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Events of 1987

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February

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July

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September

October

November

December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Deaths

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Unknown Dates

External Links

From Coronation Street Wiki

Events

• 28th January - Sarah-Louise Tilsley is born to Brian and Gail Tilsley.
• 9th September - Bet Lynch marries Alec Gilroy.
• 25th December - Hilda Ogden leaves Coronation Street.

See also

• Coronation Street in 1987
• Category:1987 episodes

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Events

History of the Doctor Who Universe

February

• 7 - Kathy Costello Wainright (aka Nightingale) writes a letter to her friend Sally Sparrow, entrusting her grandson to deliver it (along with a package of photographs) to Sparrow in the year 2007. (DW: Blink)
• Sometime after 7th February - Death of Kathy Costello Wainright nee Nightingale. (DW: Blink)

April

• 27 - Birth of Rose Tyler, companion of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors. (Note This date is cited in Doctor Who Annual 2006, but is contradicted by information in DW: Rose and Aliens of London.)

July

• The Doctor, Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej battle an N-Form in London. (NA: Damaged Goods)

November

• 7 - Pete Tyler is killed when he is struck by a vehicle while crossing the road en route to a friend's wedding. This event is witnessed by Rose Tyler and the Doctor. Initially Pete died alone before help could arrive. Rose creates an alternate timelines by preventing him from being killed, which results in a dangerous paradox. Ultimately, after spending some time with his now-grown daughter, Pete learns that in order for time to continue normally, he must die, so he walks in front of another vehicle. This time Rose is with him when he dies, and the fabric of time is altered so that the record shows Pete died as an unidentified woman knelt beside him. (DW: Father's Day) Technically, since Rose being with Pete becomes part of established time, the alternate timeline is in fact now the one where he dies alone.

Unknown date

• Ace is transported by a time storm from Perivale to Iceworld. (DW: Dragonfire)
• The Doctor teaches some boars how to talk, enabling them to eventually evolve into the intelligent Boar race. (EDA: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)
• Julia Hardwick, a future victim of the Weeping Angels, is born. It is possible that she become her own grandmother in her future. (WC: A Ghost Story for Christmas)

Real World

January

• John Nathan-Turner attends a performance of The Pied Piper starring Sylvester McCoy, and subsequently offers McCoy the role of the Seventh Doctor.
• 15 - DWN: Doctor Who - Slipback is published in paperback.

February

• 19 - DWN: Doctor Who - Black Orchid is first published. This was the final Fifth Doctor story to be novelised; plans were made for a novelisation of Resurrection of the Daleks, but the book was never published, and as such the story remains officially unnovelised.
• 23 - Esmond Knight dies.
• 25 - John Collin dies.

March

• 19 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Ark is first published.
  • REF: Doctor Who: The Illustrated A-Z is published in paperback.
• 27 - The film Withnail & I receives its first showings at a film festival in the US. The film is the first major acting role Paul McGann after several TV projects.
• 28 - Patrick Troughton dies from a heart attack while appearing at a Doctor Who convention in Columbus, Georgia, USA. Footage of him talking to fans only a few hours earlier exists and has circulated on YouTube, and shows Troughton in good spirits.

April

• 04 - Production begins on DW: Time and the Rani, the first story of the Sylvester McCoy era.
• 16 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Mind Robber is first published.
• 27 - Ciara Janson is born.

May

• REF: The Doctor Who Fun Book is first published.
• 21 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones is first published.
• Guitarist Frank Gambale includes an instrumental called "The Tardis" as the closing track of his album, A Present for the Future.

June

• The B-movie action thriller Three Kinds of Heat released in the United States. Although a US-made film, the picture features a number of UK actors, including a pre-Who Sylvester McCoy as one of the film's main villains, one-time stage Doctor Trevor Martin, and Mary Tamm, playing a gangster's moll. The film has the dubious distinction of including a scene in which a future Doctor is shown killing off a one-time companion.
• 06 - Fulton Mackay dies.
• 15 - DWN: Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius reissued by Target Books with a modified cover design.
• 18 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Space Museum is first published.
• 22 - Joe Dempsie is born.

July

• 16 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Sensorites is first published.

August

• 20 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Reign of Terror is first published. Written by Ian Marter, this novel was published posthumously, 10 months after his death.

September

• 05 - Bill Fraser dies.
• 07 - DW: Time and the Rani Episode 1 is first broadcast, launching Season 24. First appearance of Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor; due to Colin Baker declining to return for a cameo appearance, McCoy plays both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors for the regeneration sequence. The series introduces a new theme music arrangement by Keff McCulloch, a new computer generated opening credits sequence, and a new series logo.
• 11 - Hugh David dies.
• 14 - DW: Time and the Rani Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 16 - Simon Gipps-Kent dies.
• 17 - Stephen Jack dies.
  • REF: Doctor Who: The Time-Travellers' Guide is first published.
• 19 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Romans is first published.
• 21 - DW: Time and the Rani Episode 3 is first published.
• 28 - DW: Time and the Rani Episode 4 is first published.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation debuts on US television. Over the next two decades it will spawn multiple spin-off series and, in many ways, eclipse the original Star Trek in commercial success. The revival of Doctor Who in 2005, which also spawned spinoffs was considerable commercial success, will often be compared to TNG.

October

• 01 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Ambassadors of Death is first published. With this book, all stories of the Third Doctor era were now novelised -- the first era to be completed; two additional Third Doctor novelisations based upon radio plays would be published in the 1990s.
• 05 - DW: Paradise Towers Episode 1 is first broadcast.
• 12 - DW: Paradise Towers Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 15 - TC: K-9 and Company is first published. This is the belated third (and final) volume in the Companions of Doctor Who spin-off series. Unlike the previous two books, however, this is not an original work but an adaptation of the K-9 and Company pilot episode, KAC: A Girl's Best Friend.
  • Paperback edition of REF: Doctor Who: The Key to Time is published.
• 19 - DW: Paradise Towers Episode 3 is first broadcast.
  • REF Build the TARDIS is first published.
• 26 - DW: Paradise Towers Episode 4 is first broadcast.
• The Star Trek franchise returns to television after an 18-year hiatus (not counting an animated cartoon series) with the debut of Star Trek: The Next Generation which successfully reestablished the franchise and led to several spinoff series. Eighteen years after this, the Doctor Who franchise itself was revived (after a 16-year hiatus); it too was a successful relaunch that led to spinoffs.

November

• 02 - DW: Delta and the Bannermen Episode 1 is first broadcast.
  • According to the 2009 DVD release of this story (production notes), a fan campaign against producer John Nathan-Turner began to receive media coverage during the time Delta and the Bannermen was being broadcast.
• 09 - DW: Delta and the Bannermen Episode 2 is first broadcast.
• 16 - DW: Delta and the Bannermen Episode 3 is first broadcast.
• 01 - DWN: Doctor Who - The Massacre is first published. An adaptation of the serial DW: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, this is the first time in more than a decade that a novelisation title differs from the broadcast serial. In addition, the book makes substantial changes to the original story, something not seen since the earliest days of Doctor Who novelisations.
• 22 - The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident occurs when unidentified individuals briefly hijack the broadcast signals of two television stations in Chicago. During the illegal interruptions a man dressed in a Max Headroom mask appears on screen an carries on for a brief time. The first interruption takes place during a sports broadcast. The second, lasting a minute and a half, occurs during a local PBS station's broadcast of DW: Horror of Fang Rock. The culprits are never caught. In the days following, Doctor Who gets a bit of extra (albeit unwanted) publicity as the interrupted scene is rebroadcast on many American TV stations.
• 23 - DW: Dragonfire Episode 1 is first broadcast. Debut of Sophie Aldred as the final original-series companion, Ace.
  • REF: Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who: A-D is first published.
• 30 - DW: Dragonfire Episode 2 is first broadcast.

December

• 07 - DW: Dragonfire Episode 3 is first broadcast, concluding Season 24. Bonnie Langford leaves the series with this episode.
• 10 - DW: Doctor Who - The Macra Terror is first published.

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Releases

January

• TOS comic #34: The Doomsday Bug, Part 1: Death Ship, by Len Wein

February

• TOS novel #32: Chain of Attack, by Gene DeWeese
• TOS comic #35: The Doomsday Bug, Part 2: Stand Off, by Len Wein

March

• TOS comic #36: The Doomsday Bug, Part 3: The Apocalypse Scenario, by Len Wein
• TOS reference/comic: Who's Who in Star Trek part 1, by Allan Asherman

April

• TOS novel #33: Deep Domain, by Howard Weinstein
• TOS comic #37: Choices, by Len Wein
• TOS reference/comic: Who's Who in Star Trek part 2, by Allan Asherman

May

• TOS comic #38: The Argon Affair, by Michael Fleisher

June

• TOS novel #34: Dreams of the Raven, by Carmen Carter
• TOS comic #39: The Return of Mudd, Part 1: When You Wish Upon a Star, by Len Wein

July

• TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky, by Margaret Wander Bonanno
• TOS comic #40: The Return of Mudd, Part 2: Mudd's Magic, by Len Wein

August

• TOS novel #35: Rihannsu, Book 2: The Romulan Way, by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood
• TOS comic #41: What Goes Around, by Michael Carlin

September

• TOS comic #42: The Corbomite Effect, by Michael Carlin

October

• TOS novel #36: Worlds Apart, Book 2: How Much for Just the Planet?, by John M. Ford
• TNG novelization: Encounter at Farpoint, by David Gerrold
• TOS comic #43: The Return of the Serpent, Part 1: Paradise Lost, by Michael Carlin

November

• TOS comic #44: The Return of the Serpent, Part 2: Past Perfect, by Michael Carlin

December

• TOS novel #37: Bloodthirst, by J.M. Dillard
• TOS comic #45: The Return of the Serpent, Part 3: Devil Down Below, by Michael Carlin

Connections

• 1987 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1987 productions article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• 1987 page at the Complete Starfleet Library
• 1987 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

From DC Database

Creators

The following creative talent passed away in the year 1987:

E. Nelson Bridwell

Titles

The following comic titles debuted with a 1987 cover date:

Adventures of Superman Vol 1 · Captain Atom Vol 1 · Demon Vol 2 · Doctor Fate Vol 1 · Doom Patrol Vol 2 · Flash Vol 2 · Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters Vol 1 · Justice League International Vol 1 · Justice League Vol 1 · Phantom Stranger Vol 3 · Spectre Vol 2 · Suicide Squad Vol 1 · Superman Vol 2 · Who's Who in Star Trek Vol 1 · Who's Who: Update '87 Vol 1 · Wild Dog Vol 1 · Wonder Woman Vol 2 · World of Krypton Vol 2 · Young All-Stars Vol 1

The following Comic titles were last published with a 1987 cover date:

All-Star Squadron Vol 1 · Angel Love Vol 1 · Batman and the Outsiders Vol 1 · Cosmic Boy Vol 1 · Demon Vol 2 · Doctor Fate Vol 1 · Electric Warrior Vol 1 · Elvira's House of Mystery Vol 1 · G.I. Combat Vol 1 · Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters Vol 1 · Hawkman Vol 2 · Justice League Vol 1 · Watchmen Vol 1 · Who's Who in Star Trek Vol 1 · Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol 1 · Who's Who: Update '87 Vol 1 · Wild Dog Vol 1

The following One Shots were published with a 1987 cover date:

Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told Vol 1 1 · Superman Meets the Quik Bunny Vol 1 1

Characters

The following characters debuted with a 1987 cover date:

Adam Grant (New Earth) · Ahtier (New Earth) · Albert Michaels (New Earth) · Alice White (New Earth) · Amanda Marie McCoy (New Earth) · Andrew Flint (New Earth) · Angela Adam (New Earth) · Antiope (New Earth) · Aphrodite (New Earth) · Ares (New Earth) · Arnold Beck (New Earth) · Arnold Munro (New Earth) · Artemis Crock (New Earth) · Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (New Earth) · Ashok Desai (New Earth) · Barbara Kowaleski (New Earth) · Belial (New Earth) · Belphegor (New Earth) · Benjamin Stoner (New Earth) · Bibbo Bibbowski (New Earth) · Boris Dmitravich Razumihin (New Earth) · Branden (New Earth) · Briscoe (New Earth) · Bruun (New Earth) · Cameron Mahkent (New Earth) · Camilla Ortin (New Earth) · Carmine Falcone (New Earth) · Cassiopeia (New Earth) · Catalyst (New Earth) · Catherine Cobert (New Earth) · Catherine Grant (New Earth) · Charger (New Earth) · Collective (New Earth) · Connie Noleski (New Earth) · Constantine Stratos (New Earth) · Demeter (New Earth) · Deuce (New Earth) · Dmitri Pushkin (New Earth) · Doctor Cummings (New Earth) · Doctor Peterson (New Earth) · Driq (New Earth) · Edward Burke (New Earth) · Elemental Woman (New Earth) · Elizabeth Thorne (New Earth) · Eric Strauss (New Earth) · Eugenie Hedstrom (New Earth) · Fledermaus (New Earth) · Florence Crawley (New Earth) · Flying Fox (New Earth) · Gene LaBostrie (New Earth)

Teams

The following teams debuted with a 1987 cover date:

Axis Amerika · Blue Trinity · Onslaught · Suicide Squad · Young All-Stars

Chronology

The following events were published by DC Comics in the year 1987. This does not necessarily indicate that these storylines took place in the year 1987. The passage of time in the DC Universe is nebulous and subject to change and interpretation. Events from historical time periods are indexed under their corresponding years.

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From Muppet Wiki

Television & Movies

• Fraggle Rock Season 5 begins airing on HBO, January 5 (final season)
• The StoryTeller begins airing on NBC, January 31
• Inside the Labyrinth documentary released February 18
• Puppetman pilot airs on CBS, July 3
• Down at Fraggle Rock documentary on HBO, July 13
• Fraggle Rock (animated) begins airing on NBC, September 12
• Muppet Babies Season 4 begins on CBS, September 19
• Sesame Street Season 19, November 16
• A Muppet Family Christmas on CBS, December
• Inner Tube, a pilot for The Jim Henson Hour, is taped

International Television

• Muppet Babies begins airing in Germany on ZDF, September 20
• Sesame Street Canada increases Canadian content, with new characters Basil, Dodi, and Louis.

Appearances and Events

• Jim Henson inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, aired November 30
• Kermit, Fozzie Bear, and Miss Piggy help host Nightline, November 6

Storybooks

• Baby Kermit & the Magic Trunk
• Baby Piggy at the Bat
• The Best Babysitter in the World
• Big Bird's Bedtime Story
• Big Bird's Big Book
• Big Bird's Busy Day
• Don't Be Shy
• Ernie's Neighborhood
• Good Morning, Little Bert!
• Good Night, Little Grover!
• Grover and the New Kid
• Grover Takes Care of Baby
• Monsters, Monsters!
• Playtime with Big Bird
• A Sesame Street Christmas
• A Sitter for Baby Monster
• The Tale of the Bunny Picnic
• A Visit to the Sesame Street Museum
• What's Up in the Attic?

Albums

• The Best of Sesame Street

Videos

• Big Bird's Story Time
• Learning to Add and Subtract
• Muppet Babies Video Storybooks
• Sing Along
• Getting Ready for School

Merchandise

• Big Bird StoryMagic
• McDonald's Muppet Babies 1987 Happy Meal Toys
• Muppet Magazine issues 16-20

Stage Shows

• Sesame Street Live presents Big Bird & the ABC's
• Muppet Babies Live presents Muppet Babies: Magic Box

Muppet Character Debuts

• Sesame Street Canada: Basil, Louis, Dodi

Attractions and Events

• Muppets, Monster & Magie, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: November 29, 1987 to January 24, 1988

Parades

• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade features the Kermit the Frog Balloon

From Grand Theft Wiki

Events concerning the Grand Theft Auto series in 1987

Game World

GTA 2 Era

• Tortoise gets two years in a state penitentiary for the sexual harassment of some unwilling recruits.

GTA III Era

• Carl Johnson leaves San Andreas after the death of his brother Brian.
• The Grove Street Families begin to lose turf to the Ballas.

GTA IV Era

• Albert Lawson is arrested for resisting arrest.
• Marlon Bridges is born in Liberty City.
• Gavin Finkle is arrested for prostitution.
• Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince starts working on night clubs' business.

From the eWrestling Encyclopedia.

This article contains information on e-wrestling events that happened in 1987.

Notable 1987 births

• March 5th, Mike and Joe Ragnal are born in Scranton, PA.

• March 5th, Matthew Oliveira is born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

• 18th April, The Who is born in London, England.

• July 3rd, Virus is born in San Fransisco, California.

• May 15th, Dave Carter is born in Vancouver, Canada.

• September 14th, Damien Alptraum is born in South Boston, Massachusetts.

Notable 1987 deaths

1987 handler births/deaths

AJ - Handler of Jim Rourke

See also

• Help:Year articles - Information on editing and adding information to year articles.

An Ice Hockey Wiki article.

These events occured in 1987 in the world of hockey:

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From Marvel Database

All Comics for 1987 Without Month Designations

Alf Annual Vol 1 1	Alpha Flight Annual Vol 1 2	Amazing Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 21	Avengers Annual Vol 1 16
Blood: A Tale Vol 1 1	Blood: A Tale Vol 1 2	Blood: A Tale Vol 1 3	Blood: A Tale Vol 1 4
Conan the Barbarian Annual Vol 1 12	Excalibur Special Edition Vol 1 1	Fantastic Four Annual Vol 1 20	Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 26
Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 27	Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 28	Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 30	Marvel Masterworks Vol 1 3
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Gamebooks Vol 1 5	Moebius Vol 1 2	Moebius Vol 1 3	New Mutants Annual Vol 1 3
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 7	Pitt Vol 1 1	Psi-Force Vol 1 Annual 1	Web of Spider-Man Annual Vol 1 3
West Coast Avengers Annual Vol 1 2	X-Factor Annual Vol 1 2

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From Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki.

Star Tours opens at Disneyland in January 1987.

A list of events in 1987 related to Star Wars.

January

• 09 - Star Tours opens at Disneyland.
• 10 - The last episode of Star Wars: Ewoks aired.

June

• 06 - Daniel Logan is born.
• 24 - Spaceballs is released.

October

• 03 - Mousy McCallum is born.
• Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game is published by West End Games.
• Star Warriors, a board game of starfighter-to-starfighter dogfighting in the Star Wars universe, is published by West End Games.

November

• The Star Wars Sourcebook is published for the first time by West End Games. This is the first Sourcebook ever published, years before the term 'Expanded Universe' was applied to the Star Wars franchise.