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1972-1973 Television Season

The top five shows of 1972-73 were Bridget Loves Bernie, Maude, Hawaii Five-0, and Sanford and Son with the most popular once again being All in the Family. (See below for the list of the top 30 programs.)

This was the first season that all three networks stopped making a point of the fact that their programs were in color (since all were now in color). It is also the first season that weekday network programming began no earlier than 8:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. Select a show below to read all about it and to share your memories!

Prime Time TV Schedule for 1972-1973
	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	Rookies		Monday Night Football
	Gunsmoke		Here's Lucy	Doris Day Show	New Bill Cosby Show
	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In		NBC Monday Night Movie
	Temperatures Rising	Tuesday Movie of the Week			Marcus Welby, M.D.
	Maude	Hawaii Five-O		New CBS Tuesday Night Movie
	Bonanza		New Doctors		NBC Reports
	Paul Lynde Show	Wednesday Movie of the Week			Julie Andrews Hour
	Carol Burnett Show		Medical Center		Cannon
	Adam 12	[Wednesday Mystery Movie (rotating)] Madigan / Cool Million / Banacek			Search
	Mod Squad		[The Men (rotating)] Assignment Vienna / Jigsaw / Delphi Bureau		Owen Marshall
	Waltons		CBS Thursday Night Movie
	Flip Wilson Show		Ironside		Dean Martin Show
	Brady Bunch	Partridge Family	Room 222	Odd Couple	Love, American Style
	Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour		New CBS Friday Night Movie
	Sanford & Son	Little People (Brian Keith Show)	Ghost Story		Banyon
	Alias Smith & Jones		Streets of San Francisco		The Sixth Sense
	All in the Family	Bridget Love Bernie	Mary Tyler Moore	Bob Newhart Show	Mission: Impossible
	Emergency!		NBC Saturday Night Movie
	The FBI		ABC Sunday Night Movie
	MASH	Sandy Duncan Show	New Dick Van Dyke Show	Mannix		[Local]
	Wonderful World of Disney	[Sunday Mystery Movie (rotating)] Hec Ramsey / McCloud / Columbo / McMillan & Wife			Night Gallery	[Local]
	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30

Note: Television seasons have generally begun in September of each year. And new shows often do not last the entire season. The shows below began the new season but did not necessarily run all the way through to summer reruns.
Continued - Indicates show began before the time period indicated.

1972-1973 Ratings

Rank	Show	Network	Estimated viewers
1.	All in the Family	CBS	21,578,000
2.	Sanford and Son	NBC	17,884,800
3.	Hawaii Five-O	CBS	16,329,600
4.	Maude	CBS	16,005,600
5.	Bridget Loves Bernie	CBS	15,681,600
6.	The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie	NBC	15,681,600
7.	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	CBS	15,292,800
8.	Gunsmoke	CBS	15,292,800
9.	The Wonderful World of Disney	NBC	15,228,000
10.	Ironside	NBC	15,163,000
11.	Adam 12	NBC	15,098,400
12.	The Flip Wilson Show	NBC	14,968,800
13.	Marcus Welby, M.D.	ABC	14,839,200
14.	Cannon	CBS	14,515,200
15.	Here's Lucy	CBS	14,191,200
16.	The Bob Newhart Show	CBS	14,126,400
17.	Tuesday Movie of the Week	ABC	13,932,000
18.	Monday Night Football	ABC	13,608,000
19.	The Partridge Family	ABC	13,348,800
20.	The Waltons	CBS	13,348,800
21.	Medical Center	CBS	13,348,800
22.	The Carol Burnett Show	CBS	13,154,400
23.	ABC Sunday Night Movie	ABC	12,960,000
24.	The Rookies	ABC	12,960,000
25.	Barnaby Jones	CBS	12,895,200
26.	The Little People (Brian Keith Show)	NBC	12,895,200
27.	ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week	ABC	12,895,200
28.	NBC Monday Movie	NBC	12,506,400
29.	ABC Monday Movie	ABC	12,441,600
30.	The F.B.I.	ABC	12,441,600

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