W03 — Season 4, Episode 3 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-10-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  4. S04E04

    7W04

    7W04 — Season 4, Episode 4 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-10-22. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  5. S04E05

    7W05

    7W05 — Season 4, Episode 5 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-10-29. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  6. S04E06

    7W06

    7W06 — Season 4, Episode 6 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-11-05. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  7. S04E07

    7W07

    7W07 — Season 4, Episode 7 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-11-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  8. S04E08

    7W08

    7W08 — Season 4, Episode 8 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-11-19. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  9. S04E09

    7W09

    7W09 — Season 4, Episode 9 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-11-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  10. S04E10

    7W10

    7W10 — Season 4, Episode 10 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-12-10. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  11. S04E11

    7W11

    7W11 — Season 4, Episode 11 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1989-12-17. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  12. S04E12

    7W12

    7W12 — Season 4, Episode 12 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-01-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  13. S04E13

    7W13

    7W13 — Season 4, Episode 13 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-01-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  14. S04E14

    7W14

    7W14 — Season 4, Episode 14 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-02-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  15. S04E15

    7W15

    7W15 — Season 4, Episode 15 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-02-11. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  16. S04E16

    7W16

    7W16 — Season 4, Episode 16 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-02-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  17. S04E17

    7W17

    7W17 — Season 4, Episode 17 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-02-25. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  18. S04E18

    7W18

    7W18 — Season 4, Episode 18 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-03-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  19. S04E19

    7W19

    7W19 — Season 4, Episode 19 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-04-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  20. S04E20

    7W21

    7W21 — Season 4, Episode 20 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-04-21. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  21. S04E21

    7W22

    7W22 — Season 4, Episode 21 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-04-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  22. S04E22

    7W23

    7W23 — Season 4, Episode 22 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-05-05. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  23. S04E23

    7W20

    7W20 — Season 4, Episode 23 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-05-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  24. S04E24

    Best of...

    Best of... — Season 4, Episode 24 of The Tracey Ullman Show. Aired 1990-05-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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