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1976-1977 Television Season

The top five shows of 1976-77 were Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie's Angels, M*A*S*H, Laverne & Shirley, with the most popular being Happy Days. (See below for the list of the top 30 programs.)

Shows which began before 8:00 p.m. on Sundays, and therefore not on our grid below, included Cos, The Wonderful World of Disney, and 60 Minutes.

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Prime Time TV Schedule for 1976-1977
		8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
		Captain and Tennille Show		Monday Night Football
		Rhoda	Phyllis	Maude	All's Fair	Executive Suite
		Little House on the Prairie		NBC Monday Night Movie
		Happy Days	Laverne & Shirley	Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II		Family
		Tony Orlando and Dawn		M*A*S*H	One Day at a Time	Switch
		Baa Baa Black Sheep		Police Woman		Police Story
		Bionic Woman		Baretta		Charlie's Angels
		Good Times	Ball Four	All in the Family	Alice	Blue Knight
		The Practice	NBC Movie of the Week			The Quest
		Welcome Back, Kotter	Barney Miller	Tony Randall Show	Nancy Walker Show	Streets of San Francisco
		Waltons		Hawaii Five-O		Barnaby Jones
		Gemini Man		NBC Best Sellers		Van Dyke and Company
		Donny and Marie		ABC Friday Night Movie
		Spencer's Pilots		CBS Friday Night Movie
		Sanford & Son	Chico and the Man	Rockford Files		Serpico
		Holmes and Yoyo	Mr. T and Tina	Starsky and Hutch		Most Wanted
		Jeffersons	Doc	Mary Tyler Moore	Bob Newhart Show	Carol Burnett Show
		Emergency!		NBC Saturday Night Movie
		Six Million Dollar Man		ABC Sunday Night Movie
		Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour		Kojak		Delvecchio
		[Sunday Mystery Movie (rotating)] Quincy | Lanigan's Rabbi / McCloud / Columbo / McMillan & Wife			Big Event
		8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30

Note: Television seasons have generally begun in September of each year. And new shows often do not last the entire season. The shows below began the new season but did not necessarily run all the way through to summer reruns.
- Indicates show began before the time period indicated. 

1976-77 Ratings