1970–71 United States network television schedule (daytime)
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These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning in September 1970. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Fall 1970
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | |
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| ABC | local | That Girl reruns | Bewitched reruns | A World Apart | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Dark Shadows | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | Family Affair reruns | Love of Life | noon: Where the Heart Is & 12:25 pm: CBS News | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | Gomer Pyle, USMC reruns | |||
| NBC | Today | local | Dinah's Place | Concentration | Sale of the Century | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 pm The Who, What, or Where Game 12:55 pm NBC News | local | Words and Music | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | Bright Promise | Somerset | ||||
Winter 1970–1971
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | |
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| ABC | local | That Girl reruns | Bewitched reruns | A World Apart | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Dark Shadows | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | Family Affair reruns | Love of Life | noon: Where the Heart Is & 12:25 pm: CBS News | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | Gomer Pyle, USMC reruns | |||
| NBC | Today | local | Dinah's Place | Concentration | Sale of the Century | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 pm The Who, What, or Where Game 12:55 pm NBC News | local | Joe Garagiola's Memory Game | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | Bright Promise | Somerset | ||||
Note: On ABC, Dark Shadows aired its final episode on April 2, 1971.
Spring 1971
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | |
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| ABC | local | That Girl reruns | Bewitched reruns | A World Apart | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Password | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | Family Affair reruns | Love of Life | noon: Where the Heart Is & 12:25 pm: CBS News | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | Gomer Pyle, USMC reruns | |||
| NBC | Today | local | Dinah's Place | Concentration | Sale of the Century | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 pm The Who, What, or Where Game 12:55 pm NBC News | local | Joe Garagiola's Memory Game | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | Bright Promise | Somerset | ||||
Summer 1971
| 7:00 am | 7:30 am | 8:00 am | 8:30 am | 9:00 am | 9:30 am | 10:00 am | 10:30 am | 11:00 am | 11:30 am | noon | 12:30 pm | 1:00 pm | 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | |
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| ABC | local | That Girl reruns | Bewitched reruns | Love, American Style reruns | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Password | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | Family Affair reruns | Love of Life | noon: Where the Heart Is & 12:25 pm: CBS News | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | Gomer Pyle, USMC reruns | |||
| NBC | Today | local | Dinah's Place | Concentration | Sale of the Century | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 pm The Who, What, or Where Game 12:55 pm NBC News | local | Three on a Match | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | Bright Promise | Somerset | ||||
Sources
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984.