1977 in American television
This is a list of American television-related events in 1977.
Events
Programs
Series on air
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
- Starsky & Hutch
- Good Morning America
- Ryan's Hope
- Tom and Jerry
- Welcome Back, Kotter
- Charlie's Angels
- Family Feud
- Laverne & Shirley
- What's Happening!!
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 '77
- The Young and the Restless
- Good Times
- Rhoda
- Tattletales
- The Jeffersons
- One Day at a Time
- Alice
- Wonder Woman
NBC
- Meet the Press
- The Today Show
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- The Doctors
- Another World
- Days of Our Lives
- The Wonderful World of Disney
- McCloud
- McMillan & Wife
- Emergency!
- Sanford and Son
- The Tomorrow Show
- Chico and the Man
- Columbo
- Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
- Land of the Lost
- Little House on the Prairie
- Police Woman
- The Rockford Files
- Saturday Night Live
- Wheel of Fortune
- The Gong Show
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Bionic Woman
- C.P.O. Sharkey
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
- In Search of...
- The P.T.L. Club
- The Muppet Show
Debuting in 1977
| Date | Title | Network |
| January 3 | Lovers and Friends | NBC |
| January 3 | Shoot for the Stars | NBC |
| January 10 | Circus of the Stars | CBS |
| January 17 | Busting Loose | CBS |
| January 30 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | ABC |
| January 31 | The Andros Targets | CBS |
| February 2 | Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected | NBC |
| February 18 | Hunter | CBS |
| March 7 | Second Chance | ABC |
| March 15 | Eight Is Enough | ABC |
| March 15 | Three's Company | ABC |
| March 20 | Loves Me, Loves Me Not | CBS |
| March 23 | How Do You Like Your Eggs? | QUBE |
| April 1 | This Week in Baseball | Syndication |
| May 7 | Quark | NBC |
| June 13 | It's Anybody's Guess | NBC |
| July 18 | The Better Sex | ABC |
| August 3 | The Kallikaks | NBC |
| September 5 | The Fitzpatricks | CBS |
| September 10 | Baggy Pants and the Nitwits | NBC |
| September 10 | CB Bears | NBC |
| September 10 | NBC | |
| September 10 | The New Archie and Sabrina Hour | NBC |
| September 10 | The Red Hand Gang | NBC |
| September 10 | Search and Rescue | NBC |
| September 10 | Space Sentinels | NBC |
| September 10 | Thunder | NBC |
| September 10 | Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics | ABC |
| September 10 | The Skatebirds | CBS |
| September 10 | Space Academy | CBS |
| September 12 | The Betty White Show | CBS |
| September 12 | Young Dan'l Boone | CBS |
| September 12 | Lucan | ABC |
| September 13 | Soap | ABC |
| September 13 | Mulligan's Stew | NBC |
| September 13 | The Richard Pryor Show | NBC |
| September 14 | Inside the NFL | HBO |
| September 15 | Carter Country | ABC |
| September 15 | CHiPs | NBC |
| September 16 | Sanford Arms | NBC |
| September 16 | Logan's Run | CBS |
| September 17 | Operation Petticoat | ABC |
| September 19 | The San Pedro Beach Bums | ABC |
| September 19 | The Amazing Spider-Man | CBS |
| September 20 | Lou Grant | CBS |
| September 21 | The Oregon Trail | NBC |
| September 22 | Man from Atlantis | NBC |
| September 24 | The Love Boat | ABC |
| October 1 | We've Got Each Other | CBS |
| October 3 | Knockout | NBC |
| October 3 | To Say the Least | NBC |
| October 9 | On Our Own | CBS |
| October 27 | James at 15 | NBC |
| December 1 | Pinwheel | Nickelodeon |