1972–73 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 1972. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with a few exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.

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.[1]

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

Note: This was the first full season in which all networks, on every day of the week except for Sunday, started airing programs at 8:00 instead of 7:30, as dictated by the FCC under its Prime Time Access Rule, intended to increase diversity in programming.

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.

Sunday

Network 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Local The F.B.I. (29/19.2) The ABC Sunday Night Movie (23/20.0)
CBS Fall Anna and the King M*A*S*H The Sandy Duncan Show The New Dick Van Dyke Show Mannix Local
Winter The New Dick Van Dyke Show Mannix Barnaby Jones (25/19.9)
NBC The Wonderful World of Disney (9/23.5) NBC Sunday Mystery Movie:
Columbo / McCloud / McMillan and Wife / Hec Ramsey (5/24.2)
Night Gallery Local

60 Minutes aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from January to June 1973.

Monday

Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall The Rookies (23/20.0) ABC NFL Monday Night Football (18/21.0)
Winter ABC Monday Night Movie (29/19.2)
CBS Gunsmoke (7/23.6) Here's Lucy (15/21.9) The Doris Day Show The New Bill Cosby Show
NBC Fall Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In NBC Monday Night at the Movies (28/19.3)
Summer The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola (8:00) / Monday Night Baseball (8:15)

Tuesday

Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Temperatures Rising ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week (17/21.5) Marcus Welby, M.D. (13/22.9)
CBS Maude (4/24.7) Hawaii Five-O (3/25.2) The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies
NBC Bonanza The Bold Ones: The New Doctors NBC Reports

Wednesday

Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall The Paul Lynde Show ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week (25/19.9) The Julie Andrews Hour
Winter Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Summer Thicker than Water
Follow-up Love Thy Neighbor
CBS Fall The Carol Burnett Show (22/20.3) Medical Center (19/20.6) Cannon (14/22.4)
Spring Dan August
NBC Adam-12 (11/23.3) NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie: Madigan / Cool Million / Banacek Search

Note: Dan August consisted of reruns of the 1970-1971 ABC series.

Thursday

Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall The Mod Squad The Men: Assignment Vienna /
The Delphi Bureau / Jigsaw
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Winter Kung Fu (29/19.2) The Streets of San Francisco
CBS The Waltons (19/20.6) CBS Thursday Night Movie
NBC Fall The Flip Wilson Show (12/23.1) Ironside (10/23.4) The Dean Martin Show
Summer The Helen Reddy Show Dean Martin Presents Music Country

Friday

Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall The Brady Bunch The Partridge Family (19/20.6) Room 222 The Odd Couple Love, American Style
Summer Love Thy Neighbor
CBS Fall The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour The CBS Friday Night Movies
Follow-up Mission: Impossible
Summer 60 Minutes
NBC Fall Sanford and Son (2/27.6) The Little People (25/19.9) Ghost Story Banyon
Winter Circle of Fear

Saturday

Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall Alias Smith and Jones The Streets of San Francisco The Sixth Sense
Winter Here We Go Again A Touch of Grace The Julie Andrews Hour The Men: Assignment Vienna /
The Delphi Bureau / Jigsaw
Summer The Paul Lynde Show The Strauss Family
Follow-up The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour
CBS Fall All in the Family (1/33.3) Bridget Loves Bernie (5/24.2) The Mary Tyler Moore Show (7/23.6) The Bob Newhart Show (16/21.8) Mission: Impossible
Follow-up The Carol Burnett Show
Summer Mission: Impossible
NBC Emergency! NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

References

  1. ^ 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.

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. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
  • Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1985). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.