TV Ratings for the 1976-1977 TV Season

Look who's #39!

Number 7, bitches!

66 Blansky's Beauties!

Sadly. I watched all of these shows! My parents would be appalled to know I watched so much TV.

What a bizarre but completely expected topic for a DL thread.

One Day at a Time had better ratings than All in the Family, Maude, 60 Minutes, The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show (which is lowly rated).

DL may hate her but Bonnie Franklin was a star and the public loved her.

I'm shocked at what a big flop Sonny & Cher was at #80. I remember it being much bigger deal when I was a little kid. Was this towards the end of its run?

R6 Their show was popular earlier in the decade.

I’ve never heard of Gibbsville, Code R, Doc. Chico and the man should be up higher. I thought it was ver popular.

A lot of the shows ranked in the 70s-100 I haven’t heard of . But I was 15 and hanging out with friends and not watching g TV as much.

I wonder how many of those were created by Norman Lear?

Yes, the Sonny & Cher show was very popular in the early '70s.

At one point it was among the Top 10.

DL goddess Linda Lavin would eventually Boppity Bop her way into the top 10!

I didn't know that Nancy Walker had a show.

I couldn't watch the 6 million man, Lee Majors was a sucky actor.

I noticed that CHARLIE'S ANGELS (1976-1981) first season ranked at #4 just ahead of THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN (1973-1978).

Lee Majors must not have been too happy to be beaten by his wife, Farrah Fawcett.

Is that why she left the show after one season?

Family at Number 39. What a travesty!

Wwwwwait.

The Nancy Walker Show was at #54, but Blanksy’s Beauties was tied for 66? They were actually on in the same season?

Wow… that may have elicited shame on the level of a McLean Stevenson.

And I have bootleg DVDs of The Feather and Father Gang!

[quote]DL may hate her but Bonnie Franklin was a star and the public loved her.

R5 not to mention, "One Day at a Time" ran for 9 seasons and was consistently in the Top 10 or Top 20 in the ratings for 8 of those seasons.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show ending its last season at #35 is sad to me.

Happy Days sucked.

It was a time when NBC was in the toilet.

And Garry Marshall ruled the world!

The golden age of TV theme songs.

R22=Lavin scatting

I don't understand why Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams weren't bigger stars. For a female led sitcom to be that massively popular should have led to major film roles. Shelley Hack and Kirstie Alley were able to do it.

R20 - I didn't know how BAD NBC was in the toilet. JFC. No wonder it was such a miracle when Tartikoff turned it around and it ruled the 1980s.

I was alive then and I have heard one third of these shows. And there was no cable - so these were literally the only things to watch, besides public television.

Holmes & YoYo? Sirota's Court? Mr. T & Tina?

I was going through puberty and I imagined what many of the men on these shows looked like naked.

Penny Marshall as Laverne YELLED her lines. She ruined my buzz.

Did anyone watch Van Dyke and Co.? And if so, was it any good?

I think this “Sonny & Cher” iteration might have been the second one they attempted after they divorced after the first run and they each had their own separate variety programs for a short while, before then agreeing to reunite for this reboot.

ABC's TV movie night was far ahead of both CBS and NBC movies. That's weird.

Monday Night Football was less popular than Eight is Enough?

I'm surprised that The Jeffersons was higher than Sanford and Son

I liked Barney Miller.