1968–69 United States network television schedule
This was the prime-time television schedule on all three United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1968. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
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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 | Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom | 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 | 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 | |||||||
| 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) | |||
| Summer | 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 Movies | |||||
| 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 | ||
| Summer | 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 | ||||
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.
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