1972–73 United States network television schedule (daytime)
These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1972. 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 1972
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | local | Bewitched reruns | Password | Split Second | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Love, American Style reruns | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Joker's Wild | The New Price Is Right | Gambit | Love of Life | noon: Where the Heart Is
12:25 pm: CBS News |
Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | The Guiding Light | The Edge of Night | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Secret Storm | Family Affair reruns | |||
| NBC | The Today Show | 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 | Return to Peyton Place | Somerset | ||||
Winter 1972–1973
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | local | Bewitched reruns | Password | Split Second | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Love, American Style reruns | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Joker's Wild | The New Price Is Right | Gambit | Love of Life | noon: Where the Heart Is
12:25 pm: CBS News |
Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | The Guiding Light | The Edge of Night | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Secret Storm | The Vin Scully Show | |||
| NBC | The Today Show | 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 | Return to Peyton Place | Somerset | ||||
Notes: Where the Heart Is and Love is a Many Splendored Thing aired their final episodes on March 23, 1973. The following Monday, both soaps were replaced with The Young and the Restless and The Price is Right respectively. $10,000 Pyramid replaced Price in its previous 10:30 time slot.
Spring 1973
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | local | Bewitched reruns | Password | Split Second | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Love, American Style reruns | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Joker's Wild | The $10,000 Pyramid | Gambit | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
The Young and the Restless | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | The Guiding Light | The Edge of Night | The New Price Is Right | Hollywood's Talking | The Secret Storm | |||
| NBC | The Today Show | local | Dinah's Place | Baffle | 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 | Return to Peyton Place | Somerset | ||||
Summer 1973
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | local | The Brady Bunch reruns | Password | Split Second | All My Children | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Girl in My Life | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Love, American Style reruns | ||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Joker's Wild | The $10,000 Pyramid | Gambit | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
The Young and the Restless | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | The Guiding Light | The Edge of Night | The Price Is Right | Match Game '73 | The Secret Storm | |||
| NBC | The Today Show | local | Dinah's Place | Baffle | The Wizard of Odds | 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 | Return to Peyton Place | Somerset | ||||
Sources
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984.