List of TV Guide covers (1970s)

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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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	illustration	George Giusti
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)	illustration	Logotype, format and type adapted from Daily, Racing Form®, which is a registered trade-mark of Triangle Publications, Inc.
9/21/1974	Football Preview	illustration	Bob Peak
9/28/1974	Paul Sand of "Friends and Lovers"	photograph	Ivan Nagy
10/5/1974	Sanford and Son	illustration	Bruce Stark
10/12/1974	Valerie Harper of Rhoda	photograph	Carl Furuta
10/19/1974	Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson of Chico and the Man	photograph	Phillipe Halsman
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	photograph	Norman Parkinson
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!"	illustration	Playbill style poster of the week's highlights
11/30/1974	Teresa Graves of Get Christie Love	photograph	Phillipe Halsman
12/7/1974	Michael Landon of Little House on the Prairie (Image is reversed for unstated reason)	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"	illustration	Ronald Searle

1975

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

Issue date	Cover subject	Type of cover	Artist
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

• 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