1979–80 United States network television schedule
This was the television schedule on all three United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1979. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with a few exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
New fall series are highlighted in bold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.[1]
- Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.
- Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.
- Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation but the schedule was set by each local station.
Sunday
| Network | 7:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Out of the Blue | A New Kind of Family | Mork & Mindy (27/20.2) | The Associates | The ABC Sunday Night Movie (29/20.0) | |||
| Winter | Galactica 1980 | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (29/20.0) | |||||||
| CBS | 60 Minutes (1/28.4) | Archie Bunker's Place (11/22.9) | One Day at a Time (10/23.0) | Alice (4/25.3) | The Jeffersons (8/24.3) | Trapper John, M.D. (19/21.2) | |||
| NBC | Disney's Wonderful World | The Big Event | Prime Time Sunday | ||||||
Monday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | 240-Robert | ABC NFL Monday Night Football | ||||
| Spring | That's Incredible! (3/25.8) | Family | Stone | ||||
| Summer | One in a Million | Monday Night Baseball | |||||
| CBS | Fall | The White Shadow | M*A*S*H (4/25.3) | WKRP in Cincinnati (22/20.7) | Lou Grant | ||
| Winter | House Calls (14/22.1) | ||||||
| Spring | WKRP in Cincinnati | The Stockard Channing Show | Flo (7/24.4) | ||||
| Summer | House Calls | ||||||
| NBC | Little House on the Prairie (16/21.8) | NBC Monday Night at the Movies | |||||
Tuesday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Happy Days (20/20.9) | Angie | Three's Company (2/26.3) | Taxi (13/22.4) | The Lazarus Syndrome | |
| Follow-up | Hart to Hart | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | California Fever | The CBS Tuesday Night Movies | ||||
| Winter | Hawaii Five-O | Paris | |||||
| NBC | Fall | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies | ||||
| Spring | The Big Show | United States | |||||
Wednesday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Eight Is Enough (12/22.8) | Charlie's Angels (20/20.9) | Vega$ (29/20.0) | |||
| CBS | The Last Resort | Struck by Lightning | The CBS Wednesday Night Movies | |||
| NBC | Real People (14/22.1) | Diff'rent Strokes (26/20.3) | Hello, Larry | The Best of Saturday Night Live (repeats) | ||
Thursday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Laverne & Shirley | Benson (23/20.6) | Barney Miller (17/21.7) | Soap (25/20.5) | 20/20 | |
| Winter | Mork & Mindy | ||||||
| Spring | The Associates | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | The Waltons | Hawaii Five-O | Barnaby Jones | |||
| Winter | Barnaby Jones | Knots Landing (28/20.1) | |||||
| Spring | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | The Contender | |||||
| Summer | The Waltons | ||||||
| NBC | Fall | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Quincy, M.E. | Kate Loves a Mystery | |||
| Spring | The Rockford Files | ||||||
Friday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fantasy Island | The ABC Friday Night Movie | |||||
| CBS | The Incredible Hulk | The Dukes of Hazzard (9/24.1) | Dallas (6/25.0) | ||||
| NBC | Fall | Shirley | The Rockford Files | Eischied | |||
| Spring | Here's Boomer | The Facts of Life | Pink Lady | ||||
| Summer | The Rockford Files | A Man Called Sloane | |||||
Saturday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | The Ropers | Detective School | The Love Boat (23/20.6) | Hart to Hart | ||
| Follow-up | Fantasy Island | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Working Stiffs | The Bad News Bears | Big Shamus, Little Shamus | Paris | ||
| Winter | The Chisholms | ||||||
| Spring | The Tim Conway Show | Hawaii Five-O | Hagen | ||||
| Summer | The Bad News Bears | The Stockard Channing Show | Various | ||||
| Follow-up | ? | The Bad News Bears | |||||
| Follow-up | Universe | ||||||
| NBC | Fall | CHiPs (18/21.5) | B. J. and the Bear | A Man Called Sloane | |||
| Winter | Prime Time Saturday | ||||||
| Spring | B. J. and the Bear | Sanford | Me and Maxx | ||||
| Follow-up | Joe's World | ||||||
| Summer | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Various | Good Time Harry | ||||
Note: In November 1979, CBS took Paris off their Saturday night lineup before scheduling it in the 10:00-11:00 pm time slot on Tuesdays beginning December 4.
References
- ↑ Highest-rated series is based on the annual top-rated programs list compiled by Nielsen Media Research and reported in: Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.
Additional sources
- Castleman, H. & Podrazik, W. (1982). Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television. New York: McGraw-Hill. 314 pp.
- McNeil, Alex. Total Television. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
- Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1985). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
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