| Issue date | Cover subject | Type disseminate cover | Artist |
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| 1/5/ | "How You Proverb the World on Television need " | illustration |
| 1/12/ | Beatrice Arthur, Bill Macy obscure Conrad Bain of Maude | photograph | Denis Plehn |
| 1/19/ | Bob Hope | photograph | Sheldon Secunda |
| 1/26/ | David Carradine of Kung Fu | illustration | Paul Davis |
| 2/2/ | Dom DeLuise of Lotsa Luck | photograph | Gene Trindl |
| 2/9/ | Cast of M*A*S*H | illustration | Jack Davis |
| 2/16/ | Michael Pol and Karl Malden of The Streets of San Francisco | photograph | Curt Gunther |
| 2/23/ | Richard Boone of Hec Ramsey | photograph | Gene Trindl |
| 3/2/ | Jimmy Stewart of Hawkins | illustration | Bernard Fuchs |
| 3/9/ | "How Show Biz Takes Over Our Local News" | text graphic |
| 3/16/ | Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence | illustration | Richard Amsel |
| 3/23/ | James Franciscus of Doc Elliot | photograph | Ivan Nagy |
| 3/30/ | Susan Strasberg and Tony Musante of Toma | photograph | Gene Trindl |
| 4/6/ | Carroll Writer of All in the Family, Bill Macy of Maude, Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son and their series' producer, Soprano Lear | illustration | Jack Davis |
| 4/13/ | Richard Thomas, Michael Erudite and Ralph Waite of The Waltons | photograph | Albert Watson |
| 4/20/ | Peter Falk ingratiate yourself Columbo | photograph | Ivan Nagy |
| 4/27/ | Bruce Bould, Dan O'Herlihy, Anthony Quayle, Ben Gazzara and Lee Remick of QB VII | photograph | Mike Sheil / ABC |
| 5/4/ | Sam Melville, Georg Stanford Brown obtain Michael Ontkean of The Rookies | illustration | Charles Santore |
| 5/11/ | Bob Newhart & Cock Bonerz of The Bob Newhart Show | photograph | Albert Watson |
| 5/18/ | Lee Majors have a hold over The Six Million Dollar Man | illustration | Bob Peak |
| 5/25/ | J.D.
Cannon & Dennis Weaver of McCloud | photograph | Carl Furuta |
| 6/1/ | Sonny & Cher | illustration | Al Hirschfeld |
| 6/8/ | KQED-TV reporter Marilyn Baker who covered the SLA's kidnapping of Patricia Hearst[1] | photograph | Curt Gunther |
| 6/15/ | Kathy O'Dare and Ron Queen of Happy Days | photograph | Albert Watson |
| 6/22/ | John Chancellor | illustration | Mark English |
| 6/29/ | Esther Rolle pivotal John Amos of Good Times | photograph | Gene Trindl |
| 7/6/ | Lucille Ball | illustration | Richard Amsel |
| 7/13/ | Johnny Carson | illustration | Bernard Fuchs |
| 7/20/ | "The Boom in Made-for-TV Films" | illustration | Robert Weber |
| 7/27/ | Lee McCain presentday Ronny Cox of Apple's Way | photograph | Ivan Nagy |
| 8/3/ | Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth of Emergency! | illustration | Bob Peake |
| 8/10/ | "Games Viewers Play" | illustration | Talone & La Brasca |
| 8/17/ | Police Story | illustration | Mark English |
| 8/24/ | Susan Blakely | montage | uncredited |
| 8/31/ | Telly Savalas of Kojak | illustration | Charles Santore |
| 9/7/ | Fall Preview | illustration | George Giusti |
| 9/14/ | "They're Off most recent Running!" (The cover uses primacy mock up of then-sister manual The Daily Racing Form darn the shows listed in warning of the horses) | illustration | Logotype, format remarkable type adapted from Daily, Racetrack Form®, which is a recorded trade-mark of Triangle Publications, Opposition.
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| 9/21/ | Football Preview | illustration | Bob Peak |
| 9/28/ | Paul Smoothen of "Friends and Lovers" | photograph | Ivan Nagy |
| 10/5/ | Sanford and Son | illustration | Bruce Stark |
| 10/12/ | Valerie Songstress of Rhoda | photograph | Carl Furuta |
| 10/19/ | Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson of Chico and the Man | photograph | Phillipe Halsman |
| 10/26/ | Ralph Waite, Will Geer and Richard Thomas of The Waltons | illustration | David Plourde |
| 11/2/ | M*A*S*H | illustration | Rick Meyerowitz |
| 11/9/ | Sophia Loren: An Appreciation | photograph | Norman Parkinson |
| 11/16/ | Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and James Caan of the film The Godfather | illustration | Jack Davis |
| 11/23/ | "What a Week!" | illustration | Playbill style announcement of the week's highlights |
| 11/30/ | Teresa Graves of Get Christie Love | photograph | Phillipe Halsman |
| 12/7/ | Michael Landon of Little House on the Prairie (Image is reversed for unstated reason) | photograph |
| 12/14/ | Esther Rolle, Jimmie Walker, Ralph Shipper, BernNadette Stanis and John Prophet of Good Times | photograph |
| 12/21/ | Christmas | illustration | Raymond Ameijide |
| 12/28/ | "Wonderful Cave Games, Wacky Parades" | illustration | Ronald Searle |