Identifying Classic Films by the TV Numbers Data of a Survey Spanning 2018-2020 Each entry below consists of the name of a film, the year of its release, an abbreviation of the network(s) that presented it, and the number of its overall presentations. Networks and their respective abbreviations are: American Movie Classics (AMC) Paramount Television Network (PARA) BBC America (BBCA) Showtime (SHOW) FREE (FREE) STARZ (STARZ) FX Movie Channel (FXM) SYFY (SYFY) Home Box Office (HBO) Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) IFC (IFC) THIS TV (THIS) MOVIES! TV Network (MOVIES) TNT (TNT) Ovation TV (OVA) Turner Classic Movies (TCM) 1989 150 Films 4,958 Presentations 33,1 Average A Deadly Silence (1989) MOVIES 1 A Dry White Season (1989) TCM 4 A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) SYFY 7 All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) THIS 7 Always (1989) STARZ 69 American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989) STARZ 2 An Innocent Man (1989) HBO 5 Back to the Future Part II (1989) MAX/STARZ/SHOW/SYFY 272 Batman (1989) SYFY/TNT/AMC/IFC 24 Best of the Best (1989) STARZ 16 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) STARZ 140 Black Rain (1989) SHOW/MOVIES/MAX 85 Blind Fury (1989) THIS 15 1 [email protected] Born on the Fourth of July (1989) MAX/BBCA/OVA/STARZ/HBO 201 Breaking In (1989) THIS 5 Brewster’s Millions (1989) STARZ 2 Bridge to Silence (1989) THIS 9 Cabin Fever (1989) MAX 2 Casualties of War (1989) SHOW 3 Chances Are (1989) MOVIES 9 Chattahoochi (1989) THIS 9 Cheetah (1989) TCM 1 Cinema Paradise (1989) MAX 3 Coal Miner’s Daughter (1989) STARZ 1 Collision Course (1989) MAX 1 Come in Peace (1989) STARZ 1 Coolie (1989) TCM 1 Courage Mountain (1989) STARZ 4 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) HBO 71 Curse II: The Bite (1989) STARZ 9 Cutting Class (1989) SHOW 1 Cyborg (1989) MAX/HBO/STARZ 97 Dead Calm (1989) MAX 46 DeepStar Six (1989) IFC 8 Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989) STARZ 8 Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989) STARZ 19 Devil (1989) THIS 3 Do the Right Thing (1989) STARZ 18 Dream Team (1989) STARZ 2 Driving Miss Daisy (1989) MAX/STARZ 45 Drugstore Cowboy (1989) HBO/MAX 11 Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) TCM 5 Eddie and the Cruisers II (1989) THIS 9 Erik the Viking (1989) THIS 11 Fame (1989) MOVIES 1 Family Business (1989) MOVIES 8 Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) STARZ 2 Field of Dreams (1989) SHOW/AMC/OVA/STARZ 258 Fletch Lives (1989) HBO/STARZ/SHOW 124 Friday the 13th Part VIII (1989) STARZ/AMC/MOVIES 31 Ghostbusters II (1989) SHOW/SYFY/AMC/IFC/BBCA/OVA/PARA 70 Glory (1989) STARZ/TCM/SHOW 87 Great Balls of Fire (1989) THIS/OVA 15 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) AMC/IFC 28 Harlem Nights (1989) STARZ 38 2 [email protected] Hello Again (1989) MAX 1 Henry V (1989) THIS 2 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) HBO 70 I Come in Peace (1989) STARZ 5 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) PARA 53 Johnny Handsome (1989) MOVIES 3 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) STARZ 14 K-9 (1989) MAX/STARZ 28 Kagemusha (1989) FXM 1 Kickboxer (1989) THIS 31 Kill Me Again (1989) STARZ 2 Lady Killer (1989) MOVIES 1 Lean on Me (1989) OVA 1 Let It Ride (1989) MOVIES 3 Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) IFC/AMC/OVA/STARZ 67 Leviathan (1989) STARZ/THIS 76 Licence to Kill (1989) STARZ 39 Little Monsters (1989) THIS 9 Lock Up (1989) MOVIES 3 Look Who’s Talking (1989) SHOW/MOVIES 13 Loverboy (1989) MOVIES 7 Major League (1989) SHOW/AMC/IFC/OVA/MOVIES/PARA 195 Miss Firecracker (1989) MAX 2 Moving (1989) STARZ 1 My Left Foot (1989) MAX 21 Mystery Train (1989) TCM 1 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) IFC/AMC/BBCA 99 Next of Kin (1989) MAX 3 Original Sin (1989) THIS 1 Paint Your Wagon (1989) STARZ 4 Parenthood (1989) STARZ 16 Pet Semetary (1989) AMC/BBCA/IFC/STARZ 57 Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) MAX 10 Prancer (1989) AMC/STARZ 26 Pumpkinhead (1989) THIS 2 Puppet Master (1989) MAX 3 Renegades (1989) STARZ 8 River of Death (1989) STARZ 1 Road House (1989) AMC/IFC/STARZ/BBCA/PARA/SHOW/OVA/THIS 320 Roger and Me (1989) THIS 1 Say Anything . (1989) STARZ 17 Sea of Love (1989) STARZ 45 3 [email protected] See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) MOVIES 12 Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989) SHOW 12 Shag (1989) THIS 1 She-Devil (1989) STARZ/THIS 51 She’s Having a Baby (1989) SHOW 2 She's Out of Control (1989) STARZ 7 Shocker (1989) STARZ 5 Sidewalk Stories (1989) TCM 1 Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989) MAX/HBO 23 Soda Cracker (1989) STARZ 29 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) MOVIES 72 Staying Together (1989) THIS 9 Steel Magnolias (1989) TCM/OVA/SHOW 65 Sweet Lies (1989) THIS 10 Sweetie (1989) TCM 1 Tango and Cash (1989) BBCA/OVA/STARZ 93 Tap (1989) MOVIES 8 Teen Witch (1989) AMC/IFC/MAX/HBO 73 Ten Little Indians (1989) THIS 13 The Abyss (1989) MAX/HBO 149 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) SHOW 20 The Big Picture (1989) MOVIES 6 The ‘Burbs (1989) STARZ/IFC/SHOW 106 The Dream Team (1989) STARZ 15 The Eiger Sanction (1989) STARZ 1 The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) HBO/STARZ 62 The Fly II (1989) HBO 31 The Horror Show (1989) THIS 2 The January Man (1989) THIS 1 The Karate Kid Part III (1989) AMC/WE/OVA/SHOW 46 The Lady Forgets (1989) MOVIES 2 The Mighty Quinn (1989) THIS 87 The Package (1989) THIS/MAX 41 The Rachel Papers (1989) THIS 3 The Return of the Musketeers (1989) STARZ 19 The War of the Roses (1989) MAX/OVA/STARZ 102 The Wizard (1989) STARZ/MOVIES/SHOW/HBO 104 Three Fugitives (1989) MAX 4 Triumph of the Spirit (1989) THIS 6 Troop Beverly Hills (1989) STARZ 18 True Love (1989) THIS 9 4 [email protected] Turner and Hooch (1989) BBCA/SHOW 79 UHF (1989) STARZ 12 Uncle Buck (1989) AMC/IFC/STARZ/HBO 204 Valmont (1989) THIS 4 Vampire’s Kiss (1989) STARZ 16 Warlock (1989) HBO 3 Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) MAX/HBO 81 Welcome Home (1989) MOVIES 1 When Harry Met Sally (1989) IFC/SHOW 81 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1989) OVA 1 Wizard (1989) STARZ 3 Worth Winning (1989) STARZ 1 1988 150 Films 4,929 Presentations 32.9 Average 1969 (1988) THIS 9 A Fish Called Wanda (1988) SHOW/MAX/HBO 102 A Handful of Dust (1988) HBO 2 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988) SYFY 9 A World Apart (1988) THIS/TCM 4 Above the Law (1988) AMC 6 Action Jackson (1988) STARZ 107 Alice (1988) THIS 7 Alien from L.A. (1988) TCM 1 Alien Nation (1988) STARZ 42 Another Woman (1988) THIS 1 Bat*21 (1988) MOVIES/STARZ 12 Beaches (1988) SHOW/TCM/HBO/MAX 102 Beetlejuice (1988) SHOW/SYFY/PARA/IFC/BBCA 74 Betrayed (1988) THIS 7 Big (1988) PARA/MAX/HBO/SHOW 123 Big Time (1988) TCM 1 Big Business (1988) HBO 75 Big Top Pee-wee (1988) IFC/HBO/SHOW/MAX 44 Biloxi Blues (1988) STARZ/MAX/HBO 58 Bird (1988) STARZ 83 Bloodsport (1988) STARZ/THIS/SHOW 135 Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) STARZ/THIS 31 5 [email protected] Bright Lights, Big City (1988) THIS 14 Bull Durham (1988) SHOW/THIS/STARZ 155 Bulletproof Monk (1988) THIS/OVA 14 Cellar Dweller (1988) THIS 1 Cherry 2000 (1988) THIS 4 Child’s Play (1988) STARZ/THIS/SHOW/PARA 44 Cinema Paradiso (1988) MAX 62 Cocktail (1988) BBCA/SHOW/OVA/AMC 98 Cocoon: The Return (1988) STARZ 32 Cohen and Tate (1988) THIS 6 Colors (1988) THIS/STARZ 94 Coming to America (1988) STARZ/PARA/SHOW/IFC 206 Cop (1988) THIS 14 Criminal Law (1988) STARZ/THIS 6 Crocodile Dundee II (1988) IFC/STARZ 92 Crossing Delancey (1988) TCM 5 Crusoe (1988) THIS 10 Dangerous Curves (1988) SHOW 8 Dangerous Liaisons (1988) HBO/SHOW 140 Dead Pool (1988) AMC 3 Dead Ringers (1988) STARZ 2 Deep Space (1988) THIS 2 Die Hard (1988) AMC/IFC/BBCA/FXM/PARA/MAX/HBO 195 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) THIS/STARZ 42 Dominick and Eugene (1988) THIS 2 Eight Men Out (1988) THIS 10 Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) TCM 1 Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) AMC/IFC 11 Everybody’s All-American (1988) MAX 7 Excalibur (1988) STARZ 2 Far North (1988) THIS 11 For Keeps? (1988) MOVIES 3 For Queen and Country (1988) THIS 4 Frantic (1988) MAX 71 Friday the 13th Part VII (1988) AMC/MOVIES/STARZ/SYFY 26 Funny Farm (1988) STARZ/MAX/HBO 52 Ghoulies II (1988) MAX 33 Halloween 4 (1988) AMC/IFC 31 Hanna’s War (1988) THIS 2 Having a Baby (1988) MOVIES! 1 Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) MAX/HBO 48 Hero and the Terror (1988) STARZ/THIS 21 6 [email protected] High Spirits (1988) THIS 9 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) THIS/STARZ 37 It Takes Two (1988) THIS 6 Illegally Yours (1988) THIS 9 In the Heat of the Night (1988) THIS 1 Iron Eagle II (1988) MOVIES 3 Johnny Be Good (1988) THIS 6 Kansas (1988) THIS/MAX 30 Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) STARZ/THIS 12 Last Rites (1988) THIS 5 License to Drive (1988) STARZ/HBO 32 Little Nikita (1988) MOVIES 14 Mac and Me (1988) TCM 9 Man for All Seasons (1988) TCM 1 Married to the Mob (1988) THIS/STARZ 58 Masquerade (1988) MAX 30 Memories of Me (1988) THIS 8 Mercenary Fighters (1988) THIS 2 Messenger of Death (1988) STARZ/THIS 30 Midnight Run (1988) HBO/SHOW/MAX 143 Miracle Mile (1988) THIS 3 Mississippi Burning (1988) STARZ/MAX 60 Monkey Shines (1988) STARZ/MAX 44 Moving (1988) STARZ 78 Mr.