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The following is the 1968–69 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1968 through August 1969. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1967–68 season.
New fall series are highlighted in bold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research. [1]
- Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.
- Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.
- Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.
National Educational Television (NET) was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.
Sunday
| Network | 7:00 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Land of the Giants | The F.B.I. (18/21.7) | The ABC Sunday Night Movie | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Lassie | Gentle Ben | The Ed Sullivan Show (23/21.2) | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (27/20.6) |
Mission: Impossible (11/23.3) (Tied with Bewitched and The Red Skelton Hour) | |||
| Summer | Hee Haw | ||||||||
| NBC | Fall | The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (21/21.3) (Tied with Daniel Boone) |
The Mothers-in-Law | Bonanza (3/26.6) | The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show | |||
| Winter | My Friend Tony | ||||||||
Monday
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | The Avengers | Peyton Place | The Outcasts | The Big Valley | |||
| Summer | The Guns of Will Sonnett | The Dick Cavett Show | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Gunsmoke (6/24.9) | Here's Lucy (9/23.8) | Mayberry R.F.D. (4/25.4) | Family Affair (5/25.2) |
The Carol Burnett Show (24/20.8) (Tied with The Jackie Gleason Show) | ||
| Summer | The Lucy Show repeats | Carol Burnett Presents the Jimmie Rodgers Show | ||||||
| NBC | I Dream of Jeannie (26/20.7) | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1/31.8) | NBC Monday Night at the Movies | |||||
Tuesday
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall |
The Mod Squad (28/20.5) (Tied with The Lawrence Welk Show) |
It Takes a Thief | N.Y.P.D. | That's Life | |||
| Summer | The Dick Cavett Show | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | Lancer |
The Red Skelton Hour (11/23.3) (Tied with Mission: Impossible and Bewitched) |
The Doris Day Show (30/20.4) | CBS News Hour / 60 Minutes | |||
| Summer | The Liberace Show | |||||||
| NBC | Fall | The Jerry Lewis Show | Julia (7/24.6) | NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies | ||||
| Summer | Star Trek | |||||||
Wednesday
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Here Come the Brides | Peyton Place (*) | The ABC Wednesday Night Movie | ||||
| Spring | The King Family Show | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | Daktari | The Good Guys | The Beverly Hillbillies (10/23.5) | Green Acres (19/21.6) | The Jonathan Winters Show | ||
| Winter | The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (15/22.5) | Hawaii Five-O | ||||||
| Summer | Tarzan repeats | |||||||
| NBC | The Virginian (17/21.8) | Kraft Music Hall | The Outsider | |||||
(*) Turn-On aired in this time period on February 5, 1969, only.
Tarzan on CBS consisted of reruns from the 1966-68 NBC series.
Thursday
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | The Ugliest Girl in Town | The Flying Nun |
Bewitched (11/23.3) (Tied with Mission: Impossible and The Red Skelton Hour) |
That Girl | Journey to the Unknown | Local | |
| Winter | The Flying Nun | That Girl | What's It All About, World? | Local | ||||
| Summer | This is Tom Jones | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | Blondie | Hawaii Five-O | CBS Thursday Night Movie | ||||
| Winter | The Queen & I | The Jonathan Winters Show | ||||||
| Summer | Animal World | The Prisoner | ||||||
| NBC | Fall |
Daniel Boone (21/21.3) (Tied with Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color) |
Ironside (16/22.3) | Dragnet 1969 (20/21.4) | The Dean Martin Show (8/24.1) | |||
| July | Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers | |||||||
Friday
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Operation: Entertainment | Felony Squad | The Don Rickles Show | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Judd, for the Defense | ||
| Winter | This is Tom Jones | The Generation Gap | Let's Make a Deal | |||||
| Summer | Let's Make a Deal | The John Davidson Show | Judd, for the Defense | The Dick Cavett Show | ||||
| CBS | The Wild Wild West | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (2/27.2) | The CBS Friday Night Movie | |||||
| NBC | Fall | The High Chaparral | The Name of the Game | Star Trek | ||||
| Summer | The Saint | |||||||
Saturday
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | The Dating Game | The Newlywed Game |
The Lawrence Welk Show (28/20.5) (Tied with The Mod Squad) |
The Hollywood Palace | Local | ||
| June | The Johnny Cash Show | |||||||
| CBS |
The Jackie Gleason Show (24/20.8) (Tied with The Carol Burnett Show) |
My Three Sons (14/22.8) | Hogan's Heroes | Petticoat Junction | Mannix | |||
| NBC | Adam-12 | Get Smart | The Ghost & Mrs. Muir | NBC Saturday Night at the Movies | ||||
By network
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Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.
References
- ^ Highest-rated series is based on the annual top rated programs list compiled by Nielsen Media Research and reported in: Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.
- Castleman, H. & Podrazik, W. (1982). Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television. New York: McGraw-Hill. 314 pp.
- McNeil, Alex. Total Television. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
- Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1994). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.