RATINGS: Top 20
1980-1985

1980-1981

(1)Dallas — CBS
(2)60 Minutes — CBS
(3)The Dukes of Hazzard — CBS
(4)The Love Boat — ABC
(5)Private Benjamin — CBS
(6)M*A*S*H — CBS
(7)House Calls — CBS
(8)The Jeffersons — CBS
(9)(tie) The Two of Us — CBS
(9)(tie) Little House on the Prairie — NBC
(11)Alice — CBS
(12)Real People — NBC
(13)(tie) One Day at a Time — CBS
(13)(tie) The Greatest American Hero — ABC
(15)Three's Company — ABC
(16)Magnum, P.I. — CBS
(17)(tie) Too Close for Comfort — ABC
(17)(tie) ABC Sunday Movie — ABC
(19)Diff'rent Strokes — NBC
(20)Archie Bunker's Place — CBS

1981-1982

(1)Dallas — CBS
(2)60 Minutes — CBS
(3)The Jeffersons — CBS
(4)(tie) Joanie Loves Chachi — ABC
(4)(tie) Three's Company — ABC
(6)Alice — CBS
(7)(tie) The Dukes of Hazzard — CBS
(7)(tie) Too Close for Comfort — ABC
(9)ABC Monday Night Movie — ABC
(1O)M*A*S*H — CBS
(11)One Day at a Time — CBS
(12)NFL Monday Night Football — ABC
(13)Archie Bunker's Place — CBS
(14)Falcon Crest — CBS
(15)The Love Boat — ABC
(16)(tie) Hart to Hart — ABC
(16)(tie) Trapper John, M.D. — CBS
(18)Magnum, P.I. — CBS
(19)Happy Days — ABC
(20)Dynasty — ABC

1982-1983

(1)60 Minutes — CBS
(2)Dallas — CBS
(3)(tie) M*A*S*H — CBS
(3)(tie) Magnum, P.I. — CBS
(5)Dynasty — ABC
(6)Three's Company — ABC
(7)Simon & Simon — CBS
(8)Falcon Crest — CBS
(9)The Love Boat — ABC
(10)(tie) The A Team — NBC
(10)(tie) NFL Monday Night Football — ABC
(12)(tie) The Jeffersons — CBS
(12)(tie) Newhart — CBS
(14)(tie) The Fall Guy — ABC
(14)(tie) The Mississippi — CBS
(16)9 to 5 — ABC
(17)One Day at a Time — CBS
(18)Hart to Hart — ABC
(19)(tie) Gloria — CBS
(19)(tie) Trapper John, M.D. — CBS
(19)(tie) Goodnight, Beantown — CBS

1983-1984

(1)Dallas — CBS
(2)60 Minutes — CBS
(3)Dynasty — ABC
(4)The A Team — NBC
(5)Simon & Simon — CBS
(6)Magnum, P.I. — CBS
(7)Falcon Crest — CBS
(8)Kate & Allie — CBS
(9)Hotel — ABC
(10)Cagney & Lacey — CBS
(11)Knots Landing — CBS
(12)(tie) ABC Sunday Movie — ABC
(12)(tie) ABC Monday Movie — ABC
(14)TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes — NBC
(15)AfterMASH — CBS
(16)The Fall Guy — ABC
(17)The Love Boat — ABC
(18)Riptide — NBC
(19)The Jeffersons — CBS
(20)Scarecrow & Mrs. King — CBS

1984-1985

(1)Dynasty — ABC
(2)Dallas — CBS
(3)The Cosby Show — NBC
(4)60 Minutes — CBS
(5)Family Ties — NBC
(6)The A Team — NBC
(7)Simon & Simon — CBS
(8)Murder, She Wrote — CBS
(9)Knots Landing — CBS
(10)(tie) Falcon Crest — CBS
(10)(tie) Crazy Like a Fox — CBS
(12)(tie) Hotel — ABC
(12)(tie) Cheers — NBC
(14)Riptide — NBC
(15)Magnum, P. I. — CBS
(16)Newhart — CBS
(17)Kate & Allie — CBS
(18)NBC Monday Night Movie — NBC
(19)Highway to Heaven — NBC