1967–68 United States network television schedule
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The following is the 1967–68 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1967 through August 1968. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1966–67 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.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}}.
National Educational Television (NET), the network predecessor to PBS, introduced its first live, in-pattern weekly series in November, 1967, PBL (an acronym for Public Broadcast Laboratory), which was cleared in a simultaneous 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT Sunday time-slot on the majority of NET stations. In the first season the series offered usually two-hour episodes, in the second season (1968–69) episodes usually ran for 90 minutes, after a 150-minute premiere on November 5, 1967. The series was a mix of filmed segments and live interviews, discussion panels and other performance.
:{{Color box|yellow|border=darkgray}} Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.
:{{Color box|cyan|border=darkgray}} Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.
:{{Color box|FF22FF|border=darkgray}} Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.
Sunday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center" | Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| colspan="2" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" | ABC
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | bgcolor="#FF22FF" colspan="2" | The F.B.I. (22/21.2) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="4" | The ABC Sunday Night Movie |
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" | CBS
! Fall | bgcolor="#FF22FF" rowspan="2" | Lassie (30/19.9) | bgcolor="#00FFFF" rowspan="2" | Gentle Ben (19/21.5) | bgcolor="#00FFFF" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | The Ed Sullivan Show (13/23.2) | bgcolor="#00FFFF" colspan="2" | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (18/21.7) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Mission: Impossible |
| Summer
| colspan="2" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | The Summer Brothers Smothers Show |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" | NBC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | AFL Football (from 4:30 EST) | colspan="2" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FF00FF" | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (25/20.7) | rowspan="3" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | The Mothers-in-Law | colspan="2" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFF00" | Bonanza (4/25.5) | colspan="2" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | The High Chaparral |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" |Wild Kingdom |
| Summer
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" |Flipper (reruns) |
NOTE: On NBC, Animal Kingdom — renamed Animal World beginning with its August 11, 1968, broadcast — aired from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. from June 16, 1968, to September 1968.
Monday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | ABC
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Cowboy in Africa | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | The Rat Patrol | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Felony Squad | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Peyton Place | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Big Valley |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | CBS
! Fall | bgcolor="#FFFF00" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Gunsmoke (4/25.5) | bgcolor="#FFFF00" rowspan="2" | The Lucy Show (2/27.0) | bgcolor="#FFFF00" rowspan="2" | The Andy Griffith Show (1/27.6) | bgcolor="#FFFF00" rowspan="2" | Family Affair (4/25.5) | bgcolor="#FF00FF" colspan="2" | The Carol Burnett Show (27/20.1) |
| July
| colspan="2" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Premiere |
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" | NBC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="3" | The Monkees | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" rowspan="3" | The Danny Thomas Hour | colspan="2" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | I Spy |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#FF22FF" colspan="2" | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (21/21.3) |
| Summer
| colspan="2" bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" |The Champions |
NOTE: On CBS, Premiere was an anthology series composed of unsold television pilots.
Tuesday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | ABC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Garrison's Gorillas | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Invaders | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | N.Y.P.D. | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Hollywood Palace |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#FF22FF" colspan="2" | It Takes A Thief (30/19.9) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Invaders |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | CBS
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Daktari | bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" | The Red Skelton Show (7/25.3) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Good Morning World | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | CBS News Hour/CBS Reports |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | NBC
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | I Dream of Jeannie | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Jerry Lewis Show | bgcolor="#00FFFF" colspan="4" | NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies (18/21.4) |
Wednesday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="3" | ABC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Custer | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | The Second Hundred Years | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="4" rowspan="3" | The ABC Wednesday Night Movie |
| January
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | The Avengers |
| Spring
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Dream House |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | CBS
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Lost in Space | bgcolor="#00FFFF" rowspan="2" | The Beverly Hillbillies (12/23.3) | bgcolor="#00FFFF" rowspan="2" | Green Acres (15/22.8) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | He & She | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Dundee and the Culhane |
| December
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Jonathan Winters Show |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | NBC
| bgcolor="#00FFFF" colspan="3" | The Virginian (14/22.9) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Kraft Music Hall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Run for Your Life |
Note: CBS decided in September to replace Dundee and the Culhane in December with The Jonathan Winters Show. The Avengers replaced Custer in January 1968.
Thursday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | ABC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | Batman | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | The Flying Nun | bgcolor="#00FFFF" rowspan="2" | Bewitched (11/23.5) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | That Girl | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | Peyton Place | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Good Company | | Local |
| Winter
| colspan="2" | Local |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | CBS
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="3" | Cimarron Strip | bgcolor="#FF22FF" colspan="4" | CBS Thursday Night Movie (23/21.1) |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | NBC
! Fall | bgcolor="#FF22FF" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Daniel Boone (29/20.0) | bgcolor="#FF22FF" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Ironside (26/20.5) | bgcolor="#FF22FF" rowspan="2" | Dragnet 1968 (27/20.1) | bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" | The Dean Martin Show (8/24.8) |
| June
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers |
Note: Good Company, an interview show hosted by F. Lee Bailey, did so poorly in the Nielsen ratings that ABC decided not to bother replacing it, temporarily returning its time period to their affiliates.
Friday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="3" | ABC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" rowspan="3" | Off to See the Wizard | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Hondo | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="3" | The Guns of Will Sonnett | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" rowspan="3" | Judd, for the Defense |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Operation: Entertainment |
| Summer
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Man in a Suitcase |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2" | CBS
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Wild Wild West | bgcolor="#FFFF00" | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (3/25.6) | bgcolor="#00FFFF" colspan="4" | The CBS Friday Night Movie (15/22.8) |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | NBC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Tarzan | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Star Trek | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Accidental Family | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" colspan="2" | The Bell Telephone Hour / Actuality Specials / NBC News Reports / American Profile |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" | Hollywood Squares |
Saturday
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;margin-right:0;text-align:center" |
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| Network
! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 7:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 8:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 9:30 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:00 PM ! style="background-color:#C0C0C0;text-align:center"| 10:30 PM |
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| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | ABC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | The Dating Game | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | The Newlywed Game | bgcolor="#00FFFF" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | The Lawrence Welk Show (17/21.9) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Iron Horse | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | ABC Scope |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Hollywood Palace |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | CBS
! Fall | bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="2" | The Jackie Gleason Show (9/23.9) | bgcolor="#FF22FF" rowspan="2" | My Three Sons (24/20.8) | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | Hogan's Heroes | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | Petticoat Junction | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Mannix |
| Summer
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Prisoner |
| bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="2" | NBC
! Fall | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | Maya | bgcolor="#F0F0F0" rowspan="2" | Get Smart | bgcolor="#FFFF00" colspan="4" rowspan="2" | NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (10/23.6) |
| Winter
| bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="2" | The Saint |
By network
=[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]=
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Returning Series
- ABC Scope
- The ABC Sunday Night Movie
- The ABC Wednesday Night Movie
- The Avengers
- Batman
- Bewitched
- The Big Valley
- The Dating Game
- The F.B.I.
- Felony Squad
- The Hollywood Palace
- The Invaders
- Iron Horse
- The King Family Show
- The Lawrence Welk Show
- The Newlywed Game
- Peyton Place
- The Rat Patrol
- Saga of Western Man
- That Girl
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
{{col-3}}
New Series
- Cowboy in Africa
- Custer
- Dream House *
- The Flying Nun
- Garrison's Gorillas
- Good Company
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Hondo
- It Takes a Thief *
- Judd, for the Defense
- Man in a Suitcase
- N.Y.P.D.
- Off to See the Wizard
- Operation: Entertainment *
- The Second Hundred Years
{{col-3}}
Not returning from 1966–67:
- 12 O'Clock High
- ABC Stage 67
- Combat!
- F Troop
- The Fugitive
- The Green Hornet
- Hawk
- Love on a Rooftop
- Malibu U
- The Man Who Never Was
- The Monroes
- The Picadilly Palace
- The Pruitts of Southampton
- Rango
- The Rounders
- Shane
- The Tammy Grimes Show
- The Time Tunnel
{{col-end}}
=[[CBS]]=
{{col-begin}}
{{col-3}}
Returning Series
- The 21st Century
- The Andy Griffith Show
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- CBS News Hour
- CBS Playhouse
- CBS Reports
- CBS Thursday Night Movie
- The CBS Friday Night Movies
- Daktari
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- Family Affair
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- Green Acres
- Gunsmoke
- Hogan's Heroes
- The Jackie Gleason Show
- Lassie
- Lost in Space
- The Lucy Show
- Mission: Impossible
- My Three Sons
- Petticoat Junction
- The Red Skelton Show
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
- The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
- The Wild Wild West
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New Series
- The Carol Burnett Show
- Cimarron Strip
- Dundee and the Culhane
- Gentle Ben
- Good Morning World
- He & She
- The Jonathan Winters Show *
- Mannix
- Premiere *
- The Prisoner
{{col-3}}
Not returning from 1966–67:
- Away We Go
- Coliseum
- Coronet Blue
- The Danny Kaye Show
- The Garry Moore Show
- Gilligan's Island
- I've Got a Secret
- It's About Time
- The Jean Arthur Show
- Jericho
- Mr. Terrific
- Our Place
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats
- Run, Buddy, Run
- The Steve Allen Comedy Hour
- To Tell the Truth
- Vacation Playhouse
- What's My Line?
{{col-end}}
=[[NBC]]=
{{col-begin}}
{{col-3}}
Returning Series
- Actuality Specials
- American Profile
- The Andy Williams Show
- Animal World
- The Bell Telephone Hour
- Bonanza
- Daniel Boone
- The Dean Martin Show
- Dragnet 1968
- Get Smart
- I Dream of Jeannie
- I Spy
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- The Monkees
- NBC News Reports
- NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies
- NBC Saturday Night at the Movies
- Run for Your Life
- The Saint
- Star Trek
- Tarzan
- The Virginian
- Wild Kingdom
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
{{col-3}}
New Series
- Accidental Family
- Adam-12
- AFL Football
- The Champions
- Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers
- The High Chaparral
- Hollywood Squares *
- Ironside
- The Jerry Lewis Show
- Kraft Music Hall
- Maya
- The Mothers-in-Law
- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In *
- The Sammy Davis Jr. Show *
{{col-3}}
Not returning from 1966–67:
- Animal Secrets
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Captain Nice
- Dean Martin Summer Show Starring Your Host Vic Damone
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
- The Hero
- Hey, Landlord
- Laredo
- Occasional Wife
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- The Road West
- The Roger Miller Show
- T.H.E. Cat
{{col-end}}
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.
References
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=Additional sources=
- 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 (1964). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. {{ISBN|0-345-31864-1}}.
{{US TV schedule}}
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