1978–79 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1978–79 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1978 to August 1979.

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Light yellow indicates talk shows.

Green indicates soap operas.

Pink indicates game shows.

Gold indicates news and public affairs programming.

Light teal indicates sporting events.

White indicates local programming.

Light purple indicates children's programming.

Gray indicates encore programming (e.g., reruns of prime-time programming).


 * New series are highlighted in bold.

Schedule

 * All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
 * Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to other timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.

Monday–Friday
Notes:
 * Programs aired before 9:00AM aired at the same time in all time zones. CBS's Sunrise Semester was a half-hour program which aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 AM, depending on the station.
 * Programs scheduled after 10:00 AM Eastern aired one hour earlier (starting at 9:00 AM) in the Central and Pacific time zones. Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year.
 * Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
 * On ABC, World News Tonight was produced at 6:00 PM Eastern/5:00 PM Central, and aired live by some affiliates. This early feed of the broadcast was discontinued in 1982.
 * NBC aired NBC News Updates at 10:57, 11:57, 12:57, 2:57 until June 1979, and 3:57.
 * A CBS News Razzmatazz special would occasionally preempt CBS' 4:00PM show.

Saturday
In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.

ABC
Returning Series
 * The $20,000 Pyramid
 * ABC World News Tonight
 * ABC Weekend Special
 * All My Children
 * American Bandstand
 * Animals, Animals, Animals
 * The Edge of Night
 * Family Feud
 * General Hospital
 * Good Morning America
 * Happy Days (reruns)
 * Issues and Answers
 * The All New Pink Panther Show (moved from NBC)
 * One Life to Live
 * Ryan's Hope
 * Schoolhouse Rock!
 * Scooby's All Stars (reruns)
 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

New Series
 * ABC World News Sunday
 * Bigfoot and Wildboy
 * Challenge of the Super Friends
 * Fangface
 * Kids Are People Too
 * Laverne & Shirley (reruns)

Not Returning From 1977-78
 * ABC Evening News
 * The All-New Super Friends Hour
 * The Better Sex
 * The Great Grape Ape Show (reruns)
 * Jabberjaw (reruns)
 * The Krofft Supershow
 * Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

CBS
Returning Series
 * All in the Family (reruns)
 * Ark II (reruns)
 * As the World Turns
 * The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
 * Camera Three
 * Captain Kangaroo
 * CBS Children's Film Festival
 * CBS Evening News
 * CBS Morning News
 * Clue Club (reruns)
 * Face the Nation
 * Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
 * Guiding Light
 * Lamp Unto My Feet
 * Look Up and Live
 * Love of Life
 * Match Game
 * The Price Is Right
 * Search for Tomorrow
 * Space Academy (reruns)
 * Sunrise Semester
 * Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle'''
 * What's New, Mr. Magoo? (reruns)
 * The Young and the Restless

New Series
 * 30 Minutes
 * The All New Popeye Hour
 * CBS News Sunday Morning
 * M*A*S*H (reruns)
 * Morning
 * Tarzan and the Super 7
 * Whew!

Not Returning From 1977-78
 * The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
 * The Ghost Busters (reruns)
 * Here's Lucy (reruns)
 * The New Tic Tac Dough continued in syndication
 * Pass the Buck
 * The Robonic Stooges
 * The Secrets of Isis (reruns)
 * The Skatebirds
 * Space Academy
 * Speed Buggy (reruns)
 * Tattletales returned in 1982
 * Wacko

NBC
Returning Series
 * The Alvin Show (reruns)
 * America Alive!
 * Another World
 * Baggy Pants and the Nitwits (reruns)
 * Card Sharks
 * The Daffy Duck Show
 * Days of Our Lives
 * The Doctors
 * High Rollers
 * The Hollywood Squares
 * Jeopardy!
 * The Jetsons (reruns)
 * Jonny Quest (reruns)
 * Meet the Press
 * NBC Nightly News
 * Today
 * Wheel of Fortune

New Series
 * All Star Secrets
 * Buford and the Galloping Ghost
 * The Daffy Duck Show
 * Fabulous Funnies
 * The New Fantastic Four
 * The New Fred and Barney Show
 * Galaxy Goof-Ups
 * The Godzilla Power Hour
 * The Krofft Superstar Hour
 * Jana of the Jungle
 * The Metric Marvels
 * Mindreaders
 * Password Plus
 * Yogi's Space Race

Not Returning From 1977-78
 * CB Bears
 * Chico and the Man (reruns)
 * For Richer, For Poorer
 * The Gong Show
 * I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali
 * Knockout
 * NBC Saturday Night News
 * NBC Sunday Night News
 * The New Archie and Sabrina Hour
 * Think Pink Panther (moved to ABC)
 * The Red Hand Gang
 * Sanford and Son (reruns)
 * Search and Rescue: The Alpha Team
 * Space Sentinels
 * Thunder
 * To Say the Least