1974–75 United States network television schedule explained

The 1974–75 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 1974 through August 1975. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1973–74 season.

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

This is the last of the four seasons to carry a 21-hour (three hours every day) weekly prime time schedule, which was used from 1971 to 1975.

New series are highlighted in bold.

All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii–Aleutian times.

Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.^[1]

Sunday

Network		7:30 p.m.	8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Fall	Local programming	The Sonny Comedy Revue		The ABC Sunday Night Movie
	Winter	The Six Million Dollar Man		The ABC Sunday Night Movie				Local programming
CBS	Fall	Apple's Way		Kojak		Mannix
	Winter	Cher
	Summer	Joey & Dad				60 Minutes
	Late summer	Manhattan Transfer
NBC		The Wonderful World of Disney		NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (Columbo / McCloud / McMillan & Wife / Amy Prentiss)

Note: 60 Minutes aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from September 1974 to June 1975.

Monday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Fall	The Rookies		Monday Night Football
	Winter			The ABC Monday Night Movie
	Mid-winter			S.W.A.T. (16/22.6)		Caribe
CBS		Gunsmoke		Maude	Rhoda	Medical Center
NBC	Fall	Born Free		NBC Monday Night at the Movies
	Winter	The Smothers Brothers Show
	Summer	The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola / Monday Night Baseball

Tuesday

Network	8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Happy Days	ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week			Marcus Welby, M.D.
CBS	Good Times	M*A*S*H	Hawaii Five-O		Barnaby Jones
NBC	Adam-12	NBC World Premiere Movie			Police Story

Wednesday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Fall	That's My Mama	ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week			Get Christie Love!
	Spring					Baretta
	Summer					The Jim Stafford Show
CBS	Fall	Sons and Daughters		Cannon		The Manhunter
	Winter	Tony Orlando and Dawn
	Spring					Dan August
	Summer					Mannix
NBC		Little House on the Prairie		Lucas Tanner		Petrocelli

Note: Dan August consisted of reruns of the 1970-1971 ABC series.

Thursday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Fall	The Odd Couple	Paper Moon	The Streets of San Francisco		Harry O
	Winter	Barney Miller	Karen
	Summer		The Texas Wheelers
	Late summer	Almost Anything Goes!
CBS		The Waltons		CBS Thursday Night Movie
NBC	Fall	Sierra		Ironside		Movin' On
	Winter	The Mac Davis Show		Archer
	Spring	Sunshine	The Bob Crane Show	The Mac Davis Show
	Summer	The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show		NBC Thursday Night at the Movies
	Mid-summer	Ben Vereen...Comin' At Ya

Friday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Fall	Kodiak	The Six Million Dollar Man		The Texas Wheelers
	Mid-fall	Kung Fu		The Six Million Dollar Man
	Winter			Hot L Baltimore	The Odd Couple	Baretta
	Spring					Get Christie Love!
CBS	Fall	Planet of the Apes		The CBS Friday Night Movie
	Winter	Khan!
	Spring	Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers	We'll Get By
	Summer	Special programming
NBC		Sanford and Son	Chico and the Man	The Rockford Files		Police Woman

Saturday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.	10:30 p.m.
ABC	Fall	The New Land		Kung Fu		Nakia
	Mid-fall	Movie special
	Winter	Kung Fu		The ABC Saturday Night Movie
	Summer	Keep on Truckin'
CBS	Fall	All in the Family	Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	The Bob Newhart Show	The Carol Burnett Show
	Winter		The Jeffersons
	Summer					Moses the Lawgiver
	August		Big Eddie			The Dick Cavett Show
NBC		Emergency!		NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

By network

ABC

Returning Series

• The ABC Monday Night Movie
• The ABC Saturday Night Movie
• The ABC Sunday Night Movie
• ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week
• ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week
• Happy Days
• Kung Fu
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• Monday Night Football
• The Odd Couple
• The Rookies
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• The Streets of San Francisco

New Series

• Almost Anything Goes! *
• Baretta *
• Barney Miller *
• Caribe *
• Get Christie Love!
• Harry O
• Hot l Baltimore *
• The Jim Stafford Show *
• Karen *
• Keep on Truckin' *
• Kodiak
• Nakia
• The New Land
• Paper Moon
• The Sonny Comedy Revue
• S.W.A.T. *
• The Texas Wheelers
• That's My Mama

Not returning from 1973–74:

• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• The Brady Bunch
• Chopper One
• The Cowboys
• Dick Clark Presents the Rock and Roll Years
• Doc Elliot
• The F.B.I.
• Firehouse
• Griff
• Just for Laughs
• Love, American Style
• The Partridge Family
• Room 222
• Temperatures Rising
• Toma

CBS

Returning Series

• 60 Minutes
• All in the Family
• Apple's Way
• Barnaby Jones
• The Bob Newhart Show
• CBS Thursday Night Movie
• Cannon
• The Carol Burnett Show
• Good Times
• Gunsmoke
• Hawaii Five-O
• Kojak
• M*A*S*H
• Mannix
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Maude
• Medical Center
• Tony Orlando and Dawn
• The Waltons
• Your Hit Parade

New Series

• Big Eddie *
• Cher *
• The Friday Comedy Special *
• Friends and Lovers
• Frigidaire Spring Feature *
• The Jeffersons *
• Joey & Dad *
• Khan! *
• The Manhattan Transfer *
• The Manhunter
• Moses the Lawgiver *
• Planet of the Apes
• Rhoda
• Sons and Daughters
• We'll Get By *

Not returning from 1973–74:

• Calucci's Department
• Dirty Sally
• The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies
• The New Dick Van Dyke Show
• Here's Lucy
• The Hudson Brothers Show
• The New Perry Mason
• Roll Out
• The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

NBC

Returning Series

• Adam-12
• Columbo
• Emergency!
• Ironside
• McCloud
• McMillan & Wife
• Monday Night Baseball
• NBC Monday Night at the Movies
• The NBC Mystery Movie
• NBC Saturday Night at the Movies
• Police Story
• Sanford and Son
• The Wonderful World of Disney

New Series

• Amy Prentiss *
• Archer *
• Ben Vereen...Comin' At Ya *
• The Bob Crane Show *
• Born Free
• Chico and the Man *
• The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show
• Little House on the Prairie
• Lucas Tanner
• The Mac Davis Show *
• Movin' On
• NBC World Premiere Movie
• Petrocelli
• Police Woman
• The Rockford Files
• Sierra
• The Smothers Brothers Show *
• Sunshine *

Not returning from 1973–74:

• The Brian Keith Show
• Chase
• The Dean Martin Comedy World
• The Dean Martin Show
• Diana
• The Flip Wilson Show
• The Girl with Something Extra
• Lotsa Luck
• Love Story
• The Magician
• Music Country USA
• NBC Follies
• Needles and Pins

Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.

Additional sources

• 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. .
• Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1985). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. .

Notes and References

1. Highest-rated series is based on the annual top-rated programs list compiled by Nielsen Media Research and reported in: Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. .