Children of the 80s! Rise up!!
Top TV Shows of 1986.
1. The Cosby Show
2. Family Ties
3. Cheers
4. Murder She Wrote
5. The Golden Girls
6. 60 Minutes
7. Night Court
8. Growing Pains
9. Moonlighting
10. Who’s The Boss
11. Dallas
12. Newhart
13. Amen
14. 227
15. Matlock
1986–1987 Season
- 1. General Hospital 9.9
- 2. The Young and the Restless 8.0
- 3. One Life to Live 7.2
- 4. All My Children 7.0
- 4. Days of our Lives 7.0
- 4. As the World Turns 7.0
- 7. Guiding Light 6.3 (Overall 50th Anniversary Season, Radio and Television)
- 8. Capitol 5.2 (Final Season; ended March 20, 1987)
- 9. Another World 5.1
- 10. Santa Barbara 4.2
- 11. Loving 3.9
- 12. Ryan’s Hope 2.7
- 13. Search for Tomorrow 2.5 (Final Season; ended December 26, 1986)
Primetime Emmy Winners
Comedy Series – The Golden Girls
Drama Series – Cagney & Lacey
Lead Actor Comedy – Michael J. Fox, Family Ties
Lead Actor Drama – Bruce Willis, Moonlighting
Lead Actress Comedy – Rue McClanahan – The Golden Girls
Lead Actress Drama – Sharon Gless, Cagney & Lacey
Top Grossing Films of 1986
| 1. | Top Gun | Paramount | $176,781,728 |
| 2. | Crocodile Dundee | $174,803,506 | |
| 3. | Platoon | Orion Pictures | $138,530,565 |
| 4. | The Karate Kid Part II | Columbia | $115,103,979 |
| 5. | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Paramount | $109,713,132 |
| 6. | Back to School | Orion | $91,258,000 |
| 7. | Aliens | 20th Century Fox | $86,160,248 |
| 8. | The Golden Child | Paramount | $79,817,937 |
| 9. | Ruthless People | Walt Disney Pictures | $71,624,879 |
| 10. | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Paramount | $70,136,169 |
1986’s Best Selling Books
1. It by Stephen King
2. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
3. Whirlwind by James Clavell
4. The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
5. Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins
6. Wanderlust by Danielle Steel
7. I’ll Take Manhattan by Judith Krantz
8. Last Of The Breed by Louis L’Amour
9. The Prince Of Tides by Pat Conroy
10. A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
Some of the Tony Award Winners for 1986
Fences won Best Play. James Earl Jones and Mary Alice won for their roles and Lloyd Richards won for Best Director for Fences also.
Best Musical that year was Les Miserables.
Sports
NFL MVP – Lawrence Taylor, New York Giants
NBA MVP – Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers
NHL MVP – Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers
MLB National League MVP – Roger Clemens, Boston Red Sox
MLB American League MVP – Mike Schmidt, Philadelphia Phillies
US Open Men’s Champion – Ivan Lendl
US Open Women’s Champion – Martina Navratilova