What’s on MeTV tonight? Here is the full MeTV schedule for Tuesday, October 27, 2026, with times in Eastern Time (ET).

MeTV builds Tuesday primetime out of three sitcom pairs

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MeTV’s night is simple: two half hours each of three comedies, no gaps and no surprises. The Andy Griffith Show opens at 8pm ET with two episodes back to back, and that is the one to pick. It is a sitcom that has run 249 episodes to date, and the channel airs it twice today, so there’s a second chance if you miss the evening run. At 8pm ET the broadcast networks are on Dancing with the Stars and NCIS, so this is the quieter choice.

Everybody Loves Raymond takes over at 9pm ET with the first season’s twentieth and twenty-first episodes. Solid, but it’s the middle of the sandwich.

The better close is The Golden Girls at 10pm ET, two more episodes from its fifth season. Among the cast are Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, and the show has 180 episodes to its name. Stay up for that rather than sampling all three.


Also on TV tonight at 8pm ET

  • ABC: Dancing with the Stars
  • NBC: NBA Basketball
  • CBS: NCIS
  • FOX: 2026 World Series
  • PBS: Finding Your Roots
  • The CW: WWE NXT
  • ION: Chicago Fire
  • TCM: Arsenic and Old Lace
  • AMC: A Nightmare on Elm Street (from 7pm ET)
  • FX: Independence Day (from 6pm ET)

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Frequently asked questions

What’s on MeTV tonight?

On Tuesday, October 27, 2026, MeTV shows The Andy Griffith Show at 8pm ET, The Andy Griffith Show at 8:30pm ET, Everybody Loves Raymond at 9pm ET, Everybody Loves Raymond at 9:30pm ET, The Golden Girls at 10pm ET and The Golden Girls at 10:30pm ET.

Is there a movie on MeTV tonight?

No. MeTV has no movies in its evening schedule on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.

What’s on MeTV late tonight?

After 11pm ET, MeTV has The Carol Burnett Show at 11pm ET and Perry Mason at 11:30pm ET.

What time does MeTV’s evening start?

The evening schedule starts with MAS*H at 6pm ET.

Classic TV by the clock: what MeTV is

MeTV is a channel of old American television, run to a timetable so fixed you could set a watch by it. Westerns fill the afternoon, police and detective shows fill the morning and the small hours, and the evening belongs to sitcoms. Across the week we tracked, 71% of its airtime went to titles that came back on three or more days, and almost nothing on it was made this century.

That repetition is the point rather than a flaw. MeTV is built for people who want to know that Gunsmoke is on at 1pm and Bonanza follows it at 2pm, every weekday, without checking. New programmes barely exist here, and films are rare: about two or three a week, and in the week we tracked all of them on Sunday.

What a day on MeTV looks like

The overnight hours are a crime and suspense block. The Twilight Zone opens the day at 12:35am, Alfred Hitchcock Presents follows at 1:05am, and then the detectives take over: Mannix at 2:05am, Cannon at 3:05am and Barnaby Jones at 4:05am. Dragnet arrives around 5am.

Weekday mornings move from cops to family shows and back. Adam-12 airs at 6am and Hogan’s Heroes at 6:30am, Leave It to Beaver at 8am, then Perry Mason at 9am, Matlock at 10am and Hawaii Five-O at 11am. The Waltons takes noon.

The afternoon is the western block, and it is the most dependable stretch on the channel. Gunsmoke is at 1pm, Bonanza at 2pm, The Rifleman at 3pm (usually two episodes back to back) and Wagon Train at 4pm. Emergency closes the afternoon at 5pm.

Evenings turn to comedy. MAS*H usually runs from 6pm or 7pm, The Andy Griffith Show takes 8pm on weeknights (two episodes), Everybody Loves Raymond 9pm and The Golden Girls 10pm, with The Carol Burnett Show at 11pm Monday to Thursday. All times are Eastern, and MeTV’s primetime is the same 8 to 11pm window as the big networks, filled with sitcoms instead of new series.

Saturdays and Sundays

The weekend is where the schedule loosens. Saturday starts with Petticoat Junction at 5am and The Beverly Hillbillies at 6am, then turns to cartoons: The Woody Woodpecker Show, Bugs Bunny and Friends and Popeye and Pals. On weekdays, Toon In With Me holds the 7am slot.

Saturday evening has the channel’s best-known fixture. The Three Stooges fill the early evening from 6pm, and then Svengoolie takes the night, starting at 8pm and running for two and a half to three hours. In the week of Halloween it moved up to 7pm and ran longer. If you only know one thing about MeTV’s schedule, it is probably that Svengoolie is on Saturday night.

Sunday is the day for a film, when there is one. In the week we tracked, the channel gave Sunday daytime to The Wizard of Oz (1939), twice, with The Wiz (1978) in between, then went back to The Golden Girls and Everybody Loves Raymond in the evening.

Popular shows on MeTV

Gunsmoke is a western drama that ran on CBS from 1955 for 20 seasons and 635 episodes, with James Arness, Milburn Stone and Amanda Blake in the cast. It is the anchor of MeTV’s afternoon at 1pm.

Bonanza is a western series that began on NBC in 1959 and ran for 14 seasons and 431 episodes, starring Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon. It follows Gunsmoke at 2pm.

M*A*S*H is a comedy-drama that began on CBS in 1972 and ran for 11 seasons and 256 episodes, with Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson and Loretta Swit. On MeTV it usually opens the evening, often for several episodes in a row.

The Andy Griffith Show is a sitcom that ran on CBS from 1960 for eight seasons and 249 episodes, with Andy Griffith, Ron Howard and Don Knotts. It starts MeTV’s primetime at 8pm.

The Golden Girls is a sitcom that began on NBC in 1985 and ran for seven seasons and 180 episodes, with Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan. It is the channel’s late-evening habit at 10pm, and the most-aired title in its primetime.

Matlock is a legal drama that began on NBC in 1986, starring Andy Griffith, and ran for nine seasons and 194 episodes. It has the 10am weekday slot.

How to watch MeTV

MeTV is a free over-the-air channel. You can watch it with a TV antenna, with no subscription, on a digital subchannel of a local station in most parts of the country. The channel number depends on where you live, so rescan your TV’s channels if you can’t find it.

It is also carried on several live TV streaming services. Availability varies by service and sometimes by market, so check the channel list of the one you use.

Channels like MeTV

  • Antenna TV is the closest match for the evening: wall-to-wall classic sitcoms, with an hour of Johnny Carson at 11pm.
  • Cozi TV does the same thing with sitcoms from the 1980s to the 2000s, in long runs of one show at a time.
  • H&I takes MeTV’s crime and western habit into primetime, with a nightly block of Star Trek series.
  • Grit is the channel for anyone who watches MeTV mainly for its afternoon westerns, with western films most of the day.

Who it’s for

MeTV is for viewers who like television from the 1950s to the 1990s and like it served on a timetable. If you want a reliable hour of Gunsmoke after lunch and The Golden Girls before bed, it is hard to beat, and it costs nothing with an antenna. If you want anything new, or a choice of films, look elsewhere.

How can I watch MeTV without cable?

With a TV antenna: MeTV is free over the air on a local station’s subchannel in most markets. Several live TV streaming services carry it too.

What’s on MeTV in the afternoon?

Westerns, every weekday: Gunsmoke at 1pm, Bonanza at 2pm, The Rifleman at 3pm and Wagon Train at 4pm, all Eastern time.

What time is Svengoolie on MeTV?

Svengoolie is a Saturday-night fixture, usually starting at 8pm Eastern and running for close to three hours.

Does MeTV show movies?

Rarely. In the week we tracked it showed three films, all on Sunday. The rest of the schedule is classic TV series.