Flashback: 1980

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Program Title

60 Minutes
Three's Company
M*A*S*H
Alice
Dallas
Flo
The Jeffersons
The Dukes of Hazzard
That's Incredible
One Day At A Time
Archie Bunker's Place
Eight Is Enough
Taxi
House Calls
(tie) Real People
(tie) Happy Day
Little House On The Prairie
(tie) CHiPs
(tie) Charlie's Angels
Trapper John, M.D.

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Evening Sitcoms

Three's Company, M*A*S*H, Benson, Sheriff Lobo, Another World, Different Strokes, Family, Archie Bunkers Place, One Day at a Time, Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, Dukes of Hazzard, Love Boat, Taxi, Mork and Mindy

Evening Sitcoms

Quincy, Barnaby Jones, Fantasy Island, Knots Landing, Vegas, Hart to Hart, Trapper John, Little House on, the, Prairie, Dallas, Magnum PI, White Shadow

Soap Operas

Soap, One Life to Live, General Hospital, All My Children

Game Shows

Saturday Cartoons

Sports

Superbowl XIV, Olympics, Monday Night Football

Talk Shows

Phil Donahue, Real People, Gerardo Rivera

News

Presidential Campaign
Good Morning America - Sandy Hill left GMA in the summer of 1980, and was replaced by Joan Lunden. The David Hartman/Joan Lunden team remained in place until David Hartman decided to leave in February of 1987.
Morning - The CBS early morning program during the seventies had been strictly a news show, but in the fall of 1980, Morning made its debut as a ninety-minute daily program with Charles Kuralt and Diane Sawyer as co-hosts.

Music/Variety Shows

Hee Haw

Late Night

The Tonight Show - Johnny Carson acquired total ownership of the program in 1980, and trimmed the length of the show from 90 down to 60 minutes.

PBS

Cosmos

Mini-Series

Shogun