1995–96 United States network television schedule

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:USTV 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.<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>

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 Template:Small.

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

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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.
ABC	Fall	America's Funniest Home Videos		Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman		The ABC Sunday Night Movie
ABC	Summer	Muppets Tonight	America's Funniest Home Videos	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman		The ABC Sunday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	60 Minutes Template:Small		Cybill	Almost Perfect	CBS Sunday Movie Template:Small
	Winter			Cybill	Bonnie
	Spring			Murder, She Wrote
	Summer			Touched By An Angel Template:Small
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
	Spring	Special programming			The Simpsons Template:Small		Married... with Children Template:Small
	Summer	Special programming			New York Daze		The Crew
	Mid-summer	Party of Five Template:Small			Married... with Children	New York Undercover Template:Small
NBC	Fall	Brotherly Love	Minor Adjustments	Mad About You	Hope & Gloria	NBC Sunday Night Movie Template:Small
	Late fall	Special programming			NewsRadio
	Winter	Dateline NBC			NewsRadio
	Summer	Dateline NBC		3rd Rock from the Sun Template:Small	Boston Common Template:Small
The WB	Early fall	Pinky and the Brain	Sister, Sister Template:Small	Kirk	Simon	Cleghorne!	First Time Out	Local programming
	Fall		Kirk	Sister, Sister Template:Small	Cleghorne!	First Time Out	Simon
	Winter		Simon		Kirk	Savannah
	Late winter		The Parent 'Hood Template:Small		Kirk	Savannah
	Summer	Kirk	Brotherly Love Template:Small	The Parent 'Hood Template:Small	Sister, Sister Template:Small	Unhappily Ever After Template:Small	The Parent 'Hood Template:Small

Monday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.
ABC	Fall	The Marshal		Monday Night Football Template:Small
	Winter	The ABC Monday Night Movie				Murder One
	Mid-winter	Second Noah		Special programming
	Spring	Second Noah		High Incident
	Summer	The Marshal		The ABC Monday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	The Nanny Template:Small	Can't Hurry Love Template:Small	Murphy Brown Template:Small	If Not for You	Chicago Hope Template:Small
	Mid-fall		Can't Hurry Love Template:Small		High Society
	Winter		Almost Perfect		Good Company
	Spring		Dave's World		Cybill Template:Small
	Summer		Almost Perfect Template:Small		Cybill Template:Small
Fox	Fall	Melrose Place		Partners	Ned and Stacey	Local programming
	Winter			Ned and Stacey	Partners
	Spring			Profit
	Late spring	Ned and Stacey Template:Small	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 Template:Small
	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 Template:Small

Tuesday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.
ABC	Fall	Roseanne Template:Small	Hudson Street	Home Improvement Template:Small	Coach Template:Small	NYPD Blue Template:Small
	Winter		Coach Template:Small		Champs
	Mid-winter				Various programming
	Late winter				The Dana Carvey Show Template:Small
	Spring		The Drew Carey Show Template:Small		Coach Template:Small
CBS	Fall	The Client		CBS Tuesday Movie
CBS	Summer	Rescue 911 Template:Small		CBS Tuesday Movie
Fox		Fox Tuesday Night Movie				Local programming
NBC	Fall	Wings	NewsRadio	Frasier Template:Small	The Pursuit of Happiness	Dateline NBC Template:Small
	Late fall		NewsRadio		The John Larroquette Show
	Winter		3rd Rock from the Sun Template:Small
	Spring	3rd Rock from the Sun Template:Small	Wings
	Late spring	3rd Rock from the Sun Template:Small	NewsRadio Template:Small		Wings Template:Small
	Summer	Mad About You Template:Small	NewsRadio Template:Small		Caroline in the City Template:Small
UPN	Fall	Deadly Games		Live Shot		Local programming
	Winter	Moesha	Minor Adjustments	Special programming
	Spring	Moesha	Minor Adjustments	The Paranormal Borderline

Wednesday

Network		8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM
ABC	Fall	Ellen	The Drew Carey Show	Grace Under Fire Template:Small	The Naked Truth Template:Small	Primetime Live Template:Small
	Winter		The Faculty		Buddies
	Spring		The Drew Carey Show Template:Small		The Faculty
	Late spring		Hudson Street		The Faculty
	Summer		The Faculty Template:Small		Champs
	Mid-summer		The Faculty Template:Small		The Drew Carey Show Template:Small
CBS	Fall	Bless This House	Dave's World	Central Park West		Courthouse
	Late fall	Dave's World	Bless This House	Special programming
	Winter		Bless This House	Matt Waters		American Gothic
	Mid-winter		The Louie Show	CBS Wednesday Movie
	Spring		My Guys
	Mid-spring	Special programming
	Late spring	Special programming		Picket Fences		Central Park West
	Summer	Dave's World Template:Small	Can't Hurry Love Template:Small	American Gothic
	Mid-summer	The Nanny Template:Small	Dave's World Template:Small	Various programming
Fox	Fall	Beverly Hills, 90210		Party of Five		Local programming
	Spring			Kindred: The Embraced
	Late spring			Party of Five Template:Small
NBC	Fall	seaQuest 2032		Dateline NBC Template:Small		Law & Order Template:Small
	Winter	Special programming
	Late winter	JAG
	Summer	Wings Template:Small	The John Larroquette Show Template:Small
UPN	Spring Template:Small	The Sentinel		Swift Justice		Local programming
UPN	Summer	The Sentinel		Star Trek: Voyager Template:Small
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.
ABC	Fall	Charlie Grace		The Monroes		Murder One
	Mid-fall	The ABC Thursday Night Movie				Murder One
	Winter	Special programming
	Mid-winter	World's Funniest Videos	Before They Were Stars	The ABC Thursday Night Movie
	Summer	High Incident		The ABC Thursday Night Movie
CBS	Fall	Murder, She Wrote		New York News		48 Hours
	Late fall			Various programming
	Winter			Rescue 911
	Summer	CBS Thursday Night Movie
Fox	Fall	Living Single	The Crew	New York Undercover		Local programming
	Winter	Living Single	Martin
	Spring	Martin Template:Small	The Show
	Late spring	Martin Template:Small	Living Single Template:Small
NBC	Fall	Friends Template:Small	The Single Guy Template:Small	Seinfeld Template:Small	Caroline in the City Template:Small	ER Template:Small
	Spring		Boston Common Template:Small
	Mid-spring		The Single Guy Template:Small

Friday

Network		8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.	10:00 p.m.
ABC	Fall	Family Matters	Boy Meets World	Step by Step	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper	20/20 Template:Small
	Winter		Muppets Tonight
	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
Fox	Winter	Sliders		The X-Files		Local programming
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.
ABC	Fall	The Jeff Foxworthy Show	Maybe This Time	ABC Saturday Night at the Movies
	Winter	Hudson Street	Maybe This Time	ABC Saturday Night at the Movies
	Late winter	Special programming
	Spring	Second Noah Template:Small		ABC Saturday Night at the Movies
CBS		Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman		Touched by an Angel		Walker, Texas Ranger Template:Small
Fox	Fall	Martin	The Preston Episodes	COPS	America's Most Wanted	Local programming
Fox	Late fall	COPS	COPS Template:Small	America's Most Wanted		Local programming
NBC	Fall	JAG		The John Larroquette Show	The Home Court	Sisters
	Winter	JAG		Hope & Gloria
	Late winter	Malibu Shores		Hope & Gloria
	Spring	Special programming
	Summer	Various programming		NBC's Saturday Movie Of The Week