Must See TV Guide

8:00 · Tonight's listings

The grid

NBC's fall Thursday lineup each season. Shows keep their color, so you can watch them move between slots. Tap any show for its full Thursday run. The small number is its rank for the whole TV season.

Hammocked between two hitsMidseason replacements aren't shown.

8:30 · Between the hits

The hammock

NBC's trick was to slot a brand-new show between two hits, so viewers who stayed on the channel would watch it by default. It made a lot of shows look like hits. Most of them didn't survive a move to another night.

9:00 · The numbers

NBC's share of the top 10

How many of each season's ten highest-rated shows were on NBC's fall Thursday lineup. For four straight seasons it was half of them.

9:30 · You're the programmer

Build your Thursday

Pick a show for each slot from any season it aired there. Your score adds up each show's Nielsen rating that season, the share of TV households watching. Only shows that made the season's top 30 have a rating to use.

10:00 · Special presentation

What was on your birthday?

Pick any date from September 1993 to May 2004 and get NBC's Thursday lineup for that week's season.

11:00 · Late night

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Sources: lineups and Nielsen season ranks and ratings from Wikipedia's yearly U.S. network television schedule pages, 1993–94 through 2003–04. Ratings are season averages for households.