1973–74 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1973–74 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1973 to August 1974. All times are Eastern and Pacific. By 1974, the networks in the Pacific Time Zone would shift to a Central Time Zone schedule altogether.

Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange , game shows are pink , soap operas are chartreuse , news programs are gold , children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.

PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.

Note

 * ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast, depending on stations' schedule.

ABC
Returning series
 * ABC Evening News
 * The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
 * All My Children
 * American Bandstand
 * The Brady Bunch (reruns)
 * The Brady Kids
 * The Bugs Bunny Show
 * General Hospital
 * The Girl in My Life
 * H.R. Pufnstuf (reruns)
 * Issues and Answers
 * Kid Power (reruns)
 * Let's Make a Deal
 * Love, American Style (reruns)
 * Make a Wish
 * Multiplication Rock / Grammar Rock
 * The Newlywed Game
 * One Life to Live
 * The Osmonds (reruns)
 * Password
 * Split Second

New series
 * The $10,000 Pyramid
 * Goober and the Ghost Chasers
 * Lassie's Rescue Rangers
 * Mission: Magic!
 * Super Friends
 * Yogi's Gang

Not returning from 1972-73
 * Bewitched (reruns)
 * The Bullwinkle Show (reruns)
 * Curiosity Shop (reruns)
 * The Dating Game
 * The Funky Phantom (reruns)
 * The Jackson 5ive
 * Lidsville (reruns; moved to NBC)
 * The Monkees (reruns)

CBS
Returning series
 * The $10,000 Pyramid
 * The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (reruns)
 * As the World Turns
 * Camera Three
 * Captain Kangaroo
 * CBS Children's Film Festival
 * CBS Evening News
 * CBS Morning News
 * The Edge of Night
 * Everything's Archie
 * Face the Nation
 * Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
 * The Flintstones Comedy Show (reruns)
 * Gambit
 * The Guiding Light
 * Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (reruns)
 * The Joker's Wild
 * Josie and the Pussycats (reruns)
 * Lamp Unto My Feet
 * Look Up and Live
 * Love of Life
 * Match Game
 * The New Scooby-Doo Movies
 * The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (reruns)
 * The Price Is Right
 * Sabrina the Teenage Witch (reruns)
 * Search for Tomorrow
 * The Secret Storm
 * Sunrise Semester
 * The Young and the Restless

New series
 * Bailey's Comets
 * Jeannie
 * My Favorite Martians
 * Now You See It
 * Speed Buggy
 * Tattletales

Not returning from 1972-73
 * Archie's Funhouse (reruns)
 * Archie's TV Funnies
 * Family Affair (reruns)
 * Harlem Globetrotters (reruns)
 * Hollywood's Talking
 * Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
 * Love is a Many Splendored Thing
 * The Vin Scully Show
 * Where the Heart Is

NBC
Returning series
 * Another World
 * Baffle
 * Days of Our Lives
 * Dinah's Place
 * The Doctors
 * The Hollywood Squares
 * Jeopardy!
 * The Jetsons (reruns)
 * Lidsville (reruns) (moved from ABC)
 * Meet the Press
 * Name That Tune
 * NBC Nightly News
 * NBC Saturday Night News
 * NBC Sunday Night News
 * The New Pink Panther Show
 * Return to Peyton Place
 * Somerset
 * Three on a Match
 * Today
 * The Who, What, or Where Game
 * The Wizard of Odds

New series
 * The Addams Family
 * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
 * Celebrity Sweepstakes
 * Emergency +4
 * Go!
 * High Rollers
 * How to Survive a Marriage
 * Inch High, Private Eye
 * Jackpot
 * Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
 * Star Trek: The Animated Series
 * Winning Streak

Not returning from 1972-73
 * Around the World in 80 Days
 * The Barkleys
 * Concentration (continued in syndication)
 * The Houndcats
 * The Roman Holidays
 * Runaround
 * Sale of the Century (returned in 1982-83)
 * Sealab 2020