1973–74 United States network television schedule

This is the **1973–74 network television schedule** for the 3 main broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule has primetime hours from September 1973 through August 1974. The schedule then has a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1972–73 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific.

New series are in **bold**.

The 30 highest-rated shows are in color. Nielsen Media Research.

- Yellow is for the programs in the top 10 for the season.
- Cyan is for the programs in the top 20 for the season.
- Magenta is for the programs in the top 30 for the season.

## Sunday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|7:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_The F.B.I._|style="background:#FF22FF;" colspan="4"|_The ABC Sunday Night Movie_ (23/20.7) <small>(Tied with _Adam-12_)</small>|style="background:white;" rowspan="5"|Local|||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The New Perry Mason***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" rowspan="3" colspan="2"|_Mannix_|style="background:cyan;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"|_Barnaby Jones_ (17/21.4) <small>(Tied with _Good Times_)</small>|||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"|***Apple's Way***|||||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_60 Minutes_|||||||||||||||
|style="background:cyan;" colspan="2"|_The Wonderful World of Disney_ (12/22.3) <small>(Tied with _The Bob Newhart Show_)</small>|style="background:cyan;" colspan="4"|_NBC Sunday Mystery Movie_: _Columbo_ / _McCloud_ / _McMillan and Wife_ / _Hec Ramsey_ (14/22.2)|||||||||||||

**Note:** _60 Minutes_ aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from January to June 1974.

## Monday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#FF22FF;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|_The Rookies_ (25/20.3)|style="background:cyan;" colspan="4"|_Monday Night Football_ (19/21.2) <small>(Tied with The CBS Friday Night Movie)</small>|||||||||||
|style="background:#FF22FF;" colspan="4"|_ABC Monday Movie_ (26/20.2)|||||||||||||
|style="background:cyan;" colspan="2"|_Gunsmoke_ (15/22.1)|style="background:#FF22FF;"|_Here's Lucy_ (29/20.0)|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|_The New Dick Van Dyke Show_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_Medical Center_|||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Lotsa Luck***|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Diana***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="4" rowspan="2"|_NBC Monday Night at the Movies_|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The Magician***|||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#F0F0F0" colspan="6"|_The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola_ (8:00) / _Monday Night Baseball_ (8:15)|||||||||||||

## Tuesday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|_The New Temperatures Rising Show_|style="background:#FF22FF;" colspan="3" rowspan="2"|_ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week_ (21/21.0)|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|_Marcus Welby, M.D._|||||||||
|style="background:cyan;"|***Happy Days*** (16/21.5)|||||||||||||
|style="background:yellow;"|_Maude_ (6/23.5)|style="background:yellow;" colspan="2"|_Hawaii Five-O_ (5/24.0)|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="3"|_The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies_ / ***Hawkins*** / ***Shaft***|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Chase***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The Magician***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|***Police Story***|||||||||
|style="background:#FF22FF;"|_Adam-12_ (23/20.7) <small>(Tied with The ABC Sunday Night Movie)</small>|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="3"|_NBC Tuesday Mystery Movie_: _Banacek_ / ***Tenafly*** / ***Faraday and Company*** / ***The Snoop Sisters***|||||||||||

## Wednesday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="3" rowspan="3"|_ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|_Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law_|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Dick Clark Presents the Rock and Roll Years***|||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***The Cowboys***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Doc Elliot***|||||||||||
|style="background:yellow;" colspan="2"|_The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour_ (7/23.3) <small>(Tied with _Kojak_)</small>|style="background:yellow;" colspan="2" rowspan="4"|_Cannon_ (9/23.1) <small>(Tied with _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_)</small>|style="background:yellow;" colspan="2" rowspan="4"|***Kojak*** (7/23.3) <small>(Tied with _The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour_)</small>|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The Bobbie Gentry Show***|||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Tony Orlando & Dawn***|||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The Hudson Brothers Show***|||||||||||||
|style="background:#FF22FF;"|_Adam-12_ (23/20.7) <small>(Tied with The ABC Sunday Night Movie)</small>|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="3"|_NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie_: _Banacek_ / ***Tenafly*** / ***Faraday & Company*** / ***The Snoop Sisters***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Love Story***|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Chase***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="4"|_NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies_|||||||||||

## Thursday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Toma***|rowspan="3" style="background:magenta;" colspan="2" rowspan="4"|_Kung Fu_ (27/20.1) <small>(Tied with _The Carol Burnett Show_)</small>|rowspan="3" style="background:magenta;" colspan="2" rowspan="4"|_The Streets of San Francisco_ (22/20.8)|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Chopper One***|rowspan="2" style="background:#f0f0f0;"  rowspan="2"|***Firehouse***|||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" rowspan="2"|_Temperatures Rising_|||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Just for Laughs***|||||||||||||
|style="background:yellow;" colspan="2"|_The Waltons_ (2/28.1)|style="background:#FF22FF;" colspan="4"|_CBS Thursday Night Movie_ (30/19.9)|||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|_The Flip Wilson Show_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2" rowspan="3"|_Ironside_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***NBC Follies***|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Music Country USA***|||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The Mac Davis Show***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***The Dean Martin Comedy World***|||||||||||

## Friday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" rowspan="2"|_The Brady Bunch_|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|_The Odd Couple_|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|_Room 222_|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Adam's Rib***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_Love, American Style_|||||
|style="background:cyan;" colspan="2"|***The Six Million Dollar Man*** (11/22.7)|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|_The Odd Couple_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Toma***|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Calucci's Department***|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Roll Out!***|style="background:cyan;" colspan="4" rowspan="3"|_The CBS Friday Night Movie_ (19/21.2) <small>(Tied with _Monday Night Football_)</small>|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Dirty Sally***|style="background:cyan;" rowspan="2"|***Good Times*** (17/21.4) <small>(Tied with _Barnaby Jones_)</small>|||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Your Hit Parade***|||||||||||||
|style="background:yellow;" rowspan="3"|_Sanford and Son_ (3/27.5)|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***The Girl with Something Extra***|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Needles and Pins***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" rowspan="2"|_The Brian Keith Show_*|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2" rowspan="2"|_The Dean Martin Show_|||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***Lotsa Luck***|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|***The Girl with Something Extra***|||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;"|_The Brian Keith Show_*|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="4"|_NBC Friday Night at the Movies_|||||||||||

(*) Formerly **The Little People**

## Saturday

|colspan="2" style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|Network|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|8:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|9:30 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:00 PM|style="background:silver; text-align:center;"|10:30 PM|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" rowspan="2"|_The Partridge Family_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="3" rowspan="2"|***ABC Suspense Movie***|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|***Griff***|||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law_|||||||||||||
|style="background:yellow;" rowspan="2"|_All in the Family_ (1/31.2)|style="background:yellow;" rowspan="2"|_M*A*S*H_ (4/25.7)|style="background:yellow;" rowspan="2"|_The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (9/23.1) <small>(Tied with _Cannon_)</small>|style="background:cyan;" rowspan="2"|_The Bob Newhart Show_ (12/22.3) <small>(Tied with _The Wonderful World of Disney_)</small>|style="background:#FF22FF;" colspan="2"|_The Carol Burnett Show_ (27/20.1) <small>(Tied with _Kung Fu_)</small>|||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_Barnaby Jones_|||||||||||||
|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="2"|_Emergency!_|style="background:#f0f0f0;" colspan="4"|_NBC Saturday Night at the Movies_|||||||||||

### ABC

**Returning Series**
- _ABC Monday Movie_
- _ABC Movie of the Week_
- _The ABC Sunday Night Movie_
- _ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week_
- _ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week_
- _The Brady Bunch_
- _The F.B.I._
- _Kung Fu_
- _Love, American Style_
- _Marcus Welby, M.D._
- _Monday Night Football_
- _The Odd Couple_
- _Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law_
- _The Partridge Family_
- _The Rookies_
- _Room 222_
- _The Six Million Dollar Man_
- _The Streets of San Francisco_
- _Temperatures Rising_

**New Series**
- ***ABC Suspense Movie***
- ***Adam's Rib***
- ***Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice***
- ***Chopper One*** *
- ***The Cowboys*** *
- ***Dick Clark Presents the Rock and Roll Years*** *
- ***Doc Elliot***
- ***Firehouse*** *
- ***Griff***
- ***Happy Days*** *
- ***Just for Laughs*** *
- ***Toma*** *

**Not returning from 1972–73:**
- _Alias Smith and Jones_
- _The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour_
- _The Corner Bar_
- _Here We Go Again_
- _The Julie Andrews Hour_
- _Love Thy Neighbor_
- _The Men: Assignment Vienna / The Delphi Bureau / Jigsaw_
- _The Mod Squad_
- _The Paul Lynde Show_
- _The Sixth Sense_
- _The Strauss Family_
- _Thicker than Water_
- _A Touch of Grace_

### CBS

**Returning Series**
- _60 Minutes_
- _All in the Family_
- _Barnaby Jones_
- _The Bob Newhart Show_
- _Cannon_
- _CBS Thursday Night Movie_
- _The Carol Burnett Show_
- _The New Dick Van Dyke Show_
- _Gunsmoke_
- _Hawaii Five-O_
- _Here's Lucy_
- _M*A*S*H_
- _Mannix_
- _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_
- _Maude_
- _Medical Center_
- _The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies_
- _The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour_
- _The Waltons_
- _Your Hit Parade_

**New Series**
- ***Apple's Way*** *
- ***The Bobbie Gentry Show*** *
- ***Calucci's Department***
- ***Dirty Sally*** *
- ***Good Times*** *
- ***Hawkins***
- ***The Hudson Brothers Show*** *
- ***Kojak***
- ***The New Perry Mason***
- ***Roll Out***
- ***Tony Orlando and Dawn*** *

**Not returning from 1972–73:**
- _Anna and the King_
- _Bridget Loves Bernie_
- _The Doris Day Show_
- _Mission: Impossible_
- _The New Bill Cosby Show_
- _The Sandy Duncan Show_

### NBC

**Returning Series**
- _Adam-12_
- _Banacek_
- _The Brian Keith Show_
- _Columbo_
- _The Dean Martin Show_
- _Emergency!_
- _The Flip Wilson Show_
- _Hec Ramsey_
- _Ironside_
- _The Magician_
- _McCloud_
- _McMillan & Wife_
- _Monday Night Baseball_
- _NBC Monday Night at the Movies_
- _The NBC Mystery Movie_
- _NBC Saturday Night at the Movies_
- _Sanford and Son_
- _The Wonderful World of Disney_

**New Series**
- ***Chase***
- ***The Dean Martin Comedy World*** *
- ***Diana***
- ***Faraday & Company***
- ***The Girl with Something Extra***
- ***Lotsa Luck***
- ***Love Story***
- ***The Mac Davis Show*** *
- ***The Magician***
- ***Music Country USA*** *
- ***NBC Follies***
- ***Needles and Pins***
- ***Police Story***
- ***The Snoop Sisters*** *
- ***Tenafly***

**Not returning from 1972–73:**
- _Banyon_
- _The Bobby Darin Show_
- _The Bold Ones_
- _Bonanza_
- _Dean Martin Presents Music Country_
- _Escape_
- _First Tuesday_
- _Ghost Story_/_Circle of Fear_
- _The Helen Reddy Show_
- _Madigan_
- _NBC Reports_
- _Night Gallery_
- _Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In_
- _Search_

Note: The * shows that the program was started in midseason.

### 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. .
- Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1985). _The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows_ (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. .