The following is the 1966–67 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1966 through August 1967. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1965–66 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.
Note: This is the first full season in which practically all prime time programs were broadcast in color.
NET or National Educational Television, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each affiliated station.
Sunday
edit| 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. (29/20.2) (Tied with I Spy, The CBS Thursday Night Movie and My Three Sons) |
The ABC Sunday Night Movie (28/20.4) | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Lassie | It's About Time | The Ed Sullivan Show (10/22.8) (Tied with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Virginian and The Lawrence Welk Show) |
The Garry Moore Show | Candid Camera | What's My Line? | ||
| Winter | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (16/22.2) | ||||||||
| Summer | Our Place | ||||||||
| NBC | Fall | 6:30 The Bell Telephone Hour / Actuality Specials | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (19/21.5) | Hey, Landlord | Bonanza (1/29.1) | The Andy Williams Show | |||
| Summer | Animal Secrets | Let's Make A Deal | The Saint | ||||||
Note: On NBC, Animal Secrets consisted of reruns of the series, which originally aired on Saturday afternoons from October 1966 to April 1967.
Monday
edit| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Iron Horse | The Rat Patrol (23/20.9) (Tied with Petticoat Junction) |
Felony Squad | Peyton Place | The Big Valley | |||
| CBS | Fall | Gilligan's Island | Run, Buddy, Run | The Lucy Show (4/26.2) | The Andy Griffith Show (3/27.4) | Family Affair (14/22.6) (Tied with The Dean Martin Show) |
The Jean Arthur Show | I've Got a Secret |
| December | To Tell the Truth | |||||||
| Winter | Mr. Terrific | |||||||
| Summer | Vacation Playhouse | Coronet Blue | ||||||
| NBC | Fall | The Monkees | I Dream of Jeannie | The Roger Miller Show | The Road West / Kraft Music Hall (once a month) | Run for Your Life | ||
| Winter | Captain Nice | |||||||
Notes: To Tell the Truth replaced The Jean Arthur Show on December 12. Captain Nice replaced The Roger Miller Show on NBC on January 9, the same night the similar Mister Terrific replaced Run, Buddy, Run on CBS. Both series were cancelled by their respective networks at the end of the season. Vacation Playhouse was a summer anthology series made up entirely of unsold television pilots.
Tuesday
edit| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Combat! | The Rounders | The Pruitts of Southampton | Love on a Rooftop | The Fugitive | ||
| Winter | The Invaders | Peyton Place | ||||||
| CBS | Daktari (7/23.4) (Tied with Bewitched and The Beverly Hillbillies) |
The Red Skelton Hour (2/28.2) | Petticoat Junction (23/20.9) (Tied with The Rat Patrol) |
CBS News Hour/CBS Reports | ||||
| NBC | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Occasional Wife | NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies | |||||
Note: The Pruitts of Southampton was renamed as The Phyllis Diller Show starting on January 13, 1967.
Wednesday
edit| 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 Monroes | The Man Who Never Was | Peyton Place | ABC Stage 67 | ||
| Winter | The ABC Wednesday Night Movie | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | Lost in Space | The Beverly Hillbillies (7/23.4) (Tied with Daktari and Bewitched) |
Green Acres (6/24.6) | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (10/22.8) (Tied with The Virginian, The Lawrence Welk Show and The Ed Sullivan Show) |
The Danny Kaye Show | ||
| Summer | The Steve Allen Comedy Hour | |||||||
| NBC | The Virginian (10/22.8) (Tied with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Lawrence Welk Show and The Ed Sullivan Show) |
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (26/20.7) | I Spy (29/20.2) (Tied with The CBS Thursday Night Movie, My Three Sons and The F.B.I.) | |||||
Thursday
edit| 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 | F Troop | The Tammy Grimes Show | Bewitched (7/23.4) (Tied with Daktari and The Beverly Hillbillies) |
That Girl | Hawk | |
| October | The Dating Game | |||||||
| Winter | Bewitched (7/23.4) (Tied with Daktari and The Beverly Hillbillies) |
Love on a Rooftop | ABC Stage 67 | |||||
| Spring | That Girl | Love on a Rooftop | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Jericho | My Three Sons (29/20.2) (Tied with I Spy, The CBS Thursday Night Movie and The F.B.I.) |
CBS Thursday Night Movie (29/20.2) (Tied with I Spy, My Three Sons and The F.B.I.) | ||||
| Winter | Coliseum | |||||||
| Summer | The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour repeats (B/W) | |||||||
| NBC | Fall | Daniel Boone (25/20.8) | Star Trek | The Hero | The Dean Martin Show (14/22.6) (Tied with Family Affair) | |||
| Winter | Dragnet 1967 (21/21.2) | |||||||
| Summer | The Dean Martin Summer Show Starring Your Host Vic Damone | |||||||
Note: The Tammy Grimes Show lasted only four weeks and was replaced by The Dating Game on October 6.
Friday
edit| 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 Green Hornet | The Time Tunnel | The Milton Berle Show | 12 O'Clock High | |||
| Winter | Rango | The Phyllis Diller Show * | The Avengers | |||||
| CBS | The Wild Wild West | Hogan's Heroes (17/21.8) (Tied with The CBS Friday Night Movie) |
The CBS Friday Night Movie (17/21.8) (Tied with Hogan's Heroes) | |||||
| NBC | Tarzan (27/20.5) | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | T.H.E. Cat | Laredo | ||||
(*) Formerly known as The Pruitts of Southampton
Saturday
edit| Network | 7:30 PM | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Shane | The Lawrence Welk Show (10/22.8) (Tied with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Virginian and The Ed Sullivan Show) |
The Hollywood Palace | ABC Scope | |||
| January | The Dating Game | The Newlywed Game | ||||||
| May | The Piccadilly Palace | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | The Jackie Gleason Show (5/25.3) | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | Mission: Impossible | Gunsmoke | |||
| Winter | Mission: Impossible | Pistols 'n' Petticoats | ||||||
| Summer | Away We Go | |||||||
| NBC | Flipper | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Get Smart (22/21.0) | NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (20/21.4) | ||||
By network
editNote: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.
References
edit- ^ 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.
Additional sources
edit- 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 (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
- Shubilla, Thom "Beefstew" (2022). Primetime 1966-1967: The Full Spectrum Television's First All-Color Season. McFarland ISBN 978-1476683447.