1994–95 United States network television schedule
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:USTV The following is the 1994–95 network television schedule for the six major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1994 through August 1995. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1993–94 season.
All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
This was the first season in which the entirety of primetime network programming was presented in stereo sound.
Two new networks, the United Paramount Network and The WB Television Network, launched in January 1995. Both networks would ultimately shutdown and merge to form The CW in September 2006.
New series highlighted in bold.
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating in parentheses (#rank / 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 watched program for 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.
Other Legend
- Template:Color box Light blue indicates local programming.
- Template:Color box Gray indicates encore programming.
- Template:Color box Blue-gray indicates news programming.
- Template:Color box Light green indicates sporting events.
- Template:Color box Red indicates series being burned off and other irregularly scheduled programs, including specials and movies.
- Template:Color box Light gold indicates programming produced outside of the United States.
- Template:Color box Bronze indicates reairs of programming that originally aired on a cable channel.
PBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.
Sunday
Notes: On FOX, The Great Defender aired its pilot episode on March 5, 1995 at 7pm, but was canceled by Fox before the second episode aired, with the remaining episodes already made before being cancelled were burned off on Mondays during the summer. House of Buggin' came back for three weeks in April on FOX; at 8:30PM ET on April 9th and April 16th and 9:30PM ET on April 23rd.
Monday
(*) UPN premiered by airing the two-hour first episode of Star Trek: Voyager, with the network's Monday night comedies (Platypus Man and Pig Sty) debuting a week later.
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 | Me and the Boys Template:Small | Home Improvement Template:Small | Grace Under Fire Template:Small | NYPD Blue Template:Small | |
| Winter | |||||||
| Spring | Thunder Alley | Ellen Template:Small | |||||
| Summer | Coach Template:Small | ||||||
| Late summer | Roseanne Template:Small | ||||||
| CBS | Fall | Rescue 911 | CBS Tuesday Movie | ||||
| Winter | |||||||
| Spring | Under One Roof | ||||||
| Mid-spring | Rescue 911 | ||||||
| Summer | |||||||
| Fox | Fox Tuesday Night Movie | Template:Small | |||||
| NBC | Fall | Wings Template:Small | The Martin Short Show Template:Small (Tied with Chicago Hope, The ABC Monday Night Movie and Primetime Live) |
Frasier Template:Small | The John Larroquette Show | Dateline NBC | |
| Mid-fall | Template:Small | ||||||
| Winter | Something Wilder | ||||||
| Spring | NewsRadio | Pride & Joy | |||||
| Mid-spring | The John Larroquette Show | ||||||
| Summer | Pride & Joy | ||||||
| Mid-summer | NewsRadio | ||||||
| UPN (launched January 17, 1995) | Winter | Marker | The Watcher | Template:Small | |||
| Spring | Legend | Marker | |||||
| Summer | |||||||
Wednesday
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 | My So-Called Life | McKenna | Template:Highlight | |||
| Mid-fall | Matlock | ||||||
| Winter | Day One | ||||||
| Mid-winter | Matlock | The Commish | |||||
| Late winter | Extreme | ||||||
| Spring | ABC Thursday Night Movie | ||||||
| Summer | Matlock | The Commish | |||||
| CBS | Fall | Due South | Chicago Hope Template:Small | Eye to Eye with Connie Chung | |||
| Winter | Eye to Eye with Connie Chung | 48 Hours | |||||
| Spring | |||||||
| Mid-spring | Template:Small | ||||||
| Summer | Burke's Law | ||||||
| Late summer | Murder, She Wrote Template:Small | ||||||
| Fox | Fall | Martin | Living Single | New York Undercover | Template:Small | ||
| Winter | |||||||
| Spring | |||||||
| Summer | Living Single | Martin | |||||
| NBC | Fall | Mad About You Template:Small | Friends Template:Small | Seinfeld Template:Small | Madman of the People Template:Small | ER Template:Small | |
| Winter | Hope & Gloria Template:Small | Friends Template:Small | |||||
| Spring | |||||||
| Summer | |||||||
| Late summer | Friends Template:Small | Mad About You Template:Small | |||||
Friday
| Network | 8:00 PM | 8:30 PM | 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Fall | Family Matters | Boy Meets World | Step by Step | Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | Template:Highlight | |
| Winter | |||||||
| Late winter | On Our Own | ||||||
| Spring | Sister, Sister | ||||||
| Mid-spring | Boy Meets World | Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | |||||
| Summer | |||||||
| CBS | Fall | Diagnosis: Murder | Under Suspicion | Picket Fences | |||
| Winter | |||||||
| Spring | The Wright Verdicts | ||||||
| Mid-spring | Burke's Law | ||||||
| Summer | Due South Template:Small | ||||||
| Mid-summer | Black Fox | ||||||
| Late summer | Picket Fences Template:Small | Picket Fences | |||||
| Fox | Fall | M.A.N.T.I.S. | The X-Files | Template:Small | |||
| Winter | |||||||
| Spring | VR.5 | ||||||
| Summer | Encounters: The Hidden Truth Template:Small | ||||||
| Mid-summer | Tales from the Crypt Template:Small | Tales from the Crypt Template:Small | |||||
| Late summer | TV Nation | ||||||
| NBC | Unsolved Mysteries | Dateline NBC | Homicide: Life on the Street | ||||
Notes: On Fox, Tales from the Crypt consisted on re-runs of the ongoing HBO series.
Saturday
By network
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- Returning series
- 20/20
- ABC's Monday Night Football
- The ABC Monday Night Movie
- ABC Saturday Night Movie
- The ABC Sunday Night Movie
- ABC Thursday Night Movie
- America's Funniest Home Videos
- Baseball Night in America
- Boy Meets World
- Coach
- The Commish
- Day One
- Ellen
- Family Matters
- Full House
- Grace Under Fire
- Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
- Home Improvement
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- Matlock
- NYPD Blue
- Primetime Live
- Roseanne
- Sister, Sister
- Step by Step
- Thunder Alley
- Turning Point
- New series
- ABC Family Movie
- All-American Girl
- Blue Skies
- Bringing up Jack *
- Extreme *
- The Marshal *
- McKenna
- Me and the Boys
- My So-Called Life
- On Our Own
- A Whole New Ballgame *
Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1993–94:
- America's Funniest People
- Birdland
- The Byrds of Paradise
- The Critic (moved to Fox)
- Dinosaurs
- FBI: The Untold Stories
- George
- Joe's Life
- Missing Persons
- Moon Over Miami
- The Paula Poundstone Show
- Phenom
- She TV
- Thea
- Where I Live
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- Returning series
- 48 Hours
- 60 Minutes
- Burke's Law
- CBS Sunday Movie
- Christy
- Dave's World
- Diagnosis: Murder
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
- Eye to Eye with Connie Chung
- Hearts Afire
- Love & War
- Muddling Through
- Murder, She Wrote
- Murphy Brown
- The Nanny
- Northern Exposure
- Picket Fences
- Rescue 911
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- New series
- The Boys Are Back
- Chicago Hope
- Cybill *
- Daddy's Girls
- Double Rush *
- Due South
- The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
- The George Wendt Show *
- The Office *
- Touched by an Angel
- Under One Roof *
- Under Suspicion
- Women of the House *
- The Wright Verdicts *
Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1993–94:
- 704 Hauser
- America Tonight
- Angel Falls
- Family Album
- Good Advice
- Harts of the West
- Hotel Malibu
- It Had to Be You
- One West Waikiki
- The Road Home
- Second Chances
- South of Sunset
- Tom
- Traps
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- Returning series
- America's Most Wanted
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Cops
- The Critic (moved from ABC)
- Encounters: The Hidden Truth
- Fox Tuesday Night Movie
- The George Carlin Show
- Living Single
- Married... with Children
- Martin
- Melrose Place
- Models Inc.
- The Simpsons
- TV Nation (moved from NBC)
- The X-Files
- New series
- Dream On * (Originally aired on HBO)
- Fortune Hunter
- Get Smart *
- The Great Defender *
- Hardball
- House of Buggin' *
- M.A.N.T.I.S.
- Medicine Ball *
- My Wildest Dreams *
- New York Undercover
- Party of Five
- Sliders *
- VR.5 *
- Wild Oats
Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1993–94:
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
- Bakersfield P.D.
- Code 3
- Comic Strip Live
- Daddy Dearest
- The Front Page
- Herman's Head
- In Living Color
- Monty
- Roc
- The Sinbad Show
- South Central
- Townsend Television
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- Returning series
- Blossom
- Dateline NBC
- Empty Nest
- Frasier
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- The John Larroquette Show
- Law & Order
- Mad About You
- The Mommies
- NBC Sunday Night Movie
- NBC's Saturday Movie Of The Week
- The NBC Monday Movie
- seaQuest DSV
- Seinfeld
- Sisters
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Wings
- New series
- Amazing Grace *
- The Cosby Mysteries
- Earth 2
- ER
- Friends
- High Sierra Search and Rescue *
- Hope & Gloria *
- In the House *
- Madman of the People
- The Martin Short Show
- NewsRadio
- Pride & Joy *
- Something Wilder
- Sweet Justice
- Time Life's Lost Civilizations *
Template:Col-3 Not returning from 1993–94:
- Against the Grain
- Café Americain
- Getting By
- The Good Life
- I Witness Video
- L.A. Law
- Nurses
- Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric
- Saved by the Bell: The College Years
- The Second Half
- Someone Like Me
- TV Nation (moved to Fox)
- Viper
- Winnetka Road
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.