1988 in German television

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

Domestic

• 27 March -
• 3 October - Oh Gott, Herr Pfarrer
• 31 October - Die Bertinis
• 18 December - ''''

International

• 3 January - // Inspector Gadget
• 9 January - Knots Landing
• 12 March - Dempsey and Makepeace
• 27 March - The Kids of Degrassi Street
• 20 June - ''Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears''

BFBS

• 5 February - Aliens in the Family
• 25 July - Kellyvision
• 7 October - Small World
• 8 October - Defenders of the Earth
• 15 October - Strange Interlude
• 18 October - / Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories
• 19 October - The Return of Shelley
• 21 October - A Piece of Cake
• 21 November - The River
• 28 December - The Watch House Count Duckula Chatterbox Tube Mice Steel Riders
• ''The Snow Spider''

Television shows

1950s

• ''Tagesschau''

1960s

• ''heute''

1970s

• ''Tagesthemen''

1980s

• Wetten, dass..?
• ''Lindenstraße''

Births

• February 29 - Lena Gercke, German fashion model and television host