1976 in American television

Events

Programs

• ABC
• *American Bandstand
• *The Edge of Night
• *General Hospital
• *One Life to Live
• *All My Children
• *Monday Night Football
• *Schoolhouse Rock!
• *The Six Million Dollar Man
• *Happy Days
• *Baretta
• *Barney Miller
• *Good Morning America
• *Ryan's Hope
• *Tom and Jerry
• *Welcome Back, Kotter
• *Charlie's Angels
• CBS
• *Love of Life
• *Search for Tomorrow
• *The Guiding Light
• *Face the Nation
• *Captain Kangaroo
• *As the World Turns
• *The Carol Burnett Show
• *60 Minutes
• *Hawaii Five-O
• *The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• *All in the Family
• *The Bob Newhart Show
• *Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• *M*A*S*H
• *Maude
• *The Price Is Right
• *The Waltons
• *Barnaby Jones
• *Kojak
• *Match Game '76
• *The Young and the Restless
• *Good Times
• *Rhoda
• *Tattletales
• *The Jeffersons
• *Phyllis
• *One Day at a Time
• NBC
• *Meet the Press
• *The Today Show
• *The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• *The Doctors
• *Another World
• *Days of Our Lives
• *Kimba the White Lion reruns.
• *The Wonderful World of Disney
• *McCloud
• *McMillan & Wife
• *Emergency!
• *Sanford and Son
• *The Tomorrow Show
• *Chico and the Man
• *Columbo
• *Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
• *Little House on the Prairie
• *Police Woman
• *The Rockford Files
• *Saturday Night Live
• *Wheel of Fortune
• PBS
• *Sesame Street
• *The Electric Company
• *Masterpiece Theatre
• *Nova
• In syndication
• *Candid Camera
• *Truth or Consequences
• *The Lawrence Welk Show
• *The Mike Douglas Show
• *Hee Haw
• *Soul Train
• *Dinah!
• *Match Game PM

  Debuting in 1976

Ending in 1976

Television stations

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