1975-76 United States network television schedule

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This was the television schedule on all three United States commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1975. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with a few exceptions, such as Monday Night Football. This would be the first season since 1971 that a four-hour Sunday night schedule was implemented.

New fall series are highlighted in bold.

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

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

Contents

[edit] Sunday

PM 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC The Swiss Family Robinson The Six Million Dollar Man The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS Three for the Road Cher Kojak Bronk
NBC The Wonderful World of Disney The Family Holvak The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie: Columbo / McCloud / McMillan and Wife / McCoy

[edit] Monday

PM 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Barbary Coast ABC NFL Monday Night Football
CBS Rhoda Phyllis All in the Family Maude Medical Center
NBC The Invisible Man NBC Monday Night at the Movies

Note: On ABC, the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man took the 10:00 timeslot after the end of the 1975 NFL season from February 2 through March 12. It premiered its first two installments on February 1, 1976.

[edit] Tuesday

PM 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Happy Days Welcome Back, Kotter The Rookies Marcus Welby, M.D.
CBS Good Times Joe and Sons Switch Beacon Hill
NBC Movin' On Police Story Joe Forrester

Note: On ABC, Welcome Back, Kotter moved to Thursdays in January to replace On the Rocks, forcing the latter to move to Mondays to replace Barbary Coast. Laverne & Shirley, the #3 program of the season, filled the 8:30 timeslot when it premiered on January 27.

[edit] Wednesday

PM 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC When Things Were Rotten That's My Mama Baretta Starsky and Hutch
CBS Tony Orlando and Dawn Cannon Kate McShane
NBC Little House on the Prairie Doctors' Hospital Petrocelli

[edit] Thursday

PM 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Barney Miller On the Rocks The Streets of San Francisco Harry O
CBS The Waltons The CBS Thursday Night Movies
NBC The Montefuscos Fay Ellery Queen Medical Story

[edit] Friday

PM 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Mobile One The ABC Friday Night Movie
CBS Big Eddie M*A*S*H Hawaii Five-O Barnaby Jones
NBC Sanford and Son Chico and the Man The Rockford Files Police Woman

[edit] Saturday

PM 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
ABC Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell S.W.A.T. Matt Helm
CBS The Jeffersons Doc The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Bob Newhart Show The Carol Burnett Show
NBC Emergency! 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 (1985). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
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