1993–94 United States network television schedule

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.

  • Morning: 1991–92
  • 1992–93
  • 1993–94
  • 1994–95
  • 1995–96
  • Overnight: 1991–92
  • 1992–93
  • 1993–94
  • 1994–95
  • 1995–96

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 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
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
December Married... with Children (Repeats)
Winter Code 3 Code 3 The George Carlin Show
Late Spring Various Specials
Summer The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
August The Simpsons The Simpsons
NBC Fall I Witness Video seaQuest DSV NBC Sunday Night Movie
Spring NBA on NBC
June NBA on NBC / NBA Finals Frasier (Repeats) Law & Order (Repeats)
Summer I Witness Video seaQuest DSV NBC Sunday Night Movie
August Various Specials

Monday
Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall Day One ABC's Monday Night Football (8/16.5)
Winter 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
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)
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 10:30 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
August 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
Follow Up Front Page
Spring South Central
May 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 The Good Life 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 Wings

Wednesday
Network 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 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 Birdland
Follow Up The Critic
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)
CBS Fall MLB on CBS
Late October Hearts Afire The Nanny South of Sunset 48 Hours
November Various Specials
Winter The Nanny Hearts Afire In the Heat of the Night
Spring Tom
Summer Good Advice America Tonight
August Muddling Through
Fox Fall Beverly Hills, 90210 Melrose Place Local Programming
Mid-Summer Models Inc.
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 10:30 PM
ABC Fall Missing Persons Matlock Primetime Live (17/14.0)
March The Byrds of Paradise
April Birdland
Follow Up Matlock
July Matlock
August 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?
Spring Christy Traps
May 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
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 Bakersfield P.D.
August Martin Living Single
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 10:30 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 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
ABC Fall The ABC Saturday Night Movie The Commish
November George Where I Live The Paula Poundstone Show
Follow-up Various Specials
December The ABC Saturday Night Movie
CBS Fall Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (25/13.3)
(Tied with The CBS Tuesday Movie)		 Harts of the West Walker, Texas Ranger
October MLB on CBS
November Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (25/13.3)
(Tied with The CBS Tuesday Movie)		 Harts of the West Walker, Texas Ranger
Spring The Road Home
Late April Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman / Walker, Texas Ranger
Summer Harts of the West
Mid-Summer Muddling Through Hearts Afire
Fox Fall COPS COPS Front Page Local Programming
Mid-Winter America's Most Wanted
NBC Fall The Mommies Café Americain Empty Nest Nurses Sisters
Winter Getting By
March Blossom The Mommies Winnetka Road
Mid-April Sisters
May The Mommies
Summer Getting By
Mid-Summer NBC Saturday Night Movie
August The Mommies Empty Nest 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

CBS

Fox

NBC

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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