1980 in Canadian television
The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1980. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.
Television shows
1950s
- Country Canada
- CBC News Magazine
- The Friendly Giant
- Hockey Night in Canada
- The National
- Front Page Challenge
- ''Wayne and Shuster Show''
1960s
- CTV National News
- Land and Sea
- Man Alive
- Mr. Dressup
- The Nature of Things
- Question Period
- Reach for the Top
- Take 30
- The Tommy Hunter Show
- University of the Air
- ''W-FIVE''
1970s
- The Beachcombers
- Canada AM
- Celebrity Cooks
- City Lights
- Definition
- the fifth estate
- Flappers
- Grand Old Country
- The Great Detective
- Headline Hunters
- Let's Go
- The Littlest Hobo
- Live It Up!
- The Mad Dash
- Marketplace
- Polka Dot Door
- Read All About It!
- Second City Television
- Smith & Smith
- This Land
- You Can't Do That on Television
- V.I.P.
- The Watson Report
- ''100 Huntley Street''
TV movies
- Harvest
- Lyon's Den
- Maintain the Right
- A Population of One
- A Question of the Sixth
- War Brides
- ''The Winnings of Frankie Walls''