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On the night of April 19, 1987, "The Simpsons" first appeared, as a series of shorts on "The Tracey Ullman Show."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19• 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".