Most Viewed Year 1979

Genre: Talk

Cast:

The sparkling notes of a trumpet fanfare and the familiar logo of the sun alert viewers that it's time for CBS's Sunday morning staple. Journalist...

Genre: News

Cast: Jane Pauley

Popular telenovela produced in Mexico in 1979, starring Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. Castro also sang the theme...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Verónica Castro

Genre: Soap

Cast: Tony Ramos

TV's original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.

Genre: Soap

Cast: Tony Ramos

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michele Lee

Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.

Genre: Soap

Cast: Gerda Nicolson

Australian version of Michael Parkinson's UK talk show. He interviews a broad range of famous Australians, and in later series, international stars.

Genre: Soap

Cast: Gerda Nicolson

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Fernando Fernán Gómez

60 Minutes, an Australian version of the U.S. television newsmagazine 60 Minutes, airs on Sunday nights on the Nine Network and is presented in much...

Genre: News

Cast: Liz Hayes

Five agents stand against the evil organization Egos. They fight incorporating dance moves from all around the world! This was the first time giant...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Hironori Tanioka

You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before airing internationally in 1981. It featured...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christine McGlade

Allsång på Skansen is a Swedish tv show held at Skansen, Stockholm, every summer on Tuesdays. The audience is supposed to sing-along with...

Genre: Family

Cast: Pernilla Wahlgren

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cloris Leachman

Hallo Spencer is a German children's television series, created by Winfried Debertin and produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk from 1979 until 2001. In...

Genre: Family

Cast: Joachim Hall

Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rowan Atkinson

The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Casey Kasem

Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pernell Roberts

Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Nobuyo Oyama

A comedy variety show featuring the double act of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Nobuyo Oyama