1968–69 United States network television schedule (daytime) explained

The 1968–69 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 1968 to August 1969.

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.

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									The Dick Cavett Show			Bewitched	Treasure Isle	Dream House	It's Happening 1:55: The Children's Doctor	The Newlywed Game	The Dating Game	General Hospital	One Life to Live	Dark Shadows	Local			ABC Evening News	Local
	mid-Fall																Funny You Should Ask 1:55: The Children's Doctor
	Winter	Local													Funny You Should Ask 12:55: The Children's Doctor		Let's Make a Deal
	Summer														That Girl											ABC News
CBS	Fall	Sunrise Semester	Local	7:05: CBS Morning News	Local	Captain Kangaroo		Local		The Lucy Show	The Beverly Hillbillies	The Andy Griffith Show	The Dick Van Dyke Show	Love of Life 12:25 pm: 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	Art Linkletter's House Party 4:25: CBS News	Local				CBS Evening News
	Spring																					The Linkletter Show 4:25: CBS News
	Summer			CBS Morning News																		The Linkletter Show
NBC	Fall	Local		Today				Local		Snap Judgment 10:25: NBC News	Concentration	Personality	Hollywood Squares	Jeopardy!	Eye Guess 12:55: NBC News	Local	Let's Make a Deal	Days of Our Lives	The Doctors	Another World	You Don't Say!	The Match Game 4:25: NBC News	Local				The Huntley–Brinkley Report
	Winter																Hidden Faces
	Spring									It Takes Two 10:25: NBC News
	Summer																You're Putting Me On

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	The Adventures of Gulliver	Spider-Man	Fantastic Voyage	Journey to the Center of the Earth	The Fantastic Four	George of the Jungle	The New American Bandstand 1969		ABC Sports and/or local
	Winter																Happening '69	ABC Sports and/or local
	February																Happening
CBS	Fall	Local	Sunrise Semester	Local		The Go Go Gophers Show	The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour		Wacky Races	The Archie Show	The Batman/Superman Hour		The Herculoids	Shazzan	Jonny Quest	Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor	The Lone Ranger	CBS Sports and/or local									CBS Evening News
	Summer		Black Heritage
NBC	Fall	Local						The Super 6	Top Cat	The Flintstones	The Banana Splits Adventure Hour		Underdog	Birdman and the Galaxy Trio	Super President	NBC Sports and/or local				Speaking Freely		NBC Sports and/or local		Campaign and the Candidates	College Bowl	Local	The Frank McGee Report
	November												NBC Sports and/or local
	Winter												Storybook Squares	The Untamed World	NBC Sports and/or local								Shell's Wonderful World of Golf	The Huntley–Brinkley Report
	Spring														NBC Sports and/or local
	Summer								Cool McCool

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 New Beatles	Linus the Lionhearted	The King Kong Show	The Bullwinkle Show	Discovery	local programming		Directions	Issues and Answers	ABC Sports and/or local
Spring	The Dudley Do-Right Show
Summer	local programming
CBS	Fall	local programming				Tom and Jerry	Aquaman	bgcolor=gold rowspan=2	Lamp Unto My Feet	Look Up and Live	Camera Three	local programming	Face the Nation	NFL on CBS and/or local programming	Ted Mack's Amateur Hour	The 21st Century	Local
Winter	CBS Sports and/or local programming
NBC	Fall	local programming										Youth Forum	Frontiers of Faith / Eternal Light / Catholic Hour	Meet the Press	bgcolor=lightblue colspan=11	AFL on NBC and/or local
Winter	local programming	Frontiers of Faith / Eternal Light / Guideline	Speaking Freely		NBC Sports and/or local programming	The Frank McGee Report	College Bowl	Wild Kingdom
Summer	local programming						Youth Forum	local programming					NBC Sports and/or local programming	Congressional Report	The Frank McGee Report

By network

ABC

Returning series:

• ABC News
• The New Beatles
• Bewitched
• The Bullwinkle Show
• The Children's Doctor
• Dark Shadows
• The Dating Game
• The Dick Cavett Show
• Discovery
• Dream House
• The Fantastic Four Show
• General Hospital
• George of the Jungle
• Issues and Answers
• Filmation's Journey to the Center of the Earth
• The King Kong Show
• Let's Make a Deal (moved from NBC)
• Linus the Lionhearted
• It's Happening!
• The New American Bandstand 1969
• The New Casper Cartoon Show
• The Newlywed Game
• One Life to Live
• Spider-Man
• Treasure Isle

New series:

• The Adventures of Gulliver
• The Dudley Do-Right Show
• Fantastic Voyage
• Funny You Should Ask
• Happening '69 (January 4-25) & Happening (from February 1 to September 20, 1969)
• That Girl

Not returning from 1967-68:

• The Baby Game
• Dateline:Hollywood
• The Dream Girl of '67
• The Beagles
• The Donna Reed Show
• Everybody's Talking
• The Family Game
• The Fugitive
• The Honeymoon Race
• The Magilla Gorilla Show
• How's Your Mother-In-Law?
• The Milton the Monster Show
• News with the Woman's Touch
• Peter Jennings with the News
• The Peter Potamus Show
• Temptation
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (reruns)
• This Morning with Dick Cavett
• Wedding Party

CBS

Returning series:

• The Andy Griffith Show
• Aquaman
• Art Linkletter's House Party
• As the World Turns
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
• Camera Three
• Captain Kangaroo
• CBS Evening News
• CBS Morning News
• CBS News
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• The Edge of Night
• Face the Nation
• The Guiding Light
• The Herculoids
• Jonny Quest
• Lamp Unto My Feet
• The Linkletter Show
• The Lone Ranger
• Look Up and Live
• Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
• Love of Life
• Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
• The NFL Today
• The Original Amateur Hour / The New Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour
• Search for Tomorrow
• The Secret Storm
• Shazzan
• Sunrise Semester
• Tom and Jerry

New series:

• The Archie Show
• The Batman/Superman Hour
• The Go Go Gophers Show
• The Lucy Show
• Wacky Races

Not returning from 1967-68:

• Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
• The Road Runner Show (Combined into The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour)
• Space Ghost and Dino Boy
• The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
• To Tell the Truth
• Underdog (Returned to NBC)

NBC

Returning series:

• Another World
• Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
• Concentration
• Cool McCool
• Days of Our Lives
• The Doctors
• Eye Guess
• The Flintstones
• The Frank McGee Report
• Frontiers of Faith
• Hollywood Squares
• Jeopardy!
• The Match Game
• Meet the Press
• NBC News
• NBC Saturday Night News
• NBC Sunday Night News
• Personality
• Snap Judgment
• Super President & Spy Shadow
• The Super 6
• The Today Show
• Top Cat
• The Underdog Show (Moved from CBS)
• You Don't Say!

New series:

• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
• Hidden Faces
• It Takes Two
• Storybook Squares
• The Untamed World
• You're Putting Me On

Not returning from 1967-68:

• The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
• Let's Make a Deal (Moved to ABC)
• Samson & Goliath
• Young Samson

See also

• 1968-69 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
• 1968-69 United States network television schedule (late night)

Sources

• Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
• TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1968-September 1969 (microfilm)