1974–75 United States network television schedule

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]

Legend

•   Light blue indicates local programming.
•   Gray indicates encore programming.
•   Blue-gray indicates news programming.
•   Light green indicates sporting events.
•   Red indicates series being burned off and other regularly scheduled programs, including specials and movies.
•  highlight  Yellow highlights indicates the top-10 most watched programs of the season.
•  highlight  Cyan highlights indicates numbers 11-20 most watched programs of the season.
•  highlight  Magenta highlights indicates numbers 21-30 most watched programs of the season.
•  highlight  Highlights indicates that it falls in multiple of the above categories.

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 (14/23.3)		Mannix (20/21.6) (Tied with Cannon)
	Winter	Cher (22/21.3) (Tied with The Streets of San Francisco and NBC Sunday Mystery Movie)
	Summer	Joey & Dad				60 Minutes
	Late summer	Manhattan Transfer
NBC		The Wonderful World of Disney (18/22.0) (Tied with The Rookies)		NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (Columbo / McCloud / McMillan & Wife / Amy Prentiss) (22/21.3) (Tied with Cher and The Streets of San Francisco)

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 (18/22.0) (Tied with The Wonderful World of Disney)		Monday Night Football
	Winter			The ABC Monday Night Movie
	Mid-winter			S.W.A.T. (16/22.6)		Caribe
CBS		Gunsmoke (28/20.5)		Maude (9/24.9)	Rhoda (6/26.3)	Medical Center (27/20.6)
NBC	Fall	Born Free		NBC Monday Night at the Movies
	Winter	The Smothers Brothers Show
	Summer	The Baseball World of Joe Garagiola (8:00 p.m.) / Monday Night Baseball (8:15 p.m.)

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 (7/25.8)	M*A*S*H (5/27.4)	Hawaii Five-O (10/24.8)		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 (20/21.6) (Tied with Mannix)		The Manhunter
	Winter	Tony Orlando and Dawn (25/20.7) (Tied with Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers)
	Spring					Dan August (R)
	Summer					Mannix
NBC		Little House on the Prairie (13/23.5)		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 (22/21.3) (Tied with Cher and The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie)		Harry O
	Winter	Barney Miller	Karen
	Summer		The Texas Wheelers
	Late summer	Almost Anything Goes!
CBS		The Waltons (8/25.5)		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	Kolchak: The Night Stalker
	Mid-fall	Kung Fu		The Six Million Dollar Man
	Winter	Kolchak: The Night Stalker		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 (2/29.6)	Chico and the Man (3/28.5)	The Rockford Files (12/23.7)		Police Woman (15/22.8)

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 (1/30.2)	Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (25/20.7) (Tied with Tony Orlando and Dawn)	The Mary Tyler Moore Show (11/24.0)	The Bob Newhart Show (17/22.4)	The Carol Burnett Show (29/20.4)
	Winter		The Jeffersons (4/27.6)
	Summer					Moses the Lawgiver
	August		Big Eddie			The Dick Cavett Show
NBC		Emergency! (30/20.0)		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 Kolchak: The Night Stalker 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 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 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.

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. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.

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. 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.