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- Café owner Peter, leaves his disgruntled manager Henry, to take care of business, and he instead hires a crew of misfits. Peter returns to an unrecognizable business but soon learns the value of camaraderie with the new team.
- A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle".
- Katherine Gilvey is a comely councilwoman, whose campaign for Attorney General is being managed by her ambitious, but cold-hearted husband Benjamin, which takes a turn when photographs surface of her liasion with a male prostitute, who used to be a law client of hers, and has now turned up dead. Also is a note telling her to withdraw from the campaign or the photos will be made public. Investigating on her own, Katherine's suspects to the idenity of the blackmailer are: a shadowy power broker, a charismatic minister, an activist priest, or even her own husband.
- The 22nd NAACP Image Awards ceremony recognized outstanding achievements made during 1989 by people of color in music, television, and motion pictures.
- A guilt-ridden FBI agent, stranded in the painful memory of the abduction of his sister, suffers from a rare condition known as Nyctophobia, an irrational fear of the dark, and will have to face-off with the cunning serial killer who took her away.
- Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
- The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
- The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school he is determined to improve by any and all means.
- In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
- A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
- In this warm, zesty comedy, Cowboy, a senior citizen ex-lawyer and gambler, is persuaded by his spunky seventeen year old neighbor, Rachel, to seek retribution for having been cheated in Las Vegas many years ago. So begins a wild adventure that marks a young girl's rite of passage into womanhood and an old man's bittersweet final awakening to life, love and happiness. Along for the ride is Maggie, Cowboy's salty ex-girlfriend, Buddy Boy, Cowboy's best friend, and Harold, an unusually young Vegas motel owner who falls hard for Rachel.
- Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.
- An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.
- A small boy witnesses his brother being killed in surgery, grows up to become a monster with a scalpel.
- Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
- A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.
- The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
- Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues, and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for Negroes, to his highs and lows in baseball, and in his personal life.
- Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
- A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.
- A prisoner gets a chance to take part in the Olympics.
- During a busy live taping of a TV program, a group of mysterious people show up with a strange demand..
- Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
- A man who returns to his hometown for a funeral may have a much larger purpose in life than those around him can see.
- A notorious gangster nicknamed "Animal" must reconcile his past in order to make a future for his criminally-minded son.
- A Jamaican woman becomes the housekeeper for a rich Baltimore family and bonds with a disillusioned teenage boy.
- Good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen Tommy tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom decides to make a man out of him.
- In this comedy-satire on conformity, Dick Van Dyke plays a Manhattan bank teller who grows a beard when he develops a rash from a bee sting. He is promptly fired from his job while his co-workers stand behind him. Angie Dickinson plays his wife. Written and directed by Garson Kanin ("Born Yesterday").
- Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
- A chemist experimenting with different formulas stumbles upon an ingredient that, when added to beer, makes it absolutely irresistible. Before he realizes it, an international spy is after him to try to get the formula for himself.
- Schoolteacher Tiffany Rubin (Taraji P. Henson) flies to South Korea to reunite with her 7-year-old son, who was kidnapped by his biological father.
- A raped policewoman forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men whom have committed repeated violations of women, and got away with it through legal technicalities.
- Interprets Cassius Clay's life, his Muslim transformation into Muhammad Ali and his 1974 fight with George Foreman for the heavyweight championship.
- When a mysterious man appears in a small town, unexplained miracles start to occur, changing the lives of everyone he meets. There's a mother whose five-year-old boy has leukemia, two doctors - one an atheist haunted by his past, the other a brilliant young oncologist who places all her hope in the power of modern medicine - and a blind pastor whose son hasn't spoken a single word in 38 years. All of them will be brought together by the presence of this stranger, who teaches them the true meaning of faith and hope.
- An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
- Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.
- A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
- A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.
- A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.
- A chronicle of the lives, loves, trials and tribulations of the citizens of the fictional city of Salem.
- Melinda Gordon, a newly married woman, possesses the gift of communicating with the dead. With her best friend Andrea's assistance, she helps the earthbound spirits to find peace and cross over.
- The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.
- The lives and work of the staff of St. Eligius Hospital, an old and disrespected Boston teaching hospital.
- The cases of a brilliant, if Irascible, coroner who investigates suspicious deaths which usually suggest murder.
- The joys and heartaches of the Lawrence family of Pasadena, California.
- Private eye Barnaby Jones works with his widowed daughter-in-law to solve cases.
- Set in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera presented the conflict in the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery.
- Vincent Terranova is an agent with the Organized Crime Bureau infiltrating dangerous criminal organizations, struggling to remain true to himself while becoming close to the criminal leaders he is sworn to bring down.
- The spinoff series of Bad Boys films focuses on drug enforcement agent Sydney Burnett, now working for the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Follows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
- The trials of a former television station manager, turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.
- A family moves to a crime-filled area of the heights and tries to help the community and the convicts living there.
- Travelers are stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. On an island, they meet Varian, a man from the future, and Liana, an Atlantean. Together, they journey through different worlds, in hopes of returning home.
- Thrown into another dimension, a family must keep ahead of a tyrannical state's hunters while searching for a way home.
- A black widower and his five children make new lives for themselves in California.
- The professional and personal lives of Pittsburgh D.A. staff, led by Arnold Bach, Gene Rogan, Linda Bauer, Peter, and Michael James, alongside new attorneys JoAnn, Briggs, Julie, and Christopher.
- A husband and wife find themselves regularly embroiled in murder mysteries around Washington, D.C.
- A group of student nurses in California live together off-campus under the supervision of a housemother.
- Blue-collar worker Mike Fitzpatrick worked hard to raise his family in Flint, Michigan. His wife Maggie worked part-time as a waitress to help put food on the table for their kids: teens Sean, Jack, and Maureen and 10-year-old Max. Kerry was the cute neighbor girl who was interested in the two older Fitzpatrick brothers.
- Police officers patrol the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
- Famed urban attorney Ben Walker leaves the fast paced world to buy a Mississippi tug boat and practice law from there. Cruising the river with help from Stella and Lafe, he finds difficult cases wherever he docks.
- Dr. Jessie Hayden, a female psychiatrist, is hired by a California police department to help the departmental employees as well as the victims.
- A babysitter realizes that one of the children she looks after is being physically abused by his mother.
- Fort Geller Texas is training center for paratroopers with instructors China Bell and more lenient Eugene Allard molding diverse recruits into a unit. Their captain is rascist Stephen Wiecek whose adulterous wife Phyllis drinks excessively.
- Sam Danforth is a big city deputy police chief whose old fashioned way of handling things didn't always work in the changing world. He teams with DA William Washburn, who is more adaptable in dealing with crime.
- Jack Shannon is a New York cop and a single father. He decides to move to San Francisco so that his late wife's parents can help him take care of his son. So he calls in a few favors to get a job with the local police. His new boss doesn't welcome him warmly cause he doesn't like the fact that Shannon got a job that should go to someone local and that he pulled some strings to get his job. But the two of them learn to get along.
- Dr. Julie Farr is a busy physician st Lake General Hospital where many of her patients are either expectant mothers or new parents. Dr. Blake Simmons is her veteran co-worker who's a mentor to the the young Dr. Ron Danvers.
- To celebrate multicultural entertainers in America and also discover new talent, Kiki Melendez is taking her first-of-its-kind show on the road. The actress, comic and TV producer, best known as the creator of Showtime's "Hot Tamales Live", travels to various locations in a customized RV to do exclusive interviews at events like film premieres, award shows and concerts. In addition, the weekly show features an opening monologue from Kiki, interaction with the audience and her band leader, man-on-the-street interviews, and performances from established and up-and-coming music acts. In other words, a talk show on wheels.
- On his wedding day, in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney Kempinski goes off to tour the city and sing his song to life, love and the city of New York.
- In order to clear an innocent man Barnaby races against time to find an escaped convict who's testimony can set him free. Also trying to find the same convict is a bounty hunter with a reputation for bringing his quarry in dead.
- Chase struggles to recover from the wedding-day violence that killed his mother. Melissa turns her back on the family that killed her father.
- Angela blackmails Chase's doctor into declaring him incompetent to run Falcon Crest, Melissa turns to Richard for affection and Chase suffers a setback when Angela tells him of his mother's death.
- The travellers encounter a city where the women are subservient to brutish male authority. The women mutiny and imprison the male travellers in a strange black void, and Liana appears to join their cause.
- A tragic death of a teenager sets Quincy into action fighting for orphan drug development.
- Nate and Claire go to Seattle to pick up the body of a man who died on a public bus.
- Jeanette Louise Bradford has an allergic reaction to a bee-sting in Balboa Park, causing Keith to go to San Diego for his aunt's funeral and David to join him, encouraging him to discuss sleeping with a third man with him and to confront his father on his abusive childhood after the funeral. Russell admits he was sleeping with Olivier and an angry, betrayed Claire demands he leave her alone from now on. She and Ruth talk with each other about their relationship problems when Ruth learns Arthur is a virgin so there's nothing new to be gained from spending time with him. Vanessa is now again living life to the fullest, taking dance classes with Rico, but then collapses one night from too many medications. Billy, remarkably depressed after watching a poor video version of his and Brenda's beloved childhood book "Nathaniel and Isabel", kisses Brenda, who goes to visit Nate. Alone with Maya while Lisa goes to visit her sister's family in Santa Cruz, Nate consoles Benda until she begins to appear to want to become closer to him, and she quickly stops herself and departs. Keith and David are relieved to hear that Taylor is doing fine with Lucille and Roderick, but when Keith finally chooses to tell his father he's willing to forgive him for beating him and his sister, it's met with denial and quickly becomes a fight...and when David tries to calm both of them down for Keith's sake he's insulted by Roderick and unappreciated in his efforts by Keith, so leaves. When Nate calls Lisa's sister's, he learns Lisa hasn't yet made it to her place as expected, and isn't worried when he can't get through to her phone the first time...but he does start to be when he continues to call with no response.
- Edith Kirky is the 4th patient of the year to be brought to Fisher and Sons from Bay Breeze Hospital where Vanessa works, so David predicts Rico's usual pride over the fact...but no one predicts him, suspicious about her neck-markings, to discover a whole hot dog wedged down her esophagus. When informing the authorities, Fisher and Sons is forced to allow them to bring Vanessa and her partner to be examined since they failed to find the hot dog themselves. Rabbi Ari encourages Nate and Brenda to be honest with each other, but Brenda reacts badly when Nate informs her he's going to be a father (though fails to mention she's unfaithful to him) and he later talks about it with Rabbi Ari, who introduces him to a Jewish client, Aaron Buchbinder, who needs a pre-meet since he has pancreatic cancer. Brenda's reaction after criticizing Nate is to get high and sleep with a pair. At Brenda's bridal shower, Bernard Chenowith asks Ruth what she's done as far as Claire's depression, but when Ruth visits Gray Deitman to see if she is depressed, the answer comes as a different sort of shock. David encourages Keith to stand up to his father when he and his mother ask that Taylor come to San Diego to live with them, and David himself is forced to find some inner strength of his own to get Catherine Collins, supported by Mitzi Dalton-Huntley, not to sue them for "emotional distress" after Nate's showing her husband's mutilated body at her request. He doesn't have any qualms about becoming angry with Ruth, though, after she pays all of Nikolai's debt to Yuri just before David and Nate have need of the money themselves.
- A man dies after a long battle with cancer, and his psychic widow discusses the funeral arrangements with the family.
- Auschlander hires Joan Halloran as his assistant. White has a reunion with his wife and kids. A gun is stolen from the ER. Axelrod thinks there is something wrong with him. Rosenthal begins an extra-marital affair. One of the firefighters being treated is happy with the results of his plastic surgery while another cannot wait to leave the hospital.
- West and Gordon receive orders to protect Rosa Montebello, a famous Italian opera diva and niece of the ambassador from Italy. Artemus gets nothing but grief from the difficult diva. When the curtain goes down in the middle of the opera performance, West suspects foul play and jumps to the stage just in time to stop the diva's kidnapping. With subsequent attempts on her life, Montebello soon realizes just how much she needs the protection from the agents.
- The discovery of a body at a building site dating back to the L.A. Riots puts Brenda on a collision course with a priest, a politician, and one of her team.
- Family and friends try to play matchmaker for widower Harris by fixing him up with the available women they know.
- While Meredith faces the consequences of tampering with the trial Cristina and Owen fight over an unexpected pregnancy.
- A weekly anthology of one-hour plays, both original and adapted from literary sources.
- A ghost who sets fires threatens Melinda, and the Professor drops by with questions.
- Two Secret Service agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West.
- Santana goes after a group of high school drug dealers who shot his niece after she witnessed the murder of her high school principal.
- The adventures of a Hawaii-based private investigator.
- John Murphy leads a struggle against a mining boss that causes some children to be orphaned. he poses as a priest to circumvent the authorities. He and schoolteacher Mae struggle to provide everyday needs for two dozen children.
- Rossi and a fellow black reporter clash when they are assigned to investigate the controversial police killing of a drug dealer who had earlier killed a cop.
- Robin Masters' publisher buries a chest containing $1 million on Oahu and a contest is held to find it. Magnum is tasked with protecting the woman who has the clues to the chest's whereabouts.
- The cops have their hands full with people competing in a radio station's Most Outrageous Act' competition. Washington gets emotionally involved with the mother and sister of a mentally disturbed young man. Lt. Hunter returns to EAT duty. Renko and Hill are picked out to test a new computerized patrol car.
- The Sterlings find themselves in a place where women are in charge and men are treated like dirt. Trace gets in trouble cause of a couple of violations. And he ends up being auctioned off and the family tries to buy him.
- Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson runs the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD with an unorthodox style. Her innate ability to read people and obtain confessions helps her and her team solve the city's toughest, most sensitive cases.
- Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way.
- Carlene makes a power play and deals with the consequences. The DEA makes things difficult for the team. Warren tries to break from Carlene. Syd, Nancy and the Bens search for Carlene. Isabel gets to face her Demon.
- The cause of a woman's TIA stumps the team, and Foreman's family visits.