Thanks to David Bobzien.
KHJ-TV (Channel 9) premiered Breakaway on Saturday 23 August 1975 7pm, announced in a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times declaring "World Television Premiere" (although it was after the Australia premiere). From October 1975, they created a Space: 1999 display with the California Museum of Science and Industry, running for eight weeks. The Saturday 7pm timeslot was identical to KRON in San Francisco, and so were the first twelve episodes, but afterwards the broadcast order diverged, with KHJ showing more reruns.
A January 9, 1976 Los Angeles Times article quotes ratings (a 9.4 average, " a respectable if not spectacular score") for the first eight episodes. Then there were 5 weeks in a row of reruns, during which the ratings dropped to a "dismal" 4.0.
Production Order | Episode | Original broadcast | Notes |
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1 |
Sat, 23 August 1975 7:00PM |
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23 |
Sat, 13 September 1975 7:00PM |
After 2 week break |
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14 |
Sat, 20 September 1975 7:00PM |
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13 |
Sat, 27 September 1975 7:00PM |
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9 |
Sat, 04 October 1975 7:00PM |
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10 |
Sat, 11 October 1975 7:00PM |
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8 |
Sat, 18 October 1975 7:00PM |
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17 |
Sat, 25 October 1975 7:00PM |
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22 |
Sat, 01 November 1975 7:00PM |
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3 |
Sat, 08 November 1975 7:00PM |
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16 |
Sat, 15 November 1975 7:00PM |
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12 |
Sat, 22 November 1975 7:00PM |
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Re-runs |
late November-December 1975 | |
2 |
Sat, 10 January 1976 7:00PM |
Broadcast details in 1976 not known.
Year 2 continued in the same slot, Saturdays 7pm, starting 25 September 1976. Episode order and dates not known. At some point in 1977 it moved to Sundays 4pm.
Thanks to David Bobzien