1971–72 United States network television schedule (daytime)
These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning in September 1971. 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 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | local | That Girl reruns | Bewitched reruns | Password | 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 Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | Family Affair reruns | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
Where the Heart Is | 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 | ||||
Winter 1971–1972
| 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 | That Girl reruns | Bewitched reruns | Password | 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 Lucy Show reruns | My Three Sons reruns | Family Affair reruns | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
Where the Heart Is | 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 | ||||
Spring 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 Lucy Show reruns | My Three Sons reruns | Family Affair reruns | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
Where the Heart Is | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | The Amateur's Guide to Love | |||
| 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 | Return to Peyton Place | Somerset | ||||
Summer 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 Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | Family Affair reruns | 11:30 am: Love of Life
11:55 am: CBS News |
Where the Heart Is | Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | My Three Sons 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 | Return to Peyton Place | Somerset | ||||
Sources
Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984