1995–96 United States network television schedule

1995 in American television 1996 in American television

List of American television programs currently in production

Daytime: 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98

Prime time: 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98

Late night: 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98

The following is the 1995–96 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1995 through August 1996. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1994–95 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.

New series highlighted in bold.

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

  Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.

  Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.

  Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.

Other Legend

•   Light grey indicates local programming.
•   Gray indicates encore programming.
•   Blue-gray indicates news programming.
•   Light green indicates sporting events.
•   Light Purple indicates movies.
•   Red indicates series being burned off and other regularly scheduled programs, including specials.

Note: This is the first fall season for The WB and UPN. The schedules of either network would not be constant until fall 1999, when the WB decided to air shows from Sunday through Friday and UPN would air Monday through Friday. This is also the first television season to officially end in the month of May. From July 19 to August 4, 1996, all of NBC's primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.

Sunday

Network		7:00 PM	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	America's Funniest Home Videos		Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman		The ABC Sunday Night Movie
	Mid-Summer	Muppets Tonight	America's Funniest Home Videos
CBS	Fall	60 Minutes (#9/14.2)		Cybill	Almost Perfect	CBS Sunday Movie (#24/11.4) (Tied with Law & Order, The Naked Truth and Can't Hurry Love)
	Spring				The Bonnie Hunt Show
	Follow-up			Murder, She Wrote
	Mid-Summer			Touched By An Angel
Fox	Fall	Space: Above and Beyond		The Simpsons	Too Something	Married... with Children	Misery Loves Company	Local Programming
	Follow Up				Martin		What's So Funny?
	Spring				The Show		Local Heroes
	Summer				New York Daze		The Crew
	Mid-Summer	Party of Five			Married... with Children	New York Undercover
NBC	Fall	Brotherly Love	Minor Adjustments	Mad About You	Hope and Gloria	NBC Sunday Night Movie (#21/12.2)
	Winter	Various Repeats / Specials			NewsRadio
	Spring	Dateline NBC
	Mid-Summer			3rd Rock from the Sun	Boston Common
The WB	Fall	Pinky and the Brain	Sister, Sister (Repeats)	Kirk	Simon	Cleghorne!	First Time Out	Local Programming
	Follow Up		Kirk	Sister, Sister (Repeats)	Cleghorne!	First Time Out	Simon
	Winter		Simon		Kirk	Savannah
	April		The Parent 'Hood (Repeats)
	Mid-Summer	Kirk	Brotherly Love	The Parent 'Hood	Sister, Sister	Unhappily Ever After	The Parent 'Hood

Monday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	The Marshal		Monday Night Football (#5/17.1)
	Winter	The ABC Monday Night Movie				Murder One
	February	Second Noah		Various Special
	Spring			High Incident
	Summer	The Marshal		The ABC Monday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	The Nanny (#16/12.5) (Tied with Roseanne)	Can't Hurry Love (#24/11.4) (Tied with Law & Order, the CBS Sunday Movie and The Naked Truth)	Murphy Brown (#18/12.3) (Tied with Walker, Texas Ranger and Primetime Live)	If Not for You	Chicago Hope (#23/11.9)
	Follow Up				High Society
	Spring		Almost Perfect		Good Company
	Follow Up		Dave's World		Cybill
	Mid-Summer		Almost Perfect
Fox	Fall	Melrose Place		Partners	Ned and Stacey	Local Programming
	Winter			Ned and Stacey	Partners
	Spring			Profit
	Summer	Ned and Stacey	The Last Frontier	L.A. Firefighters
	Mid-Summer	Fox Night at the Movies
NBC	Fall	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	In the House	The NBC Monday Movie (#14/12.9) (Tied with Coach)
	Spring		Brotherly Love
	Follow Up		In the House
	Summer		The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
UPN	Fall	Star Trek: Voyager		Nowhere Man		Local Programming
	Mid-Summer	In the House	In the House

Tuesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Roseanne (#16/12.5) (Tied with The Nanny)	Hudson Street	Home Improvement (#7/16.1)	Coach (#14/12.9) (Tied with the NBC Monday Movie)	NYPD Blue (#10/14.1)
	Winter		Coach (#14/12.9) (Tied with the NBC Monday Movie)		Champs
	Follow Up				Home Improvement (Repeats)
	Spring				The Dana Carvey Show (#30/11.2)
	Summer		The Drew Carey Show		Coach (#14/12.9) (Tied with the NBC Monday Night Movie)
CBS	Fall	The Client		CBS Tuesday Movie
	Mid-Summer	Rescue 911
Fox		Fox Tuesday Night Movie				Local Programming
NBC	Fall	Wings	NewsRadio	Frasier (#11/13.6) (Tied with 20/20)	The Pursuit of Happiness	Dateline NBC (#28/11.3)
	December				The John Larroquette Show
	Winter		3rd Rock from the Sun (#22/12.1)
	Spring	3rd Rock from the Sun (#22/12.1)	Wings
	Summer		NewsRadio		Wings
	Mid-Summer	Mad About You			Caroline in the City
UPN	Fall	Deadly Games		Live Shot		Local Programming
	Winter	Moesha	Minor Adjustments	Deadly Games
	Spring			The Paranormal Borderline

Wednesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Ellen	The Drew Carey Show	Grace Under Fire (#13/13.2)	The Naked Truth (#24/11.4) (Tied with Law & Order, the CBS Sunday Movie and Can't Hurry Love)	Primetime Live (#18/12.3) (Tied with Walker, Texas Ranger and Murphy Brown)
	Winter		The Faculty		Buddies
	Spring		The Drew Carey Show		The Faculty
	June		Hudson Street
	July		The Faculty		Champs
	August				The Drew Carey Show
CBS	Fall	Bless This House	Dave's World	Central Park West		Courthouse
	Follow Up	Dave's World	Bless This House	CBS Wednesday Movie
	Winter			Matt Waters		American Gothic
	Follow Up		The Louie Show	CBS Wednesday Movie
	April		My Guys
	May	Various Specials
	June			Picket Fences		Central Park West
	July	Dave's World	Can't Hurry Love	American Gothic		American Gothic
	August	The Nanny	Dave's World	CBS Wednesday Movie
Fox	Fall	Beverly Hills, 90210		Party of Five		Local Programming
	Spring			Kindred: The Embraced
	Summer			Party of Five
NBC	Fall	seaQuest 2032		Dateline NBC (#28/11.3)		Law & Order (#24/11.4) (Tied with the CBS Sunday Movie, The Naked Truth and Can't Hurry Love)
	Winter	Various Specials and National Geographic Specials
	Spring	JAG
	August	Wings	The John Larroquette Show
UPN	Spring (Starting in mid-March)	The Sentinel		Swift Justice		Local Programming
	August			Star Trek: Voyager
The WB		Sister, Sister	The Parent 'Hood	The Wayans Bros.	Unhappily Ever After

Thursday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Charlie Grace		The Monroes		Murder One
	Follow Up	The ABC Thursday Night Movie
	Winter	Mix of Various Specials & Movies, America's Funniest Home Videos (Reruns) and The Commish
	February	World's Funniest Videos	Before They Were Stars	The ABC Thursday Night Movie / Various Specials & Turning Point
	Mid-Summer	High Incident		The ABC Thursday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	Murder, She Wrote		New York News		48 Hours
	Winter			Rescue 911
	Mid-Summer	CBS Thursday Night Movie
Fox	Fall	Living Single	The Crew	New York Undercover		Local Programming
	Spring		Martin
	Summer	Martin	The Show
	Follow Up		Living Single
NBC	Fall	Friends (#3/18.7)	The Single Guy (#6/16.7)	Seinfeld (#2/21.2)	Caroline in the City (#4/18.0)	ER (#1/22.0)
	Spring		Boston Common (#8/15.6)
	Follow Up		The Single Guy (#6/16.7)

Friday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Family Matters	Boy Meets World	Step by Step	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper	20/20 (#11/13.6) (Tied with Frasier)
	March		Muppets Tonight	Aliens in the Family	Step by Step
	Follow Up			Step by Step	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
	April		Boy Meets World
CBS	Fall	Dweebs	The Bonnie Hunt Show	Picket Fences		American Gothic
	Winter	Due South		Diagnosis: Murder		Picket Fences
	Spring					Nash Bridges
	Summer					Central Park West
	Mid-Summer					Nash Bridges
Fox	Fall	Strange Luck		The X-Files		Local Programming
	March	Sliders
	April	Space: Above and Beyond
	Follow Up	Sliders
NBC		Unsolved Mysteries		Dateline NBC		Homicide: Life on the Street

Saturday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	The Jeff Foxworthy Show	Maybe This Time	ABC Saturday Night at the Movies
	February	Hudson Street
	Spring	ABC Saturday Night at the Movies & Various Specials
	Summer	Second Noah		ABC Saturday Night at the Movies
CBS		Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman		Touched by an Angel		Walker, Texas Ranger (#18/12.3) (Tied with Primetime Live and Murphy Brown)
Fox	Fall	Martin	The Preston Episodes	COPS	America's Most Wanted	Local Programming
	Follow Up	COPS		America's Most Wanted
	November		Encounters: The Hidden Truth
	December		COPS
NBC	Fall	JAG		The John Larroquette Show	The Home Court	Sisters
	Winter			Hope and Gloria
	Spring	Malibu Shores
	June	Hope and Gloria	The Home Court	NBC Saturday Night Movie
	July	JAG
	Late Summer	NBC Coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympics
	Follow Up	Various Specials		NBC Saturday Night Movie

Note: JAG was on Saturdays until February 3, 1996; then, on March 13, 1996, NBC moved the show to Wednesdays.

By network

ABC

Returning series 20/20 The ABC Sunday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie America's Funniest Home Videos Boy Meets World Coach The Commish Ellen Family Matters Grace Under Fire Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Home Improvement Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman The Marshal Monday Night Football NYPD Blue Primetime Live Roseanne Step by Step Turning Point

New series Aliens in the Family * Before They Were Stars * Buddies * Champs * Charlie Grace The Dana Carvey Show * The Drew Carey Show The Faculty * High Incident * Hudson Street The Jeff Foxworthy Show Maybe This Time The Monroes Muppets Tonight * Murder One The Naked Truth Second Noah * World's Funniest Videos *

Not returning from 1994–95: All-American Girl Baseball Night in America Blue Skies Bringing up Jack Day One Extreme Full House Matlock McKenna Me and the Boys My So-Called Life On Our Own Sister, Sister (moved to The WB) Thunder Alley A Whole New Ballgame

CBS

Returning series 48 Hours 60 Minutes CBS Sunday Movie Chicago Hope Cybill Dave's World Diagnosis: Murder Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Due South Murder, She Wrote Murphy Brown The Nanny Picket Fences Rescue 911 Touched by an Angel Walker, Texas Ranger

New series Almost Perfect American Gothic Bless This House The Bonnie Hunt Show Can't Hurry Love Central Park West The Client Courthouse Dweebs Good Company * High Society * The Louie Show * Matt Waters * My Guys * Nash Bridges New York News

Not returning from 1994–95: The Boys Are Back Burke's Law Christy Daddy's Girls Double Rush Eye to Eye with Connie Chung The 5 Mrs. Buchanans The George Wendt Show Hearts Afire Love & War Muddling Through Northern Exposure The Office Under One Roof Under Suspicion Women of the House The Wright Verdicts

Fox

Returning series America's Most Wanted Beverly Hills, 90210 COPS Encounters: The Hidden Truth FOX Night at the Movies Living Single Married... with Children Martin Melrose Place New York Undercover Party of Five The Simpsons Sliders The X-Files

New series The Crew Kindred: The Embraced * L.A. Firefighters * The Last Frontier * Local Heroes * Misery Loves Company Ned and Stacey Partners The Preston Episodes Profit * The Show * Space: Above and Beyond Strange Luck Too Something What's So Funny? *

Not returning from 1994–95: Dream On Fortune Hunter Get Smart The George Carlin Show The Great Defender Hardball House of Buggin' M.A.N.T.I.S. Medicine Ball Models Inc. My Wildest Dreams VR.5 Wild Oats

NBC

Returning series Dateline NBC ER Frasier The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Friends Homicide: Life on the Street Hope and Gloria In the House The John Larroquette Show Law & Order Mad About You NBC Sunday Night Movie The NBC Monday Movie NewsRadio seaQuest 2032 (formerly known as seaQuest DSV) Seinfeld Sisters Unsolved Mysteries Wings

New series 3rd Rock from the Sun * Boston Common * Brotherly Love Caroline in the City The Home Court JAG Malibu Shores * Minor Adjustments (moved to UPN) The Pursuit of Happiness The Single Guy *

Not returning from 1994–95: Amazing Grace Blossom The Cosby Mysteries Earth 2 Empty Nest High Sierra Search and Rescue Madman of the People The Martin Short Show The Mommies Pride & Joy Something Wilder Sweet Justice Time Life's Lost Civilizations

UPN

Returning series Star Trek: Voyager

New series Deadly Games Live Shot Minor Adjustments (moved from NBC) Moesha * Nowhere Man The Paranormal Borderline * The Sentinel * Swift Justice *

Not returning from 1994–95: Legend Marker Pig Sty Platypus Man The Watcher

The WB

The Parent 'Hood Sister, Sister (moved from ABC) Unhappily Ever After The Wayans Bros.

New series Cleghorne! First Time Out Kirk Pinky and the Brain Savannah * Simon

Not returning from 1994–95: Muscle

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.