Welcome to another edition of Television VS where everyone here can vote on who have the best television season from different years and networks. This week the then and now rebuilding NBC with it 1983 slogan "Be There" will face against CBS with it 1984 slogan "We've Got The Touch". Due to NBC back in '83 not having any of it new fall shows renewed. So to make it harder or easier for everyone here are the following midseason NBC shows that became hits.
NBC 83 Midseason hits
TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes
Riptide
Night Court

NBC 1983 "Be There" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7vgVO7I5sk
NBC Sunday Night
700 - First Camera
800 - Knight Rider
900 - NBC Sunday Night at the Movies

NBC Monday Night
800 - Boone
900 - NBC Monday Night at the Movies

NBC Tuesday Night
800 - The A-Team
900 - Remington Steele
1000 -Bay City Blues

NBC Wednesday Night
800 - Real People
900 - The Facts of Life
930 - Family Ties
1000-St. Elsewhere

NBC Thursday Night aka Pre (Must See TV)
800 - Gimme a Break!
830 - Mama's Family
900 - We Got It Made
930 - Cheers
1000-Hill Street Blues

NBC Friday Night
800 - Mr. Smith
830 - Jennifer Slept Here
900 - Manimal
1000- For Love and Honor

NBC Saturday Night
800 - Diff'rent Strokes
830 - Silver Spoons
900 - The Rousters
1000-The Yellow Rose

CBS 1984 "We've Got The Touch" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DpnebpjuE
CBS Sunday Night
700 - 60 Minutes
800 - Murder, She Wrote
900 - The CBS Sunday Night Movies

CBS Monday Night
800 - Scarecrow and Mrs. King
900 - Kate & Allie
930 - Newhart
1000-Cagney & Lacey

CBS Tuesday Night
800 - AfterM*A*S*H
830 - E/R
900 - The CBS Tuesday Night Movies

CBS Wednesday Night
800 - Charles in Charge
830 - Dreams
900 - The Jeffersons
930 - Alice
1000-Trapper John, M.D.

CBS Thursday Night
800 - Magnum, P.I.
900 - Simon and Simon
1000 -Knots Landing

CBS Friday Night
800 - The Dukes of Hazzard
900 - Dallas
1000-Falcon Crest

CBS Saturday Night
800 - Airwolf
900 - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1000-Cover Up

my highlights:

NBC - Riptide, Night Court, Knight Rider, Remington Steele, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, We Got It Made, Jennifer Slept Here, Diff'rent Strokes

CBS - Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Kate & Allie, Newhart, Charles in Charge, The Jeffersons, Alice, The Dukes of Hazzard, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

CBS 1984 for me, more of my favorites are there. NBC though had some great shows. 1983 was the beginning of their slow comeback, culminating the next year with Cosby, Miami Vice, etc.

TV around 1981-1984 = 1 word "Bleech"

A very toughie here:

Although NBC was still stumbling a tad bit, combined with the losses of their long-running shows in CHiPs, Qunicy, M.E., Taxi (was previously transplanted from ABC), Fame (though it returned in 1st-run syndication), Little House on the Prairie, and Love Sidney. It was during this season that it would lay the blueprint for the beginning of what would be their long comeback period 1 & 2 seasons later.

For CBS, it was kind of a swan song season as they would lose a lot of shows by the end of the 1984-85 TV season such as: Alice, The Jeffersons, The Dukes of Hazzard, After M*A*S*H, Charles in Charge (though it returned in new life in 1st-run syndication), E/R, Cover-Up, and Dreams.

It was also during this season that Magnum, P.I. would experience the 1st of several seasons of its pummeling by Cosby and Family Ties.

They also would lose of their longest-running Saturday cartoons in The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner by the end of this season. The following year, Bugs and the Looney Tunes Gang would move back to ABC as The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour.

Probably CBS because they had Dallas, and this was when the show was still at its peak.