Retro Fall Schedules: 1977

[Scotty]

Keeping up the spirit of Matt's previous retro schedule posts, here is how the primetime broadcast network schedule looked at the beginning of the 1977-78 season:

Series in Bold are new premieres.

SUNDAY

7:00pm

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (ABC)

60 Minutes (CBS)

The Wonderful World of Disney (NBC)

8:00pm

The Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)

Roda (CBS); 8:30pm On Our Own (CBS)

9:00pm

The ABC Sunday Movie (ABC)

All in the Family (CBS); 8:30pm Alice (CBS)

The Big Event (NBC)

10:00pm

Kojak (CBS)

MONDAY

8:00pm

The San Pedro Beach Bums (ABC)

Young Dan'l Boone (CBS)

Little House on the Prairie (NBC)

9:00pm

ABC NFL Monday Night Football (ABC)

The Betty White Show (CBS); 9:30pm Maude (CBS)

NBC Monday Night at the Movies (NBC)

10:00pm

Rafferty (CBS)

TUESDAY

8:00pm

Happy Days (ABC); 8:30pm Laverne & Shirley (ABC)

The Fitzpatricks (CBS)

The Richard Pryor Show (NBC)

9:00pm

Three's Company (ABC); 9:30pm Soap (ABC)

M*A*S*H (CBS); 9:30pm One Day at a Time (CBS)

Mulligan's Stew (NBC)

10:00pm

Family (ABC)

Lou Grant (CBS)

Police Woman (NBC)

WEDNESDAY

8:00pm

Eight is Enough (ABC)

Good Times (CBS); 8:30pm Busting Loose (CBS)

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (NBC)

9:00pm

Charlie's Angels (ABC)

The CBS Wednesday Night Movie (CBS)

The Oregon Trail (NBC)

10:00pm

Baretta (ABC)

Big Hawaii (NBC)

THURSDAY

8:00pm

Welcome Back Kotter (ABC); 8:30pm What's Happening! (ABC)

The Waltons (CBS)

CHiPs (NBC)

9:00pm

Barney Miller (ABC); 9:30pm Carter Country (ABC)

Hawaii Five-O (CBS)

Man From Atlantis (NBC)

10:00pm

The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour (ABC)

Barnaby Jones (CBS)

Rosetti and Ryan (NBC)

FRIDAY

8:00pm

Donnie & Marie (ABC)

The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (CBS)

Sanford Arms (NBC); 8:30pm Chico and the Man (NBC)

9:00pm

The ABC Friday Night Movie (ABC)

Logan's Run (CBS)

The Rockford Files (NBC)

10:00pm

Switch! (CBS)

Quincy, M.E. (NBC)

SATURDAY

8:00pm

Fish (ABC); 8:30pm Operation Petticoat (ABC)

The Bob Newhart Show (CBS); 8:30pm We've Got Each Other (CBS)

The Bionic Woman (NBC)

9:00pm

Starsky and Hutch (ABC)

The Jeffersons (CBS); 9:30pm The Tony Randall Show (CBS)

NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC)

10:00pm

The Love Boat (ABC)

The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)

[Matt]

Lord, I remember that quandry when I was a kid on Friday nights. I'd end up flipping back and forth between Donny & Marie and Wonder Woman.

[All My Shadows]

ABC had it going on back then! Sundays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays would have been all-ABC nights for me if I was around back then...