1979 in American television

Events

Programs

• ABC
• *American Bandstand
• *The Edge of Night
• *General Hospital
• *One Life to Live
• *All My Children
• *Monday Night Football
• *Schoolhouse Rock!
• *Happy Days
• *Barney Miller
• *Good Morning America
• *Ryan's Hope
• *Tom and Jerry
• *Welcome Back, Kotter
• *Charlie's Angels
• *Family Feud
• *Laverne & Shirley
• *What's Happening!!
• *Eight Is Enough
• *Fantasy Island
• *The Love Boat
• *Soap
• *Three's Company
• *20/20
• *Mork & Mindy
• *Taxi
• CBS
• *Love of Life
• *Search for Tomorrow
• *Guiding Light
• *Face the Nation
• *Captain Kangaroo
• *As the World Turns
• *60 Minutes
• *Hawaii Five-O
• *All in the Family
• *Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• *M*A*S*H
• *The Price Is Right
• *The Waltons
• *Barnaby Jones
• *Match Game '79
• *The Young and the Restless
• *Good Times
• *The Jeffersons
• *One Day at a Time
• *Alice
• *Wonder Woman
• *The Amazing Spider-Man
• *Lou Grant
• *Dallas
• *WKRP in Cincinnati
• NBC
• *Meet the Press
• *The Today Show
• *The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• *The Doctors
• *Another World
• *Days of Our Lives
• *The Wonderful World of Disney
• *The Tomorrow Show
• *Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
• *Little House on the Prairie
• *The Rockford Files
• *Saturday Night Live
• *Wheel of Fortune
• *Quincy, M.E.
• *CHiPs
• *Diff'rent Strokes
• PBS
• *Sesame Street
• *Masterpiece Theatre
• *Nova
• In syndication
• *Candid Camera
• *Truth or Consequences
• *The Lawrence Welk Show
• *The Mike Douglas Show
• *Hee Haw
• *Soul Train
• *Dinah!
• *Match Game PM
• *In Search of...
• *The Gong Show
• *The P.T.L. Club
• *The Muppet Show
• *This Week in Baseball
• *Battle of the Planets
• HBO
• *Inside the NFL
• Nickelodeon
• *Pinwheel
• *America Goes Bananaz
• *Video Comic Book
• *Nickel Flicks
• *Hocus Focus

  Debuting in 1979

Ending in 1979

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

Television stations

Sign-ons

Network affiliation changes

Births

Deaths