This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1980–81 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. Rank Program Network Rating 1 Dallas CBS 34.5 2 The Dukes of Hazzard 27.3 3 60 Minutes 27.0 4 M*A*S*H 25.7 5 The Love Boat ABC 24.3 6 The Jeffersons CBS 23.5 7 Alice 22.98 House Calls 22.4 Three's Company ABC 10 Little House on the Prairie NBC 22.1 11 One Day at a Time CBS 22.0 12 Real People NBC 21.5 13 Archie Bunker's Place CBS 21.4 14 Magnum, P.I. 21.015 Happy Days ABC 20.8 Too Close for Comfort17 Fantasy Island 20.7 Trapper John, M.D. CBS Diff'rent Strokes NBC20 Monday Night Football ABC 20.6 Laverne & Shirley 22 That's Incredible! 20.5 23 Hart to Hart 19.924 ABC Sunday Night Movie 19.4 CHiPs NBC 26 The Facts of Life 19.3 27 Lou Grant CBS 19.1 28 Knots Landing 19.0 29 NBC Monday Night Movie NBC 18.8 30 The Waltons CBS 18.6
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