1977–78 United States network television schedule (weekday)
These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season Beginning in September 1977. All times are Eastern.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Fall 1977
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | 5:00 pm | 5:30 pm | 6:00 pm | 6:30 pm | |
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| ABC | Good Morning America | local | Happy Days reruns | Family Feud | The Better Sex | Ryan's Hope | All My Children | The $20,000 Pyramid | 2:30 pm One Life to Live
3:15 pm General Hospital |
The Edge of Night | local | ABC Evening News♦ | ||||||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Price Is Right | Match Game '77 | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
The Young and the Restless | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Guiding Light | All in the Family reruns | Tattletales | local | CBS Evening News | |||||||||
| NBC | Today | local | Sanford and Son reruns | The Hollywood Squares | Wheel of Fortune | Knockout | To Say the Least | Chico and the Man reruns | local | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | The Gong Show | local | NBC Nightly News | |||||||||
NOTE: On November 7, 1977, CBS expanded Guiding Light from 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Winter 1977–1978
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | 5:00 pm | 5:30 pm | 6:00 pm | 6:30 pm | |
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| ABC | Good Morning America | local | Happy Days reruns | Family Feud | The $20,000 Pyramid | Ryan's Hope | All My Children | One Life to Live | General Hospital | The Edge of Night | local | ABC Evening News♦ | ||||||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | Tattletales | The Price Is Right | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
The Young and the Restless | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Guiding Light | All in the Family Repeats | Match Game '78 | local | CBS Evening News | |||||||||
| NBC | Today | local | Sanford and Son reruns | The Hollywood Squares | Wheel of Fortune | Knockout | To Say the Least | The Gong Show | local | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | For Richer, For Poorer | local | NBC Nightly News | |||||||||
NOTEs: On January 16, 1978, ABC expanded both One Life to Live and General Hospital from 45 minutes to 1 hour .
Spring 1978
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | 5:00 pm | 5:30 pm | 6:00 pm | 6:30 pm | |
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| ABC | Good Morning America | local | Happy Days reruns | Family Feud | The $20,000 Pyramid | Ryan's Hope | All My Children | One Life to Live | General Hospital | The Edge of Night | local | ABC Evening News♦ | ||||||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | Pass the Buck | The Price Is Right | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
The Young and the Restless | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Guiding Light | All in the Family Repeats | Match Game '78 | local | CBS Evening News | |||||||||
| NBC | Today | local | Card Sharks | The Hollywood Squares | The New High Rollers | Wheel of Fortune | Sanford and Son reruns | The Gong Show | local | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | For Richer, For Poorer | local | NBC Nightly News | |||||||||
Summer 1978
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | 4:30 pm | 5:00 pm | 5:30 pm | 6:00 pm | 6:30 pm | |
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| ABC | Good Morning America | local | Happy Days reruns | Family Feud | The $20,000 Pyramid | Ryan's Hope | All My Children | One Life to Live | General Hospital | The Edge of Night | local | ABC's World News Tonight♦ | ||||||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The New Tic Tac Dough | The Price Is Right | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
The Young and the Restless | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Guiding Light | All in the Family Repeats | Match Game '78 | local | CBS Evening News | |||||||||
| NBC | Today | local | Card Sharks | The Hollywood Squares | High Rollers | Wheel of Fortune | America Alive | local | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | For Richer, For Poorer | local | NBC Nightly News | ||||||||||
Notes
♦ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast
In Mid-1978, For Richer, For Poorer aired its final episode on NBC. After the show's end, NBC returned the 4 PM timeslot to its affiliates, making it the first network to do so. In exchange for this, NBC took back the 1 PM slot from its affiliates and it chose to place its popular game show, The Hollywood Squares in that timeslot.
Sources
- http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
- http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
- http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html