Nielsen Ratings: Week Ending September 27, 1987

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the first week of the 1987-88 television broadcast season. The chart below includes viewership and household (HH) ratings for every broadcast program that aired during the week with reruns included. Note that the HH ratings & shares come from Nielsen, but for this TV season only (until the w/e July 31, 1988), the viewership figures come from a different company called AGB Television Research, not Nielsen.

Broadcast ratings:

Show	Net	Viewers (millions)	HH Rating	HH Share
Monday, September 21, 1987
ALF	NBC	28.0	17.9	29
Frank's Place	CBS	16.8	13.9	23
MacGyver	ABC	13.8	11.9	20
Valerie's Family	NBC	25.4	16.3	26
Kate & Allie	CBS	18.3	15.6	24
Newhart	CBS	25.6	19.1	30
New England at New York Jets	ABC	19.2	18.7	34
If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium	NBC	16.3	13.4	22
Designing Women	CBS	23.8	17.6	28
Cagney & Lacey	CBS	19.6	16.4	28
Tuesday, September 22, 1987
Who's the Boss?	ABC	32.0	23.4	39
Matlock	NBC	18.7	17.0	27
Houston Knights	CBS	11.0	9.6	16
Full House	ABC	31.3	21.7	34
Growing Pains	ABC	30.6	23.3	36
Angel in Green	CBS	15.2	13.1	22
I Married Dora	ABC	23.8	20.3	33
Moonlighting	ABC	18.3	18.3	32
Crime Story	NBC	13.1	12.3	21
Wednesday, September 23, 1987
Highway to Heaven	NBC	20.4	15.6	27
Perfect Strangers	ABC	20.1	15.2	27
The Oldest Rookie	CBS	14.1	10.4	18
Head of the Class	ABC	23.0	17.4	29
Hooperman	ABC	27.1	21.5	35
The Equalizer	CBS	17.3	14.4	24
A Year in the Life	NBC	16.2	13.8	23
``Slap'' Maxwell	ABC	22.2	18.2	31
Dynasty	ABC	16.2	16.5	28
St. Elsewhere	NBC	15.4	13.4	23
Thursday, September 24, 1987
The Cosby Show	NBC	43.4	31.5	51
Tour of Duty	CBS	14.0	10.6	17
Sledge Hammer!	ABC	12.1	7.9	13
A Different World	NBC	43.4	31.3	49
The Charmings	ABC	11.2	6.7	11
Cheers	NBC	37.4	28.4	44
Ghostbusters	ABC	16.0	12.2	20
Wiseguy	CBS	15.0	12.1	19
Night Court	NBC	33.2	24.9	40
Unsolved Mysteries	NBC	21.7	17.9	32
Knots Landing	CBS	18.8	15.2	27
Friday, September 25, 1987
Dallas	CBS	21.9	16.9	31
Rags to Riches	NBC	15.0	11.2	21
Full House	ABC	13.6	9.3	18
I Married Dora	ABC	14.2	10.1	18
Miami Vice	NBC	16.8	16.2	29
Max Headroom	ABC	10.1	6.9	13
Beauty and the Beast	CBS	21.3	13.5	26
20/20	ABC	18.1	14.7	28
Private Eye	NBC	11.0	11.5	22
Saturday, September 26, 1987
Return to Dodge	CBS	23.0	16.6	31
The Facts of Life	NBC	20.4	14.8	29
Once a Hero	ABC	6.7	3.7	7
227	NBC	23.2	17.3	32
The Golden Girls	NBC	27.7	22.3	40
Splash	ABC	12.3	7.3	14
J.J. Starbuck	NBC	19.6	15.8	30
Jake and the Fatman	CBS	13.5	12.5	24
Sunday, September 27, 1987
60 Minutes	CBS	22.4	20.0	37
Disney Movie	ABC	17.5	10.4	19
Our House	NBC	16.5	10.2	19
Family Ties	NBC	31.1	21.0	34
Murder, She Wrote	CBS	25.2	20.4	32
For Hire	ABC	13.6	10.1	16
My Two Dads	NBC	28.1	18.1	28
Dolly	ABC	37.4	24.7	38
The Terminator	NBC	19.6	16.5	27
The Law and Harry McGraw	CBS	15.2	12.6	21
Buck James	ABC	21.8	16.6	30

Source: USA Today