1977–78 United States network television schedule
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This was the television schedule on all three United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1977. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
New fall series are highlighted in bold. Series ending their original runs are in italics.
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. On ABC, debuting news brief, airs all seven nights at 9:58, pm.
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 | |
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| ABC | Fall | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | The Six Million Dollar Man | The ABC Sunday Night Movie (20/20.8) | |||||
| Winter | How the West Was Won (11/22.5) | ||||||||
| CBS | Fall | 60 Minutes (4/24.4) | Rhoda (25/20.1) | On Our Own (29/19.6) | All in the Family (4/24.4) | Alice (8/23.2) | Kojak | ||
| Follow-up | The Carol Burnett Show | ||||||||
| Spring | Dallas | ||||||||
| NBC | Fall | The Wonderful World of Disney | The Big Event (30/19.4) | ||||||
| Winter | The Wonderful World of Disney | Project U.F.O. (19/21.2) | |||||||
Monday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | The San Pedro Beach Bums | ABC NFL Monday Night Football (16/21.5) | ||||
| Winter | Lucan | The ABC Monday Night Movie (24/20.3) | |||||
| Spring | Sugar Time! | Monday Night Baseball | |||||
| CBS | Fall | Young Dan'l Boone | The Betty White Show | Maude | Rafferty | ||
| Follow-up | Logan's Run | M*A*S*H (8/23.2) | One Day at a Time (10/23.0) | Switch! | |||
| Winter | Lou Grant | ||||||
| NBC | Little House on the Prairie (7/24.1) | NBC Monday Night at the Movies (15/21.7) | |||||
Tuesday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Happy Days (2/31.4) | Laverne & Shirley (1/31.6) | Three's Company (3/28.3) | Soap (13/22.0) | Family (26/19.9) | ||
| CBS | Fall | The Fitzpatricks | M*A*S*H (8/23.2) | One Day at a Time (10/23.0) | Lou Grant | ||
| Winter | Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes | Shields and Yarnell | CBS Tuesday Night Movie | ||||
| Spring | Sam | ||||||
| NBC | Fall | The Richard Pryor Show | Mulligan's Stew | Police Woman | |||
| Follow-up | The Man from Atlantis | Event and miniseries programming | |||||
Wednesday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Eight is Enough (12/22.2) | Charlie's Angels (4/24.4) | Baretta | ||||
| CBS | Fall | Good Times | Busting Loose | The CBS Wednesday Night Movies | |||
| Follow-up | Szysznyk | ||||||
| NBC | Fall | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | The Oregon Trail | Big Hawaii | |||
| Follow-up | The Black Sheep Squadron | Police Woman | |||||
| Summer | Headliners With David Frost | ||||||
Thursday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Welcome Back, Kotter (26/19.9) | What's Happening!! | Barney Miller (17/21.4) | Carter Country | The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour | |
| Winter | Fish | ||||||
| Spring | A.E.S. Hudson Street | ||||||
| CBS | The Waltons (20/20.8) | Hawaii Five-O (23/20.4) | Barnaby Jones (22/20.6) | ||||
| NBC | Fall | CHiPs | Man from Atlantis | Rosetti and Ryan | |||
| Follow-up | James at 15 (retitled James at 16 in February 1978) |
What Really Happened to the Class of '65 | |||||
Friday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Donny & Marie | The ABC Friday Night Movie | |||||
| CBS | Fall | The New Adventures of Wonder Woman | Logan's Run | Switch! | |||
| Follow-up | The CBS Friday Night Movies | ||||||
| Winter | The Incredible Hulk (26/19.9) | Husbands, Wives & Lovers | |||||
| NBC | Fall | Sanford Arms | Chico and the Man | The Rockford Files | Quincy, M.E. | ||
| Follow-up | C.P.O. Sharkey | ||||||
| Winter | Quark | C.P.O. Sharkey | |||||
| Summer | C.P.O. Sharkey | Chico and the Man | |||||
Saturday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Fish | Operation Petticoat | Starsky and Hutch | The Love Boat (14/21.9) | ||
| Winter | What's Happening!! | The Love Boat (14/21.9) | Fantasy Island (17/21.4) | ||||
| CBS | Fall | The Bob Newhart Show | We've Got Each Other | The Jeffersons | The Tony Randall Show | The Carol Burnett Show | |
| Winter | The Tony Randall Show | Maude | Kojak | ||||
| Spring | The Ted Knight Show | Another Day | |||||
| NBC | The Bionic Woman | NBC Saturday Night at the Movies | |||||
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.