This week in TV Guide: April 23, 1977

As you know, this site is all about looking back at the past. And, of course, from the perspective of 2026, 1977 is the past—nearly fifty years, or just as many years as this issue was from 1928, one year before the start of the Great Depression.Ellen Torgerson has an interesting article this week, the kind that Edith Efron would have written once upon a time, on teen viewing habits. It's interesting not because of what those habits are, but because of how they highlight the changes that have taken place over the past fifty years. If one were to ask the question "what teen-agers watch and why" today, the answer would be swift and decisive, and boiled down to two words: not television. Not when there's a world of TikTok and YouTube and social media out there, not when there's a world of "reality" programming that's streaming, not when their five-minute attention spans are spent, not on the current big thing, but what the next big thing might be. However, back in 1977, they did watch…