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The 1995–96 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the primetime hours from September 1995 through August 1996. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 1994–95 season.

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

Each of the 30 highest-rated shows released in May 1996 is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.[1]

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.

New series highlighted in bold.

Repeat airings or same-day rebroadcasts are indicated by (R).

All times are U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time (except for some live sports or events). Subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian times.

All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local and/or late-night programming (including Fox affiliates during the 10 p.m. ET/PT hour) by affiliates after game completion.

Legend

  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 scheduled programs, including specials.

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. 10:30 p.m.
ABC Fall America's Funniest Home Videos Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman The ABC Sunday Night Movie
Summer Muppets Tonight America's Funniest Home Videos (R)
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)
Late Winter Bonnie
Spring Murder, She Wrote
Summer Touched By An Angel (R)
Fox Fall Space: Above and Beyond The Simpsons Too Something Married... with Children Misery Loves Company Local programming
Late fall Martin What's So Funny?
Winter The Show Local Heroes
Spring New York Daze The Crew
Summer Party of Five (R) Married... with Children (R) New York Undercover (R)
NBC Fall Brotherly Love Minor Adjustments Mad About You Hope and Gloria NBC Sunday Night Movie (21/12.2)
Late fall Special programming NewsRadio
Winter Dateline NBC
Summer 3rd Rock from the Sun (R) Boston Common
The WB Early fall Pinky and the Brain Sister, Sister (R) Kirk Simon Cleghorne! First Time Out Local Programming
Fall Kirk Sister, Sister (R) Cleghorne! First Time Out Simon
Winter Simon Kirk Savannah
Late winter The Parent 'Hood (R)
Summer Kirk (R) Brotherly Love (R) The Parent 'Hood (R) Sister, Sister (R) Unhappily Ever After (R) The Parent 'Hood (R)

Monday

Network 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
ABC Fall The Marshal Monday Night Football (5/17.1)
Winter The ABC Monday Night Movie Murder One
Mid-winter Second Noah Special programming
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)
Mid-fall High Society
Winter Almost Perfect Good Company
Spring Dave's World Cybill (R)
Summer Almost Perfect (R)
Fox Fall Melrose Place Partners Ned and Stacey Local programming
Winter Ned and Stacey Partners
Spring Profit
Late spring Ned and Stacey (R) The Last Frontier L.A. Firefighters
Summer Fox Movie Special
NBC Fall The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air In the House The NBC Monday Movie (14/12.9)
(Tied with Coach)
Winter Brotherly Love
Spring In the House
Summer The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
UPN Fall Star Trek: Voyager Nowhere Man Local programming
Summer In the House (R)

Tuesday

Network 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
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
Mid-winter Various programming
Late winter The Dana Carvey Show (30/11.2)
Spring The Drew Carey Show (R) Coach (R)
CBS Fall The Client CBS Tuesday Movie
Summer Rescue 911 (R)
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)
Late fall The John Larroquette Show
Winter 3rd Rock from the Sun (22/12.1)
Spring 3rd Rock from the Sun (22/12.1) Wings
Late spring NewsRadio (R) Wings (R)
Summer Mad About You (R) Caroline in the City (R)
UPN Fall Deadly Games Live Shot Local programming
Winter Moesha Minor Adjustments Special programming
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 (R) The Faculty
Late spring Hudson Street
Summer The Faculty (R) Champs
Mid-summer The Drew Carey Show (R)
CBS Fall Bless This House Dave's World Central Park West Courthouse
Late fall Dave's World Bless This House Special programming
Winter Matt Waters American Gothic
Mid-winter The Louie Show CBS Wednesday Movie
Spring My Guys
Follow Up Special programming
Late spring Picket Fences Central Park West
Summer Dave's World (R) Can't Hurry Love (R) American Gothic American Gothic
Mid-summer The Nanny (R) Dave's World (R) Various programming
Fox Fall Beverly Hills, 90210 Party of Five Local programming
Spring Kindred: The Embraced
Late spring Party of Five (R)
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 Special programming
Late winter JAG
Summer Wings (R) The John Larroquette Show (R)
UPN Spring
(Starting in mid-March) 		The Sentinel Swift Justice Local programming
Summer Star Trek: Voyager (R)
The WB Sister, Sister The Parent 'Hood The Wayans Bros. Unhappily Ever After

Thursday

Network 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
ABC Fall Charlie Grace The Monroes Murder One
Mid-fall The ABC Thursday Night Movie
Winter Special programming
Mid-winter World's Funniest Videos Before They Were Stars The ABC Thursday Night Movie
Summer High Incident
CBS Fall Murder, She Wrote New York News 48 Hours
Winter Rescue 911
Summer CBS Thursday Night Movie
Fox Fall Living Single The Crew New York Undercover Local programming
Winter Martin
Spring Martin (R) The Show
Late spring Living Single (R)
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)
Mid-spring The Single Guy (6/16.7)

Friday

Network 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
ABC Fall Family Matters Boy Meets World Step by Step Hangin' with Mr. Cooper 20/20 (11/13.6)
(Tied with Frasier)
Winter Muppets Tonight
Spring Boy Meets World
CBS Fall Dweebs The Bonnie Hunt Show Picket Fences American Gothic
Mid-fall Due South Diagnosis: Murder Picket Fences
Spring Nash Bridges
Late spring Central Park West
Summer Nash Bridges
Fox Fall Strange Luck The X-Files Local programming
Winter Sliders
NBC Unsolved Mysteries Dateline NBC Homicide: Life on the Street

Saturday

Network 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
ABC Fall The Jeff Foxworthy Show Maybe This Time ABC Saturday Night at the Movies
Winter Hudson Street
Late winter Special programming
Spring 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
Late fall COPS COPS (R) America's Most Wanted
NBC Fall JAG The John Larroquette Show The Home Court Sisters
Winter Hope and Gloria
Late winter Malibu Shores
Spring Special programming
Summer Various programming 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

CBS

Fox

NBC

UPN

The WB

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.
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