1972–73 United States network television schedule

Legend

• 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.
• Lime highlights indicates the number-one most watched program of the season.
• Yellow highlights indicates the top-10 most watched programs of the season.
• Cyan highlights indicates numbers 11-20 most watched programs of the season.
• Magenta highlights indicates numbers 21-30 most watched programs of the season.
• Highlights indicates that it falls in multiple of the above categories.

Sunday

Note: 60 Minutes aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from January to June 1973.

Monday

Tuesday

• formerly Chronolog

Wednesday

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

Thursday

Friday

Note: Ghost Story was retooled slightly and retitled Circle of Fear (under the same production team) with the episode broadcast January 5, 1973.

Saturday

By network

[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]

Returning Series

• The ABC Monday Night Movie
• ABC NFL Monday Night Football
• The ABC Sunday Night Movie
• ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week
• ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week
• Alias Smith and Jones
• The Brady Bunch
• The Corner Bar
• The F.B.I.
• Love, American Style
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• The Mod Squad
• The Odd Couple
• Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
• The Partridge Family
• Room 222
• The Sixth Sense

New Series

• The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour *
• Here We Go Again *
• The Julie Andrews Hour
• Kung Fu
• Love Thy Neighbor *
• The Men: Assignment Vienna / The Delphi Bureau / Jigsaw
• The Paul Lynde Show
• The Rookies
• The Strauss Family *
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Temperatures Rising
• Thicker than Water *
• A Touch of Grace *

Not returning from 1971–72:

• The ABC Comedy Hour
• Bewitched
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father
• Getting Together
• The Ken Berry "Wow" Show
• Longstreet
• The Man and the City
• The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine
• Monday Night Special
• Nanny and the Professor
• The Persuaders!
• Shirley's World
• The Smith Family
• The Super

[[CBS]]

Returning Series

• 60 Minutes
• All in the Family
• Cannon
• The Carol Burnett Show
• The Doris Day Show
• Gunsmoke
• Hawaii Five-O
• Here's Lucy
• Mannix
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Medical Center
• Mission: Impossible
• The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies
• The New Dick Van Dyke Show
• The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
• CBS Thursday Night Movie

New Series

• Anna and the King
• Barnaby Jones *
• The Bob Newhart Show
• Bridget Loves Bernie
• MASH***
• Maude
• The New Bill Cosby Show
• The Sandy Duncan Show
• The Waltons

Not returning from 1971–72:

• Arnie
• Bearcats!
• Cade's County
• The Chicago Teddy Bears
• The David Steinberg Show
• The Don Rickles Show
• Funny Face
• The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
• The Jerry Reed When You're Hot You're Hot Hour
• The John Byner Comedy Hour
• The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
• Me and the Chimp
• My Three Sons
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
• Suspense Theatre

[[NBC]]

Returning Series

• Adam-12
• The Bold Ones
• Bonanza
• Columbo
• The Dean Martin Show
• Emergency!
• First Tuesday
• The Flip Wilson Show
• Ironside
• McCloud
• McMillan & Wife
• Monday Night Baseball
• NBC Action Playhouse
• NBC Monday Night at the Movies
• The NBC Mystery Movie
• NBC Saturday Night at the Movies
• Night Gallery
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
• Sanford and Son
• The Wonderful World of Disney

New Series

• Banacek
• Banyon
• The Bobby Darin Show
• Cool Million
• Dean Martin Presents Music Country *
• Escape *
• Ghost Story/Circle of Fear
• Hec Ramsey
• The Helen Reddy Show *
• The Little People/***The Brian Keith Show ***
• Love Thy Neighbor
• Madigan
• The Magician *
• NBC Reports
• Search

Not returning from 1971–72:

• The D.A.
• Dean Martin Presents the Bobby Darin Amusement Co.
• The Funny Side
• The Good Life
• The Jimmy Stewart Show
• NBC Reports
• Nichols
• The Partners
• Sarge

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

References

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. .

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.
2. (March 20, 1972). "Major news project mapped by NBC-TV". [[Broadcasting & Cable.
3. Gent, George. (1972-03-15). "N.B.C.‐WTV Investigative Series Planned for Prime Time in Fall". The New York Times.