My Journey Through 1970s TV: Monday Nights, 1978

During this journey we’ve seen how some prime-time schedules in the 1970s were just more interesting than others. Monday nights in 1978…is not one of those times. Still, ABC finishing third is surprising given its previous ratings dominance. For the second straight evening viewers mostly stayed with a CBS lineup of returning favorites and one new series that definitively proved that turkeys can’t fly.CBSWKRP In CincinnatiPeopleMASHOne Day at a TimeLou GrantI’m not sure why WKRP seems to bubble just under confirmed “classic TV” status. Maybe it wasn’t on long enough. But I still can’t get through Thanksgiving without one reference to flying turkeys. And while the “Jennifer or Bailey” debate never reached the heights of “Ginger or Mary Ann,” we all know where discerning men of culture pledged their troth.People, hosted by Phyllis George, was the network’s attempt to launch a second magazine-style series after the success of 60 Minutes. Like the actual People magazine, which achieved a…