This is a list of issue covers of TV Guide magazine from the decade of the 1980s, from January 1980 to December 1989. The entries on this table include each cover's subjects and their artists (photographer or illustrator). This list is for the regular weekly issues of TV Guide; any one-time-only special issues are not included.
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
Sources
Covers and table of contents page descriptions for the various issues. TV Guide: Fifty Years of Television, New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2002. Stephen Hofer, ed., TV Guide: The Official Collectors Guide, Braintree, Massachusetts: BangZoom Publishers, 2006. . "50 Greatest TV Guide Covers", article from the June 15, 2002 edition of TV Guide Information from ellwanger.tv's TV Guide collection section