1. Fred Armisen
    PREMIERED 1975

    Saturday Night Live

    On NBCPictured: Fred Armisen

1970s

TV IN THE 1970s

1970: TOP PREMIERES

  1. All My Children

    American television series

    Ran 1970–2013

  2. NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

    American daily evening television news program

  3. Josie and the Pussycats

    American animated television series

    Ran 1970–1971

  4. UFO

    British TV science fiction series

    Ran 1970–1971

  5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show

    Television series

    Ran 1970–1977

  6. The Partridge Family

    Television series

    Ran 1970–1974

1971: TOP PREMIERES

  1. All in the Family

    American television series

    Ran 1971–1979

  2. Cannon

    American television series

    Ran 1971–1976

    Cannon
  3. The Persuaders!

    British television series

    Ran 1971–1972

  4. McMillan & Wife

    American police procedural television series

    Ran 1971–1977

    McMillan & Wife
  5. OCT 2broadcast syndication
    Soul Train

    American music television series

    Ran 1971–2006

  6. Upstairs, Downstairs

    British drama television series

    Ran 1971–1975

1972: TOP PREMIERES

  1. The New Scooby-Doo Movies

    American animated television series

    Ran 1972–1973

  2. The Waltons

    American 1972–1981 television series

    Ran 1972–1981

    The Waltons
  3. The Streets of San Francisco

    American television series

    Ran 1972–1977

  4. M*A*S*H

    American television series

    Ran 1972–1983

  5. Kung Fu

    Television series

    Ran 1972–1975

  6. Emmerdale

    British soap opera

1973: TOP PREMIERES

  1. FEB 26Univision
    El Chavo del 8

    Mexican television sitcom

    Ran 1973–1980

  2. The Young and the Restless

    American daytime soap opera

  3. JUL 8Soviet Central Television
    Seventeen Moments of Spring

    Soviet twelve-part television miniseries

  4. Star Trek: The Animated Series

    American animated science fiction television series from

    Ran 1973–1974

  5. Kojak

    American television series starring Telly Savalas

    Ran 1973–1978

    Kojak
  6. The World at War

    British television documentary series about the Second World War

    Ran 1973–1974

1974: TOP PREMIERES

  1. Happy Days

    1974-1984 television comedy set in the 1950s

    Ran 1974–1984

  2. The Six Million Dollar Man

    American television series

    Ran 1974–1978

  3. Little House on the Prairie

    American Western drama television series, 1974 to 1983

    Ran 1974–1983

    Little House on the Prairie
  4. Police Woman

    Television series

    Ran 1974–1978

  5. The Rockford Files

    American television series

    Ran 1974–1980

  6. Planet of the Apes

1975: TOP PREMIERES

  1. Starsky & Hutch

    1970s American cop thriller television series

    Ran 1975–1979

  2. Space: 1999

    UK science fiction TV series

    Ran 1975–1977

  3. SEP 19BBC Two
    Fawlty Towers

    1970s BBC television sitcom

    Ran 1975–1979

    Fawlty Towers
  4. Saturday Night Live

    American late-night live television sketch comedy show

  5. Good Morning America

    American morning television show

  6. Wonder Woman

    Television series

    Ran 1975–1979

1976: TOP PREMIERES

  1. The Bionic Woman

    American television series

    Ran 1976–1978

  2. Charlie's Angels

    American crime drama television series

    Ran 1976–1981

  3. Family Feud

    American TV game show

  4. The Muppet Show

    American variety television series

    Ran 1976–1981

  5. The Scooby-Doo Show

    American animated television series

    Ran 1976–1978

  6. SEP 20BBC Two
    I, Claudius

    TV miniseries

1977: TOP PREMIERES

  1. Roots

    American TV miniseries

  2. Three's Company

    American sitcom

    Ran 1977–1984

  3. MAR 27Rai 1
    Jesus of Nazareth

    Television biopic and religious miniseries directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and 1978 movie film by Franco Zeffirelli

  4. The Amazing Spider-Man

    US 1970s television series

    Ran 1977–1979

    The Amazing Spider-Man
  5. The Love Boat

    American comedy drama television series

    Ran 1977–1986

  6. Mind Your Language

    British sitcom aired between

    Ran 1977–1986

1978: TOP PREMIERES

  1. Dallas

    American television soap opera

    Ran 1978–1991

  2. Holocaust

    American television miniseries directed by Marvin J. Chomsky

  3. Taxi

    American television sitcom

    Ran 1978–1983

  4. Mork & Mindy

    American television series

    Ran 1978–1982

  5. Battlestar Galactica

    American science fiction television series of the 1970s

    Ran 1978–1979

  6. Diff'rent Strokes

    Television series

    Ran 1978–1986

1979: TOP PREMIERES

  1. The Dukes of Hazzard

    1979-1985 American television series

    Ran 1979–1985

    The Dukes of Hazzard
  2. Hart to Hart

    American mystery TV series

    Ran 1979–1984

  3. Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

    Animated television series

    Ran 1979–1980

  4. Nightline

    American late-night television news program

  5. Salem's Lot

    Two-part miniseries directed by Tobe Hooper

  6. Knots Landing

    Television series

    Ran 1979–1993

    Knots Landing

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