List of TV Guide covers (1970s)

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This is a list of issue covers of TV Guide magazine from the decade of the 1970s, from January 1970 to December 1979. The entries on this table include each cover's subjects and their artists (photographer or illustrator). This list is for the regular weekly issues of TV Guide; any one-time-only special issues are not included.

## 1970[edit]

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1/3/1970 | "Here Come the 70s: How They Will Change the Way You Live" | Photograph |
1/10/1970 | Fred MacMurray & Beverly Garland of My Three Sons | Photograph |
1/17/1970 | The cast of Ironside | Photo montage |
1/24/1970 | Tom Jones of This is Tom Jones | Photo montage | Roger Prigent
1/31/1970 | Debbie Reynolds of The Debbie Reynolds Show | Photograph |
2/7/1970 | Elizabeth Montgomery & Dick Sargent of Bewitched | Illustration | Bob Peak
2/14/1970 | Karen Jensen, Laraine Stephens & Linda Harrison of Bracken's World | Photograph |
2/21/1970 | James Daly & Chad Everett of Medical Center | Photograph |
2/28/1970 | Clarence Williams III, Michael Cole & Peggy Lipton of The Mod Squad | Photograph |
3/7/1970 | The Cast of Hee Haw | Photo montage |
3/14/1970 | Diahann Carroll of Julia | Photograph |
3/21/1970 | Jackie Gleason of The Jackie Gleason Show | Photograph | Philippe Halsman
3/28/1970 | The cast of Laugh-In | Illustration | Jack Davis
4/4/1970 | The cast of The Brady Bunch | Photograph | Gene Trindl
4/11/1970 | Carol Burnett of The Carol Burnett Show | Illustration | Al Hirschfeld
4/18/1970 | Burl Ives, James Farentino & Joseph Campanella of The Bold Ones | Photograph |
4/25/1970 | Raquel Welch & John Wayne of Raquel! | Photograph |
5/2/1970 | Glen Campbell of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour | Illustration |
5/9/1970 | David Frost | Photograph |
5/16/1970 | Vice President Spiro Agnew | Illustration | Norman Rockwell
5/23/1970 | Mike Wallace, Tricia Nixon & Harry Reasoner | Photograph |
5/30/1970 | Julie Sommars of The Governor and J.J. | Photograph |
6/6/1970 | Robert Young of Marcus Welby, M.D. | Photograph |
6/13/1970 | Johnny Cash of The Johnny Cash Show | Illustration |
6/20/1970 | Susan Neher, Joyce Menges, John Forsythe & Melanie Fullerton of To Rome With Love | Photograph |
6/27/1970 | Liza Minnelli | Photograph |
7/4/1970 | Miyoshi Umeki, Brandon Cruz & Bill Bixby of The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Photograph |
7/11/1970 | The cast of The Beverly Hillbillies | Illustration | Raymond Ameijide
7/18/1970 | The Golddiggers | Photograph |
7/25/1970 | The cast of Mayberry, R.F.D. | Photograph |
8/1/1970 | Chet Huntley | Illustration |
8/8/1970 | Ted Bessell & Marlo Thomas of That Girl | Photograph |
8/15/1970 | Johnny Carson | Illustration | Norman Rockwell (1968 painting)
8/22/1970 | Ken Curtis, Milburn Stone, James Arness & Amanda Blake of Gunsmoke | Illustration | Jack Davis
8/29/1970 | Eddie Albert of Green Acres | Photograph |
9/5/1970 | Richard Burton, Lucille Ball & Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Here's Lucy | Photograph |
9/12/1970 | Fall Preview | Word art |
9/19/1970 | Mary Tyler Moore of The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Photograph |
9/26/1970 | The cast of Room 222 | Photograph | Ivan Nagy / Camera 5
10/3/1970 | Red Skelton of The Red Skelton Show | Illustration |
10/10/1970 | Herschel Bernardi of Arnie | Photograph |
10/17/1970 | The cast of The Partridge Family | Photograph |
10/24/1970 | Don Knotts of The Don Knotts Show | Photograph |
10/31/1970 | Mike Connors of Mannix | Photograph | Gene Trindl
11/7/1970 | Renne Jarrett, John Fink & Celeste Holm of Nancy | Photograph |
11/14/1970 | Christopher George of The Immortal | Photograph |
11/21/1970 | Sally Marr, actress/model and subject of the report "What It Takes to Be a Starlet in the 70s" | Photograph |
11/28/1970 | John Wayne and various guests of the special Sing Out, Sweet Land | Photo montage |
12/5/1970 | Dick Cavett of The Dick Cavett Show | Illustration |
12/12/1970 | Ed Sullivan & The Muppets | Photograph |
12/19/1970 | Christmas | Photo montage |
12/26/1970 | Diahann Carroll & Fred Williamson of Julia | Photograph |

## 1971[edit]

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1/2/1971 | "Remember 1970?" | Photo montage |
1/9/1971 | Andy Griffith of The New Andy Griffith Show | Photograph |
1/16/1971 | Johnny Cash & June Carter of The Johnny Cash Show | Photograph |
1/23/1971 | Flip Wilson of The Flip Wilson Show | Illustration |
1/30/1971 | James Arness of Gunsmoke | Photograph |
2/6/1971 | Tony Randall and Jack Klugman of The Odd Couple | Photograph |
2/13/1971 | Goldie Hawn of the special Pure Goldie | Photograph |
2/20/1971 | Doris Day of The Doris Day Show | Photograph |
2/27/1971 | Sharon Acker & Hal Holbrook of The Senator | Photograph |
3/6/1971 | Broderick Crawford of The Interns | Illustration |
3/13/1971 | Gene Barry & Robert Stack of The Name of the Game | Photograph |
3/20/1971 | Harry Reasoner of ABC Evening News | Photograph |
3/27/1971 | Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker & Mitch Vogel of Bonanza | Photograph |
4/3/1971 | "Cable TV: What's All The Talk About?" | Illustration |
4/10/1971 | Academy Awards host Bob Hope | Illustration | Jack Davis
4/17/1971 | Paul Newman | Photograph |
4/24/1971 | Elena Verdugo & Robert Young of Marcus Welby, M.D. | Photograph |
5/1/1971 | Lisa Gerritsen & Mary Tyler Moore of The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Photograph |
5/8/1971 | Henry Fonda of The Smith Family | Illustration |
5/15/1971 | "Television Journalism: An Inside Story" | Word art |
5/22/1971 | David Cassidy of The Partridge Family | Photograph |
5/29/1971 | The cast of All in the Family | Photograph | Gene Trindl
6/5/1971 | Dan Rowan & Dick Martin of Laugh-in | Photograph |
6/12/1971 | Lucille Ball of Here's Lucy | Illustration |
6/19/1971 | Brandon Cruz & Bill Bixby of The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Photograph |
6/26/1971 | Martin Milner & Kent McCord of Adam-12 | Photograph |
7/3/1971 | Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton & Clarence Williams III of The Mod Squad | Photograph | Raphael
7/10/1971 | Cookie Monster of Sesame Street eating away at the TV Guide logo | Illustration | Jack Davis
7/17/1971 | Chad Everett of Medical Center | Photograph |
7/24/1971 | Lefty, titular star of The Wonderful World of Disney's Ding-a-Ling Lynx | Photograph |
7/31/1971 | Henry VIII, the subject of The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Illustration |
8/7/1971 | The cast of As the World Turns | Photograph | Sheldon Secunda
8/14/1971 | Mitch Vogel, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker & Michael Landon of Bonanza | Illustration |
8/21/1971 | "Public Television: Is Anybody Watching?" | Word art |
8/28/1971 | Howard Cosell, Don Meredith & Frank Gifford of Monday Night Football | Photograph |
9/4/1971 | Jack Lord of Hawaii Five-O | Illustration |
9/11/1971 | Fall Preview | Illustration |
9/18/1971 | Sandy Duncan of Funny Face | Photograph |
9/25/1971 | Shirley MacLaine of Shirley's World | Photograph |
10/2/1971 | James Stewart of The Jimmy Stewart Show | Photograph |
10/9/1971 | Hope Lange & Dick Van Dyke of The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Photograph |
10/16/1971 | Mia Farrow | Photo montage |
10/23/1971 | James Franciscus of Longstreet | Photograph |
10/30/1971 | Larry Hagman & Donna Mills of The Good Life | Photograph |
11/6/1971 | William Conrad of Cannon | Photograph |
11/13/1971 | Rupert Crosse & Don Adams of The Partners | Photograph |
11/20/1971 | Sally Struthers, Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor & Rob Reiner | Illustration | Jack Davis
11/27/1971 | Joanne Woodward of All The Way Home | Photograph |
12/4/1971 | Julie Andrews & Carol Burnett of Julie & Carol at Lincoln Center | Photo montage |
12/11/1971 | James Garner of Nichols | Photograph |
12/18/1971 | The cast of The Partridge Family | Photograph |
12/25/1971 | Christmas | Illustration |

## 1972[edit]

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1/1/1972 | "Remember 1971?" | Illustration | Bob Peak
1/8/1972 | Flip Wilson of The Flip Wilson Show | Photograph | Gene Trindl
1/15/1972 | "America Out of Focus: How - and Why - European Television Distorts Our Image" | Text graphic | Uncredited
1/22/1972 | The cast of Mission: Impossible | Photograph | Don Ornitz
1/29/1972 | David Janssen of O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | Illustration | Bernard Fuchs
2/5/1972 | Raymond Burr & Elizabeth Baur of Ironside | Photograph | Gene Trindl
2/12/1972 | Arthur Hill of Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | Photograph | Gene Trindl
2/19/1972 | A preview of U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China featuring Nixon shaking hands with Premier Chou En-lai | Illustration | John Huehnergarth
2/26/1972 | Mary Tyler Moore | Photograph | Sherman Weisburd
3/4/1972 | Johnny Carson | Photograph |
3/11/1972 | Robert Young & James Brolin of Marcus Welby, M. D. | Illustration | Bob Peak
3/18/1972 | Sonny Bono & Cher | Photograph |
3/25/1972 | Peter Falk of Columbo | Illustration |
4/1/1972 | Glenn Ford of Cade's County | Photograph |
4/8/1972 | "TV Political Coverage: Fair or Biased?" | Illustration | John Huehnergarth
4/15/1972 | Apollo 16 Astronauts | Photograph | Philippe Halsman
4/22/1972 | Don Rickles | Photograph | Sherman Weisburd
4/29/1972 | Susan St. James & Rock Hudson of McMillan & Wife | Photograph | Don Ornitz
5/6/1972 | Sandy Duncan | photograph | Bob Willoughby
5/13/1972 | Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson of Sanford and Son | photograph | Gene Trindl
5/20/1972 | Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. of The F.B.I. with real-life F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover | illustration | Bernard Fuchs
5/27/1972 | Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton of All in the Family | illustration | Ronald Searle
6/3/1972 | Rod Serling of Night Gallery | photograph | Gene Trindl
6/10/1972 | Doris Day of The Doris Day Show | photograph | Sherman Weisburd
6/17/1972 | Julie London of Emergency! | photograph | Martin Mills
6/24/1972 | Mike Connors of Mannix | illustration | Bob Peak
7/1/1972 | Carol Burnett of The Carol Burnett Show | photograph |
7/8/1972 | Merv Griffin | photograph | Gene Trindl
7/15/1972 | David Cassidy of The Partridge Family | photograph | Gene Trindl
7/22/1972 | Martin Milner and Kent McCord of Adam-12 with series producer Jack Webb | illustration | Mark English
7/29/1972 | All About Love, American Style | illustration | Rowland B. Wilson
8/5/1972 | Countess Tolstoy Writes of Her Father—As War and Peace Comes to Television | photo montage | ABC
8/12/1972 | Leonardo da Vinci | illustration | Leonardo da Vinci, Scala
8/19/1972 | Chad Everett of Medical Center | photograph | Ivan Nagy
8/26/1972 | Olympics | illustration | Bob Peak
9/2/1972 | Jack Klugman and Tony Randall of The Odd Couple | illustration | Jack Davis
9/9/1972 | Fall Preview | text graphic | uncredited
9/16/1972 | Yul Brynner and Samantha Eggar of Anna and the King | photograph | John Bryson
9/23/1972 | George Peppard of Banacek |  |
9/30/1972 | Meredith Baxter and David Birney of Bridget Loves Bernie | photograph | Philippe Halsman
10/7/1972 | Bonanza | illustration |
10/14/1972 | Robert Conrad of Assignment Vienna |  |
10/21/1972 | Carroll O'Connor and Cloris Leachman of Of Thee I Sing |  |
10/28/1972 | Snoopy, Woodstock and Charlie Brown of the Peanuts special You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown | illustration | Charles M. Schulz
11/4/1972 | John Wayne | photograph | David Sutton
11/11/1972 | Alistair Cooke |  |
11/18/1972 | Beatrice Arthur of Maude | photograph | Martin Mills
11/25/1972 | Search | illustration | Bob Peak
12/2/1972 | Mike Douglas | photograph | Philippe Halsman
12/9/1972 | Julie Andrews | photograph | Mario Casilli
12/16/1972 | Duke and Duchess of Windsor | illustration | Richard Amsel
12/23/1972 | Christmas |  |
12/30/1972 | Barbara Walters | photograph | Philippe Halsman

## 1973[edit]

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1/6/1973 | 1972: The Year in Review | illustration | Jim Sharpe
1/13/1973  | China | photo montage  | Audrey Topping/NBC
1/20/1973  | Bob Newhart & Suzanne Pleshette | photograph  | Sherman Weisburd
1/27/1973  | The Rookies | photograph  | Gene Trindl
2/3/1973  | Bill Cosby | illustration  | Bernard Fuchs
2/10/1973  | Paul Lynde et al.  | photograph  | Gene Trindl
2/17/1973  | Rock Hudson & Susan St. James | photograph  | Albert MacKenzie Watson
2/24/1973  | M*A*S*H | photograph  | Sherman Weisburd
3/3/1973  | William Conrad | illustration  | Charles Santore
3/10/1973  | Marlo Thomas | photograph  | Ken Regan/Camera 5
3/17/1973  | Redd Foxx & Demond Wilson | photograph  | Gene Trindl
3/24/1973  | Ann-Margret | photograph  | Harry Langdon
3/31/1973  | Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz, Jr. | photograph  | Sherman Weisburd
4/7/1973  | "When is Children's TV Going to Grow Up?"  | illustration  | Isadore Seltzer
4/14/1973  | Brian Keith & Shelley Fabares | photograph  | Gene Trindl
4/21/1973  | Raymond Burr | photograph  | Gene Trindl
4/28/1973  | The Waltons | illustration  | Paul Davis
5/5/1973  | Peter Falk | photograph  | Albert MacKenzie Watson
5/12/1973  | Shirley Booth of A Touch of Grace | photograph  | Ivan Nagy
5/19/1973  | Mary Tyler Moore | illustration  | Richard Amsel
5/26/1973  | Karl Malden & Michael Douglas of The Streets of San Francisco | illustration  | Charles Santore
6/2/1973  | Carroll O'Connor & Michael Evans | photograph  | Gene Trindl
6/9/1973  | Richard Widmark of Madigan | illustration  | Bernard Fuchs
6/16/1973  | Bea Arthur & Bill Macy | illustration  | Al Hirschfeld
6/23/1973  | David Carradine of Kung Fu | photo montage  | Gene Trindl
6/30/1973  | Dennis Weaver of McCloud | photograph  | Gene Trindl
7/7/1973  | Dick Cavett | illustration  | Bob Peak
7/14/1973  | Sonny & Cher | photograph  | Prigent
7/21/1973  | Robert Young & Chad Everett | photo montage  | Mark English
7/28/1973  | "The Lie That Wouldn't Die: TV's Great Sex Movie Scare"  | text graphic  | uncredited
8/4/1973  | Kent McCord & Martin Milner of Adam-12 | illustration  | Charles Santore
8/11/1973  | Roy Clark | illustration  | Jack Davis
8/18/1973  | Robert Fuller of Emergency! | photograph  | Gene Trindl
8/25/1973  | Buddy Ebsen of Barnaby Jones | illustration  | Bob Peak
9/1/1973  | Miss America | illustration  | Barry Zaid
9/8/1973  | Fall Preview  | text graphic  | uncredited
9/15/1973  | "Pro Football '73: What's New? Who'll Win?"  | illustration  | LeRoy Neiman
9/22/1973  | Jack Lord & James McArthur of Hawaii Five-O | illustration  | Mark English
9/29/1973  | "The War in Vietnam: What Happened vs. What We Saw"  | illustration  | George Giusti
10/6/1973  | Diana Rigg | photograph  | Albert MacKenzie Watson
10/13/1973  | "Does TV Go Too Far?"  | text graphic  | Herb Lubalin
10/20/1973  | Telly Savalas of Kojak | photograph  | Gene Trindl
10/27/1973  | Ken Howard & Blythe Danner of Adam's Rib | photograph  | Sherman Weisburd
11/3/1973  | Deirdre Lenihan of Needles and Pins | photograph  | Philippe Halsman
11/10/1973  | A Very Special Week  | illustration  | Charles Santore
11/17/1973  | Frank Sinatra | illustration  | Bob Peak
11/24/1973  | Jacques Cousteau | photograph  | Cousteau Group
12/1/1973  | Bill Bixby of The Magician | photo illustration  | Gene Trindl
12/8/1973  | Mary Tyler Moore, Georgia Engel and Valerie Harper | photograph  | Albert Watson
12/15/1973  | Katharine Hepburn | illustration  | Bernard Fuchs
12/22/1973  | Christmas  | photograph  | Bill Holland
12/29/1973  | "Mason Reese: 7 Year Old Huckster"  | photograph  | Roger Prigent

## 1974[edit]

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1/5/1974 | "How You Saw the World on Television in 1973" | illustration |
1/12/1974 | Beatrice Arthur, Bill Macy and Conrad Bain of Maude | photograph | Denis Plehn
1/19/1974 | Bob Hope | photograph | Sheldon Secunda
1/26/1974 | David Carradine of Kung Fu | illustration | Paul Davis
2/2/1974 | Dom DeLuise of Lotsa Luck | photograph | Gene Trindl
2/9/1974 | Cast of M*A*S*H | illustration | Jack Davis
2/16/1974 | Michael Douglas and Karl Malden of The Streets of San Francisco | photograph | Curt Gunther
2/23/1974 | Richard Boone of Hec Ramsey | photograph | Gene Trindl
3/2/1974 | Jimmy Stewart of Hawkins | illustration | Bernard Fuchs
3/9/1974 | "How Show Biz Takes Over Our Local News" | text graphic |
3/16/1974 | Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence | illustration | Richard Amsel
3/23/1974 | James Franciscus of Doc Elliot | photograph | Ivan Nagy
3/30/1974 | Susan Strasberg and Tony Musante of Toma | photograph | Gene Trindl
4/6/1974 | Carroll O'Connor of All in the Family, Bill Macy of Maude, Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son and their series' producer, Norman Lear | illustration | Jack Davis
4/13/1974 | Richard Thomas, Michael Learned and Ralph Waite of The Waltons | photograph | Albert Watson
4/20/1974 | Peter Falk of Columbo | photograph | Ivan Nagy
4/27/1974 | Bruce Bould, Dan O'Herlihy, Anthony Quayle, Ben Gazzara and Lee Remick of QB VII | photograph | Mike Sheil / ABC
5/4/1974 | Sam Melville, Georg Stanford Brown and Michael Ontkean of The Rookies | illustration | Charles Santore
5/11/1974 | Bob Newhart & Peter Bonerz of The Bob Newhart Show | photograph | Albert Watson
5/18/1974 | Lee Majors of The Six Million Dollar Man | illustration | Bob Peak
5/25/1974 | J.D. Cannon & Dennis Weaver of McCloud | photograph | Carl Furuta
6/1/1974 | Sonny & Cher | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
6/8/1974 | KQED-TV reporter Marilyn Baker who covered the SLA's kidnapping of Patricia Hearst[1] | photograph | Curt Gunther
6/15/1974 | Kathy O'Dare and Ron Howard of Happy Days | photograph | Albert Watson
6/22/1974 | John Chancellor | illustration | Mark English
6/29/1974 | Esther Rolle and John Amos of Good Times | photograph | Gene Trindl
7/6/1974 | Lucille Ball | illustration | Richard Amsel
7/13/1974 | Johnny Carson | illustration | Bernard Fuchs
7/20/1974 | "The Boom in Made-for-TV Films" | illustration | Robert Weber
7/27/1974 | Lee McCain and Ronny Cox of Apple's Way | photograph | Ivan Nagy
8/3/1974 | Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth of Emergency! | illustration | Bob Peake
8/10/1974 | "Games Viewers Play" | illustration | Talone & La Brasca
8/17/1974 | Police Story | illustration | Mark English
8/24/1974 | Susan Blakely | montage | uncredited
8/31/1974 | Telly Savalas of Kojak | illustration | Charles Santore
9/7/1974 | Fall Preview |  |
9/14/1974 | "They're Off and Running!" (The cover uses the mock up of then-sister publication The Daily Racing Form with the shows listed in place of the horses) |  |
9/21/1974 | Football Preview |  |
9/28/1974 | Paul Sand |  |
10/5/1974 | Sanford and Son | illustration | Bruce Stark
10/12/1974 | Valerie Harper of Rhoda |  |
10/19/1974 | Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson of Chico and the Man | photograph |
10/26/1974 | Ralph Waite, Will Geer and Richard Thomas of The Waltons | illustration | David Plourde
11/2/1974 | M*A*S*H | illustration | Rick Meyerowitz
11/9/1974 | Sophia Loren: An Appreciation |  |
11/16/1974 | Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and James Caan of the film The Godfather | illustration | Jack Davis
11/23/1974 | "What a Week!" |  |
11/30/1974 | Teresa Graves of Get Christie Love |  |
12/7/1974 | Michael Landon of Little House on the Prairie | photograph |
12/14/1974 | Esther Rolle, Jimmie Walker, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis and John Amos of Good Times | photograph |
12/21/1974 | Christmas | illustration | Raymond Ameijide
12/28/1974 | "Wonderful Bowl Games, Wacky Parades" |  |

## 1975[edit]

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1/4/1975 | Angie Dickinson of Police Woman | photograph |
1/11/1975 | David Janssen of Harry O | photograph |
1/18/1975 | Theresa Merritt and Clifton Davis of That's My Mama | photograph |
1/25/1975 | Gene Shalit, Jim Hartz and Barbara Walters of Today | illustration |
2/1/1975 | James Garner of The Rockford Files | photograph |
2/8/1975 | "Greasing the Wheels of the MTM Comedy Machine," featuring Valerie Harper, Bob Newhart and Mary Tyler Moore | illustration | Bob Peak
2/15/1975 | Georg Stanford Brown, Bruce Fairbairn, Sam Melville and Gerald S. O'Loughlin of The Rookies | illustration |
2/22/1975 | Telly Savalas of Kojak | photograph |
3/1/1975 | Jack Albertson & Freddie Prinze of Chico and the Man | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
3/8/1975 | Chad Everett of Medical Center | illustration |
3/15/1975 | Karen Valentine of Karen | photograph |
3/22/1975 | Karl Malden and Michael Douglas of The Streets of San Francisco | illustration |
3/29/1975 | Beatrice Arthur and Hermione Baddeley of Maude | illustration |
4/5/1975 | Baseball Preview | illustration |
4/12/1975 | Cher | photograph |
4/19/1975 | Frank Converse and Claude Akins of Movin' On | photograph |
4/26/1975 | Dennis Weaver, J. D. Cannon and Terry Carter of McCloud | illustration | Jack Davis
5/3/1975 | Valerie Harper & David Groh of Rhoda | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
5/10/1975 | Muhammad Ali | illustration |
5/17/1975 | Barry Newman of Petrocelli | photograph |
5/24/1975 | Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst of A Moon for the Misbegotten | photograph |
5/31/1975 | The cast of The Bob Newhart Show | illustration | Bruce Stark
6/7/1975 | The cast of Little House on the Prairie | illustration | Jacob Knight
6/14/1975 | "Violence on TV: Does It Affect Our Society" | word art |
6/21/1975 | Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford and Mike Evans of The Jeffersons | photograph |
6/28/1975 | A special preview of the United States Bicentennial | illustration |
7/5/1975 | Tony Orlando and Dawn | photograph |
7/12/1975 | "The Apollo-Soyuz Mission on Television" | illustration | John C. Berkley
7/19/1975 | The cast of Barney Miller | photograph |
7/26/1975 | Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner of ABC Evening News | illustration |
8/2/1975 | Mike Douglas of The Mike Douglas Show | illustration | Richard Amsel
8/9/1975 | Buddy Ebsen | photograph |
8/16/1975 | Randolph Mantooth, Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup and Kevin Tighe of Emergency! | photograph |
8/23/1975 | Ralph Waite, Richard Thomas and Michael Learned of The Waltons | illustration | Ray Ameijide
8/30/1975 | Carroll O'Connor of All in the Family | illustration |
9/6/1975 | Fall Preview | word art |
9/13/1975 | "Experts Pick Hit Shows, NFL Winners" | illustration |
9/20/1975 | Barbara Walters of Today | photograph |
9/27/1975 | Howard Cosell of Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
10/4/1975 | Lee Remick of Jennie | photograph |
10/11/1975 | The cast of The Family Holvak | illustration |
10/18/1975 | "TV's Sex Crisis" | illustration |
10/25/1975 | Cloris Leachman of Phyllis | photograph |
11/1/1975 | Lloyd Bridges of Joe Forrester | illustration |
11/8/1975 | Julie Kavner and Valerie Harper of Rhoda | illustration |
11/15/1975 | David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky & Hutch | photograph |
11/22/1975 | "A Banner Week!" | word art |
11/29/1975 | Tony Curtis of McCoy | illustration |
12/6/1975 | "Does America Want Family Viewing Time?" | illustration |
12/13/1975 | Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert of Switch | photograph |
12/20/1975 | Christmas | illustration |
12/27/1975 | Robert Blake and Fred the cockatoo of Baretta | photograph |

## 1976[edit]

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1/3/1976 | Telly Savalas of Kojak | illustration | Bernard Fuchs
1/10/1976 | Ron Howard and Henry Winkler of Happy Days | photograph |
1/17/1976 | Angie Dickinson and Earl Holliman of Police Woman | illustration | Richard Amsel
1/24/1976 | Alan Alda, Mike Farrell and Harry Morgan of M*A*S*H | photograph |
1/31/1976 | Steve Forrest of S.W.A.T. | illustration | Bob Schulz
2/7/1976 | Barney Miller | illustration | Jack Davis
2/14/1976 | Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son | illustration | Charles Santore
2/21/1976 | William Conrad of Cannon |  |
2/28/1976 | Bob Hope |  |
3/6/1976 | Noah Beery, Jr. and James Garner of The Rockford Files | photograph |
3/13/1976 | Jack Albertson, Freddie Prinze and Scatman Crothers of Chico and the Man | photograph |
3/20/1976 | Danny Thomas |  |
3/27/1976 | Jack Palance of Bronk |  |
4/3/1976 | Baseball Preview |  |
4/10/1976 | Police Story |  |
4/17/1976 | Gabriel Kaplan and Marcia Strassman of Welcome Back, Kotter | photograph |
4/24/1976 | Beatrice Arthur of Maude |  |
5/1/1976 | George Kennedy of The Blue Knight |  |
5/8/1976 | Lindsay Wagner of The Bionic Woman | photograph | Peter Kredenser
5/15/1976 | Cast of On the Rocks |  |
5/22/1976 | Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall of Laverne & Shirley |  |
5/29/1976 | Little House on the Prairie | photograph |
6/5/1976 | Sonny Bono & Cher |  |
6/12/1976 | David Janssen and Anthony Zerbe of Harry O |  |
6/19/1976 | Louise Lasser of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | illustration | Bill Nelson
6/26/1976 | Mary Tyler Moore in Moscow | photograph |
7/3/1976 | The United States Bicentennial |  |
7/10/1976 | Convention Previews |  |
7/17/1976 | Olympic Preview |  |
7/24/1976 | Bonnie Franklin of One Day at a Time | photograph | Peter Kredenser
7/31/1976 | "Terrorism and Television: The Medium in the Middle" |  |
8/7/1976 | Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond |  | Peter Kredenser
8/14/1976 | Peter Falk | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
8/21/1976 | Richard Thomas, Will Geer and Ellen Corby of The Waltons | photograph |
8/28/1976 | Lee Majors of The Six Million Dollar Man | illustration | Mark English
9/4/1976 | Football Preview |  |
9/11/1976 | Bob Dylan | photograph |
9/18/1976 | Fall Preview |  |
9/25/1976 | Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett of Charlie's Angels | photograph | Peter Kredenser
10/2/1976 | David Birney of Serpico (first issue to carry a UPC barcode) |  |
10/9/1976 | Bernadette Peters and Richard Crenna of All's Fair |  | Peter Kredenser
10/16/1976 | World Series |  |
10/23/1976 | Linda Lavin of Alice |  | Peter Kredenser
10/30/1976 | Election Preview |  |
11/6/1976 | Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh | illustration | Richard Amsel
11/13/1976 | Dorothy Hamill |  |
11/20/1976 | NBC's 50th Anniversary |  |
11/27/1976 | Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul of Starsky and Hutch | illustration |
12/4/1976 | Tony Randall | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
12/11/1976 | Valerie Harper | illustration | Richard Amsel
12/18/1976 | John Chancellor and David Brinkley |  |
12/25/1976 | Christmas |  |

## 1977[edit]

Issue date  | Cover subject  | Type of cover  | Artist

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1/1/1977 | John Travolta of Welcome Back, Kotter | photograph |
1/8/1977 | Super Bowl |  |
1/15/1977 | Inaugural Guide |  |
1/22/1977 | Roots |  |
1/29/1977 | Lynda Carter of Wonder Woman | illustration |
2/5/1977 | Barbara Walters | photograph |
2/12/1977 | Telly Savalas & George Savalas of Kojak | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
2/19/1977 | Nancy Walker |  |
2/26/1977 | Martha Raye and Rock Hudson |  |
3/5/1977 | Liv Ullmann |  |
3/12/1977 | Lauren Hutton |  |
3/19/1977 | "So Long, Mary": Mary Tyler Moore of The Mary Tyler Moore Show posing at the WJM-TV newsroom exit | photograph | Peter Kredenser
3/26/1977 | Jack Klugman of Quincy, M.E. |  |
4/2/1977 | Dinah Shore Colgate Winner's Circle |  |
4/9/1977 | Baseball Preview |  |
4/16/1977 | Frank Sinatra | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
4/23/1977 | Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and Dan Rather of 60 Minutes | illustration | Charles Santore
4/30/1977 | David Frost & Richard Nixon |  |
5/7/1977 | Valerie Bertinelli, Mackenzie Phillips & Bonnie Franklin of One Day at a Time |  | Peter Kredenser
5/14/1977 | Tom Brokaw of Today | photograph | Daniel Kramer
5/21/1977 | Farrah Fawcett of Charlie's Angels |  |
5/28/1977 | Robert Blake of Baretta | illustration | Bob Peak
6/4/1977 | Alan Alda of M*A*S*H | illustration | Bernard Fuchs
6/11/1977 | Dan Haggerty and Bozo of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams |  |
6/18/1977 | Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall of Laverne & Shirley | illustration | Jack Davis
6/25/1977 | The Waltons | illustration | Jacob Knight
7/2/1977 | Linda Lavin and Polly Holliday of Alice | illustration |
7/9/1977 | Peter Isacksen and Don Rickles of C.P.O. Sharkey |  |
7/16/1977 | Barney Miller | illustration | "Raymond Ameijide"
7/23/1977 | "Public TV in Turmoil" |  |
7/30/1977 | Johnny Carson | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
8/6/1977 | Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog of The Muppet Show | photograph | Ken Regan
8/13/1977 | David Soul of Starsky and Hutch | photograph | Peter Kredenser
8/20/1977 | James Garner and Joe Santos of The Rockford Files | illustration | Bob Peak
8/27/1977 | "Sex and Violence: Hollywood Fights Back" | text art |
9/3/1977 | Jason Robards, Andy Griffith, Cliff Robertson and Robert Vaughn of Washington: Behind Closed Doors | photograph |
9/10/1977 | Fall Preview | illustration |
9/17/1977 | Pro football preview | illustration |
9/24/1977 | Betty White and John Hillerman of The Betty White Show | photograph | Peter Kredenser
10/1/1977 | Squire Fridell and Tony Roberts of Rosetti and Ryan |  |
10/8/1977 | Donny Osmond & Marie Osmond | illustration | Richard Amsel
10/15/1977 | Ed Asner of Lou Grant |  |
10/22/1977 | Ron Palillo, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Gabriel Kaplan, John Travolta and Robert Hegyes of Welcome Back, Kotter | illustration | Jack Davis
10/29/1977 | Beverly Archer of We've Got Each Other |  |
11/5/1977 | Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy of The Hardy Boys Mysteries |  |
11/12/1977 | The Godfather, Part II |  |
11/19/1977 | Frank Sinatra | illustration | Richard Amsel
11/26/1977 | Soap | illustration | Jack Davis
12/3/1977 | Patrick Duffy of The Man from Atlantis | illustration | Bob Peak
12/10/1977 | "What the Censors Cut...and Why" |  |
12/17/1977 | Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington, Jr. of One Day at a Time | illustration | David Plourde
12/24/1977 | Christmas |  |
12/31/1977 | Kevin Dobson and Telly Savalas of Kojak | illustration | Robert Giusti

## 1978[edit]

Issue date  | Cover subject  | Type of cover  | Artist

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1/7/1978 | Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Donny Most and Anson Williams of Happy Days |  |
1/14/1978 | The First Nighttime Super Bowl | illustration | Charles Addams
1/21/1978 | Family | photograph | Peter Kredenser
1/28/1978 | Dan Haggerty and Bozo of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams |  |
2/4/1978 | Lauren Tewes, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell and Fred Grandy of The Love Boat | illustration | Rowland B. Wilson
2/11/1978 | Jack Klugman and Garry Walberg of Quincy, M.E. |  |
2/18/1978 | Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd of Charlie's Angels |  |
2/25/1978 | M*A*S*H | illustration | Ray Ameijide
3/4/1978 | Lynnie Greene and Bess Armstrong of On Our Own |  |
3/11/1978 | Kene Holliday and Victor French of Carter Country | illustration | Bob Peak
3/18/1978 | Lindsay Wagner of The Bionic Woman | photograph |
3/25/1978 | Walter Cronkite and Mary Tyler Moore, hosts of CBS: On the Air | photograph | Peter Kredenser
4/1/1978 | Baseball Preview |  |
4/8/1978 | Alice | illustration | Richard Amsel
4/15/1978 | Holocaust |  |
4/22/1978 | "Changing the Shape of Television" |  |
4/29/1978 | Laverne and Shirley |  |
5/6/1978 | Buddy Ebsen of Barnaby Jones | illustration | Mark English
5/13/1978 | Little House on the Prairie | illustration | Stan Hunter
5/20/1978 | Three's Company | illustration | Richard Amsel
5/27/1978 | Phil Donahue |  |
6/3/1978 | Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul of Starsky and Hutch | photograph |
6/10/1978 | "UFOs on TV: Flying in the Face of Logic" |  |
6/17/1978 | Valerie Harper of Rhoda |  |
6/24/1978 | "Can You Believe the Ratings? A New Perspective" |  |
7/1/1978 | Ricardo Montalbán and Herve Villechaize of Fantasy Island |  |
7/8/1978 | Cast members of The Young and the Restless |  | Peter Kredenser
7/15/1978 | Robert Conrad of The Black Sheep Squadron | illustration | David Edward Byrd
7/22/1978 | Gavin MacLeod of The Love Boat | photograph |
7/29/1978 | Cast of Saturday Night Live | illustration | Jack Davis
8/5/1978 | Sherman Hemsley, Paul Benedict and Isabel Sanford of The Jeffersons | illustration | Charles Santore
8/12/1978 | David Hartman of Good Morning America |  |
8/19/1978 | "America Speaks Out About Sports on TV" |  |
8/26/1978 | Cheryl Ladd of Charlie's Angels | photograph | Peter Kredenser
9/2/1978 | Football Preview |  |
9/9/1978 | Special Issue: Fall Preview |  |
9/16/1978 | Battlestar Galactica |  |
9/23/1978 | Mary Tyler Moore | photograph | Douglas Kirkland
9/30/1978 | Centennial |  |
10/7/1978 | World Series |  |
10/14/1978 | Robert Urich of Vega$ | photograph |
10/21/1978 | WKRP in Cincinnati | photograph | Robert phillips
10/28/1978 | Pam Dawber and Robin Williams of Mork & Mindy | photograph | Peter Kredenser
11/4/1978 | John Travolta of Welcome Back, Kotter | illustration | Richard Amsel
11/11/1978 | Ron Leibman of Kaz |  |
11/18/1978 | "Foreign Lobbyists: How They Try to Manipulate U.S. Television" |  |
11/25/1978 | Suzanne Somers of Three's Company | photograph |
12/2/1978 | "A Benji Special" |  |
12/9/1978 | Linda Kelsey and Ed Asner of Lou Grant |  |
12/16/1978 | Eight Is Enough | photograph |
12/23/1978 | Christmas |  |
12/30/1978 | Dick Clark | illustration | Robert Giusti

## 1979[edit]

Issue date  | Cover subject  | Type of cover  | Artist

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1/6/1979 | Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton of All in the Family | illustration | Al Hirschfeld
1/13/1979 | "Network News Chiefs on the Hottest TV News Controversies" |  |
1/20/1979 | Super Bowl XIII | illustration | George Giusti
1/27/1979 | Katharine Hepburn | illustration | Richard Amsel
2/3/1979 | Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada of CHiPs |  |
2/10/1979 | The Shakespeare Plays |  |
2/17/1979 | Roots: The Next Generations |  |
2/24/1979 | James Arness of How the West Was Won | illustration |
3/3/1979 | Gary Coleman of Diff'rent Strokes | photograph |
3/10/1979 | Harry Reasoner, Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes | illustration |
3/17/1979 | Mike Farrell and Alan Alda of M*A*S*H | photograph |
3/24/1979 | Ricardo Montalbán of Fantasy Island |  |
3/31/1979 | Baseball Preview |  |
4/7/1979 | Maren Jensen of Battlestar Galactica |  | Peter Kredenser
4/14/1979 | John S. Ragin and Jack Klugman of Quincy, M.E. |  |
4/21/1979 | Walter Cronkite |  |
4/28/1979 | Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch of Taxi | illustration | Charles Santore
5/5/1979 | James Stephens and John Houseman of The Paper Chase |  |
5/12/1979 | "What Viewers Love/Hate About Television" |  |
5/19/1979 | Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall of Laverne & Shirley | illustration | Richard Amsel
5/26/1979 | Ken Howard of The White Shadow | photograph |
6/2/1979 | James Garner of The Rockford Files | illustration | Bernard Fuchs
6/9/1979 | Donna Pescow of Angie | photograph |
6/16/1979 | Victoria Principal, Patrick Duffy and Jim Davis of Dallas |  |
6/23/1979 | Johnny Carson | illustration | Jim Sharpe
6/30/1979 | John Schneider, Catherine Bach and Tom Wopat of The Dukes of Hazzard | photograph |
7/7/1979 | Barney Miller | photograph |
7/14/1979 | Michael Landon, Melissa Sue Anderson and Linwood Boomer of Little House on the Prairie | photograph |
7/21/1979 | Greg Evigan and Sam the chimp of B. J. and the Bear | photograph |
7/28/1979 | Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby of The Incredible Hulk |  |
8/4/1979 | Joyce DeWitt of Three's Company | photograph |
8/11/1979 | Rod Arrants of Search for Tomorrow |  |
8/18/1979 | Ed Asner, Nancy Marchand and Mason Adams of Lou Grant |  |
8/25/1979 | Football Preview |  |
9/1/1979 | Miss America | illustration | Richard Amsel
9/8/1979 | Fall Preview |  |
9/15/1979 | Robert Guillaume of Benson | photograph |
9/22/1979 | Carroll O'Connor |  |
9/29/1979 | Pope John Paul II |  |
10/6/1979 | World Series |  |
10/13/1979 | Tom Snyder |  |
10/20/1979 | Loni Anderson, Howard Hesseman and Gary Sandy of WKRP in Cincinnati |  |
10/27/1979 | Muhammad Ali |  |
11/3/1979 | Stefanie Powers and Robert Wagner of Hart to Hart | photograph |
11/10/1979 | The Bee Gees |  |
11/17/1979 | Wilfrid Hyde-White and Shelley Smith of The Associates | photograph |
11/24/1979 | Pernell Roberts of Trapper John, M.D. | photograph |
12/1/1979 | Barbara Walters |  |
12/8/1979 | "Talk Show Hosts: Who Are the Best--and Why?" | illustration | Don Daily
12/15/1979 | Henry Winkler of Happy Days | photograph |
12/22/1979 | Christmas |  |
12/29/1979 | Shelley Hack, Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith of Charlie's Angels | photograph |

## Sources[edit]

* Covers and table of contents page descriptions for the various issues.
* TV Guide cover archive: 1970s (is without the descriptions it seems)
* TV Guide: Fifty Years of Television, New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1-4000-4685-8
* Stephen Hofer, ed., TV Guide: The Official Collectors Guide, Braintree, Mass.: BangZoom Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0-9772927-1-1.
* "50 Greatest TV Guide Covers," article from the June 15, 2002 edition of TV Guide
* Information from ellwanger.tv's TV Guide collection section

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