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The following is the 1993–94 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1993 through August 1994. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1992–93 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.

New series are 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 blue 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 season in which Fox commenced television broadcasts on every night of the week from the beginning of the season onward.

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, is not included; member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. From February 12 to 27, 1994, all of CBS' primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

Sunday

Network		7:00 p.m.	7:30 p.m.	8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.
ABC		America's Funniest Home Videos	The New America's Funniest People	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman		The ABC Sunday Night Movie (30/12.6) (Tied with Family Matters)
CBS		60 Minutes (1/20.9)		Murder, She Wrote (11/16.0)		CBS Sunday Movie (10/16.2)
Fox	Fall	Townsend Television		Martin	Living Single	Married... with Children	Daddy Dearest	Local programming
	Late fall	Townsend Television					Married... with Children (R)
	Winter	Code 3 (R)					The George Carlin Show
	Spring	Special programming
	Summer	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
	Mid-summer	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.		The Simpsons (R)
NBC	Fall	I Witness Video		seaQuest DSV		NBC Sunday Night Movie
	Spring	NBA on NBC
	Summer	Special programming

Monday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Day One		ABC's Monday Night Football (8/16.5)
	Winter	Day One		The ABC Monday Night Movie
	July	Baseball Night in America
	August	Coach	Coach	ABC's Preseason Monday Night Football
CBS	Fall	Evening Shade (27/13.2) (Tied with Phenom and Rescue 911)	Dave's World (21/13.7) (Tied with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)	Murphy Brown (9/16.3)	Love & War (13/14.5)	Northern Exposure (14/14.4)
	Spring	Dave's World (21/13.7) (Tied with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)	704 Hauser		Hearts Afire
	May	Evening Shade (27/13.2) (Tied with Phenom and Rescue 911)	New Episodes of Various CBS Comedies		Hearts Afire
	June	Dave's World (21/13.7) (Tied with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)	Tom		Good Advice
	Summer		The Nanny		Love & War (13/14.5)
	Mid-Summer	The Nanny	Dave's World (21/13.7) (Tied with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)		Love & War (13/14.5)
Fox		Fox Night at the Movies				Local programming
NBC	Fall	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (21/13.7) (Tied with Dave's World)	Blossom	The NBC Monday Movie (23/13.6)
	Spring		Someone Like Me
	April		Blossom

Tuesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Full House (16/14.2)	Phenom (27/13.2) (Tied with Evening Shade and Rescue 911)	Roseanne (4/19.1)	Coach (6/17.4)	NYPD Blue (18/13.9) (Tied with Wings)
	Summer		Sister, Sister			NYPD Blue (18/13.9) (Tied with Wings)
	August		Sister, Sister			She TV
CBS		Rescue 911 (27/13.2) (Tied with Phenom and Evening Shade)		CBS Tuesday Movie (25/13.3) (Tied with Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
Fox	Fall	Roc	Bakersfield P.D.	America's Most Wanted		Local Programming
	Winter	Monty	Roc	America's Most Wanted
	Follow Up	Monty		Front Page
	Spring	South Central		Front Page
	May	South Central		Tales from the Crypt	Tales from the Crypt
NBC	Fall	Saved by the Bell: The College Years	Getting By	The John Larroquette Show	The Second Half	Dateline NBC
	Winter	Saved by the Bell: The College Years	The Good Life	The John Larroquette Show	Café Americain
	Spring	The Good Life	The Second Half	The John Larroquette Show (Repeats)	The John Larroquette Show
	Mid-April	Various Specials / NBC Movie of the Week
	Summer	Various Specials		The John Larroquette Show	The John Larroquette Show
	Mid-Summer	TV Nation		The John Larroquette Show	Wings

Wednesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Thea	Joe's Life	Home Improvement (2/20.4)	Grace Under Fire (5/17.7)	Moon Over Miami
	December		George			Various Specials
	January		George			Birdland
	Follow Up		The Critic			Birdland
	Spring	Home Improvement (Repeats)	Thunder Alley (12/15.9)		These Friends of Mine	Turning Point (20/13.8)
	Summer	Dinosaurs	The Critic		Grace Under Fire (5/17.7)
	August	Thunder Alley (12/15.9)	Phenom (27/13.2) (Tied with Evening Shade and Rescue 911)		Grace Under Fire (5/17.7)
CBS	Fall	MLB on CBS
	Late October	Hearts Afire	The Nanny	South of Sunset		48 Hours
	November	Hearts Afire	The Nanny	Various Specials
	Winter	The Nanny	Hearts Afire	In the Heat of the Night
	Spring		Tom	In the Heat of the Night
	Summer		Good Advice	America Tonight
	August		Muddling Through	America Tonight
Fox	Fall	Beverly Hills, 90210		Melrose Place		Local Programming
Fox	Summer	Beverly Hills, 90210		Models Inc.		Local Programming
NBC		Unsolved Mysteries		Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric		Law & Order

Note: After airing only a single episode of South of Sunset on October 27, CBS cancelled the show and broadcast no further episodes.

Thursday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Missing Persons		Matlock		Primetime Live (17/14.0)
	March	The Byrds of Paradise		Matlock
	April			Birdland
	Follow Up			Matlock
	July	Matlock		Matlock
	August	Matlock		The Commish
CBS	Fall	In the Heat of the Night		Eye to Eye with Connie Chung		Angel Falls
	Follow Up					Top Cops / Various Programming
	December					Second Chances
	Winter	How'd They Do That?				Second Chances
	Spring	Christy				Traps
	May	Christy		Various Specials		Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
	June	How'd They Do That?		Eye to Eye with Connie Chung		Picket Fences
	Follow Up	In the Heat of the Night				Picket Fences
	August	One West Waikiki				Hotel Malibu
Fox	Fall	The Simpsons	The Sinbad Show	In Living Color	Herman's Head	Local Programming
	Late April		The Simpsons (Repeats)		Various FOX Comedy Repeats
	June		The Sinbad Show		Herman's Head
	July		The Sinbad Show		Bakersfield P.D.
	August	Martin	Living Single		Bakersfield P.D.
NBC	Fall	Mad About You	Wings (18/13.9) (Tied with NYPD Blue)	Seinfeld (3/19.4)	Frasier (7/16.8)	L.A. Law
	January					Homicide: Life on the Street (24/13.5)
	February					L.A. Law
	Late May					Law & Order (Repeats)
	Summer					Dateline NBC

Friday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Family Matters (30/12.6) (Tied with The ABC Sunday Night Movie)	Boy Meets World	Step by Step	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper	20/20 (15/14.3)
	Spring				Sister, Sister
	Mid-May				Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
CBS	Fall	It Had to Be You	Family Album	CBS Friday Night Movie / Specials / MLB on CBS
	Late October	Diagnosis: Murder		Bob	Family Album	Picket Fences
	December			Various Specials
	January			Burke's Law
Fox	Fall	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.		The X-Files		Local Programming
	Summer	Encounters: The Hidden Truth
	Late July	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	X-Men
	August	NFL Preseason on FOX
NBC	Fall	Against the Grain		NBC Friday Night Mystery
	Mid-November	Various Specials
	January	Viper
	Mid-April	Various Specials
	Mid-July	I Witness Video

Note: On CBS, Good Advice was to have returned on this night at 9 p.m., followed by Bob at 9:30 p.m. Late changes resulted in Bob beginning at 9 p.m., Family Album moving to 9:30 p.m. in mid-October, It Had to Be You being canceled at the same time, and Good Advice not returning till the following May. Additionally, Diagnosis: Murder premiered in late October to fill the 8–9 p.m. hour.

Saturday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.
ABC	Fall	The ABC Saturday Night Movie				The Commish
	Mid-fall	George	Where I Live	Various programming
	Late fall	The ABC Saturday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	MLB on CBS
	Mid-fall	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (25/13.3) (Tied with The CBS Tuesday Movie)		Harts of the West		Walker, Texas Ranger
	Winter			The Road Home
	Spring			Various programming
	Late spring			Harts of the West
	Summer			Muddling Through	Hearts Afire
Fox	Fall	COPS	COPS (R)	Front Page		Local programming
Fox	Winter	COPS	COPS (R)	America's Most Wanted		Local programming
NBC	Fall	The Mommies	Café Americain	Empty Nest	Nurses	Sisters
	Winter	The Mommies	Getting By			Sisters
	Late winter	Blossom	The Mommies			Winnetka Road
	Spring	Blossom	The Mommies			Sisters
	Late spring	The Mommies (R)	Getting By
	Summer	NBC Saturday Night Movie
	Mid-summer	The Mommies (R)	Empty Nest (R)	NBC Saturday Night Movie

Note: NBC was scheduled to show its portion of Baseball Night in America in August and September 1994, but those games were cancelled by the Major League Baseball players' strike.

By network

ABC

Returning series

New series

Baseball Night in America
Birdland *
Boy Meets World
The Byrds of Paradise *
The Critic *
Ellen *
George
Grace Under Fire
Joe's Life
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Missing Persons
Moon Over Miami
NYPD Blue
The Paula Poundstone Show
Phenom
She TV *
Sister, Sister *
Thea
Thunder Alley *
Turning Point *

Not returning from 1992–93:

CBS

Returning series

New series

Not returning from 1992–93:

Fox

Returning series

New series

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Bakersfield P.D.
Daddy Dearest
Encounters: The Hidden Truth *
The George Carlin Show *
Living Single
Models Inc.
Monty *
The Sinbad Show
South Central *
Townsend Television
The X-Files

Not returning from 1992–93:

Batman: The Animated Series (returned to daytime)
The Ben Stiller Show
Class of '96
Danger Theatre
Down the Shore
The Edge
Flying Blind
Great Scott!
The Heights
Key West
Likely Suspects
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Shaky Ground
Sightings (moved to syndication)
TriBeCa
Woops!

NBC

Returning series

New series

Against the Grain
Café Americain
Frasier
The Good Life *
The John Larroquette Show
The Mommies
Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric *
Saved by the Bell: The College Years
seaQuest DSV
The Second Half
Someone Like Me *
Viper *
Winnetka Road *

Not returning from 1992–93:

Almost Home
Black Tie Affair
Cheers
Crime & Punishment
A Different World
Final Appeal
Here and Now
I'll Fly Away
Out All Night
The Powers That Be
Quantum Leap
Reasonable Doubts
Rhythm & Blues
The Round Table
Route 66
Secret Service
South Beach
Super Bloopers and New Practical Jokes
What Happened?

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

References

^ 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.

[BM2-1] 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.

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-*''[[Key West (TV series)|Key West]]''
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-*''[[Likely Suspects]]''
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-*''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]''
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-*''[[Shaky Ground]]''
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