1995–96 United States network television schedule

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 to 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

•   Light blue indicates local programming.
•   Gray indicates encore programming.
•   Blue-gray indicates news programming.
•   Light green indicates sporting events.
•   Red indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials and movies.
•   Light gold indicates programming produced outside of the United States.
•  highlight  Yellow highlights indicates the top-10 most watched programs of the season.
•  highlight  Cyan highlights indicates numbers 11-20 most watched programs of the season.
•  highlight  Magenta highlights indicates numbers 21-30 most watched programs of the season.
•  highlight  Highlights indicates that it falls in multiple of the above categories.

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
	Winter
	Spring
	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)
	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
	Mid-Spring	Various Specials			The Simpsons (R)		Married... with Children (R)
	Late 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
	Late Winter		Almost Perfect		Good Company
	Mid-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
	Winter
	Spring
	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)
	Late Spring		The Drew Carey Show (R)		Coach (R)
CBS	Fall	The Client		CBS Tuesday Movie
	Winter
	Spring
	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
	Mid-spring	Special programming
	Late spring			Picket Fences		Central Park West
	Summer	Dave's World (R)	Can't Hurry Love (R)	American Gothic
	Mid-summer	The Nanny (R)	Dave's World (R)	Various programming
Fox	Fall	Beverly Hills, 90210		Party of Five		Local programming
	Winter
	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
	Spring
	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
	Late Fall			Various programming
	Late 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)
	Winter
	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
	Spring		Muppets Tonight
	Mid-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
	Spring
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
	Late 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	COPS	The Preston Episodes	America's Most Wanted		Local programming
	Late fall		COPS (R)
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's Saturday Movie Of The Week

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 Monday Night Movie The ABC Sunday Night Movie ABC Saturday Night at the Movies The ABC Thursday 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 ABC Saturday Night At The Movies 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: ABC Family Movie 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 Tuesday Night Movie 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 MADtv Ned and Stacey Partners The Preston Episodes Profit * The Show * Saturday Night Special Space: Above and Beyond Strange Luck Too Something What's So Funny? *

Not returning from 1994–95: The Critic 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 TV Nation 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 NBC's Saturday Movie Of The Week 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

Returning series 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.