1972-73 United States network television schedule

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United States Network Television Schedule

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This was the television schedule on all three 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.

The highest-rated show for the year is colored in lime. The top 10 most watched programs are colored in yellow. The top 20 most watched programs are colored in cyan.

Note #1: 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.

Note #2: This television season, all three networks discontinued widepread usage of "in color" notices at the beginning of each broadcast, as they all felt that it was by this point generally known their programming was now 100% in color, and also that most viewing the programming would be able to see the color and know the difference.

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

1 Sunday
2 Monday
3 Tuesday
4 Wednesday
5 Thursday
6 Friday
7 Saturday

[edit] Sunday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Local	The F.B.I.		The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS	Anna and the King	*MASH**	The Sandy Duncan Show	The New Dick Van Dyke Show	Mannix		Local
NBC	The Wonderful World of Disney		NBC Sunday Mystery Movie: Columbo / McCloud / McMillan and Wife / Hec Ramsey			Night Gallery	Local

[edit] Monday

PM	8:00	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	The Rookies	The ABC NFL Monday Night Football
CBS	Gunsmoke	Here's Lucy	The Doris Day Show	The New Bill Cosby Show
NBC	Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In	NBC Monday Night at the Movies

[edit] Tuesday

PM	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	Temperatures Rising	ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week			Marcus Welby, M.D.
CBS	Maude	Hawaii Five-O		The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies
NBC	Bonanza		The Bold Ones: The New Doctors		NBC Reports

[edit] Wednesday

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	The Paul Lynde Show	ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week		The Julie Andrews Hour
CBS	The Carol Burnett Show		Medical Center	Cannon
NBC	Adam 12	NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie: Madigan / Cool Million / Banacek		Search

[edit] Thursday

	8:00 PM	9:00 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	The Mod Squad	The Men: Assignment Vienna / The Delphi Bureau / Jigsaw	Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
CBS	The Waltons	The CBS Thursday Night Movies
NBC	The Flip Wilson Show	Ironside	The Dean Martin Show

[edit] Friday

	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00
ABC	The Brady Bunch	The Partridge Family	Room 222	The Odd Couple	Love, American Style
CBS	The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour		The CBS Friday Night Movies
NBC	Sanford and Son	Little People	Ghost Story		Banyon

[edit] Saturday

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Alias Smith and Jones		The Streets of San Francisco		The Sixth Sense
CBS	All in the Family	Bridget Loves Bernie	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	The Bob Newhart Show	Mission: Impossible
NBC	Emergency!		NBC Saturday Night at the Movies