Years in Television - 1970s

1970s

• 1970: First broadcast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Monday Night Football, All My Children
• 1971: First broadcast of All in the Family, Kamen Rider, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Chespirito, Parkinson
• 1972: First broadcast of M*A*S*H, Mastermind, El Chavo, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Price is Right (on CBS)
• 1973: First broadcast of The Ascent of Man, Moonbase 3, An American Family, Ein Herz und eine Seele, Seventeen Moments of Spring, Last of the Summer Wine and The World at War; large-screen projection color TVs hit the market in the USA
• 1974: First broadcast of Chico and the Man, Derrick, Happy Days, Little House on the Prairie, Police Woman, Porridge, Rhoda, The Rockford Files, and Tiswas
• 1975: First broadcast of Baretta, Barney Miller, Fawlty Towers, Good Morning America, One Day at a Time, Saturday Night Live, Super Sentai, Space: 1999, The Jeffersons, The Naked Civil Servant, Welcome Back, Kotter, Wheel of Fortune, Wonder Woman; Sony introduces the Betamax home video tape recorder
• 1976: First broadcast of I, Claudius, Loriot and Nuts in May; Video Home System video tape recorders go on sale; completion of CN Tower
• 1977: First broadcast of Abigail's Party, CHiPs, Eight Is Enough, ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, Soap, Lou Grant, The Love Boat, Three's Company, and Top Gear
• 1978: First broadcast of An Ordinary Miracle, Abarembo Shogun, Battlestar Galactica, Dallas, Diff'rent Strokes, Fantasy Island, Grange Hill, Matador, Mork & Mindy, Pennies from Heaven, Taxi, and 20/20
• 1979: First broadcast of Benson, Blue Remembered Hills, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, CBS News Sunday Morning, Hart to Hart, Knots Landing, Life on Earth, Los Ricos También Lloran, Real People, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Facts of Life, The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, The Very Same Munchhausen, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, and Trapper John, M.D.; ESPN launched