1968–69 United States network television schedule (weekday)
These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1968. 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 1968
| 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 | Dick Cavett Show | Bewitched reruns | Treasure Isle | Dream House | 1:30 Funny You Should Ask 1:55 The Children's Doctor | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Dark Shadows | ||||||||
| CBS | 7:05 CBS Morning News | local | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | The Andy Griffith Show reruns | The Dick Van Dyke Show reruns | 12:00 Love of Life
12:25 CBS News |
Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | 4:00 Art Linkletter's House Party 4:25 CBS News | ||
| NBC | Today | local | 10:00 Snap Judgment 10:25 NBC News | Concentration | Personality | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 Eye Guess 12:55 NBC News | Local | Let's Make a Deal | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | You Don’t Say! | 4:00 The Match Game
4:25 NBC News | ||||
Winter 1968–1969
| 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 | 12:30 Funny You Should Ask 12:55 The Children's Doctor | Dream House | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Dark Shadows | |||||||||
| CBS | 7:05 CBS Morning News | local | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | The Andy Griffith Show reruns | The Dick Van Dyke Show reruns | 12:00 Love of Life
12:25 CBS News |
Search for Tomorrow | local | As the World Turns | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | The Guiding Light | The Secret Storm | The Edge of Night | 4:00 The Linkletter Show*
4:25 CBS News | ||
| NBC | Today | local | 10:00 Snap Judgment 10:25 NBC News | Concentration | Personality | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 Eye Guess 12:55 NBC News | Local | Hidden Faces | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | You Don’t Say! | 4:00 The Match Game
4:25 NBC News | ||||
- name changed from Art Linkletter's House Party on November 18, 1968.
NOTE: In early 1969, CBS discontinued airing regular late afternoon daytime news bulletins.
Spring 1969
| 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 | 12:30 Funny You Should Ask
12:55 The Children's Doctor |
Dream House | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Dark Shadows | |||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | The Andy Griffith Show reruns | The Dick Van Dyke Show reruns | 12:00 Love of Life
12:25 CBS News |
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 Linkletter Show | |||
| NBC | Today | local | 10:00: It Takes Two 10:25: NBC News | Concentration | Personality | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 Eye Guess 12:55 NBC News | Local | Hidden Faces | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | You Don’t Say! | 4:00 The Match Game
4:25 NBC News | ||||
Summer 1969
| 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 | That Girl reruns | Dream House | Let's Make a Deal | The Newlywed Game | The Dating Game | General Hospital | One Life to Live | Dark Shadows | |||||||||
| CBS | CBS Morning News | Captain Kangaroo | local | The Lucy Show reruns | The Beverly Hillbillies reruns | The Andy Griffith Show reruns | The Dick Van Dyke Show reruns | 12:00 Love of Life
12:25 CBS News |
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 Linkletter Show | |||
| NBC | Today | local | 10:00: It Takes Two 10:25: NBC News | Concentration | Personality | The Hollywood Squares | Jeopardy! | 12:30 Eye Guess 12:55 NBC News | Local | You're Putting Me On | Days of Our Lives | The Doctors | Another World | You Don’t Say! | 4:00 The Match Game
4:25 NBC News | ||||
NOTE: In Fall 1969, NBC discontinued airing regular daytime morning and late afternoon news bulletins
Sources
- Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
- TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1968-September 1969 (microfilm)