Oh Saturday nights! I remember being in junior high and settling in on the den couch with an iced coffee made from instant coffee so I could stay up until 11 and watching Love Boat and Fantasy Island. I felt so independent and grown up without a bedtime on the weekends!

I must admit The Love Boat theme might just be one of the greatest TV Themes ever, I had forgotten how good it was. I was nine in 79 and I remember being my fathers remote control, he seemed to like BJ and the Bear and I would get up off the floor usually and turn the channel. Didn't bother me any I seem to enjoy it as well being nine years of age... : )

Half these shows are still being played in syndication. Shows how much people still love TV back then.Long live the Love Boat.

I remember being 11 in 1979 and the highlight of my week was watching Norman Fell dance with a toilet plunger....golden memories..

Nevr heard of "Working Stiffs". Flew completely under my radar, which is weird considering that team-up of leads.

Of those shows, I remember watching CHIPS, and then watching The Love Boat.

So many shows I loved when I was 8 ! Great memories!

Who would've thought LaWanda "Aunt Esther" Page moonlighted as a private eye? I can imagine her chasing criminals while yelling, 'Watch it, sucka! I've got a badge!" (1:22-1:23)

When The intro to "Paris" came up I thought "whatever reason was that show got axed for, I know it had nothing to do with James Earl Jones". I was right, it got cursed with a crappy timeslot.

I guess I was an ABC kid in 1979, you can't lose with a lineup like that anyway!

Two years after Bad News Bears was cancelled, Corey Feldman made a guest appearance on Cheers as a Little League baseball player.

Believe it or not, I've seen every episode of Working Stiffs. The series was put on two VHS tapes during the 80s, tapes carried in the video store where I worked in the early 90s. On a slow weekday, I watched the series, thought it was great.

Those were great....thanks for posting....

I was watching The Love Boat intro here and I thought, “I bet Ron Palillo is in this one, it’s the kind of show he’d be on.” And boom. There he is. Why can’t I use my fabulous psychic powers for lottery numbers or something?!

CBS's Saturday night lineup was a total disaster...all of the debuting fall programs airing on that night (with the exception of "The Bad News Bears," which premiered six months earlier)--"Working Stiffs," "Big Shamus, Little Shamus," and "Paris"--were complete failures. "Working Stiffs" was terminated after four episodes, due to ABC's "The Ropers" and NBC's "CHiPs" battling it out in the same timeslot (five additional episodes were completed, but didn't air until many years later on cable [long after James "K-9" Belushi and Michael "Batman" Keaton both became household names]). "The Bad News Bears" was pulled in early October, with most of its remaining episodes--leaving three unaired, until Nick at Nite aired the series on its schedule in the late '80s --airing during the summer of '80. "Big Shamus, Little Shamus" fared even worse; the father-and-son detective drama was abruptly yanked after only two extremely low-rated telecasts, due to heavy competition from ABC's "The Love Boat" and NBC's "B.J. and the Bear" (seven additional episodes remain in the can). And James Earl Jones' critically acclaimed crime drama "Paris," was sacked in late October after five weeks (it was scheduled opposite ABC's "Fantasy Island"); it returned in December in a new timeslot (Tuesdays at 10 pm, opposite ABC's jet-set mystery drama "Hart To Hart"), but to no avail--CBS canceled it permanently after six telecasts (two additional episodes were shelved) in January of '80. An interesting note is that "Paris," despite its short run, laid the foundation for the groundbreaking--and far more successful--crime drama "Hill Street Blues," which debuted on NBC the following year...both programs were created by Steven Bochco. (One of the co-stars of "Paris," Michael Warren, would be cast on "Hill Street Blues" as officer Bobby Hill.) Over on ABC, "The Ropers" had moved to Saturdays for its second season (after a hugely successful first year), and the ratings rapidly plummeted...the "Three's Company" spinoff was slaughtered by the first half-hour of NBC's hit crime drama "CHiPs" and was canceled the following spring. "Detective School" had premiered in late July of '79 as a three-week summer replacement series and proved to be a moderate success (due to the fact that it was scheduled opposite repeat programming on CBS and NBC); when ABC added the sitcom to its Saturday night lineup one month later, however, "Detective School" was unable to sustain its early success--due to facing the remaining half of "CHiPs," as well as having "The Ropers" as its lead-in--and ABC pulled it in late November after thirteen episodes. "The Love Boat," which had begun its third season, was still kicking ass (it would continue to kick ass on Saturdays throughout the '80s) at 9 pm. And the Robert Wagner-Stefanie Powers vehicle "Hart To Hart" proved to be successful for the "Alphabet Network," even after moving to Tuesdays one month later (replacing Lou Gossett's short-lived medical drama "The Lazarus Syndrome"); ABC had moved "Fantasy Island"--the previously occupant of the timeslot--to Fridays in September, albeit temporarily...Aaron Spelling's hit drama returned to Saturdays in October, following "The Love Boat" (where it would remain for the remainder of its run). Oddly enough, ABC moved several of their established programs to different nights during the 1979-80 season in order to bolster viewership for their lowest-viewed nights by competing directly with other mega-successful series (particularly those airing on CBS), also known as "counterprogramming." "Mork & Mindy" is a notable example of ABC's unsuccessful scheduling overhaul during the autumn of '79--the "Alphabet Network" moved the sitcom from Thursdays to Sundays (replacing the moderately successful but expensive sci-fi drama "Battlestar Galactica") during its second season to compete directly with CBS's "Archie Bunker's Place" (a continuation of "All In The Family" that was beginning its tenth season). Despite Robin Williams' best efforts, "Mork" was unable to hold its own against the long-running "Archie Bunker's Place," and the ratings quickly nosedived. Faced with a surprising downturn in the ratings, ABC returned "Mork" to its original timeslot (Thursdays at 8 pm) in January of '80, but the damage was already done...having ranked in third place during its inaugural season (behind "Laverne & Shirley" and "Three's Company"), "Mork" slumped to 27th place (behind NBC's "Diff'rent Strokes") for its sophomore season. "CHiPs" (beginning its third season) was the lead series in NBC's line-up on Saturdays; along with "Real People," "Diff'rent Strokes," "Quincy, M.E.," and "Little House On The Prairie," the Southern California-based crime drama was one of the "Peacock Network's" very few successes during the late '70s/early '80s. The trucker comedy/adventure series "B.J. and the Bear" (beginning its second season) was another moderate success for NBC during Fred Silverman's three-year reign as the "Peacock Network's" head honcho (from '78 to '81); its instant success even spawned a marginally successful spinoff, "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo." Sadly, the espionage drama "A Man Called Sloane," starring the ubiquitous Robert Conrad, proved to be a short-lived dud; it also holds the dubious distinction of being the last series to be produced by Quinn Martin (QM) Productions--the company was dismantled shortly after "Barnaby Jones" was canceled by CBS in the spring of '80. Thanks for uploading, RwDt09!

I wonder if it was the Bounty commercials or her appearance in "The Love Boat" that convinced Alan Carr that Nancy Walker was perfect to direct "Can't Stop the Music"......hmmmm...

The 70's LOVE THEIR BASELINES AND📯 AND 🧵!

Bobby Van and Elaine Joyce were married until he died young. They frequently appeared together in whatever they were doing (Match Game, Love Boat, etc)

I missed most of the 70s due to being assigned to Germany for a number of years. I'm only now discovering some of these programs.

in 1979 was a staple for us to watch love boat and fantasy island,i do not remember hart to hart being on as well but I watched that too and I wanted to be stefanie powers even at nine I was like why is Robert with her when he is married to natalie wood.....good tv back then now it is just crap not all but most.

79 looked a great year for TV .Some shows I missed out and are impossible to find Big Shamus Little Shamus with Brian Dennehy and Stephen Bochco's Paris with James earl Jones

OMG Rad Daly on The Bad News Bears😍 I had such a crush as a kid.

My little sister loved Heart to Heart.

Peter Falk walked away from Columbo in 1978 because he said TV audience was changing...and by looking at this lineup he was right

The sad thing is that the shows the execs thought were no good are better than the garbage we have on tv now.

That CHIPS THEME SONG GOES HARD!!!🎉🎉🎉

Used to watch love boat, chips and BJ and the Bear 🐻

Thought Hart To Hart was an '80's show. My mom loved it. M. Keaton with hair & a skinny Jim Belushi-lol.

Do STAY TUNED - FRIDAY NIGH TV WINTER 1980! B.A.D. Cats however replaced Fantasy Island in the ABC Friday night 8:00pm timeslot, right before The ABC Friday Night Movie.

A Man Called Sloane's opening sequence could have been cool if they used Hank Simms' voice, the "Tonight's Episode" slide with a copyright notice, and the "Act I/Act II/Act III/Act IV/Epilog" cards.

The only one of these I can remember watching on a regular basis was MAN CALLED SLOANE. So what was I doing the other two hours of primetime at that time...?

What a sad lineup for CBS after having had All in the Family, MTM, Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett as their Saturday Night bloc.

Audra Lindley was very good playing the madam in Cannery Row. Jeffrey Tambor is now up for sexual assault charges. Maybe we better just figure out who ISN'T.

Micheal Keaton been battling MPB FOR 40 years.

Big Shamus only lasted two episodes. What show replaced it?

Not paying property tax - that does sound nice.

if they ever do a remake of the love boat, nick searcy as the captain could work

"Hart To Hart" moved to Tuesday Nights were it did better, and "Fantasy Island" returned back to its' usual Saturday Night timeslot instead. As for CBS, they cancelled "Big Shamus Little Shamus" and "Paris" and brought back the "Saturday Night Movies".

Remember Working Stiffs. Incredibly Silly Show.

I could’ve sworn Fantasy Island came on after Love Boat.

Competition like that, no Wonder Chips lasted as long as it did... and Bless Robert Conrad (did he ever Not have a series from 65-95?) but Sloane looks like a Grade A Cheddar Bond knock off...

Well a least it was something new on Saturday night. Not like now reruns !

Wow CBS fell hard in just a couple of years time

0:13 So, isn't this great?!

Shows that didn't make it: The Ropers Detective School Working Stiffs The Bad News Bears Big Shamus Little Shamus Paris BJ and The Bear A Man Called Sloane

Horrible shows for the 70s.. The 80s were even worse. Today? Total trash.