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1979-1980 Television Season

The top five shows of 1979-80 were Dallas, M*A*S*H, Alice, That's Incredible, with the most popular being Three's Company. (See below for the list of the top 30 programs.)

This was a notoriously bad year for NBC, whose highest rated show was Real People at #15. NBC only managed four shows in the top 30! They were also responsible for one of the worst programs in the history of television, Pink Lady. Despite all of this, NBC ran ads claiming it was Proud as a Peacock.

Programs that started before 8:00 p.m. on Sundays (and not on our grid below) include Out of the Blue, Disney's Wonderful World, and 60 Minutes. Select a show below to read all about it and to share your memories!

Prime Time TV Schedule for 1979-1980
	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	240-Robert		Monday Night Football
	White Shadow		MAS*H	WKRP in Cincinnati	Lou Grant
	Little House on the Prairie		NBC Monday Night Movie
	Happy Days	Angie	Three's Company	Taxi	Lazarus Syndrome
	California Fever		CBS Tuesday Night Movie
	Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo		NBC Tuesday Night Movie
	Eight is Enough		Charlie's Angels		Vega$
	Last Resort	Struck by Lightning	CBS Wednesday Night Movie
	Real People		Diff'rent Strokes	Hello Larry	Best of Saturday Night Live
	Laverne & Shirley	Benson	Barney Miller	Soap	20-20
	Waltons		Hawaii Five-O		Barnaby Jones
	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century		Quincy, M.E.		Kate Loves a Mystery
	Fantasy Island		ABC Friday Night Movie
	Incredible Hulk		Dukes of Hazzard		Dallas
	Shirley		Rockford Files		Eischied
	Ropers	Detective School	Love Boat		Hart to Hart
	Working Stiffs	Bad News Bears	Big Shamus, Little Shamus		Paris
	CHiPS		B.J. and the Bear		Man Called Sloane
	Mork & Mindy	Associates	ABC Sunday Night Movie
	Archie Bunker's Place	One Day at a Time	Alice	Jeffersons	Trapper John, M.D.
	Big Event				Prime Time Sunday
	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.
Continued - Indicates show began before the time period indicated.

1979-80 Ratings

Rank	Show	Network	Estimated viewers
1.	60 Minutes	CBS	21,669,200
2.	Three's Company	ABC	20,066,900
3.	That's Incredible	ABC	19,685,400
4.	Alice	CBS	19,303,900
5.	MAS*H	CBS	19,303,900
6.	Dallas	CBS	19,075,000
7.	Flo	CBS	18,617,200
8.	The Jeffersons	CBS	18,540,900
9.	The Dukes of Hazzard	CBS	18,388,300
10.	One Day at a Time	CBS	17,549,000
11.	Archie Bunker's Place	CBS	17,472,700
12.	Eight is Enough	ABC	17,396,400
13.	Taxi	ABC	17,091,200
14.	House Calls	CBS	16,862,300
15.	Real People	NBC	16,862,300
16.	Little House on the Prairie	NBC	16,633,400
17.	Happy Days	ABC	16,557,100
18.	CHiPS	NBC	16,404,500
19.	Trapper John, M.D.	CBS	16,175,600
20.	Charlie's Angels	ABC	15,946,700
21.	Barney Miller	ABC	15,946,700
22.	WKRP in Cincinnati	CBS	15,794,100
23.	Benson	ABC	15,717,800
24.	The Love Boat	ABC	15,717,800
25.	Soap	ABC	15,641,500
26.	Diff'rent Strokes	NBC	15,488,900
27.	Mork & Mindy	ABC	15,412,600
28.	Fantasy Island	ABC	15,336,300
29.	Tenspeed and Brown Shoe	ABC	15,260,000
30.	ABC Sunday Night Movie	ABC	15,260,000

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