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Events

• January 4 - NBC expands the Huntley-Brinkley Report
  Huntley-Brinkley Report
  
  The Huntley-Brinkley Report was the NBC television network's flagship evening news program from October 29, 1956 until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York, New York, and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C....
   to Saturdays, with Chet Huntley
  Chet Huntley
  
  Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley was an American television newscaster....
   and David Brinkley
  David Brinkley
  
  David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC News, and later American Broadcasting Company in a career spanning from 1951–1997....
   alternating weeks anchoring the news solo. Later, mediocre ratings prompt NBC to replace the duo with other newsmen, with the broadcast rechristened NBC Saturday News.
• February 5 - ABC runs the one and only airing of the notorious flop, Turn-On
  Turn-On
  
  Turn-On is an United States television series from 1969. List of television series canceled after one episode and it is considered one of the most infamous flops in TV history....
  .
• February 9 - CBS presents the Royal Shakespeare Company
  Royal Shakespeare Company
  
  The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
  's version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic love Shakespearean comedies by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596....
  ", starring Diana Rigg
  Diana Rigg
  
  Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Order of the British Empire is an England actor. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Tracy Bond in the 1969 in film James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ....
  , David Warner
  David Warner (actor)
  
  David Warner is an Emmy Award-winning List of English people actor, who is known for playing sinister or villainous characters.Biography...
  , and Helen Mirren
  Helen Mirren
  
  Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
  .
• February 19 - At exactly 4:31 p.m. at the CBS Studio Center
  CBS Studio Center
  
  CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a triangular piece of land, with the Los Angeles River bisecting the site....
  , with Jim Nabors
  Jim Nabors
  
  James Thurston "Jim" Nabors is an United States actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California due to his asthma....
   saying the line "How interesting - and did she?", Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC. is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 to May 2, 1969....
   shoots its final scene and completes its run.
• April 4 - CBS bans the Smothers Brothers
  Smothers Brothers
  
  The Smothers Brothers are an United States music-and-comedy team, consisting of the brothers Tom Smothers and Dick Smothers. The brothers' trademark act was performing folk songs , which usually led to arguments between the siblings....
  . Three days later, Walter Cronkite
  Walter Cronkite
  
  Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. is a retired United States Broadcast journalism, best known as anchorman for the The CBS Evening News for 19 years ....
   opens the evening newscast by confirming that the Smothers Brothers have been replaced by Hee Haw
  Hee Haw
  
  Hee Haw was a television variety show, initially co-hosted by musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with fictional, rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop....
   - effective immediately. But because it takes two months to assemble a typical Hee Haw segment, CBS has to fill the time period with specials until Hee Haw premieres on June 15.
• April 11 - Rome
  Rome
  
  Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
   as only he could see it is presented in Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  
  Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
  , a Director's Notebook, an NBC special.
• April 13 - Dick Van Dyke
  Dick Van Dyke
  
  Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
   and Mary Tyler Moore
  Mary Tyler Moore
  
  Mary Tyler Moore is an United States Actor and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and for her earlier role as L...
   are reunited for a special, Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman, on CBS.
• March 21 - The science fiction
  Science fiction
  
  Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
   television series Star Trek
  Star Trek: The Original Series
  
  Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that followed, and from the Star Trek fi...
   airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. Its subsequent sale into rerun syndication
  Television syndication
  
  In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
   soon after leads to a rise in popularity that transforms Star Trek into one of the century's most successful entertainment franchises.
• June 21 - Patrick Troughton
  Patrick Troughton
  
  Patrick George "Pat" Troughton was an England actor most widely known in his role as the Second Doctor incarnation of Doctor in the long running United Kingdom science fiction on television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969....
   makes his last regular appearance as the Second Doctor
  Second Doctor
  
  The Second Doctor is the name given to the second Doctor #Changing faces of the fictional character known as Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC Science fiction on television series Doctor Who....
   in the concluding moments of Episode 10 of the Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  
  Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
   serial The War Games
  The War Games
  
  The War Games is a list of Doctor Who serials in the United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from April 19 to June 21, 1969....
  . It also marks the final time that the series was broadcast in black and white.
• Summer - In a surprise announcement, Martin Landau
  Martin Landau
  
  Martin Landau is an Academy Awards-winning United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999 ....
   and Barbara Bain
  Barbara Bain
  
  Barbara Bain is a United States actor.Bain was born Millicent Fogel into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model....
   announce they are leaving the cast of Mission: Impossible
  Mission: Impossible
  
  Mission: Impossible began as an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret United States government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force ....
  . Landau's replacement is former Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy
  Leonard Nimoy
  
  Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is best known for playing the character of Spock on Star Trek: The Original Series, an American television series that ran for three seasons from 1966 to 1969, in addition to reprising the role in several movie sequels....
  , while a permanent replacement for Bain would not be chosen until the 1970-71 season.
• July 3 - Lulu the elephant runs amok on Blue Peter
  Blue Peter
  
  Blue Peter is a long-running BBC television programme for children. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC Channel....
  . The clip is subsequently repeated many times, becoming the archetypal British TV "blooper
  Blooper
  
  A blooper is a short sequence of a film or video production which is a deleted scene, contains a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. These bloopers, or outtakes as they are also called, are often the subject of television shows or are occasionally revealed during the Closing credits sequence at the end of comedy films....
  ".
• July 20 - A live transmission from the Moon
  Moon
  
  The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
   is viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11
  Apollo 11
  
  The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Apollo program and the third human voyage to the Moon....
  : at 10:56 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong
  Neil Armstrong
  
  Neil Alden Armstrong is a former American astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He is List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon Moon....
   stepped onto the surface of the Moon
  Moon
  
  The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
  , broadcast live.
• July 25 - Senator Edward Kennedy
  Ted Kennedy
  
  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy is the Senior Senator United States Senate from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party . In office since November 1962, Kennedy is the list of current United States Senators by seniority member of the Senate, after President pro tempore of the United States Senate Robert Byrd of West Virginia....
   goes on TV to talk about the incident at Chappaquiddick.
• August 14 - Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  
  Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
   goes on TV to give his take on the Tate-LaBianca murders.
• August 18 - CBS pits Merv Griffin
  Merv Griffin
  
  Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. was an United States television host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway theatre....
   against Johnny Carson
  Johnny Carson
  
  John William ?Johnny? Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years....
   in the late-night talk-show arena. Carson wins.
• September 1 - TV Globo
  Rede Globo
  
  Rede Globo is a Brazilian Television broadcasting, owned by media conglomerate Organiza??es Globo. The network is currently one of the largest in The Americas and the fourth largest in the world, watched by 120 million people daily....
   debuted its first news and current affairs program, Jornal Nacional
  Jornal Nacional
  
  Jornal Nacional is the most influential news program in Brazil, aired by Rede Globo since September 1, 1969. It is presented by husband and wife team of William Bonner and F?tima Bernardes directly from Globo headquarters in Rio de Janeiro....
  , which ran Monday
  Monday
  
  Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday....
   through Saturday
  Saturday
  
  File:Polidoro da Caravaggio - Saturnus-thumb.jpgSaturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. Saturday is the seventh day of the week....
  .
• September 8 - From now on, all daytime programs on ABC and CBS are in color.
• November 13 - Vice-President Spiro Agnew
  Spiro Agnew
  
  Spiro Theodore Agnew was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland....
  , in a televised speech from Des Moines, Iowa
  Des Moines, Iowa
  
  Des Moines , is the Capital and the most populous city in the United States U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County, Iowa....
  , sirs up a national controversy by attacking the network news commentaries.
• November 15 - Colour introduced to BBC1
  BBC One
  
  BBC One is the primary television channel of the BBC . It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of ....
   and ITV
  ITV
  
  ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
   in the UK
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  .
• December 17 - Tiny Tim
  Tiny Tim (musician)
  
  Herbert Khaury , better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an United States singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice ....
   gets married on Johnny Carson
  Johnny Carson
  
  John William ?Johnny? Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years....
  's The Tonight Show
  The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  
  The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a late-night Talk/Chat show hosted by Johnny Carson under the The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992....
  .
• Canadian broadcaster CBC renames The National News to The National
  The National
  
  The National, now officially known as CBC News: The National, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship national television newscast....
  , which remains its title.

Debuts

• January 3 - Der Kommissar premieres on ZDF
  ZDF
  
  Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television television channel based in Mainz. It is run as an independent non-profit agency established by joint contract between the States of Germany ....
   in Germany (1969-1976).
• February 7 - This Is Tom Jones
  This Is Tom Jones
  
  This is Tom Jones was an Associated TeleVision variety series starring Tom Jones . The series was exported to the United States by ITC Entertainment and was networked there by American Broadcasting Company....
   premieres on ABC (1969-1971).
• June 7 - The Johnny Cash Show
  The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)
  
  The Johnny Cash Show was an United States television music variety show presented by Johnny Cash. The 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on American Broadcasting Company....
   premieres on ABC (1969-1971).
• June 15 - Hee Haw
  Hee Haw
  
  Hee Haw was a television variety show, initially co-hosted by musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with fictional, rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop....
   premieres on CBS
  CBS
  
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
   (1969-1993).
• September 6- H.R. Pufnstuf
  H.R. Pufnstuf
  
  H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet, program....
   premieres on NBC (1969-1971)
• September 8 - Where the Heart Is
  Where the Heart Is (1969 TV series)
  
  Where the Heart Is is an American soap opera which was telecast on the CBS television network from Monday, September 8, 1969, to Friday, March 23, 1973....
   premieres on CBS daytime (1969-1973).
• September 13 - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
  Scooby-Doo, Where are You!
  
  Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m....
   (1969-1972) premieres on CBS Saturday Morning. The animated show, about a cowardly Great Dane
  Great Dane
  
  The Great Dane, Danish Hound, Deutsche Dogge, Boarhound, or German Mastiff is a dog breed of domestic dog known for its giant size and gentle personality....
   and his four teenage friends who travel around the country in a multi-colored van solving mysteries, would go on to become a major pop cultural icon, with numerous spin-offs, direct to video movies, and two live action films.
• September 13 - The Archie Comedy Hour (1969-1970) premieres on CBS Saturday Morning. America's favorite teenager,Archie and his gang are back, this time they have new friends.Sabrina,the magicial teenage witch and Big Moose,Riverdale High's all-muscles but no brains jock who hangs out with the gang. The show features musical numbers such as the #1 hit song of 1969 "Sugar,Sugar" performed by the gang,and variety skits modeled after Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. This formula continues with Archie's Funhouse.
• September 17 -
• Room 222
  Room 222
  
  Room 222 is an United States television comedy-drama produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 17, 1969 to January 11, 1974 for 112 episodes....
   premieres on ABC (1969-1974).
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father
  The Courtship of Eddie's Father
  
  The Courtship of Eddie's Father was a United States television comedy-drama based on the popular 1963 The Courtship of Eddie's Father that had gained some respect in theaters, and it was also based on a book written by Mark Toby....
   premieres on ABC (1969-1972).
• September 21 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
  Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
  
  Randall and Hopkirk is a late 1960s United Kingdom private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk....
   premieres ITV
  ITV
  
  ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
   in the UK
• September 23 - Marcus Welby, M.D.
  Marcus Welby, M.D.
  
  Marcus Welby, M.D. is a popular medical drama that aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J....
   premieres on ABC (1969-1976).
• September 24 - Medical Center
  Medical Center (TV series)
  
  Medical Center is a Medical drama which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976....
   premieres on CBS (1969-1976)
• September 26 - The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch
  
  The Brady Bunch is an United States television situation comedy based around a large stepfamily. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on the American Broadcasting Company network and was subsequently television syndication around the world....
   premieres on ABC (1969-1974).
• September 29
• Bright Promise
  Bright Promise
  
  Bright Promise is an United States daytime soap opera that ran on the NBC Daytime television network from September 29, 1969 to March 31, 1972....
  , the latter of the soap opera
  Soap opera
  
  A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
  s created by Frank and Doris Hursley
  Frank and Doris Hursley
  
  Frank M. Hursley and Doris Hursley were a husband and wife team who wrote American soap opera.The couple were writers on the Western series Have Gun, Will Travel, but became famous in the soap world starting in 1957 when they began writing for CBS Daytime's Search for Tomorrow....
  , debuts on NBC daytime (1969-1972).
• Love, American Style
  Love, American Style
  
  Love, American Style is an hour-long television program anthology which was produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between 1969 in television and 1974 in television....
   debuts on ABC (1969-1974).
• October 5
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
  Monty Python's Flying Circus
  
  Monty Python?s Flying Circus is a BBC sketch comedy programme from the Monty Python comedy team, and the group's initial claim to fame. The show was noted for its surreality, Wiktionary:risqu? or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags, and sketches without punchlines....
   premieres on BBC1 (1969-1974).
• Sazae-san
  Sazae-san
  
  is a Japanese comic strip created by Machiko Hasegawa.Sazae-san was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the wished to have Hasegawa draw the comic strip for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyushu to Tokyo as well....
   premieres as a kids' comedy on Fuji Television
  Fuji Television
  
  is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX. It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
   in Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  . The show is still airing as of 2008.
• November 10 - National Educational Television
  National Educational Television
  
  National Educational Television was an American educational television television network in the United States from 1952 to 1970. It was replaced on 5 October 1970 by the Public Broadcasting Service, which continues to the present....
   (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service
  Public Broadcasting Service
  
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
  ) in the United States debuts the children's television
  Television
  
  Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
   program Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
   (1969-present).
• November 16 - The first episode of Clangers (a British stop motion animated television program for children) is broadcast by the BBC (1969-1972).
• November 19 - The Benny Hill Show
  The Benny Hill Show
  
  The Benny Hill Show is a British Comedy television show starring Benny Hill and various comedy character actors. It was produced by Thames Television from 1969 to 1989 and was broadcast in over 140 countries....
   premieres on Thames Television
  Thames Television
  
  Thames Television was a Broadcast license of the United Kingdom ITV television network, covering Greater London and parts of Home counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....
   (1969-1989) (UK).

Television shows

1940s

• Meet the Press
  Meet the Press
  
  Meet the Press is a weekly Television in the United States news/interview program produced by NBC. It is the List of longest running U.S. television series television show in worldwide broadcasting history, having made its television debut on November 6, 1947....
   (1947-present).
• Candid Camera
  Candid Camera
  
  Candid Camera was a hidden camera television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947....
   (1948-present).
• The Ed Sullivan Show
  The Ed Sullivan Show
  
  The Ed Sullivan Show is an United States television program variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
   (1948-1971).
• Bozo the Clown
  Bozo the Clown
  
  Bozo the Clown was a clown character very popular in the United States in the 1950s, as a result of widespread franchising in early television....
   (1949-present).
• 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) (1949-1995).

1950s

• Truth or Consequences
  Truth or Consequences
  
  Truth or Consequences was an American Game show, originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards and later on television by Edwards , Jack Bailey , Bob Barker , Bob Hilton and Larry Anderson ....
   (1950-1988).
• Love of Life
  Love of Life
  
  Love of Life is an United States soap opera which was aired on CBS from September 24, 1951 to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love of Life, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm two and a half years later....
   (1951-1980).
• Search for Tomorrow
  Search for Tomorrow
  
  Search for Tomorrow is a TV soap opera which started airing on Monday, September 3, 1951 on CBS. The show was moved from CBS, its original broadcaster, on Friday, March 26, 1982, with NBC picking it up on the following Monday, March 29, 1982....
   (1951-1986).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame
  Hallmark Hall of Fame
  
  Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on United States television. It has had a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and still continuing today....
   (1951-present).
• American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
   (1952-1989).
• The Guiding Light
  Guiding Light
  
  Guiding Light is an United States television program credited by the Guinness World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television and radio history....
   (1952-present).
• Hockey Night in Canada
  Hockey Night in Canada
  
  Hockey Night in Canada is a Broadcasting of National Hockey League games in Canada, produced by CBC Sports. Hockey Night consistently remains one of the highest-Bureau of Broadcast Measurement programs on Canadian television....
   (1952–present)
• The Honeymooners
  The Honeymooners
  
  The Honeymooners debuted as a half-hour series on October 1 1955. Although initially a Nielsen Ratings success?it was the #2 show in the United States?it faced stiff competition from the popular Perry Como....
   (1952-1970).
• The Today Show (1952-present).
• Panorama
  Panorama (TV series)
  
  Panorama is the longest-running current affairs documentary film series in the world. Launched on 11 November 1953 on BBC One, it focuses on investigative journalism....
   (UK) (1953-present).
• The Good Old Days
  The Good Old Days
  
  The Good Old Days was a popular BBC television light entertainment programme which ran from 1953 to 1983.It was recorded live at the Leeds City Varieties and recreated an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian era–Edwardian period music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the...
   (UK) (1953-1983).
• Face the Nation
  Face the Nation
  
  Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an United States Sunday-morning interview shows which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954....
   (1954-present).
• The Secret Storm
  The Secret Storm
  
  The Secret Storm was a soap opera which aired on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974.The Secret Storm was created by Roy Winsor, the man responsible for the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life....
   (1954-1974).
• The Tonight Show
  The Tonight Show
  
  The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show and variety show airing on NBC whose The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been hosted by Jay Leno since 1992....
   (1954-present).
• Captain Kangaroo
  Captain Kangaroo
  
  Captain Kangaroo was a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the United States television network CBS from 1955 until 1984....
   (1955-1984).
• Dixon of Dock Green
  Dixon of Dock Green
  
  Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television program, which ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department....
   (UK) (1955-1976).
• Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke
  
  Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
   (1955-1975).
• The Lawrence Welk Show
  The Lawrence Welk Show
  
  The Lawrence Welk Show is a musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The original episodes were aired in either a local, network, or syndicated capacity for more than 30 years; rerun episodes are still being broadcast in the United States for the most part by PBS stations in the form of new programs each of which inc...
   (1955-1982).
• This Is Your Life
  This Is Your Life
  
  This Is Your Life was a Documentary film series hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards. It originally aired in the United States from 1952 to 1961, and again in 1972 on NBC....
   (UK) (1955-2003).
• As the World Turns
  As the World Turns
  
  As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
   (1956-present).
• Opportunity Knocks
  Opportunity Knocks
  
  Opportunity Knocks is a United Kingdom television talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green.The original radio version started on the BBC Light Programme in the 1940s but moved to Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s....
   (UK) (1956-1978).
• The Edge of Night
  The Edge of Night
  
  The Edge of Night is a long-running American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran on that network until November 28, 1975; the series then aired on American Broadcasting Company from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984....
   (1956-1984).
• What the Papers Say
  What the Papers Say
  
  What The Papers Say is the second longest-running programme on United Kingdom television after the sky at night,bbc_series)]]. It is a review programme of stories published in British newspapers....
   (UK) (1956-present).
• The Sky at Night
  The Sky at Night
  
  The Sky at Night is a monthly television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show has had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first airing on 24 April 1957, making it the longest-running programmes with the same presenter in television history....
   (UK) (1957-present).
• Blue Peter
  Blue Peter
  
  Blue Peter is a long-running BBC television programme for children. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC Channel....
   (UK) (1958-present).
• Grandstand
  Grandstand (BBC)
  
  Grandstand was a United Kingdom television sport programme, and was one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year....
   (UK) (1958-2007).
• Bonanza
  Bonanza
  
  Bonanza is an United States television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons, it is among the longest running Western television series and continues to air in syndication....
   (1959-1973).

1960s

• Coronation Street
  Coronation Street
  
  Coronation Street is an award-winning soap opera created by Tony Warren. It is one of the longest-running television programmes in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 9 December 1960, made by Granada Television and broadcast in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence....
   (UK) (1960-present).
• My Three Sons
  My Three Sons
  
  My Three Sons is a situation comedy about a Scots/Irish-American family , that ran from September 29, 1960, to August 24, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of an aeronautical engineer and widower Steve Douglas, played by Fred MacMurray, and his three sons....
   (1960-1972).
• Four Corners (Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  ) (1961-present).
• The Johnny Cash Show
  The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)
  
  The Johnny Cash Show was an United States television music variety show presented by Johnny Cash. The 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on American Broadcasting Company....
   (1969-1971).
• It's Academic
  It's Academic
  
  For the Australian version, see It's Academic .It's Academic is a Television academic Quizbowl for high school students, currently airing on three NBC affiliates in Washington, D.C....
   (1961-present).
• The Mike Douglas Show
  The Mike Douglas Show
  
  The Mike Douglas Show was an United States daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that ran from 1961 to 1982....
   (1961-1981).
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961–July 1971 under this title; has aired regularly since 1954)
• The Beverly Hillbillies
  The Beverly Hillbillies
  
  The Beverly Hillbillies is an United States television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land....
   (1962-1971).
• The Late Late Show
  The Late Late Show
  
  The Late Late Show is the world's longest-running Talk show and officially the flagship television programme of Republic of Ireland broadcasting company Radio Telef?s ?ireann....
   (Ireland
  Ireland
  
  Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
  ) (1962-present).
• Z-Cars
  Z-Cars
  
  Z-Cars was a United Kingdom television drama series centred on the work of beat police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside in north-west of England....
   (UK) (1962-1978).
• Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  
  Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
   (UK) (1963-1989, 1996, 2005-present).
• General Hospital (1963-present).
• Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
  Wild Kingdom
  
  Wild Kingdom, sometimes known as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, is an United States television show that features wildlife and nature....
   (1963–1988, 2002–present)
• Petticoat Junction
  Petticoat Junction
  
  Petticoat Junction is an United States situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 to 1970. The series is part of a triad of interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning, the other two being The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres....
   (1963-1970).
• The Doctors (1963-1982).
• Another World
  Another World (TV series)
  
  Another World is a television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips along with William J....
   (1964-1999).
• Bewitched
  Bewitched
  
  Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on American Broadcasting Company from 1964 in television to 1972 in television....
   (1964-1972).
• Crossroads
  Crossroads (TV series)
  
  Crossroads was a United Kingdom television soap opera set in a fictional motel near Birmingham, England. Originally broadcast on the commercial television ITV television network between 1964 and 1988, it was produced by Associated TeleVision until the end of 1981 and then by Central Independent Television....
   (UK) (1964-1988, 2001-2003).
• Daniel Boone
  Daniel Boone (TV series)
  
  Daniel Boone is an United States Action /Adventure television series that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television....
   (1964-1970).
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC. is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 to May 2, 1969....
   (1964-1970).
• Jeopardy!
  Jeopardy!
  
  Jeopardy! is a game show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. The show has a decades-long Jeopardy! broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s....
   (1964-1975, 1984-present).
• The Wednesday Play
  The Wednesday Play
  
  The Wednesday Play was a United Kingdom television play which ran on BBC One from 1964 to 1970. Every week this drama anthology series presented a different play, usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources were also presented....
   (UK) (1964-1970).
• Top of the Pops
  Top of the Pops
  
  Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a long-running United Kingdom UK Singles Chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006....
   (UK) (1964-2006).
• Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  
  Days of our Lives is an United States soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world....
   (1965-present).
• Get Smart
  Get Smart
  
  Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
   (1965-1970).
• Green Acres
  Green Acres
  
  Green Acres is an United States television series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a farm in the country....
   (1965-1971).
• Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes
  
  Hogan's Heroes is an American television situation comedy that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network....
   (1965-1971).
• I Dream of Jeannie
  I Dream of Jeannie
  
  I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
   (1965-1970).
• The Dean Martin Show
  The Dean Martin Show
  
  The Dean Martin Show is a TV Variety show-Television comedy that ran from 1965 in television to 1974 in television, for 245 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by legendary crooner Dean Martin....
   (1965-1974).
• Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry (MGM)
  
  Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical short subject created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat and a mouse whose chases and battles often involved comic violence....
   (1965-1972, 1975-1977, 1980-1982).
• World of Sport
  World of Sport (UK TV series)
  
  World of Sport was a United Kingdom television sport anthology programme which ran on ITV between January 2,1965 and September 28, 1985 in response to competition from Grandstand ....
   (UK) (1965-1985).
• Dark Shadows
  Dark Shadows
  
  Dark Shadows is a Gothic Romanticism soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the American Broadcasting Company television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971....
   (1966-1971).
• Family Affair
  Family Affair
  
  Family Affair is a situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis , as he attempted to raise his sister's orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment....
   (1966-1971).
• Play School
  Play School
  
  Play School is an educational television programme for Preschool aged children that is produced in many countries.*Play School - the original BBC production...
   (1966-present).
• That Girl
  That Girl
  
  That Girl is an United States television situation comedy that ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1966 to 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring actor, who had moved from her hometown of Brewster, New York to make it big in New York City....
   (1966-1971).
• Mission: Impossible
  Mission: Impossible
  
  Mission: Impossible began as an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret United States government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force ....
   (1966-1973).
• The Money Programme
  The Money Programme
  
  The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2.It was first broadcast on 5 April 1966 and presented by "commentators" William Davis , Erskine Childers and Joe Roeber....
   (UK) (1966-present).
• The Newlywed Game
  The Newlywed Game
  
  The Newlywed Game is an United States television game show that pits newly-married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know each other....
   (1966-1974).
• Ironside
  Ironside (TV series)
  
  Ironside is a Universal Studios television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to February 6, 1975. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967....
   (1967-1975).
• Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1967-1973).
• Mannix
  Mannix
  
  Mannix is an United States Police procedural that ran from 1967 in television through 1975 in television on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by television producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is an Armenian-American private investigator....
   (1967-1975).
• The Carol Burnett Show
  The Carol Burnett Show
  
  The Carol Burnett Show is a sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner....
   (1967-1978).
• The Flying Nun
  The Flying Nun
  
  The Flying Nun is a sitcom produced by Screen Gems for American Broadcasting Company based on the book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios....
   (1967-1970).
• 60 Minutes
  60 Minutes
  
  or 60 Minutes 60 Minutes is an United States investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968....
   (1968-present).
• Dad's Army
  Dad's Army
  
  Dad?s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the World War II. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977....
   (UK) (1968-1977).
• Hawaii Five-O
  Hawaii Five-O
  
  Hawaii Five-O is an United States television series that starred Jack Lord as Lead Detective for a fictional Hawaii state police department....
   (1968-1980).
• Here Come the Brides
  Here Come the Brides
  
  Here Come the Brides is a television series that aired on the American Broadcasting Company television network from September 25 1968 to April 3 1970....
   (1968-1970).
• Here's Lucy
  Here's Lucy
  
  Here's Lucy is Lucille Ball's third network television sitcom. It ran on CBS from 1968 to 1974....
   (1968-1974).
• Julia
  Julia (TV series)
  
  Julia is an United States Situation comedy best remembered as being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role....
   (1968-1971).
• Laugh-In (1968-1973).
• Magpie
  Magpie (TV series)
  
  Magpie was a children's television programme shown on ITV from the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It was a magazine format show intended to compete with the BBC TV's Blue Peter, but attempted to be more "hip", focussing more on popular culture....
   (UK) (1968-1980).
• Mayberry R.F.D. (a continuation of The Andy Griffith Show
  The Andy Griffith Show
  
  The Andy Griffith Show is an Television of the United States situation comedy first televised by Columbia Broadcasting System between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968....
  , 1960-1971).
• One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network since July 15, 1968....
   (1968-present).
• The Doris Day Show
  The Doris Day Show
  
  The Doris Day Show is a 128-episode United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 1968 until September 1973....
   (1968-1973).
• The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad
  
  The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on American Broadcasting Company from September 24, 1968 until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole , Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews....
   (1968-1973).

Ending this year

• February 9 - The Saint
  The Saint (TV series)
  
  The Saint was a long-running ITC Entertainment mystery spy thriller, airing in British television on ITV between 1962 in television and 1969 in television....
   (UK) (1962-1969).
• May 2 - Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  
  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC. is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964 to May 2, 1969....
   (1964-1969).
• May 21 - The Avengers
  The Avengers (TV series)
  
  The Avengers was a British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s United Kingdom. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman....
   (UK) (1961-1969).
• June 2 - Peyton Place
  Peyton Place (TV series)
  
  Peyton Place is an American Prime time drama Serial which aired on American Broadcasting Company in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969....
   (1964-1969).
• March 21 - Star Trek
  Star Trek: The Original Series
  
  Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 to September 2, 1969. Though the original series was titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from the spinoffs that followed, and from the Star Trek fi...
   (1966-1969).
• April 6 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969).
• September 20 - Match Game
  Match Game
  
  Match Game was an United States television game show featuring contestants attempting to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions....
   (1962-1969, 1973-1984, 1990-1991, 1998-1999).
• Do Not Adjust Your Set
  Do Not Adjust Your Set
  
  Do Not Adjust Your Set was a children's television program produced originally by Associated-Rediffusion, then by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969....
   (UK) (1967-1969).

Changes of Network Affiliation

• Get Smart
  Get Smart
  
  Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
   moves from NBC to CBS.
• The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
  The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)
  
  The Ghost & Mrs. Muir is a situation comedy based on the The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It starred Hope Lange as a young widow who rents Gull Cottage, near the fishing village of Schooner Bay....
   moves from NBC to ABC.

Births

• January 14 - Jason Bateman
  Jason Bateman
  
  Jason Kent Bateman is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor. After starring in several 1980s sitcoms, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development ....
  , actor
  Actor
  
  An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
  .
• March 11 - Terrence Howard
  Terrence Howard
  
  'Terrence Dashon Howard' is an Academy Award-nominated actor, singer and rapper. Having appeared in film and on television since the late 1980s, Howard had his first major role in the 1995 film Mr....
  , American actor
• May 12 - Kim Fields
  Kim Fields
  
  Kim Victoria Fields is an United States actor. She is best known for her roles as List of characters from The Facts of Life#Tootie Ramsey on the long-running NBC sitcom The Facts of Life , and as Regine Hunter on the FOX sitcom Living Single....
  , actress.
• July 24 - Jennifer Lopez
  Jennifer Lopez
  
  Jennifer Lynn Lopez , popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American Golden Globe-nominated actor, Grammy Award-nominated singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer....
  , American singer and actress.
• July 27 - Triple H
  Triple H
  
  Paul Michael Levesque is an American Professional wrestling and actor, better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley....
  , Professional wrestler.
• August 19 - Matthew Perry
  Matthew Perry (actor)
  
  Matthew Langford Perry is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominated American Canadian film and television actor, best known for his work as Chandler Bing in the sitcom Friends....
  , actor, Friends
  Friends
  
  Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
  .
• September 23 - Michelle Thomas
  Michelle Thomas
  
  Michelle Doris Thomas , was an United States actress best known for her roles as Myra Monkhouse, the girlfriend of Steve Urkel, on the United States sitcom Family Matters from 1993 to 1998....
  , American actress (d. 1998)

Deaths

• February 2 - Boris Karloff
  Boris Karloff
  
  Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
  , actor
• February 9 - Gabby Hayes, actor
• February 19 - Madge Blake
  Madge Blake
  
  Madge Blake, n?e Cummings was an United States character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on American Broadcasting Company's Batman ....
  , actress
• May 3 - Karl Freund
  Karl Freund
  
  Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. was an Oscar-winning Germany cinematography and film director.Born in K?niginhof, Bohemia, his career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he got a job as an assistant projectionist for a film company in Berlin....
  , cinematographer, who as director of photography on I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy
  
  I Love Lucy is an United States situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15 1951 to April 1 1960 on CBS....
  , developed the practical use of the three-camera TV sitcom production.
• June 22 - Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  
  Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  , singer/actor
• July 18 - Barbara Pepper
  Barbara Pepper
  
  Barbara Pepper was an United States actress. Born Marion Pepper in New York City, Barbara Pepper started in show business at age 16 as one of the Goldwyn Girls where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball....
  , actress (Doris Ziffel #1 on Green Acres)
• August 9 - Sharon Tate
  Sharon Tate
  
  Sharon Marie Tate was an American actress. During the 1960s she played small television roles before appearing in several films. After receiving positive reviews for her comedy performances, she was hailed as one of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California's promising newcomers, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in '...
  , actress murdered by disciples of Charles Manson
  Charles Manson
  
  Charles Milles Manson is an United States criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-Commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
  
• September 8 - Bud Collyer
  Bud Collyer
  
  Bud Collyer was an American radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars....
  , game show host (Beat the Clock
  Beat the Clock
  
  Beat the Clock is a Goodson-Todman Productions game show which ran on CBS from 1950-1958 and American Broadcasting Company from 1958-1961, with later revivals....
  )
• September 19 - Rex Ingram
  Rex Ingram (actor)
  
  Rex Ingram was an African American film and stage actor. Born near Cairo, Illinois on the Mississippi River , he claimed to have obtained a medical degree from Northwestern University in 1919 and that he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, but this is unconfirmed....
  , actor
• December 22 - Wilbur Hatch
  Wilbur Hatch
  
  Wilbur Hatch , was an United States music composer who worked primarily in radio and television. He was born in Mokena, Illinois and died in Studio City, California....
  , musical director for many TV shows including I Love Lucy

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