1965-66 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 1965. All times are Eastern and Pacific.

New fall series are highlighted in bold.

The highest-rated program for the year is colored in lime. The top-10 highest-rated programs are colored in yellow. The Top 20 highest rated programs are colored in cyan.

Note: This is the first season in which a majority of prime time programs were in color.

Contents

[edit] Sunday

PM 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea The F.B.I. The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS Lassie My Favorite Martian The Ed Sullivan Show Perry Mason Candid Camera What's My Line?
NBC 6:30 The Bell Telephone Hour / Actuality Specials Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Branded Bonanza The Wackiest Ship in the Army

[edit] Monday

PM 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Twelve O'Clock High The Legend of Jesse James A Man Called Shenandoah The Farmer's Daughter Ben Casey
CBS To Tell the Truth I've Got a Secret The Lucy Show The Andy Griffith Show Hazel The Steve Lawrence Show
NBC Hullabaloo The John Forsythe Show Dr. Kildare The Andy Williams Show / Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall Run for Your Life

[edit] Tuesday

PM 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Combat! McHale's Navy F Troop Peyton Place The Fugitive
CBS Rawhide The Red Skelton Hour Petticoat Junction CBS Reports / CBS News Hour
NBC My Mother the Car Please Don't Eat the Daisies Dr. Kildare NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies

[edit] Wednesday

PM 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet The Patty Duke Show Gidget The Big Valley Amos Burke - Secret Agent
CBS Lost in Space The Beverly Hillbillies Green Acres The Dick Van Dyke Show The Danny Kaye Show
NBC The Virginian Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre / Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Special I Spy

[edit] Thursday

PM 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Shindig! The Donna Reed Show O. K. Crackerby! Bewitched Peyton Place The Long, Hot Summer
CBS The Munsters Gilligan's Island My Three Sons The CBS Thursday Night Movies
NBC Daniel Boone Laredo Mona McCluskey The Dean Martin Show

[edit] Friday

PM 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC The Flintstones Tammy The Addams Family Honey West Peyton Place The Jimmy Dean Show
CBS The Wild Wild West Hogan's Heroes Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. The Smothers Brothers Show Slattery's People
NBC Camp Runamuck Hank Convoy Mister Roberts The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Note : The Farmer's Daughter took over the 9:30-10 time period on ABC, effective November 5, because a lot of viewers couldn't watch Peyton Place on Fridays. Starting November 1, Peyton Place was seen Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. (On the November 5 segment of The Farmer's Daughter, Katy and Glen got married!)

[edit] Saturday

PM 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Shindig! The King Family Show The Lawrence Welk Show The Hollywood Palace ABC Scope
CBS Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine The Trials of O'Brien The Loner Gunsmoke
NBC Flipper I Dream of Jeannie Get Smart NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

[edit] References

  • 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 (1964). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.