The Best TV Shows from 1977

Below is our top ten list of the best TV shows which first started broadcasting in 1977.

First Aired: 05 May, 1977

The Love Boat is a TV series starring Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, and Ted Lange. The romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, Pacific Princess.

First Aired: 04 November, 1977

The Incredible Hulk is a TV series starring Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, and Jack Colvin. A fugitive scientist has the curse of becoming a powerful green monster under extreme emotional stress.

First Aired: 15 September, 1977

CHiPs is a TV series starring Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, and Robert Pine. The adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers.

First Aired: 14 January, 1977

Fantasy Island is a TV series starring Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, and Christopher Hewett. The mysterious Mr. Roarke runs a unique resort island in the Pacific Ocean that can fulfill literally any fantasy requested by…

First Aired: 27 March, 1977

Jesus of Nazareth is a TV mini-series starring Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, and Laurence Olivier. Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the…

First Aired: 23 January, 1977

Roots is a TV mini-series starring LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, and John Amos. A dramatization of author Alex Haley’s family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte’s enslavement to his descendants’ liberation.

First Aired: 13 September, 1977

Soap is a TV series starring Katherine Helmond, Rod Roddy, and Richard Mulligan. The soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.

First Aired: 02 January, 1977

12 stulev is a TV mini-series starring Andrey Mironov, Anatoliy Papanov, and Rolan Bykov. Two scoundrels try to find the twelve chairs, in one of which their aunts has sewn jewelry into.

First Aired: 30 December, 1977

Mind Your Language is a TV series starring Barry Evans, George Camiller, and Jacki Harding. A diverse group of immigrants and foreigners learn English at an adult education school in London.

First Aired: 12 November, 1977

The Godfather: A Novel for Television is a TV mini-series starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Robert Duvall. The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974) were re-edited together in chronological order with additional…