List of shows from the network era
Television of the network era:
Wide World of Sports, an ABC program.
M*A*S*H, a CBS program.
Star Trek, an NBC program.
Soul Train, a syndicated program.
The following article consist of shows/programs that aired during the network era of American television from the early 1950s to the mid-late 1980s.[1]
1950s
[edit]1960s
[edit]- Batman[2]
- The Beverly Hillbillies[6][3]
- Bewitched[7]
- The Brady Bunch[8]
- A Charlie Brown Christmas[9]
- Dark Shadows[10]
- The Fugitive[3]
- General Hospital[11]
- Green Acres[12]
- The Green Hornet[2]
- Hee Haw[5]
- Hulabaloo[5]
- I Dream of Jeannie[7]
- Julia[13]
- The Patty Duke Show[2]
- Shindig![5]
- Star Trek[14]
- The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson[5]
- Wide World of Sports[15][16]
1970s
[edit]- All in the Family[6][17][9]
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman[9]
- The Bob Newhart Show[17]
- Brian's Song[16][18]
- The Carol Burnett Show[17]
- Charlie's Angels[12][19]
- Columbo[3]
- Dallas[20][3][9]
- Duel[18]
- Fantasy Island[12]
- Go Ask Alice[18]
- Happy Days[6][19]
- The Jeffersons[13]
- Jesus of Nazareth[9]
- Laverne and Shirley[6][19]
- The Love Boat[12]
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show[17]
- M*A*S*H[17]
- McCloud[3]
- The Midnight Special[5]
- Monday Night Football[20][16]
- Mork and Mindy[19]
- Pink Lady and Jeff[21]
- The Rockfield Files[20]
- Roots[3][13][16][9]
- Saturday Night Live[19]
- The Six Million Dollar Man[19]
- Someone's Watching Me![22]
- Soul Train[5][13]
- The Spell[22]
- Starsky and Hutch[19]
- Three's Company[12]
1980s
[edit]- ALF[23]
- Cagney & Lacey[21]
- Cheers[21]
- The Cosby Show[6][21]
- The Day After[21][9]
- An Early Frost[9]
- The Highwayman[24]
- Knight Rider[23]
- L.A. Law[21]
- Hill Street Blues[21]
- Late Night with David Letterman[5]
- Manimal[21]
- Moonlighting[21]
- Special Bulletin[25]
- St. Elsewhere[21]
- thirtysomething[21]
- Wheel of Fortune[21]
- The Wonder Years[21]
References
[edit]- ^ What Is U.S. Television Now? on JSTOR
- ^ a b c d Project MUSE - Batman versus The Green Hornet
- ^ a b c d e f g The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition - Google Books (ch."Television Programming in the Network Era")
- ^ "5 ways "I Love Lucy" transformed television". www.pbs.org. Retrieved March 13, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 50 Years of Haw, Welk, and Soul|The Saturday Evening Post
- ^ a b c d e Blockbuster TV - Google Books
- ^ a b Visual Style in Two Network Era Sitcoms|Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
- ^ "The Brady Bunch" premieres|September 26, 1969|HISTORY
- ^ TV Sound in the Network Era, 1952-1984 - Google Books
- ^ Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History on JSTOR
- ^ a b c d e A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting - Google Books (ch."The Classic Network Era in Television, 1950s-1970s")
- ^ a b c d Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond on Amazon.com
- ^ NBC: America’s Network - De Gruyter
- ^ UCI Podcast: A history lesson in sports television - UCI News
- ^ a b c d Book Review: ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television - Media Industries
- ^ a b c d e CBS Saturday Night Lineup 1973: The Best TV Ever|Woman's World
- ^ a b c 'ABC Movie of the Week': 'From 'Brian's Song' to 'The Night Stalker'|Closer Weekly
- ^ a b c d e f g TELEVISION ENTERS THE 80'S - The Washington Post
- ^ a b c The Classic Network Era in Television 1950s–1970s - A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting - Wiley Online Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m THE '80S WERE BIG FOR TV - The Washington Post
- ^ a b The Criterion Channel's October 2024 Lineup|Current|The Criterion Collection
- ^ a b 8 dusty, forgotten Westerns from 1980s television - MeTV
- ^ Down Under the Influence: 'The Highwayman' » We Are Cult
- ^ Television History, the Peabody and Cultural Memory - Google Books (pg.215)