Top TV Shows From the 1980s

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Top Television Shows: 1979-1980 Season
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Three’s Company
M*A*S*H
Alice
Dallas
Flo
The Jeffersons
The Dukes of Hazzard
That’s Incredible
One Day At A Time
Archie Bunker’s Place
Eight Is Enough
Taxi
House Calls
(tie) Real People
(tie) Happy Days
Little House On The Prairie
(tie) CHiPs
(tie) Charlie’s Angels
Trapper John, M.D.

Top Television Shows: 1980-1981 Season
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Dallas
60 Minutes
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Love Boat
Private Benjamin
M*A*S*H
House Calls
The Jeffersons
(tie) The Two of Us
(tie) Little House on the Prairie
Alice
Real People
(tie) One Day at a Time
(tie) The Greatest American Hero
Three’s Company
Magnum, P.I.
(tie) Too Close for Comfort
(tie) ABC Sunday Movie
Diff’rent Strokes
Archie Bunker’s Place

Top Television Shows: 1981-1982 Season
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Dallas
60 Minutes
The Jeffersons
(tie) Joanie Loves Chachi
(tie) Three’s Company
Alice
(tie) The Dukes of Hazzard
(tie) Too Close for Comfort
ABC Monday Night Movie
M*A*S*H
One Day at a Time
NFL Monday Night Football
Archie Bunker’s Place
Falcon Crest
The Love Boat
(tie) Hart to Hart
(tie) Trapper John, M.D.
Magnum, P.I.
Happy Days
Dynasty

Top Television Shows: 1982-1983 Season
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60 Minutes
Dallas
(tie) M*A*S*H
(tie) Magnum, P.I.
Dynasty
Three’s Company
Simon & Simon
Falcon Crest
The Love Boat
(tie) A-Team, The
(tie) NFL Monday Night Football
(tie) The Jeffersons
(tie) Newhart
(tie) The Fall Guy
(tie) The Mississippi
9 to 5
One Day at a Time
Hart to Hart
(tie) Gloria
(tie) Trapper John, M.D.
(tie) Goodnight, Beantown

Top Television Shows: 1983-1984 Season
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Dallas
60 Minutes
Dynasty
The A-Team
Simon & Simon
Magnum, P.I.
Falcon Crest
Kate & Allie
Hotel
Cagney & Lacey
Knots Landing
(tie) ABC Sunday Movie
(tie) ABC Monday Movie
TV’s Bloopers & Practical Jokes
AfterMASH
The Fall Guy
The Love Boat
Riptide
The Jeffersons
Scarecrow & Mrs. King

Top Television Shows: 1984-1985 Season
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Dynasty
Dallas
The Cosby Show
60 Minutes
Family Ties
The A-Team
Simon & Simon
Murder, She Wrote
Knots Landing
(tie) Falcon Crest
(tie) Crazy Like a Fox
(tie) Hotel
(tie) Cheers
Riptide
Magnum, P.I.
Newhart
Kate & Allie
NBC Monday Night Movie
Highway to Heaven
Night Court

Top Television Shows: 1985-1986 Season
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The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Murder, She Wrote
60 Minutes
Cheers
Dallas
(tie) Dynasty
(tie) The Golden Girls
Miami Vice
Who’s The Boss?
Night Court
CBS Sunday Night Movie
Highway to Heaven
Kate & Allie
NFL Monday Night Football
Newhart
(tie) Knots Landing
(tie) Growing Pains
You Again?
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Top Television Shows: 1986-1987 Season
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The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Cheers
Murder, She Wrote
The Golden Girls
60 Minutes
Night Court
Growing Pains
Moonlighting
Who’s The Boss?
Dallas
Newhart
Amen
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(tie) Matlock
(tie) CBS Sunday Night Movie
(tie) NBC Monday Night Movie
NFL Monday Night Football
Kate & Allie
NBC Sunday Night Movie

Top Television Shows: 1987-1988 Season
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The Cosby Show
A Different World
Cheers
The Golden Girls
Growing Pains
Who’s the Boss?
Night Court
60 Minutes
Murder, She Wrote
(tie) ALF
(tie) The Wonder Years
(tie) Moonlighting
(tie) L.A. Law
Matlock
Amen
NFL Monday Night Football
Family Ties
CBS Sunday Night Movie
In the Heat of the Night
(tie) My Two Dads
(tie) Valerie’s Family

Top Television Shows: 1988-1989 Season
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The Cosby Show
Rosanne
A Different World
Cheers
The Golden Girls
Who’s the Boss?
60 Minutes
Murder, She Wrote
Empty Nest
Anything But Love
Dear John
(tie) ALF
(tie) L.A. Law
Matlock
(tie) Unsolved Mysteries
(tie) In the Heat of the Night
Growing Pains
Hunter
(tie) NFL Monday Night Football
(tie) Head of the Class

Top Television Shows: 1989-1990 Season
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Roseanne
The Cosby Show
Cheers
A Different World
America’s Funniest Home Videos
The Golden Girls
60 Minutes
The Wonder Years
Empty Nest
NFL Monday Night Football
Unsolved Mysteries
Who’s the Boss?
(tie) Murder, She Wrote
(tie) Chicken Soup
Grand
L.A. Law
In the Heat of the Night
Dear John
Coach
Matlock