1968–69 United States network television schedule

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This was the television schedule on all three United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1968. All times are Eastern and Pacific.

New fall series are highlighted in bold.

The highest-rated show for the year is colored in lime. The top ten highest-rated shows are colored in yellow. The top 20 highest-rated shows are colored in cyan. The top 30 highest-rated shows are colored in magenta.^[1]

Contents

1 Sunday
2 Monday
3 Tuesday
4 Wednesday
5 Thursday
6 Friday
7 Saturday
8 References

Sunday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	10:00
ABC	Land of the Giants		The F.B.I. (18/21.7)^[1]		The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS	Lassie	Gentle Ben	The Ed Sullivan Show (23/21.2)^[1]		The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (27/20.6)^[1]	Mission: Impossible (11/23.3)^[1]
NBC	The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (21/21.3)^[1]		The Mothers-in-Law	Bonanza (3/26.6)^[1]	The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

Monday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	The Avengers		Peyton Place	The Outcasts		The Big Valley
CBS	Gunsmoke (6/24.9)^[1]		Here's Lucy* (9/23.8)^[1]	Mayberry R.F.D. (4/25.4)^[1]	Family Affair (5/25.2)^[1]	The Carol Burnett Show (24/20.8)^[1]
NBC	I Dream of Jeannie (26/20.7)^[1]	Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (1/31.8)^[1]		NBC Monday Night at the Movies

(*) Formerly known as The Lucy Show.

Tuesday

PM	7:30	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	The Mod Squad (28/20.5)^[1]	It Takes a Thief		"N.Y.P.D."	That's Life
CBS	Lancer	The Red Skelton Hour (11/23.3)^[1]		The Doris Day Show (30/20.4)^[1]	CBS News Hour / 60 Minutes
NBC	The Jerry Lewis Show	Julia (7/24.6)^[1]	NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies

Wednesday

PM	7:30	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Here Come the Brides	Peyton Place	The ABC Wednesday Night Movie
CBS	Daktari	The Good Guys	The Beverly Hillbillies (10/23.5)^[1]	Green Acres (17/21.6)^[1]	The Jonathan Winters Show
NBC	The Virginian (15/21.8)^[1]		Kraft Music Hall		The Outsider

Note: On CBS, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (15/22.5)^[1] premiered Wednesday, January 29, 1969 at 7:30 pm, replacing Daktari.

Thursday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	The Ugliest Girl in Town	The Flying Nun	Bewitched (11/23.3)^[1]	That Girl	Journey to the Unknown		Local
CBS	Blondie	Hawaii Five-O		The CBS Thursday Night Movies
NBC	Daniel Boone (21/21.3)^[1]		Ironside (16/22.3)^[1]		Dragnet 1969 (20/21.4)^[1]	The Dean Martin Show (8/24.1)^[1]

Friday

PM	7:30	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Operation: Entertainment	Felony Squad	The Don Rickles Show	The Guns of Will Sonnett	Judd, for the Defense
CBS	The Wild Wild West	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (2/27.2)^[1]	The CBS Friday Night Movies
NBC	The High Chaparral	The Name of the Game			Star Trek

Saturday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	The Dating Game	The Newlywed Game	The Lawrence Welk Show (28/20.5)^[1]		The Hollywood Palace		Local
CBS	The Jackie Gleason Show (24/20.8)^[1]		My Three Sons (14/22.8)^[1]	Hogan's Heroes	Petticoat Junction	Mannix
NBC	Adam-12	Get Smart	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir	NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae 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.