Despite improving ABC's numbers, the program's ratings were never strong as the established "60 Minutes" and scripted mystery series "Murder, She Wrote" on CBS, both of which Disney was competing with for viewers, remained the leading primetime programs on Sunday nights. In 1987, ABC reduced "The Disney Sunday Movie" from two hours to one. The move did not help drive ratings, and the network decided not to renew its contract with Disney or pick up a fourth season of the second iteration of the anthology series.