With its coveted 8:00 p.m. Eastern Friday-night time slot, "Sanford and Son" put enough of a dent into the middling audience of ABC's "The Brady Bunch" to drive it off the air in 1974. "Sanford and Son" peaked at #2 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1972–73 season and the 1974–75 season, and the series was second only to "All in the Family" in ratings during those years. By the 1974–75 season, "Sanford and Son"'s lead-in helped the entire NBC Friday night lineup place in the coveted bracket of the Top 15 shows ("Chico and the Man", following "Sanford", ranked #3 for the season, while the police dramas "The Rockford Files" and "Police Woman" aired later in the evening and ranked at #12 and #15 respectively).