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This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1979–80 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1:
July 10. KSD-TV, NBC affiliate in St. Louis, changes its call sign to KSDK-TV. September 7. ESPN, an all-sports channel, launches and becomes the first cable TV channel to be launched as a 24-hour channel. September 9. KNXV-TV goes on the air for the first time as Phoenix 's first UHF station, airing with ONTV.
February 27. (1979-02-27) –. May 1, 1979. (1979-05-01) Cliffhangers is an American drama television series that aired on NBC from February 27 to May 1, 1979. It attempted to revive the genre of movie serials in a television format. Each hour-long episode was divided into three 20-minute segments: a mystery, Stop Susan Williams; a science ...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 British seven-part spy drama by the BBC. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré 's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell ...
The following is the 1979–80 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1979 through August 1980. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1978–79 ...
The series debuted on September 9, 1979, but it received poor ratings against 60 Minutes on CBS (the #1 show on TV that year) and Disney on NBC. With only seven episodes aired, ABC pulled Blue, as well as fellow freshman sitcom A New Kind of Family, after their October 21 airings.
April 22, 1979. (1979-04-22) Friends is an American children-oriented comedy-drama series that aired on ABC from March 25 to April 22, 1979. The series, which was produced by Aaron Spelling, starred Charlie Aiken, Jill Whelan, Janet MacLachlan, Jarrod Johnson, Karen Morrow and Roger Robinson. Five one-hour episodes were produced before the ...
Quatermass (TV serial) Quatermass. (TV serial) Quatermass (also known as Quatermass IV, or The Quatermass Conclusion for its limited international theatrical release) is a 1979 British television science fiction serial. Produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, it was broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979.