1949 in television - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The year 1949 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

-related events in 1949.

Events

January 3 – Colgate Theatre
Colgate Theatre
Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC in 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes. The first edition, a live anthology, was telecast on Sunday nights at 8:30pm through the summer of 1950...

premieres on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

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January 11 – A two-hour special on all American networks celebrates the linking of the eastern and midwestern networks via coaxial cable.
January 21 - Your Show Time
Your Show Time
Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted as a midseason replacement on NBC in January 1949. Hosted and narrated by Arthur Shields, the series ran until July 1949. Made by Grant Productions at Hal Roach Studios, it was American television's first dramatic series to be shot...

becomes the first filmed dramatic series on American network television.
January 31 – The first Emmy Awards are presented and broadcast on television from Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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May – The first telethon, benefitting the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, is hosted by Milton Berle
Milton Berle
Milton Berlinger , better known as Milton Berle, was an American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , in 1948 he was the first major star of U.S. television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr...

and lasts for 24 hours.
August 25 – RCA
RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

announces the development of a compatible color TV system.
December 17 – The Sutton Coldfield television transmitter
Sutton Coldfield television transmitter
The Sutton Coldfield transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. It has broadcast terrestrial television signals every day since 1949 and is thus the oldest working television transmitting station in the world.-History:On...

is opened in the English Midlands
English Midlands
The Midlands, or the English Midlands, is the traditional name for the area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders Southern England, Northern England, East Anglia and Wales. Its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important...

, making it the first part of the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

outside London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

to receive BBC Television
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

.
December 29 – KC2XAK
KC2XAK
KC2XAK was the world's first UHF television station. It was simply a rebroadcast/broadcast translator transmitter of New York City's WNBT , and broadcast on UHF Channel 24 in Bridgeport, Connecticut...

of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...

becomes the first Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...

(UHF) television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

station to operate a daily schedule.
First television broadcasts begin in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

.
For the first time, the Sears & Roebuck catalog includes televisions.

Debuts

January 17 – The Goldbergs
The Goldbergs
The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly, and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly.-Radio:...

, a sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

, debuts on CBS (1949–1955).
May 5 - Stop the Music
Stop the Music (TV series)
Stop the Music is a prime time television game show that aired for an hour on Thursday evenings on ABC from May 5, 1949 to April 24, 1952, and again for a half-hour from September 7, 1954, to June 14, 1956. It had also been broadcast on radio from 1948 to 1949.The series hosts were Bert Parks and...

, debuts on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

for a five-yaar run over seven years.
June 27 – Captain Video and His Video Rangers, apparently the first science fiction series on television, debuts.
July 15 - This Is Show Business
This Is Show Business
This Is Show Business is an American panel discussion program about the entertainment industry, hosted by Clifton Fadiman, which aired on CBS Television from July 15, 1949 to March 9, 1954, and then again as a summer series on NBC Television from June 26 to September 11, 1956.-Overview:Guest...

, panel discussion program, premieres on CBS (1949–1954; 1956).
September 29 – Come Dancing
Come Dancing
Come Dancing was a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows....

, a ballroom dancing competition, is first broadcast by the BBC (1949–1995).
Martin Kane, Private Eye
Martin Kane, Private Eye
Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.- Radio:Martin Kane, Private Eye began as a 1949-52 radio series starring William Gargan in the title rôle as New York City private detective Martin Kane...

premieres on NBC, becoming the first detective series on television (1949–1954).
The Voice of Firestone
The Voice of Firestone
The Voice of Firestone, is a long-running radio and television program of classical music. The show featured leading singers in selections from opera and operetta. Originally titled The Firestone Hour, it was first broadcast on the NBC Radio network December 3, 1928 and was later also shown on...

premieres (1949–1963).
Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown is a clown character very popular in the United States, peaking in the 1960s as a result of widespread franchising in early television.Originally created by Alan W...

premieres (1949–present).
The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger (TV Series)
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator...

premieres (1949–1957).

Television shows

Series	Debut	Ended
Picture Page Picture Page Picture Page is a British television programme, broadcast on the BBC Television Service from 1936 to 1939, and again after the service's hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952... (UK)	October 8, 1936	1939
	1946	1952
Starlight Starlight (TV series) Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be shown on the BBC Television Service in the 1930s... (UK)	November 3, 1936	1939
	1946	1949
For The Children For The Children For The Children is a British television programme, the first to be designed especially for young children of school age. First broadcast on the BBC Television Service at 3pm on Saturday 24 April 1937, for its first two years the series was only ten minutes in length... (UK)	April 24, 1937	1939
	July 7, 1946	1950
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1943	1947
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1949	1963
Missus Goes A Shopping Missus Goes A Shopping Missus Goes a Shopping was one of the earliest game shows to be broadcast on live television. The show first aired on CBS Radio from February 17, 1941 to December 21, 1951. On August 3, 1944 the early CBS-TV network began airing a primetime version until January 22, 1946...	August 1, 1944	1949
Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope (TV series) Kaleidoscope was a British television programme, transmitted on the BBC Television Service from 1946 until 1953. A light entertainment show, it was one of the most popular programmes of the immediate post-war era.... (UK)	November 2, 1946	1953
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Gillette Cavalcade of Sports The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports was an American network radio program and later television program that included broadcasts of a variety of sports, although it is primarily remembered by many for its focus on boxing.-Overview and background:...	November 8, 1946	June 24, 1960
Muffin the Mule Muffin the Mule Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, & aunt to Hayley Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952... (UK)	1946	1955
Television Screen Magazine Television Screen Magazine Television Screen Magazine is a NBC Television Network series which debuted 17 November 1946 and ran from 1946 to 1949. Hosts and panelists included John McCaffery, Millicent Fenwick, and George F. Putnam. The program featured a magazine-type format with various subjects and guests...	1946	1949
You Are an Artist You Are an Artist You Are an Artist is an NBC television series, which first aired on NBC flagship station WNBT-TV in New York City on November 1, 1946 and then on the NBC Television network until 1950.-Production history:...	1946	1950
Doorway to Fame Doorway to Fame Doorway to Fame is an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.-Broadcast history:The series ran from May 1947 to July 1949. It was a talent show hosted by Johnny Olson, who would go on to host the DuMont daytime variety show Johnny Olson's Rumpus...	May 2, 1947	July 4, 1949
Kraft Television Theater	May 7, 1947	1958
Kukla, Fran and Ollie Kukla, Fran and Ollie Kukla, Fran and Ollie is an early American television show using puppets, originally created for children but soon watched by more adults than children. It did not have a script and was entirely ad-libbed...	October 13, 1947	1957
Meet the Press Meet the Press Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program produced by NBC. It is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history, despite bearing little resemblance to the original format of the program seen in its television debut on November 6, 1947. It has been...	November 6, 1947	—
Mary Kay and Johnny Mary Kay and Johnny Mary Kay and Johnny is the first situation comedy broadcast on network television in the United States. Starring real-life married couple Mary Kay Stearns and Johnny Stearns, the series is the first program to show a couple sharing a bed, and the first television series to show a woman's pregnancy...	November 18, 1947	March 11, 1950
Howdy Doody Howdy Doody Howdy Doody is an American children's television program that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on NBC in the United States from 1947 until 1960. It was a pioneer in children's television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows...	December 27, 1947	September 24, 1960
Americana Americana (TV series) Americana is a weekly game show which ran on NBC from December 8, 1947 to July 4, 1949. The series was originally hosted by literary critic John Mason Brown and produced by Martin Stone Productions with NBC Television. Each week's show was sponsored by Encyclopedia Americana...	1947	1949
Birthday Party	1947	1949
Café Continental Café Continental Café Continental was a British television variety show on the BBC Television Service from 1947 to 1953. Broadcast live from the BBC's studios at Alexandra Palace, the programme opened with a "Maître d'hôtel" who welcomed the television audience to the "cafe" set and told them that "your table has... (UK)	1947	1953
Charade Quiz Charade Quiz Charade Quiz is an American game show hosted by Bill Slater which aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from November 27, 1947 to June 23, 1949.-Overview:...	1947	1949
Juvenile Jury Juvenile Jury Juvenile Jury is an American children's game show which originally ran on NBC from April 3, 1947 to August 1, 1954. It was hosted by Jack Barry and featured a panel of kids aged ten or less giving advice to solve the problems of other kids.-Controversy:...	1947	1954
Musical Merry-Go-Round Musical Merry-Go-Round Musical Merry-Go-Round was a NBC TV series which aired from 25 July 1947 to 1949. The series featured live music performances.-Production history:Each 30 minute episode was hosted by Jack Kilty. Little else is known about this early television series....	1947	1949
Small Fry Club Small Fry Club The Small Fry Club, also known as Movies for Small Fry, is one of the earliest TV series made for children. Aired from 11 March 1947 to 15 June 1951 on the DuMont Television Network, it was hosted by "Big Brother Bob Emery".-Broadcast history:...	1947	1951
Television Newsreel Television Newsreel Television Newsreel was a British television programme, the first regular news programme to be made in the UK. Produced by the BBC and screened on the BBC Television Service from 1948 to 1954 at 7.30pm, it adapted the traditional cinema newsreel form for the television audience, covering news and... (UK)	January 5, 1948	1954
The Original Amateur Hour	January 18, 1948	September 27, 1970
Court of Current Issues Court of Current Issues The Court of Current Issues is a public-affairs and debate series which aired live on Tuesday nights from 1948-1951 on the DuMont Television Network...	February 9, 1948	June 26, 1951
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Stop Me If You've Heard This One Stop Me If You've Heard This One was a comedy radio series, created by the actor-humorist Cal Tinney and sponsored by Quaker Oats. Hosted by Milton Berle, it aired Saturday evenings at 8:30pm on NBC beginning October 7, 1939.-Production history:The premise was that listeners received prizes for...	March 4, 1948	April 22, 1949
Author Meets the Critics Author Meets the Critics Author Meets the Critics was an American talk show which aired on NBC, ABC, and the DuMont Television Network. The series began as a mid-season replacement on NBC on April 4, 1948, but moved to ABC in 1949...	April 1948	October 10, 1954
Hollywood Screen Test Hollywood Screen Test Hollywood Screen Test was a talent show which aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1948 to 1953. It is believed to be the first series ever broadcast on ABC....	April 15, 1948	1953
Texaco Star Theater Texaco Star Theater Texaco Star Theater is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname "Mr...	June 8, 1948	1953
The Ed Sullivan Show The Ed Sullivan Show The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....	June 20, 1948	June 6, 1971
Candid Camera Candid Camera Candid Camera is a hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947...	August 10, 1948	—
CBS Evening News CBS Evening News CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....	August 15, 1948	—
Foodini the Great Foodini the Great Foodini the Great was an early CBS children's television series. A 15-minute puppet show, it was performed live at 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday from August 23, 1948, to June 23, 1951....	August 23, 1948	June 23, 1951
Actors Studio Actors Studio (TV series) Actors Studio is an American TV show which aired for 65 episodes, from September 26, 1948 to October 26 on the fledgling ABC Television Network; then from November 1, 1949 to June 23, 1950 on CBS Television....	September 1948	June 1950
Champagne and Orchids Champagne and Orchids Champagne and Orchids was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1948 to 1949. It was a variety show hosted by Adrienne....	September 6, 1948	January 10, 1949
Stained Glass Windows Stained Glass Windows Stained Glass Windows was an early broadcast television program, broadcast on early Sunday evenings on the ABC network. The program was a religious broadcast, hosted by the Reverend Everett Parker....	September 26, 1948	October 16, 1949
Ford Theatre Ford Theatre Ford Theatre was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts...	October 17, 1948	July 10, 1957
The Growing Paynes The Growing Paynes The Growing Paynes is a sitcom that aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.-Broadcast history:The series aired on DuMont on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm EST for one season, 1948 to 1949...	October 20, 1948	August 3, 1949
The Adventures of Oky Doky The Adventures of Oky Doky The Adventures of Oky Doky was an American children's television program that aired on the DuMont Television Network from November 4, 1948 through May 26, 1949...	November 4, 1948	May 26, 1949
The Morey Amsterdam Show The Morey Amsterdam Show The Morey Amsterdam Show is an American sitcom which ran from 1948-1949 on CBS Television and 1949-1950 on the DuMont Television Network , for a total of 71 episodes.-Synopsis:...	December 17, 1948	October 12, 1950
The Alan Dale Show The Alan Dale Show The Alan Dale Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network and then on CBS .-Broadcast history:...	1948	1951
Amanda	1948	1949
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts is an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958...	1948	January 1, 1958
The Bigelow Show	1948	1949
Break the Bank Break the Bank (1948) Break the Bank is an American quiz show which aired variously on Mutual Radio and ABC, CBS and NBC television from 1945 to 1957.-Radio:Sponsored by Vicks, the series began on radio October 20, 1945, heard Saturdays on Mutual until April 13, 1946. Initially, it featured different hosts each week,...	1948	1957
Cartoon Teletales	1948	1950
Celebrity Time Celebrity Time Celebrity Time was an American game and audience participation television series which aired originally aired on CBS and ABC from November 1948 to September 1952...	1948	September 1952
Child's World	1948	1949
Club Seven	1948	1951
The Philco Television Playhouse The Philco Television Playhouse The Philco Television Playhouse, a live television anthology series sponsored by Philco, was telecast from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the NBC series was seen on Sundays from 9:00pm to 10:00pm...	1948	1955
Winner Take All	1948	1952
The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly, and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly.-Radio:...	January 17, 1949	1956
These Are My Children These Are My Children These Are My Children is a short-lived American television soap opera which ran on NBC from January 21, 1949 to February 25, 1949. The show was broadcast live from Chicago, Illinois, airing fifteen minutes a day, five days a week, at 5:00 p.m. EST....	January 31, 1949	February 25, 1949
A Woman to Remember A Woman to Remember A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21, 1949 - July 15, 1949. The show initially ran in daytime but starting May 2 aired Monday through Friday from 7:30 - 7:45 pm EST. John Haggart served as creator and writer; Bob Steele was producer and...	February 21, 1949	July 15, 1949
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims...	March 1, 1949	October 5, 1950
Think Fast Think Fast (game show) Think Fast was an American quiz show that ran on ABC from March 26, 1949 to October 8, 1950.The program revolved around a group of five panelists who would compete to see who had the most to say about a particular subject...	March 26, 1949	October 8, 1950
Captain Video Captain Video Captain Video and His Video Rangers is an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network, and was the first series of its kind on American television...	June 27, 1949	April 1, 1955
Mama Mama (TV series) Mama is a weekly Maxwell House-sponsored CBS television comedy-drama series which ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957.Based on the Kathryn Forbes memoir Mama's Bank Account, which was also adapted for the 1944 John Van Druten play and subsequent 1948 film I Remember Mama, it told the...	July 1, 1949	March 17, 1957
Martin Kane, Private Eye Martin Kane, Private Eye Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.- Radio:Martin Kane, Private Eye began as a 1949-52 radio series starring William Gargan in the title rôle as New York City private detective Martin Kane...	August 7, 1949	June 17, 1954
The Family Genius The Family Genius The Family Genius was a TV series aired in the United States from September 9, 1949 till September 30, 1949. It was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, and is most notable for lasting less than a month before cancellation. The series was a sitcom centered around the Howard family...	September 1949	September 1949
The Little Revue The Little Revue The Little Revue was an early broadcast television series, which ran on the ABC network from 1949-1950.The program broadcast music performers and other variety show elements. It was first broadcast on September 4, 1949, and stayed on Sunday evenings until March 1950, where it moved to Friday...	September 4, 1949	April 21, 1950
The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger (TV Series) The Lone Ranger is an American western television series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator...	September 15, 1949	June 6, 1957
Come Dancing Come Dancing Come Dancing was a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows.... (UK)	September 29, 1949	1995
The Aldrich Family The Aldrich Family The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy , was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' well-remembered weekly opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!", and he responded with a breaking...	October 2, 1949	May 29, 1953
The Life of Riley The Life of Riley The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, is a popular American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a long-run 1950s television series , and a 1958 Dell comic book...	October 4, 1949	March 28, 1950
	January 2, 1953	August 22, 1958
Let There Be Stars Let There Be Stars Let There Be Stars was an early television series which aired on the ABC television network in 1949. It was a high-budget show for its time, and used new production techniques such as "Teleparencies", transparencies which could be displayed in the background, faded in or out or dissolved, and...	October 6, 1949	November 27, 1949
The Ruggles The Ruggles The Ruggles is an early American family-oriented situation comedies. The series, broadcast live on ABC, with a few episodes recorded on kinescope, began November 3, 1949--a month after radio hit The Life of Riley moved to television on NBC---and ended on June 19, 1952...	November 3, 1949	June 19, 1952
One Man's Family One Man's Family One Man's Family, is a long-running American radio soap opera. It was heard for almost three decades, from 1932 to 1959. Created by Carlton E. Morse, it was the longest-running uninterrupted serial in the history of American radio...	November 4, 1949	June 21, 1952
	March 1, 1954	April 1, 1955
The Admiral Broadway Revue The Admiral Broadway Revue The Admiral Broadway Revue is an American variety show that premiered on January 28, 1949, and was broadcast live simultaneously on both NBC and the now-defunct DuMont network.-Overview:...	1949	1949
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends Arthur Godfrey and His Friends Arthur Godfrey and His Friends is an American television variety show hosted by Arthur Godfrey. The hour-long series aired on CBS from January 1949, to June 1957 , then again as a half-hour show from September 1958, to April 1959.Many of Godfrey's musical acts were culled from Arthur Godfrey's...	1949	1959
Easy Aces Easy Aces Easy Aces, a long-running American serial radio comedy , was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife...	1949	1949
Follow That Man	1949	1956

Ending this year

Missus Goes A-Shopping (1944–1949).
Starlight
Starlight (TV series)
Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be shown on the BBC Television Service in the 1930s...

(UK) (1936–1939; 1946–1949).
Television Screen Magazine
Television Screen Magazine
Television Screen Magazine is a NBC Television Network series which debuted 17 November 1946 and ran from 1946 to 1949. Hosts and panelists included John McCaffery, Millicent Fenwick, and George F. Putnam. The program featured a magazine-type format with various subjects and guests...

(1946–1949).
Musical Merry-Go-Round
Musical Merry-Go-Round
Musical Merry-Go-Round was a NBC TV series which aired from 25 July 1947 to 1949. The series featured live music performances.-Production history:Each 30 minute episode was hosted by Jack Kilty. Little else is known about this early television series....

(1947–1949).
Americana
Americana (TV series)
Americana is a weekly game show which ran on NBC from December 8, 1947 to July 4, 1949. The series was originally hosted by literary critic John Mason Brown and produced by Martin Stone Productions with NBC Television. Each week's show was sponsored by Encyclopedia Americana...

(1947–1949).
Birthday Party (1947–1949).
Charade Quiz
Charade Quiz
Charade Quiz is an American game show hosted by Bill Slater which aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from November 27, 1947 to June 23, 1949.-Overview:...

(1947–1949).
Doorway to Fame
Doorway to Fame
Doorway to Fame is an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.-Broadcast history:The series ran from May 1947 to July 1949. It was a talent show hosted by Johnny Olson, who would go on to host the DuMont daytime variety show Johnny Olson's Rumpus...

(1947–1949).
The Adventures of Oky Doky
The Adventures of Oky Doky
The Adventures of Oky Doky was an American children's television program that aired on the DuMont Television Network from November 4, 1948 through May 26, 1949...

(1948–1949).
Amanda (1948–1949).
The Bigelow Show (1948–1949) with Paul Winchell
Paul Winchell
Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, voice actor and comedian, whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s...

.
Champagne and Orchids
Champagne and Orchids
Champagne and Orchids was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1948 to 1949. It was a variety show hosted by Adrienne....

(1948–1949).
Child's World (1948–1949).

Changes of Network Affiliation

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Candid Camera Candid Camera Candid Camera is a hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947...	ABC American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...	NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

Births

January 16 - Caroline Munro
Caroline Munro
Caroline Munro is an English actress and model known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.-Early career:...

, English actress and model
January 17 – Andy Kaufman
Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey "Andy" Kaufman was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one...

, actor and comedian (d. 1984)
January 24 – John Belushi
John Belushi
John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...

, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

(d. 1982)
February 2 – Brent Spiner
Brent Spiner
Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. His portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact and of Dr...

, actor
February 8 - Brooke Adams, actress
February 9 – Judith Light
Judith Light
Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.-Early life:Light...

, actress
February 28 - Ilene Graff
Ilene Graff
Ilene Graff is an American actress and singer.The Brooklyn native began her professional career as a teenager when she performed as a background singer and commercial actress while attending Van Buren High School in Queens Village...

, actress and singer
March 2 - Gates McFadden
Gates McFadden
Cheryl Gates McFadden usually credited as Gates McFadden, is an American actress and choreographer. She is best known for portraying the character of Dr...

, actress and choreographer
March 16 – Erik Estrada
Erik Estrada
Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American police officer and actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...

, actor, CHiPs
CHiPs
CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by MGM Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to July 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...
- Victor Garber
  Victor Garber
  Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.-Early life:Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Garber is...
  
  , Canadian actor and singer
March 17 – Patrick Duffy, actor, Dallas
Dallas (TV series)
Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...
March 26 – Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedienne, and Billboard Hot 100 #1 singer, who was frequently a game show panelist in the 1970s and 1980s...

, actress, comedienne, The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show is a variety / sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33...

, Mama's Family
Mama's Family
Mama's Family is an American television sitcom that premiered on NBC on January 22, 1983. It was cancelled in May 1984, but NBC would continue to air reruns until September 1985. In September 1986, Mama's Family returned in first-run syndication, where it aired for an additional four seasons,...

, etc.
April 14 - John Shea
John Shea
John Victor Shea III is an American actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret...

, actor
April 20 - Veronica Cartwright
Veronica Cartwright
Veronica A. Cartwright is an English-born American actress who has worked mainly in American film and television. She is best known for her role of Lambert in Alien, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress....

, English-born actress
April 23 - Joyce DeWitt
Joyce DeWitt
Joyce Anne DeWitt is an American actress most famous for playing Janet Wood on the ABC sitcom Three's Company.-Early life:...

, actress, Three's Company
Three's Company
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House....
June 15 - Jim Varney
Jim Varney
James Albert "Jim" Varney, Jr. was an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Ernest P...

, actor and comedian (d. 2000)
July 3 – Jan Smithers
Jan Smithers
Karin Jan Smithers is an American television and film actress, who is best known for playing Bailey Quarters on the television series WKRP in Cincinnati.-Life and career:...

, actress, WKRP in Cincinnati
WKRP in Cincinnati
WKRP in Cincinnati is an American situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta...
August 23 – Shelley Long
Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Long is an American actress best known for her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress...

, actress, Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
- Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States...
  
  , Australian singer-songwriter and actor
September 16 – Ed Begley, Jr.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television series St...

, actor
October 14 - Katy Manning
Katy Manning
Katy Manning is an English actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She has also made many theatre appearances, and is now a citizen of Australia. She is myopic...

, English actress
November 6 – Nigel Havers
Nigel Havers
Nigel Allan Havers is an English actor. He is probably best known for his BAFTA-nominated role as Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film Chariots of Fire, and for his role as Dr. Tom Latimer in the British TV comedy series Don't Wait Up...

, English actor
December 4 - Pamela Stephenson
Pamela Stephenson
Pamela Helen Stephenson Connolly is a New Zealand-born Australian clinical psychologist and writer now resident in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her work as an actress and comedian during the 1980s...

, New Zealand actress and comedienne
December 15 – Don Johnson
Don Johnson
Donnie Wayne "Don" Johnson is an American actor known for his work in television and film. He played the lead role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges...

, actor, Miami Vice
Miami Vice
Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989...

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