1977–78 United States network television schedule

The following is the 1977–78 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1977 through August 1978. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1976–77 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.

New fall series are highlighted in bold. Series ending their original runs are in italics.

Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.^[1]

  Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.

  Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.

  Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station. On ABC, debuting news brief, airs all seven nights at 9:58, pm.

Sunday

Network		7:00 PM	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries		The Six Million Dollar Man		The ABC Sunday Night Movie (20/20.8) (Tied with The Waltons)
	Winter			How the West Was Won (11/22.5)
CBS	Fall	60 Minutes (4/24.4) (Tied with Charlie's Angels and All in the Family)		Rhoda (25/20.1)	On Our Own (29/19.6)	All in the Family (4/24.4) (Tied with 60 Minutes and Charlie's Angels)	Alice (8/23.2) (Tied with M*A*S*H)	Kojak
	December							The Carol Burnett Show
	Spring							Dallas
	Summer							Switch
NBC	Fall	The Wonderful World of Disney				The Big Event (30/19.4)
	Winter	The Wonderful World of Disney		Project U.F.O. (19/21.2)

NOTE: On NBC, Off the Wall (a comedy about a co-ed college dorm) and C.P.O. Sharkey were supposed to air at 8:00-9:00 p.m., but NBC canceled the former after a spring airing of its pilot finished in last place for the week.^[2][3]

Monday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	The San Pedro Beach Bums		ABC NFL Monday Night Football (16/21.5)
	Winter	Lucan		The ABC Monday Night Movie (24/20.3)
	Follow-up	The Six Million Dollar Man
	Spring	Sugar Time!	Monday Night Baseball
CBS	Fall	Young Dan'l Boone		The Betty White Show	Maude	Rafferty
	Follow-up	Logan's Run		M*A*S*H (8/23.2) (Tied with Alice)	One Day at a Time (10/23.0)	Switch
	Winter					Lou Grant
	Follow-up	Good Times	Baby I'm Back
	Summer	The Jeffersons	Good Times
NBC		Little House on the Prairie (7/24.1)		NBC Monday Night at the Movies (15/21.7)

Tuesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Happy Days (2/31.4)	Laverne & Shirley (1/31.6)	Three's Company (3/28.3)	Soap (13/22.0)	Family (26/19.9) (Tied with The Incredible Hulk and Welcome Back, Kotter)
	Spring					Having Babies
	Follow-up				The Harvey Korman Show
	Summer				Carter Country	20/20
CBS	Fall	The Fitzpatricks		M*A*S*H (8/23.2) (Tied with Alice)	One Day at a Time (10/23.0)	Lou Grant
	Winter	Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes	The Shields and Yarnell Show	CBS Tuesday Night Movie
	Spring	Sam
NBC	Fall	The Richard Pryor Show		Man from Atlantis		Police Woman
	Follow-up	Man from Atlantis		Mulligan's Stew
	Winter	Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show		Event and miniseries programming
	Spring	Rollergirls	Joe & Valerie

Wednesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Eight Is Enough (12/22.2)		Charlie's Angels (4/24.4) (Tied with 60 Minutes and All in the Family)		Baretta
	Winter					Starsky & Hutch
CBS	Fall	Good Times	Busting Loose	The CBS Wednesday Night Movies
	Follow-up		Szysznyk
	Spring	The Amazing Spider-Man
NBC	Fall	The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams		The Oregon Trail		Big Hawaii
	Follow-up			The Black Sheep Squadron		Police Woman
	Summer			Headliners With David Frost

Thursday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Welcome Back, Kotter (26/19.9) (Tied with The Incredible Hulk and Family)	What's Happening!!	Barney Miller (17/21.4) (Tied with Fantasy Island)	Carter Country	The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour
	Winter		Fish			Baretta
	Spring				A.E.S. Hudson Street
CBS		The Waltons (20/20.8) (Tied with The ABC Sunday Night Movie)		Hawaii Five-O (23/20.4)		Barnaby Jones (22/20.6)
NBC	Fall	CHiPs		Man from Atlantis		Rosetti and Ryan
	November			James at 15		What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
	February			James at 16
	March			The Black Sheep Squadron
	Spring	The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour		The Runaways		Police Woman
	May	CHiPs		James at 16

Friday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC		Donny & Marie		The ABC Friday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	The New Adventures of Wonder Woman		Logan's Run		Switch!
	Follow-up			The CBS Friday Night Movie
	Winter			The Incredible Hulk (26/19.9) (Tied with Family and Welcome Back, Kotter)		Husbands, Wives & Lovers
NBC	Fall	Sanford Arms	Chico and the Man	The Rockford Files		Quincy, M.E.
	October	C.P.O. Sharkey
	Winter	Quark	C.P.O. Sharkey
	Spring			Richie Brockelman, Private Eye
	April			The Rockford Files
	Summer	C.P.O. Sharkey	Chico and the Man

Saturday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Fish	Operation Petticoat	Starsky & Hutch		The Love Boat (14/21.9)
	November	Tabitha
	Winter	What's Happening!!		The Love Boat (14/21.9)		Fantasy Island (17/21.4) (Tied with Barney Miller)
	Spring	Mel & Susan Together
	June	Free Country	ABC Comedy Special
	Summer	Family
CBS	Fall	The Bob Newhart Show	We've Got Each Other	The Jeffersons	The Tony Randall Show	The Carol Burnett Show
	Winter		The Tony Randall Show		Maude	Kojak
	Spring	The Jeffersons	The Ted Knight Show	Another Day
NBC		The Bionic Woman		NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

By network

ABC

Returning Series The ABC Friday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie ABC NFL Monday Night Football The ABC Sunday Night Movie Baretta Barney Miller Charlie's Angels Donny & Marie Eight Is Enough Family Fish Happy Days The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries How the West Was Won Laverne & Shirley Monday Night Baseball The Six Million Dollar Man Starsky & Hutch Sugar Time! Three's Company Welcome Back, Kotter What's Happening!!

New Series 20/20 A.E.S. Hudson Street * Carter Country Fantasy Island * Free Country * The Harvey Korman Show * Having Babies * The Love Boat Lucan Mel & Susan Together * Operation Petticoat The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour * The San Pedro Beach Bums Soap Tabitha

Not returning from 1976–77: The ABC Tuesday Night Movie The Bionic Woman (moved to NBC) Blansky's Beauties The Brady Bunch Variety Hour The Captain and Tennille Cos Dog and Cat The Feather and Father Gang Holmes & Yoyo Mr. T and Tina Most Wanted The Nancy Walker Show Rich Man, Poor Man Book II The Streets of San Francisco The Tony Randall Show (moved to CBS) Westside Medical Wonder Woman (moved to CBS)

CBS

Returning Series 60 Minutes Alice All in the Family Barnaby Jones The Bob Newhart Show Busting Loose The Carol Burnett Show Good Times Hawaii Five-O The Jeffersons Kojak M*A*S*H Maude The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (moved from ABC) One Day at a Time Rhoda The Shields and Yarnell Show Switch Szysznyk The Tony Randall Show (moved from ABC) The Waltons

New Series The Amazing Spider-Man Another Day * Baby, I'm Back * The Betty White Show Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes * Dallas * The Fitzpatricks Husbands, Wives & Lovers * The Incredible Hulk * Logan's Run Lou Grant On Our Own Rafferty Sam * The Ted Knight Show * We've Got Each Other Young Dan'l Boone

Not returning from 1976–77: All's Fair The Andros Targets Ball Four The Blue Knight Code R Delvecchio The Diahann Carroll Show Doc Executive Suite Hunter The Jacksons The Keane Brothers Show Loves Me, Loves Me Not The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. Show The Mary Tyler Moore Show Nashville 99 Phyllis Spencer's Pilots The Sonny and Cher Show Starland Vocal Band Show The Tony Orlando and Dawn Rainbow Hour Who's Who A Year at the Top

NBC

Returning Series The Black Sheep Squadron The Big Event The Bionic Woman (moved from ABC) C.P.O. Sharkey Chico and the Man Columbo Headliners With David Frost The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Little House on the Prairie NBC Monday Night at the Movies NBC Saturday Night at the Movies Police Woman Quincy, M.E. The Rockford Files The Wonderful World of Disney

New Series Big Hawaii CHiPs Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show * The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour * James at 15 Joe & Valerie * Man from Atlantis Mulligan's Stew * The Oregon Trail Project U.F.O. * Quark The Richard Pryor Show Richie Brockelman, Private Eye * Rollergirls * Rosetti and Ryan The Runaways * Sanford Arms What Really Happened to the Class of '65? *

Not returning from 1976–77: 3 Girls 3 Comedy Time Emergency! The Fantastic Journey Gemini Man Gibbsville The Kallikaks Kingston: Confidential Lanigan's Rabbi McCloud The McLean Stevenson Show McMillan & Wife NBC's Best Sellers The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie Police Story The Practice The Quest Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected Sanford and Son Serpico Sirota's Court Van Dyke and Company

Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.