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.^[1]

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	10:00 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
CBS	Summer	Lassie (30/19.9) (Tied with It Takes a Thief)	Gentle Ben (19/21.5)	The Ed Sullivan Show (13/23.2)		The Summer Brothers Smothers Show	Mission: Impossible
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
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)
CBS	July			The Lucy Show (2/27.0)	The Andy Griffith Show (1/27.6)		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
ABC	Fall	Garrison's Gorillas		The Invaders		N.Y.P.D.	The Hollywood Palace
ABC	Winter	Garrison's Gorillas		It Takes A Thief (30/19.9) (Tied with Lassie)		N.Y.P.D.	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	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Custer	The Second Hundred Years	The ABC Wednesday Night Movie
	January	The Avengers	The Second Hundred Years
	Spring	The Avengers	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
CBS	December	Lost in Space	The Beverly Hillbillies (12/23.3)		He & She	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
ABC	Winter	Batman	The Flying Nun	Bewitched (11/23.5)	That Girl	Peyton Place	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)
NBC	June	Daniel Boone (29/20.0)		Ironside (26/20.5)			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	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 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
NBC	Winter	Tarzan	Star Trek		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
ABC	Winter	The Dating Game	The Newlywed Game	The Lawrence Welk Show (17/21.9)		The Hollywood Palace		ABC Scope
CBS	Fall	The Jackie Gleason Show (9/23.9)		My Three Sons (24/20.8)	Hogan's Heroes	Petticoat Junction	Mannix
CBS	Summer	The Prisoner		My Three Sons (24/20.8)	Hogan's Heroes	Petticoat Junction	Mannix
NBC	Fall	Maya		Get Smart	NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (10/23.6)
NBC	Winter	The Saint		Get Smart	NBC Saturday Night at the Movies (10/23.6)

By network

ABC

Returning Series

New Series

Not returning from 1966–67:

CBS

Returning Series

New Series

Not returning from 1966–67:

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

^ 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

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.

[BM2-1] 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.

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