The following is the 1967âÂÂ68 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 1966âÂÂ67 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 (1968âÂÂ69) 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.
NOTE: On NBC, Animal Kingdom â renamed Animal World beginning with its August 11, 1968, broadcast â aired from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. from June 16, 1968, to September 1968.
NOTE: On CBS, Premiere was a summer anthology series composed of unsold television pilots.
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.
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.
Returning Series
New Series
Not returning from 1966âÂÂ67:
Returning Series
New Series
Not returning from 1966âÂÂ67:
Returning Series
New Series
Not returning from 1966âÂÂ67:
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.