1967–68 United States network television schedule

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.

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.

  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.

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		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 with It 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 with Gunsmoke and Family Affair)		The High Chaparral
	Winter	Wild Kingdom
	Summer	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

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 with Family Affair and Bonanza)		The Lucy Show (2/27.0)	The Andy Griffith Show (1/27.6)	Family Affair (4/25.5) (Tied with Gunsmoke and Bonanza)	The Carol Burnett Show (27/20.1) (Tied with Dragnet)
	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: On CBS, Premiere was an anthology series composed of unsold television pilots.

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	Garrison's Gorillas		The Invaders		N.Y.P.D.	The Hollywood Palace
	Winter			It Takes A Thief (30/19.9) (Tied with Lassie)			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)

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	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 replace Dundee and the Culhane in December with The Jonathan Winters Show. The Avengers replaced Custer in January 1968.

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	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 with The Carol Burnett Show)	The Dean Martin Show (8/24.8)
	June						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

Network		7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
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 with Green Acres)
NBC	Fall	Tarzan		Star Trek		Accidental Family	The Bell Telephone Hour / Actuality Specials / NBC News Reports / American Profile
	Winter					Hollywood Squares

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 (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

By network

ABC

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

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

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

CBS

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

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

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?

NBC

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

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 *

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

Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.

References

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.