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This was the television schedule on all three networks for the fall season beginning in September 1963. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
New fall series are highlighted in 'bold'.
The highest-rated show for the year is colored in 'lime'. The Top-10 most-watched programs are colored in 'yellow'. The Top-10 most-watched programs are colored in 'cyan'.

Contents

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

References

Sunday

PM	7:00	7:30	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Local	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters		'Arrest and Trial'			'100 Grand'	ABC News Reports
CBS	Lassie	'My Favorite Martian'	The Ed Sullivan Show		'The Judy Garland Show'		Candid Camera	What's My Line?
NBC	'The Bill Dana Show'	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color		'Grindl'	Bonanza		The Du Pont Show of the Week

Note: 100 Grand only lasted 3 weeks, and was replaced by Laughs for Sale, which didn't last much longer.

Monday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	'The Outer Limits'		Wagon Train			'Breaking Point'
CBS	To Tell the Truth	I've Got a Secret	The Lucy Show	''The Danny Thomas Show''	The Andy Griffith Show	'East Side/West Side'
NBC	The NBC Monday Movie				'Hollywood and the Stars'	Sing Along with Mitch

Tuesday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Combat!		McHale's Navy	'The Greatest Show on Earth'		'The Fugitive'
CBS	Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke repeats)	The Red Skelton Hour		'Petticoat Junction'	The Jack Benny Program	The Garry Moore Show
NBC	'Mr. Novak'		'Redigo'	'The Richard Boone Show'		The Bell Telephone Hour / The Andy Williams Show

Wednesday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	'The Patty Duke Show'	The Price Is Right	Ben Casey		'Channing'
CBS	'Chronicle' / CBS Reports		'Glynis'	The Beverly Hillbillies	The Dick Van Dyke Show	'The Danny Kaye Show'
NBC	The Virginian			'Espionage'		The Eleventh Hour

Note : On ABC, The Farmer's Daughter moved into the 8:30-9 p.m. time period on December 4, and The Price Is Right took over the Friday 9:30-10 p.m. time period on December 6.

Thursday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	The Flintstones	The Donna Reed Show	My Three Sons	'The Jimmy Dean Show'		'The Edie Adams Show' / 'The Sid Caesar Show'	Local
CBS	Password	Rawhide		Perry Mason		The Nurses
NBC	'Temple Houston'		Dr. Kildare		Hazel	'The Kraft Suspense Theater' / Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall

Friday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	77 Sunset Strip		'Burke's Law'		'The Farmer's Daughter'	10:00 The Fight of the Week / 10:45 Make That Spare
CBS	'The Great Adventure'		''Route 66''		''The Twilight Zone''	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
NBC	International Showtime		'Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre' / 'Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Special'		'Harry's Girls'	The Jack Paar Program

Please refer to ABC note under Wednesday.

Saturday

PM	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
ABC	Hootenanny		The Lawrence Welk Show		'The Jerry Lewis Show' (ends 11:30)
CBS	Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine		'The New Phil Silvers Show'	The Defenders		Gunsmoke
NBC	'The Lieutenant'		The Joey Bishop Show	NBC Saturday Night at the Movies

References

★ Castleman, H. & Podrazik, W. (1982). ''Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television''. New York: McGraw-Hill. 314 pp.

★ McNeil, Alex. ''Total Television''. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.

★ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.