1991–92 United States network television schedule

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:USTV The 1991–92 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 1991 through August 1992. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1990–91 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.

New series are highlighted in bold. Series ending their original runs are highlighted in italics.

Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.<ref name="BM2">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. Template:ISBN.</ref>

Template:Color box Lime indicates the number-one most-watched program of the season.

Template:Color box Yellow indicates the programs in the top 10 for the season.

Template:Color box Cyan indicates the programs in the top 20 for the season.

Template:Color box Magenta indicates the programs in the top 30 for the season.

PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. From February 8 to 24, 1992, all of CBS' primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and from July 25 to August 9, 1992, all of NBC's primetime programming was preempted in favor of coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

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		Life Goes On		America's Funniest Home Videos Template:Small	America's Funniest People Template:Small	The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS		Template:Highlight		Murder, She Wrote Template:Small		Template:Highlight
Fox	Fall	True Colors	Parker Lewis Can't Lose	In Living Color	Roc	Married... with Children	Herman's Head	The Sunday Comics
	Winter
	Spring			Roc	In Living Color			Stand By Your Man	Get a Life
	Summer	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures	True Colors	In Living Color	Rachel Gunn, R.N.			Down the Shore	Stand By Your Man
NBC	Fall	The Adventures of Mark & Brian	Eerie, Indiana	Man of the People	Pacific Station	NBC Sunday Night Movie
	Late fall	Eerie, Indiana	The Torkelsons	Hot Country Nights
	Spring		Against All Odds	Mann & Machine
	Summer	The Adventures of Mark & Brian		In the Heat of the Night Template:Small
	Late summer	Secret Service		I Witness Video

Monday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	MacGyver		Template:Highlight
	Winter
	Mid-winter	FBI: The Untold Stories	American Detective	Template:Highlight
	Spring
	Summer
CBS	Fall	Evening Shade Template:Small	Major Dad Template:Small	Murphy Brown Template:Small	Designing Women Template:Small	Northern Exposure Template:Small
	Winter
	Spring
	Summer				Grapevine
	Mid-summer				Designing Women Template:Small
Fox		Fox Night at the Movies				Template:Small
NBC		The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Template:Small	Blossom	Template:Highlight

Tuesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Full House Template:Small	Home Improvement Template:Small	Roseanne Template:Small	Coach Template:Small	Homefront
	Winter
	Spring				Room for Two Template:Small	Civil Wars
	Mid-spring				Coach Template:Small
	Summer					Jack's Place
CBS		Rescue 911		The CBS Tuesday Movie
NBC	Fall	I'll Fly Away		In the Heat of the Night Template:Small		Law & Order
	Winter
	Spring	In the Heat of the Night Template:Small		Law & Order		Reasonable Doubts
	Mid-spring					Dateline NBC
	Summer	Mann & Machine
	Mid-summer			Quantum Leap Template:Small
	Late summer	Quantum Leap Template:Small		Reasonable Doubts

Wednesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Dinosaurs	The Wonder Years	Doogie Howser, M.D.	Sibs	Anything but Love	Good & Evil
	Late Fall				Anything but Love	Civil Wars
	Winter
	Spring	The Wonder Years	Doogie Howser, M.D.	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles		Homefront
	Mid-spring			Room for Two Template:Small	Sibs	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
	Summer		Growing Pains Template:Small	Doogie Howser, M.D.	Who's the Boss? Template:Small	Civil Wars
	Mid-summer		Doogie Howser, M.D.	Home Improvement Template:Small	Arresting Behavior
CBS	Fall	The Royal Family	Teech	Jake and the Fatman		Template:Highlight
	Late fall	Brooklyn Bridge	The Royal Family
	Winter	Davis Rules	Brooklyn Bridge
	Spring	The Royal Family	Davis Rules
	Late spring	Davis Rules	Brooklyn Bridge
	Summer	Howie	Davis Rules	Raven
	Late summer	Freshman Dorm		2000 Malibu Road
Fox	Summer (starting July 8, 1992)	Beverly Hills, 90210		Melrose Place		Template:Small
NBC	Fall	Unsolved Mysteries Template:Small		Night Court	Seinfeld	Quantum Leap
	Winter			Seinfeld	Night Court
	Spring
	Summer				Dear John
	Mid-summer				Wings Template:Small	Law & Order Template:Small

Note: Melrose Place premiered on Fox on Wednesday July 8, 1992.

Thursday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Pros and Cons Template:Small		FBI: The Untold Stories	American Detective	Primetime Live
	Winter
	Spring	The ABC Thursday Night Movie
	Summer	The Young Riders		MacGyver Template:Small
	Late summer	Who's the Boss? Template:Small	Growing Pains Template:Small	Homefront Template:Small
CBS	Fall	Top Cops		The Trials of Rosie O'Neill		Knots Landing
	Winter			Street Stories with Ed Bradley
	Spring					The Human Factor
	Summer					Bodies of Evidence
Fox	Fall	The Simpsons	Drexell's Class	Beverly Hills, 90210		Template:Small
	Winter
	Spring
	Summer		Parker Lewis Can't Lose Template:Small
NBC	Fall	The Cosby Show Template:Small	A Different World Template:Small	Cheers Template:Small	Wings Template:Small	L.A. Law Template:Small
	Winter
	Spring
	Summer	A Different World Template:Small	The Cosby Show Template:Small

(*) Formerly known as Gabriel's Fire

Friday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Family Matters Template:Small	Step by Step	Perfect Strangers	Baby Talk	Template:Highlight
	Winter			Baby Talk	Perfect Strangers
	Mid-winter				Billy
	Spring			Dinosaurs	Baby Talk
	Summer				Perfect Strangers
CBS	Fall	Princesses	Brooklyn Bridge	CBS Friday Night Movie
	Mid-fall	Brooklyn Bridge	Princesses	Template:Small		Palace Guard
	Late fall	Template:Small		The Carol Burnett Show		Template:Small
	Winter			Tequila and Bonetti		Hearts Are Wild
	Spring	Scorch	Fish Police
	Mid-spring	Tequila and Bonetti		CBS Friday Night Movie
	Late spring	Template:Small
	Summer
Fox	Fall	America's Most Wanted		The Ultimate Challenge		Template:Small
	Mid-fall			Best of the Worst	Totally Hidden Video
	Winter			Totally Hidden Video	Best of the Worst
	Mid-winter			Template:Small
	Spring			Totally Hidden Video	Totally Hidden Video
	Mid-spring			Sightings
	Summer
NBC	Fall	Real Life with Jane Pauley	Expose	Dear John	Flesh 'n' Blood	Reasonable Doubts
	Mid-fall	Matlock		Flesh 'n' Blood	Dear John
	Late fall			Pacific Station
	Winter			Template:Small
	Spring			I'll Fly Away		Nightmare Cafe
	Mid-spring					The Fifth Corner
	Summer			Reasonable Doubts		Law & Order Template:Small
	Late summer			Template:Small		I'll Fly Away

Saturday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
ABC	Fall	Who's the Boss?	Growing Pains	The Young Riders		The Commish
	Winter	Capitol Critters	Who's the Boss?	Perfect Strangers	Growing Pains
	Spring	Who's the Boss?	Billy
	Late spring		Julie	Billy	Perfect Strangers
	Summer	Billy		Perfect Strangers	On the Air
	Mid-summer	MacGyver Template:Small		Human Target
CBS	Fall	CBS Saturday Movie				P.S. I Luv U
	Winter					Rescue 911
	Mid-winter					The Boys of Twilight
	Spring					The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
	Summer					Jake and the Fatman Template:Small
Fox	Fall	COPS	COPS Template:Small	Totally Hidden Video	Best of the Worst	Template:Small
	Mid-fall			Charlie Hoover	Get a Life
	Winter			Template:Small
	Spring			Code 3	Totally Hidden Video
	Summer				Vinnie & Bobby
NBC	Fall	The Golden Girls Template:Small	The Torkelsons	Empty Nest Template:Small	Nurses	Sisters
	Winter		Walter & Emily
	Spring		The Powers That Be
	Mid-spring		The Torkelsons
	Summer		Home Fires
	Late summer		The Powers That Be

By network

ABC

Returning series

• 20/20
• The ABC Monday Night Movie
• The ABC Sunday Night Movie
• The ABC Thursday Night Movie
• America's Funniest Home Videos
• America's Funniest People
• Anything But Love
• Baby Talk
• Coach
• Dinosaurs
• Doogie Howser, M.D.
• Family Matters
• Full House
• Growing Pains
• Life Goes On
• MacGyver
• Monday Night Football
• Perfect Strangers
• Primetime Live
• Pros and Cons (formerly known as Gabriel's Fire)
• Roseanne
• Who's the Boss?
• The Wonder Years
• The Young Riders

New series

• American Detective *
• Arresting Behavior *
• Billy *
• Capitol Critters *
• Civil Wars *
• The Commish
• FBI: The Untold Stories
• Good & Evil
• Home Improvement
• Homefront
• Human Target *
• Jack's Place *
• Julie *
• On the Air *
• Room for Two *
• Sibs
• Step by Step
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles *

Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1990–91:

• The ABC Saturday Night Movie
• China Beach
• Cop Rock
• Davis Rules (moved to CBS)
• Eddie Dodd
• Equal Justice
• Father Dowling Mysteries
• Going Places
• Head of the Class
• Hi Honey, I'm Home!
• The Man in the Family
• Married People
• My Life and Times
• Stat
• Thirtysomething
• Twin Peaks
• Under Cover

CBS

Returning series

• 48 Hours
• 60 Minutes
• CBS Sunday Movie
• Davis Rules (moved from ABC)
• Designing Women
• Evening Shade
• Jake and the Fatman
• Knots Landing
• Major Dad
• Murder, She Wrote
• Murphy Brown
• Northern Exposure
• Rescue 911
• Top Cops
• The Trials of Rosie O'Neill

New series

• 2000 Malibu Road *
• Bodies of Evidence *
• The Boys of Twilight *
• Brooklyn Bridge
• The Carol Burnett Show
• Fish Police *
• Freshman Dorm *
• Grapevine *
• Hearts Are Wild *
• Howie *
• The Human Factor *
• P.S. I Luv U
• Palace Guard
• Princesses
• Raven
• The Royal Family
• Scorch *
• Street Stories with Ed Bradley *
• Teech
• Tequila and Bonetti *

Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1990–91:

• The Antangonists
• Bagdad Café
• Broken Badges
• Dallas
• Doctor Doctor
• E.A.R.T.H. Force
• The Family Man
• The Flash
• Good Sports
• The Hogan Family
• Lenny
• Over My Dead Body
• Paradise
• Sons & Daughters
• True Detectives
• Uncle Buck
• WIOU
• Wiseguy
• You Take the Kids

Fox

Returning series

• America's Most Wanted
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• Comic Strip Live
• COPS
• FOX Night at the Movies
• Get a Life
• In Living Color
• Married... with Children
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose
• The Simpsons
• The Sunday Comics
• Totally Hidden Video
• True Colors

New series

• Best of the Worst
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures *
• Charlie Hoover *
• Code 3 *
• Down the Shore *
• Drexell's Class
• Freshman Dorm *
• Herman's Head
• Melrose Place *
• Rachel Gunn, R.N. *
• Roc
• Sightings
• Stand By Your Man *
• The Ultimate Challenge *
• Vinnie & Bobby *

Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1990–91:

• Against the Law
• American Chronicles
• Babes
• DEA
• Good Grief
• Haywire
• Top of the Heap
• Yearbook

NBC

Returning series

• Blossom
• Cheers
• The Cosby Show
• Dear John
• A Different World
• Empty Nest
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• The Golden Girls
• In the Heat of the Night
• L.A. Law
• Law & Order
• Matlock
• NBC Sunday Night Movie
• The NBC Monday Movie
• Night Court
• Quantum Leap
• Seinfeld
• Sisters
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Wings

New series

• Against All Odds *
• Dateline NBC *
• Eerie, Indiana *
• Flesh 'n' Blood
• Home Fires *
• Hot Country Nights *
• I Witness Video *
• I'll Fly Away
• Man of the People *
• Mann & Machine *
• Nightmare Cafe *
• Nurses
• Pacific Station
• Reasonable Doubts
• Secret Service *
• The Adventures of Mark & Brian
• The Fifth Corner *
• The Powers That Be *
• The Torkelsons
• Walter & Emily *

Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1990–91:

• The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
• Amen
• American Dreamer
• Dark Shadows
• Down Home
• The Fanelli Boys
• Ferris Bueller
• Grand
• Hull High
• Hunter
• Lifestories
• Midnight Caller
• Parenthood
• Real Life with Jane Pauley
• Shannon's Deal
• Sunday Best
• Working It Out

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