1967–68 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1967–68 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1967 to August 1968.

Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.

Note: This is the first full season in which all the three networks broadcast most of their weekday schedules in color.

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Monday-Friday

Network 6:00 am 6:30 am 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 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm
ABC Fall Local Dateline: Hollywood
10:55: The Children's Doctor
The Honeymoon Race In COLOR The Family Game In COLOR Everybody's Talking The Donna Reed Show (R) The Fugitive (R) The Newlywed Game In COLOR Dream Girl of '67 In COLOR
2:55: News with the Woman's Touch
General Hospital (In COLOR starting 10/23) Dark Shadows In COLOR The Dating Game In COLOR Local Peter Jennings with the News In COLOR Local
October Canadian Features ABC Evening News In COLOR
December The Family Game In COLOR Temptation In COLOR
11:25: The Children's Doctor (News with the Woman's Touch effective 1/1/68)
How's Your Mother-in-Law? In COLOR
Late December The Donna Reed Show (R) Treasure Isle In COLOR
Winter Bewitched (R) The Baby Game In COLOR
2:55: The Children's Doctor
Spring This Morning with Dick Cavett In COLOR Dream House In COLOR Wedding Party In COLOR
Summer The Dick Cavett Show In COLOR It's Happening In COLOR
1:55: The Children's Doctor
The Dating Game In COLOR One Life to Live In COLOR Dark Shadows In COLOR
CBS Sunrise Semester In COLOR Local 7:05: CBS Morning News In COLOR Local Captain Kangaroo In COLOR Local Candid Camera (R) The Beverly Hillbillies (R) Andy of Mayberry (R) The Dick Van Dyke Show (R) Love of Life (In COLOR starting 10/23)
12:55: CBS News
12:30: Search for Tomorrow (In COLOR starting 9/11)
12:45: The Guiding Light In COLOR
Local As the World Turns In COLOR Love is a Many Splendored Thing In COLOR Art Linkletter's House Party In COLOR To Tell the Truth In COLOR
3:25: CBS News
The Edge of Night (In COLOR starting 9/5) The Secret Storm (In COLOR starting 9/11) Local CBS Evening News In COLOR
NBC Local Today In COLOR Local Snap Judgment In COLOR
10:25: NBC News
Concentration In COLOR Personality In COLOR The Hollywood Squares In COLOR Jeopardy! In COLOR Eye Guess In COLOR
12:55: NBC News
Local Let's Make a Deal In COLOR Days of Our Lives In COLOR The Doctors In COLOR Another World In COLOR You Don't Say! In COLOR The Match Game In COLOR
4:25: NBC News
Local The HuntleyBrinkley Report In COLOR

Note: On CBS, both Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light expanded from 15 to 30 minutes on Monday September 9, 1968. They were the last two 15-minute soap operas airing on television, ending a 22-season era of 15 minute soap operas which had begun with the first ever soap opera on television, Faraway Hill, on the DuMont network in 1946. As a result of those expansions, (The) Guiding Light was moved to 2:30 PM resulting in Art Linkletter's House Party in being pushed forward to 4:00 PM. The Edge of Night and The Secret Storm were also moved to 3:00 and 3:30 PM for respectively. As a result of this scheduling shuffle the program at CBS, To Tell The Truth aired its last broadcast on Friday September 6, 1968. Otherwise, the remainder stayed as is.

Saturday

Network 6:00 am 6:30 am 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 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm
ABC Fall Local The New Casper Cartoon Show (R) The Fantastic Four In COLOR Spider-Man In COLOR Journey to the Center of the Earth In COLOR The King Kong Show In COLOR George of the Jungle In COLOR The New Beatles In COLOR The New American Bandstand 1968 In COLOR ABC Sports In COLOR and/or local Wide World of Sports In COLOR Local
Winter Happening '68 In COLOR ABC Sports In COLOR and/or local
CBS Fall Local Sunrise Semester In COLOR Local Captain Kangaroo In COLOR Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles (R) The Herculoids In COLOR Shazzan In COLOR Space Ghost and Dino Boy In COLOR Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor In COLOR The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure In COLOR Jonny Quest (R) The Lone Ranger In COLOR The Road Runner Show In COLOR CBS Sports In COLOR and/or local CBS Evening News In COLOR
Summer Summer Semester In COLOR
NBC Fall Local The Super 6 (R) Super President and Spy Shadow In COLOR The Flintstones (R) Samson & Goliath In COLOR Birdman and the Galaxy Trio In COLOR The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (R) Top Cat (R) Cool McCool (R) NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local College Bowl In COLOR Local The Frank McGee Report In COLOR
Winter NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local Shell's Wonderful World of Golf In COLOR
Spring Young Samson In COLOR NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local
Summer Cool McCool (R) NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local

Sunday

Network 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 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm
ABC Fall Local programming The Milton the Monster Show (R) Linus the Lionhearted In COLOR The Peter Potamus Show (R) The Bullwinkle Show (R) Discovery In COLOR local programming Directions Issues and Answers In COLOR ABC Sports In COLOR and/or local The Beagles (R) The Magilla Gorilla Show (R) ABC Sports In COLOR and/or local
Winter The Bugs Bunny Show (R) ABC Sports In COLOR and/or local
May local programming
CBS Fall Local programming Tom and Jerry In COLOR Underdog (R) Lamp Unto My Feet In COLOR Look Up and Live In COLOR Camera Three In COLOR local programming Face the Nation In COLOR NFL on CBS In COLOR and/or local programming Celebrity Game Ted Mack's Amateur Hour In COLOR The 21st Century In COLOR Local
November NFL on CBS In COLOR and/or local programming
Winter CBS Sports In COLOR and/or local programming CBS Children's Film Festival / Specials Ted Mack's Amateur Hour In COLOR The 21st Century In COLOR Local
Spring CBS Sports In COLOR and/or local programming
NBC Fall local programming Youth Forum local programming Speaking Freely Meet the Press In COLOR Frontiers of Faith / Eternal Light / Catholic Hour AFL on NBC In COLOR and/or local
November NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local programming College Bowl In COLOR The Frank McGee Report In COLOR
Winter NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local programming Animal Secrets / Specials The Frank McGee Report In COLOR Flipper (R)
Spring Vietnam: The War This Week
Summer NBC Sports In COLOR and/or local programming Campaign and the Candidates The Frank McGee Report In COLOR Animal World In COLOR

By network

See also

Sources

  • Hyatt, Wesley, The Encyclopedia Of Daytime Television. New York: Billboard Books, 1997.