| | New Ad: "This is not your father's Oldsmobile" (General Motors) |
| | NASA plans to spend $95 million in a 10 year project to search for signals of extraterrestrial intelligence. |
| | Faxphones are $1,295 and a Compaq 286 laptop is $5,399 |
| | Rogaine shows to be the first big consumer product that grows hair |
| | Suction cats like Garfield are showing up all over car windows. |
| | "Elvis Lives" phenomenon is big |
| | The Ford Probe and Honey Teddy Grahams are new. |
| | Orel Hershiser breaks Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings. |
| | Top movie stars included: Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Bette Midler and Tom Selleck |
| | Soviets and Americans work together to save two whales trapped off the Alaska coast. |