Editing 1980 in American television (section)

===Debuting this year===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date
! Show
! Network
|-
| January 6
| ''[[Skag]]''
|[[NBC]]
|-
|rowspan="2"| January 14
| ''[[3-2-1 Contact]]''
|[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]
|-
| ''[[Chain Reaction (game show)|Chain Reaction]]''
|NBC
|-
| January 22
| ''[[Goodtime Girls]]''
|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
|-
| January 27
| ''[[Galactica 1980]]''
|ABC
|-
| February 5
| ''[[Mystery!]]''
|PBS
|-
| March 1
| ''[[Pink Lady (TV series)|Pink Lady]]''
|NBC
|-
| March 3
| ''[[That's Incredible!]]''
|ABC
|-
| March 4
| ''[[The Big Show (TV series)|The Big Show]]''
|NBC
|-
| March 5
| ''[[Beyond Westworld]]''
|[[CBS]]
|-
| March 11
| ''[[United States (TV series)|United States]]''
|rowspan="3"|NBC
|-
| March 15
| ''[[Sanford (TV series)|Sanford]]''
|-
|rowspan="2"| March 22
| ''[[Me and Maxx]]''
|-
| ''[[The Tim Conway Show (1980 TV series)|The Tim Conway Show]]''
|rowspan="3"|CBS
|-
|rowspan="2"| March 24
| ''[[Flo (TV series)|Flo]]''
|-
| ''[[The Stockard Channing Show]]''
|-
| April 10
| ''[[Top Rank|Top Rank Boxing]]''
|[[ESPN]]
|-
| April 11
| ''[[Fridays (TV series)|Fridays]]''
|ABC
|-
| May 5
| ''[[America's Top 10]]''
|[[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|June 1
| ''[[Lou Dobbs Tonight|Moneyline]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[TBS (American TV channel)|WTBS]]/[[CNN]]
|-
| ''TBS Evening News''
|-
| June 26
| ''[[Nobody's Perfect (American TV series)|Nobody's Perfect]]''
|ABC
|-
| August 4
| ''[[Texas (TV series)|Texas]]''
|NBC
|-
| August 9
| ''[[That's My Line]]''
|CBS
|-
| August 21
| ''[[Games People Play (1980 TV series)|Games People Play]]''
|NBC
|-
|rowspan="2"| September 6
| ''[[Livewire (talk show)|Livewire]]''
|[[Nickelodeon]]
|-
| ''[[The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show]]''
|CBS
|-
|rowspan="2"|September 13
| ''[[The Lone Ranger (1980 TV series)|The Lone Ranger]]''
|ABC
|-
| ''[[Solid Gold (television series)|Solid Gold]]''
|Syndication
|-
| September 28
| ''[[Cosmos: A Personal Voyage|Cosmos]]''
|PBS
|-
|rowspan="2"| October 4
| ''[[Heathcliff (1980 TV series)|Heathcliff]]''
|rowspan="2"|ABC
|-
| ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]''
|-
|rowspan="3"| October 27
| ''[[Blockbusters (American game show)|Blockbusters]]''
|rowspan="2"|NBC
|-
| ''[[Gambit (game show)|Gambit]]''
|-
| ''[[Ladies' Man (1980 TV series)|Ladies' Man]]''
|CBS
|-
| October 30
| ''[[It's a Living (1980 TV series)|It's a Living]]''
|rowspan="5"|ABC
|-
| October 31
| ''[[I'm a Big Girl Now]]''
|-
|rowspan="2"| November 8
| ''[[Richie Rich (1980 TV series)|Richie Rich]]''
|-
| ''[[Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980 TV series)|Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo]]''
|-
| November 11
| ''[[Too Close for Comfort]]''
|-
| November 12
| ''[[Enos (TV series)|Enos]]''
|CBS
|-
| November 18
| ''[[Barbara Mandrell|Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters]]''
|NBC
|-
| November 27
| ''[[Bosom Buddies]]''
|rowspan="2"|ABC
|-
| November 29
| ''[[Breaking Away (TV series)|Breaking Away]]''
|-
|rowspan="2"| December 6
| ''[[Freebie and the Bean (TV series)|Freebie and the Bean]]''
|rowspan="4"|CBS
|-
| ''[[Secrets of Midland Heights]]''
|-
| December 10
| ''[[Number 96 (TV series)|Number 96]]''
|-
| December 11
| ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''
|}