A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of " fish out of water " themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

This was followed two months later by Out There on CBS only lasting twelve episodes.

During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.

Another exception is anytime CBS airs the Super Bowl or since 2003, alternating years where the AFC Championship Game has the 6: 30 pm Eastern start time, which is played into prime-time and followed by a special lead-out program.

Other companies, including CBS and Mutual, soon followed suit, each network signing hundreds of individual stations on as affiliates: stations which agreed to broadcast one network's programs.

From 1959 – 1960, Milland starred in the CBS detective series Markham, but the program failed to capture an audience even though it followed the hit western Gunsmoke, starring James Arness.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Burr took on a shorter project next, playing an underworld boss in a six-hour miniseries, 79 Park Avenue One last attempt to launch a series followed on CBS.

The monologue is followed by Letterman's introduction of Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.

In 1962, Ball began a six-year run with The Lucy Show, followed immediately in 1968 by six more years on yet another sitcom, Here's Lucy, finally ending her long run as a CBS sitcom star in 1974.

In 1958 Jewison was recruited to work for CBS in New York, where his first assignment was Your Hit Parade, followed by The Andy Williams Show.

CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001, where it now airs annually at Halloween, followed by You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, as if to emphasize the proximity between Halloween and Election Day ; furthermore, the latter includes mention of the " Great Pumpkin " as well.

His first significant break was a semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's supervisor Booker Brooks, followed by the role of a construction worker on Baby Talk, a co-starring role on the CBS drama Bodies of Evidence as Detective Ryan Walker, and then a year-long turn as Det.

One of Cronkite's trademarks was ending the CBS Evening News with the phrase "... And that's the way it is ," followed by the date.

A commercial for Instant Nescafe coffee and a sponsor bumper ( for Best Foods ) for the first half of the show that had just completed were then aired, followed by a bumper for the scheduled episode of Route 66 to air that night and a twenty-second station identification break for the CBS affiliates.

Brokaw's retirement in December 2004, followed by Rather's ouster from the CBS Evening News in March 2005 and Jennings's death in August 2005, brought that era to a close.

Eyewitness to History was a CBS Friday night public affairs program which was initially hosted by veteran broadcaster Charles Kuralt ( 1960 -' 61 ), followed by Walter Cronkite ( 1961 -' 62 ), and Charles Collingwood ( 1962 -' 63 ).

ET followed by a 15-minute news broadcast until 8 a. m. with Stuart Novins under the CBS Morning News title, preceding Captain Kangaroo.

On October 16, 2007, CBS DVD released MacGyver: The Complete Series, a special collectors ' edition box set that features all 139 episodes of the series as well as the two TV movies that followed.

A year later, The Good Guys ( CBS, 1968 – 70 ) followed the same format.

Creator Norman Lear's All in the Family ( CBS, 1971 – 1979 ) followed suit in 1971.

ABC and CBS followed suit in 1986 and 1987, respectively.

In the US the original CBS syndication prints had a few variants to the original UK prints, after the brief title sequence the US prints would repeat this sequence but with " Brought to You By " and after the arrow strikes the tree the sponsors name " Wildroot Cream-Oil " superimposed, " Johnson and Johnson " sponsored episodes had a voice-over over the opening titles " Richard Greene in The Adventures of Robin Hood " and over the repeated sequence " presented by " followed by the names of two Johnson and Johnson products, images of which would appear over the shot of the arrow in the tree, a commercial featuring one of the products would then be shown, the Wildroot Cream-Oil sponsored episodes would then feature an animated commercial showing a Robin Hood type figure with lanck hair and a dinosaur.

NBC's national Nielsen rating of 48. 6 was the second-highest for a Super Bowl broadcast, trailing only the 49. 1 garnered by Super Bowl XVI on CBS the year before.

" Capturing NBC's cornerstone show was coup enough, but Paley repeated in 1948 with longtime NBCers Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Red Skelton, as well as former CBS defectors Jack Benny, radio's top-rated comedian, and Burns and Allen.

At 4: 00 PM, the show trailed Feud, Price, and NBC's Wheel of Fortune, and fell out of the top three game shows in 1979 for the first time in the CBS run ( as opposed to a solid and twice top-3 hit in the 1960s ).

Whatever the cultural context or audience composition of Dark Shadows, it became one of ABC's first daytime shows to actually win its timeslot, leading to the demise of NBC's original Match Game and Art Linkletter's long-running House Party on CBS, both in 1969.

Another of his network assignments was The Morning Show, CBS ' short-lived challenge to NBC's Today in 1954.

During the early part of his tenure anchoring the CBS Evening News, Cronkite competed against NBC's anchor team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, who anchored the Huntley-Brinkley Report.

Prior to Friends, she appeared in at least two produced network pilots: NBC's Just Temporary ( also known as Temporarily Yours ) in 1989, playing Nicole ; and CBS ' Close Encounters ( also known as Matchmaker ) in 1990, playing a Valley girl.

The show now aired against two highly-rated shows: NBC's anthology series entitled The Sunday Big Event and CBS ' revamped continuation of All in the Family entitled Archie Bunker's Place.

Nightly News is the only network evening newscast that airs at the same time on most affiliates, 6: 30 / 5: 30 p. m. ET / CT, seven nights a week thus allowing Nightly News to lead into NBC's Sunday primetime lineup at 7 / 6 p. m. ET / CT ( in comparison, some ABC and CBS stations air the Sunday editions of their network's evening newscasts at 6 / 5 p. m. ET / CT ).

The new rule applies only to CBS, Fox, and NBC's Sunday night games.

Now not only being scheduled opposite NBC's Cheers, but also rival soap Knots Landing on CBS, The Colbys finished a dismal 76th for the year prompting the network to cancel the show.

Allen was able to negotiate a lucrative new contract as a result not only of the show's success, but thanks in large measure to NBC's anxiety to keep more of its stars from joining Jack Benny in a wholesale defection to CBS.

The CBS talent raids broke up NBC's hit Sunday night, and Benny also convinced George Burns and Gracie Allen and Bing Crosby to join his move.

The finale received a 3. 9 / 8 rating share which gave ABC a third place finish behind NBC's Dateline ( 5. 8 / 11 ) and CBS ' Joan of Arcadia ( 4. 9 / 10 ), which starred Ritter's son, Jason.

The show had climbed into the Top 30 in its first year and was NBC's answer to both successful 1960s magical comedies, Bewitched on ABC and My Favorite Martian on CBS.

" However, CBS optioned to buy the show after its second year on MTV in hopes of increasing viewership among younger demographics and potentially providing competition against NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Louis Cowan, made CBS Television president as a result of Questions fast success, was forced out of the network as the quiz scandal ramped up, even though it was NBC's and not CBS ' quiz shows bearing the brunt of the scandal – and even though CBS itself, with a little help from sponsor Colgate-Palmolive, had moved fast in cancelling the popular Dotto at almost the moment it was confirmed that that show had been rigged.

Early weekday mornings, at 4: 00AM EST, all three air half hour programs, ABC's America This Morning, CBS's CBS Morning News, and NBC's Early Today.

Overall, in daytime programming ( excluding Saturday and Sunday ), The Price Is Right is ranked sixth among the longest-continuing daytime television programs ( NBC's Today ranks the longest, followed by four daytime soap operas: Guiding Light, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and Days of our Lives ), and moved into fifth in September 2009 after Guiding Light aired its final episode on CBS.

Good Morning America airs at the same time as NBC's Today on the Seven Network and Network Ten's CBS This Morning.

The major networks all offer a morning news program ( NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America are the standard bearers ), as well as an early-evening newscast anchored by the de facto face of the network's news operations ( Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather for CBS ; NBC's Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Tom Brokaw ; ABC's Peter Jennings ).