Here’s the next installment in the “What I Was Watching” series. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one who finds this fascinating. Here’s the first instalment. And here is the complete prime time schedule for 1980-1981 so that you can play along at home.
| 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | CHiPs | Alice | The Jeffersons | Trapper John, MD | ||
| M | That’s Incredible | M*A*S*H | x | Lou Grant | ||
| T | Happy Days | Laverne & Shirley | B.J. and the Bear | Hart to Hart | ||
| W | Real People (unless Daisy was guest starring on Enos) | Diff’rent Strokes | The Facts of Life | Quincy | ||
| R | !?!?!?! | Magnum P.I. | 20/20 | |||
| F | The Incredible Hulk vs. Benson | The Dukes of Hazard | NOT Dallas | |||
| S | WKRP in Cincinnati | (2nd half of) Barbra Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters | The Love Boat | Fantasy Island | ||
Notes:
- x: Nothing on, didn’t watch. (way fewer of these than in 1979-1980)
- !?!?!?!: This was a real conundrum. Here were the choices:
- Mork & Mindy / Bosom Buddies
- The Waltons
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- vs.: Whichever one wasn’t a rerun
- NOT Dallas: This is the only show I remember not being allowed to watch.
- I fully admit that I should have been watching Hill Street Blues instead of Fantasy Island
Thursdays at 7 -- The Cosby Show? or was that a few years later…
That was definitely mid 80’s.
Now THERE’s a lineup I can remember. My family liked CHiPs, but I could take it or leave it. Mork & Mindy and Barbara Mandrell every time. No quandry in the Hofman household.
I remember all the shows, but I have no memory of watching them.
Were you the remote control in your house? Some of my favorite conversations with my father were:
“Change the channel.” and “Don’t turn the knob so fast.”
Here. I think you guys might appreciate this: http://www.inthe80s.com/saturdays.shtml