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The following is the1967–68 network television schedule for the three major English language commercialbroadcast networks in the United States. The schedule coversprimetime hours from September 1967 through August 1968. The schedule is followed by alist per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the1966–67 season.
New fall series are highlighted inbold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined byNielsen Media Research.[1]
National Educational Television (NET), the network predecessor toPBS, introduced its first live, in-pattern weekly series in November 1967,PBL (an acronym forPublic 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.
| 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 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | The F.B.I. (22/21.2) | The ABC Sunday Night Movie | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Lassie (30/19.9) (Tied withIt Takes a Thief) | Gentle Ben (19/21.5) | The Ed Sullivan Show (13/23.2) | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (18/21.7) | Mission: Impossible | |||
| Summer | The Summer Brothers Smothers Show | ||||||||
| NBC | Fall | AFL Football (from 4:30 EST) | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (25/20.7) | The Mothers-in-Law | Bonanza (4/25.5) (Tied withGunsmoke andFamily Affair) | The High Chaparral | |||
| Winter | Wild Kingdom | ||||||||
| Summer | Flipper (reruns) | ||||||||
NOTE: On NBC,Animal Kingdom — renamedAnimal World beginning with its August 11, 1968, broadcast — aired from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. from June 16, 1968, to September 1968.
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Cowboy in Africa | The Rat Patrol | Felony Squad | Peyton Place | The Big Valley | |||
| CBS | Fall | Gunsmoke (4/25.5) (Tied withFamily Affair andBonanza) | The Lucy Show (2/27.0) | The Andy Griffith Show (1/27.6) | Family Affair (4/25.5) (Tied withGunsmoke andBonanza) | The Carol Burnett Show (27/20.1) (Tied withDragnet) | ||
| July | Premiere | |||||||
| NBC | Fall | The Monkees | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | The Danny Thomas Hour | I Spy | |||
| Winter | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (21/21.3) | |||||||
| Summer | The Champions | |||||||
NOTE: OnCBS,Premiere was a summeranthology series composed of unsoldtelevision pilots.
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Garrison's Gorillas | The Invaders | N.Y.P.D. | The Hollywood Palace | |||
| Winter | It Takes A Thief (30/19.9) (Tied withLassie) | The Invaders | ||||||
| CBS | Daktari | The Red Skelton Show (7/25.3) | Good Morning World | CBS News Hour/CBS Reports | ||||
| NBC | I Dream of Jeannie | The Jerry Lewis Show | NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies (18/21.4) | |||||
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Custer | The Second Hundred Years | The ABC Wednesday Night Movie | ||||
| January | The Avengers | |||||||
| Spring | Dream House | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | Lost in Space | The Beverly Hillbillies (12/23.3) | Green Acres (15/22.8) (Tied with The CBS Friday Night Movie) | He & She | Dundee and the Culhane | ||
| December | The Jonathan Winters Show | |||||||
| NBC | The Virginian (14/22.9) | Kraft Music Hall | Run for Your Life | |||||
Note: CBS decided in September to replaceDundee and the Culhane in December withThe Jonathan Winters Show.The Avengers replacedCuster in January 1968.
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Batman | The Flying Nun | Bewitched (11/23.5) | That Girl | Peyton Place | Good Company | Local |
| Winter | Local | |||||||
| CBS | Cimarron Strip | CBS Thursday Night Movie (23/21.1) | ||||||
| NBC | Fall | Daniel Boone (29/20.0) | Ironside (26/20.5) | Dragnet 1968 (27/20.1) (Tied withThe Carol Burnett Show) | The Dean Martin Show (8/24.8) | |||
| June | Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers | |||||||
Note:Good Company, an interview show hosted byF. 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.
| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
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| ABC | Fall | Off to See the Wizard | Hondo | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Judd, for the Defense | |||
| Winter | Operation: Entertainment | |||||||
| Summer | Man in a Suitcase | |||||||
| CBS | The Wild Wild West | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (3/25.6) | The CBS Friday Night Movie (15/22.8) (Tied withGreen Acres) | |||||
| NBC | Fall | Tarzan | Star Trek | Accidental Family | The Bell Telephone Hour /Actuality Specials /NBC News Reports /American Profile | |||
| Winter | Hollywood Squares | |||||||
| 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 (17/21.9) | Iron Horse | ABC Scope | ||
| Winter | The Hollywood Palace | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | The Jackie Gleason Show (9/23.9) | My Three Sons (24/20.8) | Hogan's Heroes | Petticoat Junction | Mannix | ||
| Summer | The Prisoner | |||||||
| NBC | Fall | Maya | Get Smart | NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (10/23.6) | ||||
| Winter | The Saint | |||||||
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.