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. Series ending their original runs are highlighted in italics.

The highest-rated show for the year is colored in lime. The top ten highest-rated shows are colored in yellow. The top 20 highest-rated shows are colored in cyan. The top 30 highest-rated shows are colored in magenta. Ranking determined by Nielsen Media Research.^[1]

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station. On ABC, its news brief, airs all seven nights at 9:58, pm.

Fall Schedule

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Mid-Season Schedule

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Summer Schedule

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Pickups and Cancellations

Full Season Pickups

ABC

• 240-Robert (returns in mid-season)
• Barney Miller
• Benson
• Charlie's Angels
• Eight Is Enough
• Fantasy Island
• Happy Days
• Hart to Hart
• Laverne & Shirley
• The Love Boat
• Monday Night Football
• Mork & Mindy
• Soap
• Taxi
• That's Incredible!
• Three's Company
• Vega$

CBS

• 60 Minutes
• Alice
• Archie Bunker's Place
• Dallas
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• Flo
• House Calls
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Jeffersons
• Knots Landing
• Lou Grant
• M*A*S*H
• One Day at a Time
• Palmerstown, U.S.A." (returns in mid-season)
• The Tim Conway Show
• Trapper John, M.D.
• The Waltons
• The White Shadow

NBC

• B.J. and the Bear
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• CHiPs
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Disney's Wonderful World
• The Facts of Life
• Little House on the Prairie
• The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
• Quincy, M.E.
• Real People
• Sanford

Cancellations and Endings

ABC

• Angie
• The Associates
• B.A.D. Cats
• Detective School
• Family
• Galactica 1980
• Goodtime Girls
• The Lazarus Syndrome
• A New Kind of Family
• Nobody's Perfect
• One in a Million
• Out of the Blue
• The Ropers
• Salvage 1
• Stone
• Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
• When the Whistle Blows

CBS

• The Bad News Bears
• Barnaby Jones
• Beyond Westworld
• Big Shamus, Little Shamus
• California Fever
• The Chisholms
• Hawaii Five-O
• The Last Resort
• Paris
• Phyl and Mikhy
• The Stockard Channing Show
• Struck By Lightning
• Working Stiffs
• Young Maverick

NBC

• The Big Show
• Eischied
• From Here to Eternity
• Good Time Harry
• Hello, Larry
• Here's Boomer (to return in 1981-1982 season)
• Joe's World
• Kate Loves a Mystery
• A Man Called Sloane
• Me and Maxx
• Pink Lady
• Prime Time Sunday/Saturday
• The Rockford Files
• Shirley
• The Six O'Clock Follies (irregularly scheduled)
• United States

Technically Considered Part of Next Season

CBS

• That's My Line
• Universe

NBC

• Speak Up, America

References

• 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.
• Shapiro, Mitchell E (1989). "Television Network Prime-Time Programming, 1948-1988". Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-89950-412-4.