Just For Fun for Boomers. I tried to compile a list of every show of note from ABC from the 1970-1980 seasons. News, game shows, prime time, soaps, variety, Saturday morning, talk etc. Some of the blips were left out. Back when there were only three major networks, each channel had a certain style and feel. ABC started out as number three and then with Fred Silverman at his brief helm, launched a juggernaut in the last half of the decade. Enjoy the list!
An Asterix represents a series that premiered in the 1979-1980 season.
ABC Afterschool Special
ABC Evening News
(Harry Reasoner/Howard K. Smith/Barbara Walters)
ABC Monday Night Football
ABC Movie of the Week
ABC Weekend Special
ABC Wide World of Sports
ABC World News Tonight
Alias Smith and Jones
All My Children
Almost Anything Goes
AM America
American Bandstand
Angie
The Associates*
Baretta
Barbara Walters Specials
Barbary Coast
Barney Miller
Battle of the Network Stars
Battlestar Galactica
Benson*
The Better Sex
Bewitched
Bionic Woman
Brady Bunch
Brady Bunch Hour
Brady Kids (animated)
Bugs Bunny Show
The Bullwinkle Show (reruns)
Captain and Tenille
Carter Country
Challenge of the Superfriends
Courtship of Eddie’s Father
Curiosity Shop
Dan August
Dark Shadows
Dating Game
Delta House
Devlin
Dick Cavett Show
Don Ho Show
Donny and Marie
Eight is Enough
The FBI
Family
Family Feud
Fangface
Fantasy Island
Feather and Father Gang
Funky Phantom
Galactica: 1980*
General Hospital
Get Christie Love
Getting Together (Bobby Sherman)
Goober & Ghost Chasers
Good Morning, America
Happy Days
Hardy Boys Mysteries
Harry O
Hart to Hart*
Here Come the Doubledeckers
Holmes and Yoyo
Hong Kong Phooey
Hot L Baltimore
How the West Was Won
The Immortal
Jabberjaw
Jackson Five (animated)
Johnny Cash Show
Julie Andrews Hour
Kid Power
Kolchak: Night Stalker
Korg: 70,000 BC
Kung Fu
Lancelot Link Secret Chimp
Laverne and Shirley
Lawrence Welk Show
Let’s Make a Deal
Lidsville
Longstreet
Lost Saucer
Love, American Style
The Love Boat
Marcus Welby, MD
Mod Squad
Monday Night Football
Mork and Mindy
Nancy Drew Mysteries
Nanny and the Professor
New Adventures of Gilligan
New Krofft Supershow
New Pink Panther Show
Newlywed Game
The Odd Couple
The Oddball Couple (animated)
Olympic Games (’72, ’76)
One Life to Live
Operation Petticoat
The Osmonds (animated)
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
Partridge Family
Password
Paul Lynde Show
The Persuaders
Plasticman Comedy/Adventure Show*
Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad
Rich Man Poor Man
Rhyme and Reason
Roadrunner Show
The Rookies
Room 222
Roots
The Ropers
Ryan’s Hope
Salvage One
Saturday Superstar Movie’
Schoolhouse Rock
Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Hour
Scooby’s All Star Laff a Lympics
Scooby and Scrappy Doo*
Six Million Dollar Man
The Sixth Sense
The Smith Family
Smokey Bear Show
Soap
Split Second
Streets of San Francisco
Superfriends
SWAT
Swiss Family Robinson
Tabitha
Taxi
Temperature’s Rising
Tenspeed and Brownshoe*
That’s Incredible*
That’s My Mama
These are the Days
This is Tom Jones
Three’s Company
Time for Timer
Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show
Tony Randall Show
20/20
$10/20,000 Pyramid
Uncle Croc’s Block
Vegas
Welcome Back, Kotter
What’s Happening
When Things Were Rotten
Wide World of Sports
Yogi’s Gang
You Don’t Say
