Twin Peaks Pilot airs on ABC Television Network

The Twin Peaks pilot airs on the ABC Television network on Sunday, April 8, 1990 beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. The episode was written by David Lynch and Mark Frost and directed by David Lynch. There were 34.6 million viewers in the United States that watched the mystery unfold. Source: “The Thursday Night Shootout,” Don Davies, Wisconsin State Journal, May 3, 1990