1997–98 United States network television schedule (daytime) explained

The 1997–98 daytime network television schedule for the six major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1997 to August 1998. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1996–97 season.

Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, branded as PTV at the time – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.

Legend

• New series are highlighted in bold.

Schedule

• All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
• Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs.^[1] Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated or contracted station in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.

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	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2"		ABC World News This Morning		Good Morning America				Local/syndicated programming				The View		Local/syndicated programming	Port Charles	All My Children		One Life to Live		General Hospital		Local/syndicated programming					ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2"		CBS Morning News		CBS This Morning				Local/syndicated programming				The Price Is Right		Local/syndicated programming	The Young and the Restless		The Bold and the Beautiful	As the World Turns		Guiding Light		Local/syndicated programming					CBS Evening News with Dan Rather	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0" colspan="2"		NBC News at Sunrise		Today				Local/syndicated programming				Leeza		Sunset Beach		Days of Our Lives		Another World		Local/syndicated programming							NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0" rowspan="4"	Fox	Fall	Local/syndicated programming		Bobby's World C Bear and Jamal	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Local/syndicated programming														Spider-Man	Beetleborgs Metallix	Power Rangers Turbo	Goosebumps	Local/syndicated programming
February	Bobby's World The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Beetleborgs Metallix The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Spider-Man	Power Rangers Turbo Power Rangers in Space	Life with Louie	-	April	Bobby's World	Life with Louie	Beetleborgs Metallix	Spider-Man		Power Rangers Turbo Power Rangers in Space	-	July	Beetleborgs Metallix Bobby's World	Cartoon Cabana		Spider-Man	Power Rangers Power Playback Power Rangers in Space	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0"rowspan="4"	The WB	Fall	Local/syndicated programming		Tiny Toon Adventures	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Local/syndicated programming														Bugs 'n' Daffy	Animaniacs	Pinky and the Brain	The New Batman/Superman Adventures	Local/syndicated programming				-	November	Bugs 'n' Daffy Animaniacs	Animaniacs Pinky and the Brain	Pinky and the Brain The New Batman/Superman Adventures	The New Batman/Superman Adventures Men in Black	-	December	Tiny Toon Adventures Channel Umptee-3	-	June	Bugs 'n' Daffy	Animaniacs	Pinky and the Brain	The New Batman/Superman Adventures	- !bgcolor="#C0C0C0"colspan="2"		Local/syndicated programming																				Breaker High	Sweet Valley High	Local/syndicated programming

Notes:

• ABC, NBC and CBS offered their early morning newscasts via a looping feed (usually running as late as 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to accommodate local scheduling in the westernmost contiguous time zones or for use a filler programming for stations that do not offer a local morning newscast; some stations without a morning newscast may air syndicated or time-lease programs instead of the full newscast loop.
• NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Another World and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling. Some NBC affiliates did not air Sunset Beach in the noon timeslot, opting to air local news and/or syndicated programming instead, and often placing the soap opera in a late morning or afternoon time slot.
• Fox Kids temporarily aired Eerie, Indiana Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. ET from November 10, 1997 to January 2, 1998.

Saturday

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 and/or syndicated programming			Disney's One Saturday Morning (featuring Brand Spanking New! Doug, Recess, and Pepper Ann)				The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show / Schoolhouse Rock! (11:26AM)		Jungle Cubs	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Science Court	ABC Sports and/or local programming					College Football on ABC
	December													ABC Sports and/or local programming				ABC Sports programming						Local news	ABC World News Saturday
CBS	Fall	Beakman's World	Fudge	The New Ghostwriter Mysteries	Wheel 2000	CBS News Saturday Morning				The Sports Illustrated for Kids Show	The Weird Al Show	SEC on CBS
	Winter		CBS Storybreak									CBS Sports and/or local programming						CBS Sports programming						Local news	CBS Evening News
NBC		Local and/or syndicated programming		Today					City Guys		Hang Time		NBA Inside Stuff	NBC Sports and/or local programming				NBC Sports programming						Local news	NBC Nightly News
Fox	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Bobby's World	Stickin' Around	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Space Goofs	Ultimate Goosebumps	Eerie, Indiana	Life with Louie	X-Men	Local and/or syndicated programming		Fox Sports and/or local programming										Local and/or syndicated programming
	October
	November				Life with Louie		Ultimate Goosebumps	Spider-Man	Space Goofs
	February				Ned's Newt	Ultimate Goosebumps	Toonsylvania				Silver Surfer
	April			Ned's Newt	Power Rangers in Space				Toonsylvania	Silver Surfer
	Summer					Spider-Man	Toonsylvania			Pick of the Week		Local and/or syndicated programming	In the Zone
The WB	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Animaniacs		The New Batman/Superman Adventures		The Legend of Calamity Jane	Pinky and the Brain	Animaniacs	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries	Local and/or syndicated programming
	October			Channel Umptee-3			The New Batman/Superman Adventures
	December			Pinky and the Brain
	July				The New Batman/Superman Adventures					The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

Notes:

• Kids' WB temporarily aired Animaniacs aired at 8:00 a.m. ET until October 25, The New Batman/Superman Adventures aired at 9:00 a.m. ET until October 11, and The Legend of Calamity Jane aired at 10:00 a.m. ET from September 13 to 27, 1997.

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		Local and/or syndicated programming		Good Morning America Sunday		This Week with Sam & Cokie		Local and/or syndicated programming		ABC Sports and/or local programming														Local news	ABC World News Sunday
CBS		Local and/or syndicated programming				CBS News Sunday Morning			Face the Nation	Local and/or syndicated programming		CBS Sports and/or local programming												Local news	CBS Evening News
NBC	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming		Today		Meet the Press		Local and/or syndicated programming				NFL on NBC
	Mid-winter											NBC Sports and/or local programming												Local news	NBC Nightly News
Fox	Fall	Local and/or syndicated programming				Fox News Sunday		Local and/or syndicated programming				Fox NFL Sunday		Fox NFL
	Mid-winter											Fox Sports and/or local programming												Local and/or syndicated programming
UPN		Algo's FACTory	Local and/or syndicated programming			Jumanji	The Incredible Hulk	Breaker High	Sweet Valley High	Local and/or syndicated programming

By network

ABC

Returning series:

• ABC World News This Morning
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
• All My Children
• The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
• Brand Spanking New! Doug
• General Hospital
• Good Morning America
• Good Morning America Sunday
• Jungle Cubs
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• One Life to Live
• Port Charles
• Schoolhouse Rock!
• This Week
• The View

New series:

• Disney's One Saturday Morning
  • Recess
  • Pepper Ann
• Science Court

Not returning from 1996–97:

• ABC Weekend Special
• Bone Chillers
• The City
• DuckTales
• Flash Forward
• The Mighty Ducks
• Nightmare Ned
• Street Sharks

CBS

Returning series:

• As the World Turns
• Beakman's World
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• CBS Evening News
• CBS Morning News
• CBS News Sunday Morning
• CBS Storybreak
• CBS This Morning
• Face the Nation
• Guiding Light
• The Price Is Right
• The Young and the Restless

New series:

• CBS News Saturday Morning
• Fudge
• The New Ghostwriter Mysteries
• The Sports Illustrated for Kids Show
• The Weird Al Show
• Wheel 2000

Not returning from 1996–97:

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Bailey Kipper's P.O.V.
• Project Geeker
• Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat

NBC

Returning series:

• Another World
• Days of Our Lives
• Hang Time
• Leeza
• Meet the Press
• NBA Inside Stuff
• NBC News at Sunrise
• NBC Nightly News
• Sunset Beach
• Today

New series:

• City Guys

Not returning from 1996–97:

• California Dreams
• Real Life with Jane Pauley

Fox

Returning series:

• Bobby's World
• C Bear and Jamal
• Eerie, Indiana
• Fox News Sunday
• Goosebumps
• Life with Louie
• Power Rangers Power Playback
• Power Rangers Turbo
• Spider-Man
• The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
• Stickin' Around
• X-Men

New series:

• Beetleborgs Metallix
• Cartoon Cabana
• Ned's Newt
• Power Rangers in Space
• Silver Surfer
• Space Goofs
• Toonsylvania

Not returning from 1996–97:

• The Adventures of Batman & Robin
• Big Bad Beetleborgs
• Eek! Stravaganza
• Fox After Breakfast
• Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates
• Power Rangers Zeo
• The Tick
• Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

UPN

Returning series:

• The Incredible Hulk
• Jumanji

New series:

• Algo's FACTory
• Breaker High
• Sweet Valley High

Not returning from 1996–97:

• Bureau of Alien Detectors
• The Mouse and the Monster

The WB

Returning series:

• Animaniacs
• Bugs 'n' Daffy
• Pinky and the Brain
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

New series:

• Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• Channel Umptee-3
• The Legend of Calamity Jane
• The New Batman Adventures
• Tiny Toon Adventures

Not returning from 1996–97:

• The Daffy Duck Show
• Earthworm Jim
• Freakazoid!
• Road Rovers
• Waynehead

See also

• 1997-98 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
• 1997-98 United States network television schedule (late night)

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
• https://kidsblockblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/fox-kids-weekday-lineups-1997-1998/
• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarong/from-andrew/wb/kidswb-schedule.html
• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarong/from-andrew/upn/upnkids-schedule.html

Notes and References

1. http://tv.yahoo.com/listings - TV listings - Yahoo.com