Nielsen Ratings: Week Ending May 8, 1988

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 33rd 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, May 2, 1988
ALF	NBC	26.6	15.5	27
MacGyver	ABC	18.0	13.3	22
Kate & Allie	CBS	13.7	11.2	19
Valerie's Family	NBC	25.6	14.5	24
Designing Women	CBS	13.7	11.5	19
Uli Derickson Story	NBC	25.8	19.7	31
Onassis, Part II	ABC	19.0	13.9	22
Newhart	CBS	18.2	13.4	21
Eisenhower & Lutz	CBS	14.4	10.8	17
Cagney & Lacey	CBS	12.0	9.4	15
Tuesday, May 3, 1988
Who's the Boss?	ABC	27.2	18.7	32
Matlock	NBC	19.1	16.1	27
Houston Knights	CBS	7.7	6.5	11
Just the Ten of Us	ABC	27.1	18.0	29
Necessity	CBS	19.0	15.0	24
In the Heat of the Night	NBC	17.3	13.6	21
Moonlighting	ABC	17.0	11.9	19
thirtysomething	ABC	14.1	11.2	19
Crime Story	NBC	13.0	10.7	18
Wednesday, May 4, 1988
Growing Pains	ABC	21.7	16.2	28
Aaron's Way	NBC	16.1	12.3	21
Smothers Brothers	CBS	13.5	10.0	17
Head of the Class	ABC	22.8	15.4	25
Hooperman	ABC	17.4	14.0	23
Highway to Heaven	NBC	16.2	11.9	19
Jake and the Fat Man	CBS	17.0	11.2	18
Just in Time	ABC	13.9	11.4	18
St. Elsewhere	NBC	15.4	12.8	22
China Beach	ABC	16.1	12.6	22
The Equalizer	CBS	14.7	11.9	21
Thursday, May 5, 1988
The Cosby Show	NBC	34.0	21.5	39
48 Hours	CBS	13.3	9.4	17
Max Headroom	ABC	6.3	4.8	9
A Different World	NBC	34.0	22.2	39
Cheers	NBC	32.3	22.8	38
Simon & Simon	CBS	14.0	9.8	16
Hotel	ABC	8.5	6.6	11
Night Court	NBC	31.0	21.7	35
L.A. Law	NBC	26.1	20.2	34
Knots Landing	CBS	19.1	15.6	26
Buck James	ABC	7.8	6.8	11
Friday, May 6, 1988
Unsolved Mysteries	NBC	17.5	11.9	23
Perfect Strangers	ABC	14.8	9.8	20
Beauty and the Beast	CBS	10.8	9.8	19
Full House	ABC	14.4	10.3	20
Dallas	CBS	20.0	15.6	28
Miami Vice	NBC	13.0	11.6	21
Mr. Belvedere	ABC	15.5	10.7	19
The `Slap' Maxwell Story	ABC	10.2	6.9	12
Miami Vice	NBC	18.1	14.8	26
Falcon Crest	CBS	16.2	13.2	24
20/20	ABC	15.1	10.9	19
Saturday, May 7, 1988
The Facts of Life	NBC	18.2	13.2	29
Dolly	ABC	12.6	7.2	15
Mountain Rangers	CBS	9.1	7.2	15
227	NBC	21.8	14.7	30
The Golden Girls	NBC	32.1	21.2	40
Tour of Duty	CBS	11.2	8.1	15
Ohara	ABC	11.8	6.3	12
Amen	NBC	29.7	19.4	36
Hunter	NBC	24.3	16.3	32
For Hire	ABC	13.8	9.3	18
West 57th	CBS	11.3	8.2	16
Sunday, May 8, 1988
60 Minutes	CBS	21.6	16.3	34
Disney Sunday Movie	ABC	10.8	7.2	15
Our House	NBC	11.5	7.1	15
Murder, She Wrote	CBS	22.4	18.3	32
Bloopers & Jokes	NBC	22.6	13.1	23
Remembering Marilyn	ABC	12.5	8.3	14
Something There, Part I	NBC	28.8	19.3	31
Bourne Identity, Part I	ABC	24.8	18.5	30
Caine Court-Martial	CBS	11.5	9.4	15

Source: USA Today