Pearl was a 1978 American miniseries on ABC about events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. It starred a large cast, notably Dennis Weaver, Robert Wagner, Angie Dickinson, Lesley Ann Warren, Gregg Henry, Max Gail, Richard Anderson, Marion Ross, Audra Lindley, Char Fontane, and Adam Arkin. To keep production costs manageable, the scenes of the attack were footage originally shot for the film Tora! Tora! Tora!.

This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Pearl (disambiguation). Pearl is an American situation comedy, which was broadcast by CBS as part of its 1996-97 lineup.

This miniseries presents a cross-section of life in Pearl Harbor leading up to the Japanese attack and its immediate aftermath. Among the stories: A colonel's bitter wife seeks extramarital attention; a female doctor with painful memories resists a new love; a young naval officer falls for a Japanese-American woman. Pearl Harbor changes their lives and those of the people around them. Written by Anonymous

Early December 1941, Oahu, Hawaii. Blithely unaware that the Japanese First Air Fleet, a powerful aircraft carrier force, is en route to the waters around their island, several US military personnel are caught in varied twists in their lives. Jason Forrest, the commanding colonel of military police, is a bigoted hardscrabble officer who rose up from poverty and is thus resentful of his wealthy executive officer, Captain Calvin Lanford; Jason Forrest also clashes with his wife Midge, who remains bitter over the death of their daughter years earlier. Caught up in their travails are a young army private, Private John Finger, a scheming MP Sergeant, Otto Chain, a no-nonsense top-kick sergeant who is a bitter enemy of Chain, Sergeant Brad Walder, a resentful and high-maintenance Private, Zylowski, and a civilian nurse who meets Captain Lanford and is rescued from suicide by him. Amid their travails, a young Navy junior officer, Lieutenant Douglas North, clashes with his father, Commander Michael North, and renews acquaintances with a young local news-writer with whom Colonel Jason Forrest has clashed, Holly Nagata, a relationship that blossoms to love. But all of their lives are turned upside down when, on December 7, Oahu comes under attack from an armada of Japanese warplanes. Written by Michael Daly

Pearl is a mature woman from modest up-bringings. When she realizes she missed out on a lot, she decides to go back to college, in spite of her grown son's protests. She makes a bunch of new, but weird, friends and is constantly in conflict with her snob philosophy professor. Written by Steve Richer