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Cheers took top spot with 66% of the vote, followed by The Cosby Show at 53%, The Golden Girls at 47%, Magnum, P.I. with 46%, and the 1980s edition of Saturday Night Live taking fifth place with 45%.
This ABC show takes place in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in the 1980s and follows the lives of a family named The Goldbergs.
“The Goldbergs” made a wise decision in terms of placing the action in a nebulous “1980s” universe. That gave the show more leeway to tell the story of a family in '80s America.
ALF is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 22, 1986, to March 24, 1990. The titular character, ALF, an acronym for Alien Life Form, but whose real name is Gordon Shumway, crash-lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family.
Top-rated United States television programs of 1980–81
Rank | Program | Network |
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1 | Dallas | CBS |
2 | The Dukes of Hazzard | |
3 | 60 Minutes | |
4 | M*A*S*H |