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The 1960-61 United States network television schedule was for the period that began in September 1960, and ran through March, 1961. All times are Eastern and Pacific.

New fall series are highlighted in bold.

The highest-rated programme for the year is coloured in lime green. The 2nd through 10th highest-rated programmes are coloured in yellow. The 11th through 20th highest rated shows are coloured in cyan.

Sunday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	6:30 Walt Disney Presents	Maverick		Lawman	The Rebel	The Islanders		The Valiant Years
CBS	Lassie	Dennis the Menace	The Ed Sullivan Show		General Electric Theater	The Jack Benny Program	Candid Camera	What's My Line?
NBC	Shirley Temple's Storybook		National Velvet	The Tab Hunter Show	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show		The Loretta Young Show	This Is Your Life

Note : ABC aired an interim Walter Winchell program at 10:30 p.m. from early October until early November.

Monday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Local	The Cheyenne Show / Sugarfoot / Bronco		Surfside 6		Adventures in Paradise		Peter Gunn
CBS	7:00 Local / 7:15 CBS Evening News	To Tell the Truth	Pete and Gladys	Bringing Up Buddy	The Danny Thomas Show	The Andy Griffith Show	Hennesey	Face the Nation
NBC	Huntley-Brinkley Report	Riverboat		Tales of Wells Fargo	Klondike	Dante	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Jackpot Bowling Starring Milton Berle

Note: On CBS, Presidential Countdown aired as an interim series 10:30-11 p.m. in September and October.

Tuesday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Expedition!	The Bugs Bunny Show	The Rifleman	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Stagecoach West		Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond	Local
CBS	7:00 Local / 7:15 CBS Evening News	Local	Father Knows Best (repeats)	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis	The Tom Ewell Show	The Red Skelton Show	The Garry Moore Show
NBC	Huntley-Brinkley Report	Laramie		Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Thriller		Specials

Wednesday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Local	Hong Kong	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	Hawaiian Eye		Naked City
CBS	7:00 Local / 7:15 CBS Evening News	The Aquanauts	Wanted: Dead or Alive	My Sister Eileen	I've Got a Secret	Armstrong Circle Theatre / The United States Steel Hour
NBC	Huntley-Brinkley Report	Wagon Train	The Price Is Right	Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall		Peter Loves Mary	Local

Thursday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Local	Guestward, Ho!	The Donna Reed Show	The Real McCoys	My Three Sons	The Untouchables		Take a Good Look
CBS	7:00 Local / 7:15 CBS Evening News	The Witness		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater	Angel	The Ann Sothern Show	Person to Person	The Du Pont Show with June Allyson
NBC	Huntley-Brinkley Report	The Outlaws		Bat Masterson	Bachelor Father	The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford	The Groucho Show	Local

Friday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Local	Matty's Funday Funnies	Harrigan and Son	The Flintstones	77 Sunset Strip		The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor	The Law and Mr. Jones
CBS	7:00 Local / 7:15 CBS Evening News	Rawhide		Route 66		Mr. Garlund	The Twilight Zone	Eyewitness to History
NBC	Huntley-Brinkley Report	Dan Raven		The Westerner	The Bell Telephone Hour / NBC News Specials		Michael Shayne

Note : The Westerner was actually a space filler, designed to fill the time period until a Westinghouse-sponsored sitcom, starring Nanette Fabray, was ready to air in January, 1961.

Saturday

PM	7:30	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	The Roaring 20s	Leave It to Beaver	The Lawrence Welk Show		10:00 The Fight of the Week / 10:45 Make That Spare
CBS	Perry Mason	Checkmate		Have Gun — Will Travel	Gunsmoke	Local
NBC	Bonanza	The Tall Man	The Deputy	The Nation's Future		Local

Note: On NBC, The Campaign and the Candidates aired as an interim series 9:30-10:30 p.m. from mid-September to early November.

References

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.

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