1988 in German television

This is a list of German television related events from 1988.

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Events

• 31 March - Maxi & Chris Garden are selected to represent Germany at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Lied für einen Freund". They are selected to be the thirty-third German Eurovision entry during Ein Lied für Dublin held at the Frankenhalle in Nuremberg.

Debuts

International

• 3 January - // Inspector Gadget (1983–1986) (RTLplus)
• 4 January - Santa Barbara (1984–1993) (RTL)
• 9 January - Knots Landing (1979–1993) (ZDF)
• 12 March - Dempsey and Makepeace (1985–1986) (Bayern 3)
• 27 March - The Kids of Degrassi Street (1979–1986) (ZDF)
• 20 June - Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985–1991) (Das Erste)

Military Television Debuts

BFBS

• 5 February - Aliens in the Family (1987)
• 23 April - Chatterbox (1988)
• 25 July - Kellyvision (1988)
• 30 September - Count Duckula (1988–1993)
• 4 October - First of the Summer Wine (1988–1989)
• 7 October - Small World (1988)
• 8 October - Defenders of the Earth (1986–1987)
• 15 October - Strange Interlude (1988)
• 18 October - / Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories (1988)
• 19 October - The Return of Shelley (1988–1992)
• 21 October - A Piece of Cake (1988)
• 21 November - The River (1988)
• 8 December - The Snow Spider (1988)
• 28 December - The Watch House (1988)
• Tube Mice (1988)
• Steel Riders (1987)

Television shows

1950s

• Tagesschau (1952–present)

1960s

• heute (1963-present)

1970s

• heute-journal (1978-present)
• Tagesthemen (1978-present)

1980s

• Wetten, dass..? (1981-2014)
• Lindenstraße (1985–present)

Deaths