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• January 28 - The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers
  
  The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
   make a guest appearance on ABC's What's Happening!!
  What's Happening!!
  
  What's Happening!! is an American television Situation comedy that aired on American Broadcasting Company from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979....
  .
• February 22 - The Police
  The Police
  
  The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
   appear in a television commercial for Wrigley's chewing gum.
• March 7–April 11 - Dennis Potter
  Dennis Potter
  
  Dennis Christopher George Potter was an England dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social....
  's groundbreaking drama serial
  Serial (radio and television)
  
  Serials in television and radio are series that rely on a continuing Plot that unfolds in a serial fashion, episode by episode. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from traditional episodic television that relies on more stand-alone episodes....
   Pennies From Heaven airs on 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 ....
  .
• April 16–April 19 - Holocaust, starring James Woods
  James Woods
  
  James Howard Woods is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning United States film, Theatre and television actor....
   and Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
   first aired on NBC.
• April 22 - The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers
  
  The Blues Brothers are a Grammy Award-nominated United States blues music and soul music Revivalist artist founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a Saturday Night Live musical sketches on Saturday Night Live....
   make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  
  Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
  . The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi
  John Belushi
  
  John Adam Belushi was an United States comedian, actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers ....
   and Dan Aykroyd
  Dan Aykroyd
  
  Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, Order of Canada is an Academy Awards-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist....
  ) was introduced by Paul Shaffer
  Paul Shaffer
  
  Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, Order of Canada is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer currently the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman....
   (as Don Kirshner
  Don Kirshner
  
  Don Kirshner , known as The Man With the Golden Ear, is an American song publisher and rock producer who is best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups such as The Monkees and The Archies....
  ) and performed "Hey Bartender".
• April 24 - The television game show
  Game show
  
  A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
   Card Sharks
  Card Sharks
  
  Card Sharks was an United States television game show created by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Although various changes were made to the game's format throughout its run, the core format remained the same....
  , hosted by Jim Perry
  Jim Perry (television)
  
  'Jim Perry' is a former Canadian-United States television game show host, singer, announcer and performer in the 1970s and 1980s. He has had success on both Canadian and American television, and is most known for his roles as a host on the American game shows Card Sharks and Sale of the Century as well as the Canadian game show Defi...
  , first aired on NBC.
• April 26 - Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  
  Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
  's, Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper airs on NBC. Starr's fellow former Beatle
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   George Harrison
  George Harrison
  
  George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
   provides the narration.
• May 1 - Beijing Television is renamed China Central Television
  China Central Television
  
  China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV is the major state television network in mainland China....
  .
• May 24 - The iconic skateboarding duck
  Skateboarding duck
  
  Herbie the skateboarding duck was the subject of an item first broadcast on the BBC news magazine programme Nationwide on 24 May 1978.Herbie, an Aylesbury duck, was bought by Jacky and Paddy Randall of Croydon for their children Michaela and Colin....
   item first airs on BBC TV's Nationwide
  Nationwide (TV series)
  
  Nationwide was a BBC television current affairs television series broadcast on BBC1 each weekday following the early evening news. It followed a magazine format, combining political analysis and discussion with consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting ....
  .
• July 10 - The ABC Evening News is renamed ABC World News Tonight with Frank Reynolds
  Frank Reynolds
  
  Frank Reynolds was an American television journalist for American Broadcasting Company.He is best remembered as anchor of the World News with Charles Gibson from 1968 to 1970 and later as Washington D.C.-based co-anchor of World News Tonight from 1978 to 1983....
   as anchor.
• September - 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....
   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....
   is #1 in the daytime Nielsen ratings
  Nielsen Ratings
  
  Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement developed by the AC Nielsen Company, to determine the audience size and composition of broadcast programming....
   for the 20th and final consecutive year; no other serial has been at the top of the ratings for such an unbeaten yearly streak.
• November 17 - The Star Wars Holiday Special
  The Star Wars Holiday Special
  
  The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was the first official Star Wars spinoff produced....
   airs 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....
  . The special gives fans their first glimpse of Boba Fett
  Boba Fett
  
  Boba Fett is a fictional character from the Star Wars Star Wars galaxy, having taken on the roles of both Villain and Anti-Hero, being one of two antagonists in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back along with Darth Vader....
  , a character from the upcoming Star Wars
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
   sequel.
• March 22 - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   spoof, The Rutles
  The Rutles
  
  The Rutles was a fictional band created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a pastiche of The Beatles. The group is known because of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash ....
   - All You Need Is Cash
  All You Need Is Cash
  
  All You Need Is Cash is a 1978 in television that traces the career of a British rock group called The Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to The Beatles is "purely – and satire – intentional."...
   airs on NBC.
• January 7 - Abarembo Shogun premieres on the Asahi television network 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....
   (1978-2003).
• Fred Silverman
  Fred Silverman
  
  Fred Silverman is an United States television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at CBS, American Broadcasting Company and NBC, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo , All in the Family , The Waltons , and Charlie's Angels , as well as the miniseries Roots a...
  , who successfully programmed both CBS and ABC, moves to NBC to attempt to reverse their ratings decline.
• Knowlton Nash
  Knowlton Nash
  
  Cyril Knowlton Nash, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario , commonly known as Knowlton Nash, is a journalist, author, and former long-serving senior news anchor of CBC Television's flagship news Television program, The National....
   replaces Peter Kent
  Peter Kent
  
  Peter Kent, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Member of the Canadian House of Commons is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Cabinet....
   as anchor of The National
  The National
  
  The National, now officially known as CBC News: The National, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship national television newscast....
   on CBC.
• Replacing Zara Cully
  Zara Cully
  
  Zara Cully was an United States character actor known for her acid-tongued portrayal of Olivia Jefferson on the TV sitcom The Jeffersons....
   and Damon Evans
  Damon Evans
  
  Damon M. Evans is the athletic director at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, Georgia .After graduating from Gainesville High School, Georgia in Hall County, Georgia, Evans played football for UGA, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi from 1988 to 1992 and graduated from the Terry College of Business in 1992 with a Bachelor of B...
  , Jay Hammer
  Jay Hammer
  
  Jay Hammer is an American actor best known for his long run as Fletcher Reade on CBS Daytime's Guiding Light from 1984 in television until 1998 in television....
   joins the cast of The Jeffersons
  The Jeffersons
  
  The Jeffersons is an United States situation comedy that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through June 25, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of List of The Jeffersons episodes produced by Tandem Productions from 1975-1982 and Embassy Television from 1982-1985....
  , for a short period of time.
• US television game show program 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....
   is rated in the Top 3 of all game shows for the sixth year in a row.
• January 15 - The Super Bowl
  Super Bowl
  
  In professional American football, the Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League . The game and its ancillary festivities constitute Super Bowl Sunday....
   is played - and telecast - at night for the first time, on CBS.
• January 23 - "Roots
  Roots (TV miniseries)
  
  Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
   - One Year Later", a special examining the impact and influence of the miniseries, airs on ABC.
• August 1 - Harry Reasoner
  Harry Reasoner
  
  Harry Reasoner was an United States journalist known his inventive use of language as a television commentator, and as a founder of the 60 Minutes program....
   returns to CBS after taking advantage of an oral escape-clause in his contract with ABC.
• September 17 - The ceremony formalizing the success of the peace talks between Menachem Begin
  Menachem Begin
  
  was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
   and Anwar Sadat
  Anwar Sadat
  
  Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat , was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981....
   - the Camp David
  Camp David
  
  Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is a mountain based military camp in Frederick_County,_Maryland, Maryland used as a country retreat and for high alert protection of the President of the United States and his guests....
   accords between Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
   and Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
   - is televised live from the White House East Room.
• September 19 - The chairs on which Archie and Edith Bunker sat through 8 seasons of All in the Family
  All in the Family
  
  All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....
   are presented to the Smithsonian Institution
  Smithsonian Institution
  
  The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its Financial endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine....
  .

Debuts

• January 2 - Blake's 7
  Blake's 7
  
  Blake's 7 is a United Kingdom science fiction television series made by the British Broadcasting Corporation for their BBC One channel. Created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer best known for creating the popular Dalek monsters for the television series Doctor Who, it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981....
   premieres on BBC One
  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 ....
   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....
   (1978–1981).
• January 14 - The South Bank Show
  The South Bank Show
  
  The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show, made by London Weekend Television, presented by Melvyn Bragg, broadcast on ITV and seen in over 60 countries worldwide — including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA....
   premieres on 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 (1978–present).
• February 8 - Grange Hill premieres on BBC TV in the UK (1978–2008).
• April 2 - Dallas
  Dallas (TV series)
  
  Dallas is a long-running United States prime-time television program soap opera that originally ran from 1978 to 1991. It revolved around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries....
   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....
   (1978-1991).
• April 24 - Card Sharks
  Card Sharks
  
  Card Sharks was an United States television game show created by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Although various changes were made to the game's format throughout its run, the core format remained the same....
   premieres on NBC (1978-81).
• June 6- 20/20
  20/20
  
  20/20 is an United States television newsmagazine broadcast on American Broadcasting Company since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects....
   premieres on ABC (1978-present).
• July 3 - Tic Tac Dough, hosted by Wink Martindale
  Wink Martindale
  
  Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale is a disc jockey and television game show host....
  , premieres on CBS (1978-1986).
• July 10 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC (1978-present).
• September 12 - Taxi
  Taxi (TV series)
  
  Taxi is an United States Situation comedy that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on American Broadcasting Company, and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC....
   premieres on ABC (1978-1983).
• September 14 - Mork & Mindy premieres on ABC (1978-1982).
• September 17 - Battlestar Galactica premieres on ABC (1978-1979).
• September 18 - WKRP in Cincinnati
  WKRP in Cincinnati
  
  WKRP in Cincinnati is an United States situation comedy that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling radio broadcasting in Cincinnati, Ohio....
   premieres on CBS (1978-1982).
• September - Battle of the Planets
  Battle of the Planets
  
  Battle of the Planets is the United States dub of the 1972 in television television anime known as Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Of the 105 original Gatchaman episodes, 85 were used in the Battle of the Planets adaptation, produced by Sandy Frank Entertainment....
   premieres (1978-1985).
• October 2 - The All-New 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....
   premieres on NBC (1978-1979
  1979 in television
  
  The year 1979 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1979.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1979-80 American network television schedule....
  ).
• November 3 - Diff'rent Strokes
  Diff'rent Strokes
  
  Diff'rent Strokes is an United States television program that aired on the National Broadcasting Company television network from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on American Broadcasting Company from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986....
   premieres on NBC (1978-1986).
• Canada After Dark
  Canada After Dark
  
  Canada After Dark was Canada first late-night comedy/variety talk show. It was hosted by Paul Soles and aired on CBC Television from September 18, 1978 to January 26, 1979....
   premieres on CBC (1978-1979).
• Duplessis
  Duplessis
  
  Duplessis was a historical television series in Quebec that aired in 1978. It tells the story of Maurice Duplessis, the controversial premier of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959....
   airs on SRC.
• 3-2-1
  3-2-1
  
  3-2-1 was a popular United Kingdom game show, made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for ten years, between 29 July 1978 and 24 December 1988....
   starts on 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 United Kingdom (1978-1987).

Miniseries

• Centennial
  Centennial (miniseries)
  
  Centennial is a 12-episode United States television miniseriesthat aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. It was based on Centennial by James A....
  
• Holocaust
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  
  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a drama novel by Mildred D. Taylor, following the life of an African-American family in 1930s Mississippi, and how they cope with racism and oppression....
  
• Against the Wind
• Once Upon a Time... Man
  Once Upon a Time... Man
  
  Once Upon a Time...Man is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barill?. The series explains world history in a format designed for children....
  

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).
• 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)
• 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 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 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; 1962–1992 as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
  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....
  )
• The Wonderful World of Disney (1954–present; 1969–1979 under this title)
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• To Tell the Truth
  To Tell the Truth
  
  To Tell the Truth is an United States television game show created by Bob Stewart and produced by Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions that has been aired intermittently in various forms since 1956 in television, hosted by various television personalities....
   (1956-1978).
• 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).
• Concentration
  Concentration (game show)
  
  Concentration was a TV game show based on the Concentration of the same name. It aired on and off from 1958-1991, hosted by various hosts and played in various ways....
   (1958-1978).
• 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).

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).
• ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1997)
• 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).
• 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 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
  Republic of Ireland
  
  Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
   (1962-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)
• 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).
• The Doctors (1963-1982).
• 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)
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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....
   (1969-1993).
• 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).
• 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....
   (UK) (1969-1989).

1970s

• All My Children
  All My Children
  
  All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
   (1970-present).
• Monday Night Football
  Monday Night Football
  
  Monday Night Football is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. Originally airing on the American Broadcasting Company network from 1970 NFL season to 2005 NFL season, Monday Night Football was the second longest running prime time show on United States of America broadcast network television and one of the hig...
   (1970-present).
• Play for Today
  Play for Today
  
  Play for Today was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC One from 1970 to 1984. Over three hundred original plays, most between an hour and ninety minutes in length, were transmitted during the fourteen-year period the series aired, and it is by far the most famous programme of its type t...
   (UK) (1970-1984).
• All in the Family
  All in the Family
  
  All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....
   (1971-1979).
• Masterpiece Theatre
  Masterpiece Theatre
  
  Masterpiece is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH-TV. It premiered on Public Broadcasting Service on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly primetime drama series....
   (1971-present).
• Old Grey Whistle Test
  Old Grey Whistle Test
  
  The Old Grey Whistle Test was an influential BBC Two television music show that ran from 1971 to 1987. It took over the BBC2 late night slot from "Disco Two", which had been running since January 1970, while continuing to feature non-chart music....
   (UK) (1971-1987).
• Soul Train
  Soul Train
  
  Soul Train was a syndicated, music-related television program. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by rhythm and blues, soul music, and Hip hop music artists, although jazz musicians and gospel music singers have also appeared....
   (1971–2006; reruns until 2008)
• Are You Being Served?
  Are You Being Served?
  
  Are You Being Served? was a long-running British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's department of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London store....
   (UK) (1972-1985).
• Emmerdale Farm
  Emmerdale
  
  Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, is a United Kingdom soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972. It is set in the fictional village of Emmerdale in West Yorkshire, England, and was created by Kevin Laffan, with Keith Richardson serving as Executive Producer since 1986 and Anita Turner as Series Producer from Janu...
   (UK) (1972-present).
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
  Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
  
  Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an list of animated television series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including the titular one....
   (1972-1984).
• John Craven's Newsround
  Newsround
  
  Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children....
   (UK) (1972-present).
• M*A*S*H
  M*A*S*H (TV series)
  
  M*A*S*H is an United States television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 in film feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS....
   (1972-1983).
• The Price Is Right
  The Price Is Right
  
  The Price Is Right is an United States television game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia subsidiary of the RTL Group. It was originally created by Bob Stewart for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions in the United States in 1956, and was significantly revamped by them in 1972....
   (1972-present).
• The Waltons
  The Waltons
  
  The Waltons is an United States television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 Spencer's Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara....
   (1972-1981).
• Barnaby Jones
  Barnaby Jones
  
  Barnaby Jones is a television detective fiction television series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father and daughter-in-law, who are also both private investigators in Los Angeles, which ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 in television to April 3, 1980 in television, as a midseason replacement, which bumped the long-running dete...
   (1973-1980).
• Kojak
  Kojak
  
  Kojak refers to two separate but related United States Crime drama television series, with the original airing on CBS and the second series airing on USA Network....
   (1973-1978, 2005-present).
• Last of the Summer Wine
  Last of the Summer Wine
  
  Last of the Summer Wine is a United Kingdom situation comedy written by Roy Clarke that is broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973....
   (UK) (1973-present).
• Match Game '78
  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).
• Schoolhouse Rock!
  Schoolhouse Rock!
  
  Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on U.S. television network American Broadcasting Company....
   (1973-1986).
• Superstars (UK) (1973-1985, 2003-2005).
• The Tomorrow Show (1973-1982).
• The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1973. It was created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, who set their show in a Genoa City of Genoa City, Wisconsin, a town near their annual vacation home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin....
   (1973-present).
• Countdown (Australia) (1974-1987).
• Derrick
  Derrick (TV series)
  
  Derrick is a Germany TV series produced by Telenova Film- und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG SSR id?e suisse between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein , who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings ....
   (1974-1998).
• Dinah!
  Dinah!
  
  Dinah! was a daytime television talk show hosted by singer and actress Dinah Shore, which aired in United States television syndication markets from its premiere on September 9, 1974 until the summer of 1980....
   (1974-1980).
• Good Times
  Good Times
  
  Good Times is a United States Situation comedy that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network....
   (1974-1979).
• Happy Days
  Happy Days
  
  Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
   (1974-1984).
• Little House on the Prairie
  Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
  
  Little House on the Prairie is an United States one-hour dramatic television program that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1974, to March 21, 1983, bumping the long-running Adam-12 series to Tuesday nights....
   (1974-1983).
• The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (1974-1984).
• The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files
  
  The Rockford Files is an American detective television drama originally aired on the NBC television network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980; it has remained in constant television syndication to the present day, making it a cult classic....
   (1974-1980).
• Tiswas
  Tiswas
  
  Tiswas was a Saturday morning children's United Kingdom TV show which ran from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982 and produced for the ITV network by Associated TeleVision....
   (UK) (1974-1982).
• Wish You Were Here...?
  Wish You Were Here...?
  
  Wish You Were Here...? was a United Kingdom television show that was first broadcast in 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30 minute shows about travel and holidays....
   (UK) (1974-present).
• Arena (UK) (1975–present).
• Barney Miller
  Barney Miller
  
  Barney Miller is a sitcom television series set in a New York City Police in Greenwich Village that ran from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on American Broadcasting Company....
   (1975-1982).
• Good Morning America
  Good Morning America
  
  Good Morning America is an Daytime Emmy Awards breakfast television talk show that is broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network, debuting on November 3, 1975....
   (1975-present).
• Jim'll Fix It
  Jim'll Fix It
  
  Jim'll Fix It was a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC....
   (UK) (1975-1994).
• King of Kensington
  King of Kensington
  
  King of Kensington was a Canada television sitcom which aired on CBC Television from 1975 to 1980.The show starred Al Waxman as Larry King, a convenience store owner in Toronto's Kensington Market who was known for helping friends and neighbours solve problems....
   (Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
  ) (1975-1980).
• Match Game PM (1975-1981).
• One Day at a Time
  One Day at a Time
  
  One Day at a Time was a long-running United States situation comedy on the CBS network that aired from December 16, 1975 to May 28, 1984. It portrayed Ann Romano, a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin, her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper and Schneider, their building superintendent ....
   (1975-1984).
• Runaround (UK) (1975-1981).
• Ryan's Hope
  Ryan's Hope
  
  Ryan's Hope is an United States soap opera, revolving around the trials and tribulations of a large Irish American family in New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on American Broadcasting Company....
   (1975-1989).
• Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  
  Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
   (1975-present).
• The Don Lane Show (Australia) (1975-1983).
• the fifth estate
  The fifth estate
  
  the fifth estate is a Canada television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
   (Canada) (1975-present).
• The Jeffersons
  The Jeffersons
  
  The Jeffersons is an United States situation comedy that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through June 25, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of List of The Jeffersons episodes produced by Tandem Productions from 1975-1982 and Embassy Television from 1982-1985....
   (1975-1985).
• Welcome Back, Kotter
  Welcome Back, Kotter
  
  Welcome Back, Kotter is an Television in the United States sitcom that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company network from September 9, 1975 to June 8, 1979....
   (1975-1979).
• Wheel of Fortune (1975-present).
• Alice
  Alice (TV series)
  
  Alice is an United States television Situation comedy series which ran from August 31, 1976 to July 2, 1985 on CBS. The series was based on the 1974 film, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore....
   (1976-1985).
• Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels
  
  Charlie's Angels is a Television program about three women who work for a private investigator agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men....
   (1976-1981).
• Family Feud
  Family Feud
  
  Family Feud is a U.S. television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people....
   (1976-1985, 1988-1995, 1999-present).
• Laverne & Shirley
  Laverne & Shirley
  
  Laverne & Shirley was an United States television series situation comedy that ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1976 to 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, roommates who, as the series began, worked in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin brewery....
   (1976-1983).
• Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
  Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
  
  Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known simply as Swap Shop, was a UK children's television programme. It was broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC1 for 146 episodes in six series between 1976 and 1982....
   (UK) (1976-1982).
• Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E.
  
  Quincy, M.E. is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC. It starred Jack Klugman as Dr....
   (1976-1983).
• Second City Television (SCTV)
  Second City Television
  
  Second City Television was a Canada television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984....
   (Canada) (1976-1984).
• The Muppet Show
  The Muppet Show
  
  The Muppet Show is a television program featuring a cast of The Muppets, which was produced by Jim Henson and his team from Sesame Street....
   (UK) (1976-1981).
• The P.T.L. Club (1976-1987).
• What's Happening!!
  What's Happening!!
  
  What's Happening!! is an American television Situation comedy that aired on American Broadcasting Company from August 5, 1976 to April 28, 1979....
   (1976-1979).
• Wonder Woman
  Wonder Woman (TV series)
  
  Wonder Woman is an United States television series based on the DC Comics comic book character Wonder Woman, created by William Moulton Marston....
   (1976-1979).
• CHiPs
  CHiPs
  
  CHiPs is an United States television drama series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977 to June 17, 1983....
   (1977-1983).
• Eight is Enough
  Eight Is Enough
  
  Eight Is Enough is an United States television comedy-drama series which ran on American Broadcasting Company from March 15, 1977 until August 29, 1981....
   (1977-1981).
• Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island
  
  Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related United States fantasy television series, both originally airing on the American Broadcasting Company television network....
   (1977-1984).
• In Search of... (1977-1982).
• Lou Grant
  Lou Grant (TV series)
  
  Lou Grant is an United States Dramatic programming starring Ed Asner as a newspaper editor. The series won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama Series"....
   (1977-1982).
• The Love Boat
  The Love Boat
  
  The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
   (1977-1986)
• Soap
  Soap (TV series)
  
  Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on American Broadcasting Company from 1977 to 1981.The show was created as a parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour long primetime comedy....
   (1977-1981)
• This Week in Baseball
  This Week in Baseball
  
  This Week in Baseball is a weekly television program, originally designed to show highlights of the previous week's Major League Baseball action....
   (1977–1998, 2000–present)
• Three's Company
  Three's Company
  
  Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from 1977 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House....
   (1977-1984).

Ending this year

• March 6 - The Six Million Dollar Man
  The Six Million Dollar Man
  
  The Six Million Dollar Man is an United States television series about a fictional cyborg working for the OSI . The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, and during pre-production, that was the proposed title of the series....
   (1973-1978).
• March 29 - 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).
• March 30 - Police Woman
  Police Woman (TV series)
  
  Police Woman was an United States television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran from September 13, 1974 to March 29, 1978 on National Broadcasting Company....
   (1974-1978).
• March 31 - Tattletales
  Tattletales
  
  Tattletales was a game show which first aired on the CBS daytime schedule on February 18, 1974. It was hosted by Bert Convy, with several announcers Jack Clark , Gene Wood , Johnny Olson and John Harlan providing the voiceover at various times....
   (1974-1978, 1982-1984).
• April 1 - The Bob Newhart Show
  The Bob Newhart Show
  
  The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series, both starring comedian Bob Newhart. The better-known is a situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired on CBS from September 16, to April 1, ....
   (1972-1978).
• April 29 - Maude
  Maude (TV series)
  
  Maude is a half-hour United States television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978....
   (1972-1978).
• May 13 - Columbo (1971-1978).
• The Bionic Woman
  The Bionic Woman
  
  The Bionic Woman is an United States Television program which spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man. It starred Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers , a tennis professional who was nearly killed in a Parachuting accident, and was rebuilt by Oscar Goldman and Dr....
   (1976-1978).
• May 18 - Baretta (1975-1978).
• June - The Good Life (UK) (1975-1978).
• July 21 - Chico and the Man
  Chico and the Man
  
  Chico and the Man was an United States Situation comedy which ran on NBC from September 13, 1974 to July 21, 1978, starring Jack Albertson as Ed Brown , the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles, California barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano street kid who comes in lookin...
   (1974-1978).
• December 9 - Rhoda
  Rhoda
  
  Rhoda is an United States Situation comedy starring Valerie Harper. It was a list of television spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ran for five seasons between 1974-1978....
   (1974-1978).
• The Bobby Vinton Show
  The Bobby Vinton Show
  
  The Bobby Vinton Show was a Canadian musical variety television series produced for the CTV Television Network between 1975 and 1978, with a total of 52 episodes broadcast....
  (1975-1978).
• Lucan
  Lucan (TV series)
  
  The television drama Lucan aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1977 to 1978. The core cast was Kevin Brophy, John Randolph , and Don Gordon....
   (1977-1978).
• The Naked Vicar Show
  The Naked Vicar Show
  
  The Naked Vicar Show was a satirical Australian radio and later television series. The classic Australian sitcom Kingswood Country was spawned from sketches in the series....
   (Australia) (1977-1978).
• 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).
• Pop Quest (UK) (1975-1978).
• The Sweeney
  The Sweeney
  
  The Sweeney was a United Kingdom television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the Metropolitan Police Service specialising in combatting armed robbery and violent crime within the Metropolitan Police area in London....
   (UK) (1975-1978).
• 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).

Births

• January 3 - Daryn Jones
  Daryn Jones
  
  File:DarynJones08.jpgDaryn Jones is a Canada comedian and television and radio personality.He and fellow comedian Mista Mo co-wrote and co-starred on the sketch comedy television show Buzz ....
  , entertainment personality in Canada.
• February 7 - Ashton Kutcher
  Ashton Kutcher
  
  Christopher Ashton Kutcher , best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor and former fashion model best known for playing Michael Kelso in the television series That '70s Show and his role as Jesse Montgomery in Dude, Where's My Car?....
  , US 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....
  .
• April 13 - Kyle Howard
  Kyle Howard
  
  Kyle Alan Howard is an United States film and television actor.Howard grew up in the town of Loveland, Colorado. He has done both film and television....
  , US actor.
• April 22 - Manu Intiraymi
  Manu Intiraymi
  
  Manu Intiraymi is an United States television and theatre actor best known as Icheb on the television series Star Trek: Voyager.Intiraymi was born in Santa Cruz, California, U.S.....
  , US actor.
• June 2 - Nikki Cox
  Nikki Cox
  
  Nicole Avery "Nikki" Cox Mohr is an United States actor known mostly for her roles on the television series Unhappily Ever After and Las Vegas ....
  , US actor.
• June 10 - Shane West
  Shane West
  
  Shane West is an American actor and singer. He is perhaps best known for his roles on the television series ER and Once and Again and in the film A Walk to Remember ....
  , US actor.
• June 13 - Ethan Embry
  Ethan Embry
  
  Ethan Embry is an United States actor.Embry was born in Huntington Beach, California, the son of Karen and Charles Randall. He started acting in 1991, at age thirteen....
  , US actor.
• June 27 - Anna Kumble, British television presenter.
• July 1 - Hillary Tuck
  Hillary Tuck
  
  Hillary Tuck is an United States actress, who is perhaps best known for her co-starring roles in the NBC Saturday Morning sitcom Hang Time and Disney's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show....
  , US actor.
• July 6 - Tia Mowry
  Tia Mowry
  
  Tia and Tamera Mowry redirects here, for her twin sister see Tamera Mowry.Tia Dashon Mowry also known professionally as Tia Mowry Hardrict is an NAACP Image Award winning American actor....
   and Tamera Mowry
  Tamera Mowry
  
  Not to be confused with her twin sister Tia Mowry.Tamera Darvette Mowry is an NAACP Image Award winning United States actor. She first gained fame for her role opposite her identical twin sister Tia Mowry in the situation comedy Sister, Sister ....
  , actresses.
• July 9 - Linda Park
  Linda Park
  
  Linda Park is a Korean American actress who is best known for her portrayal of communications officer character Hoshi Sato in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise....
  , US actor (born in Korea
  Korea
  
  Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
  ).
• July 12 - Topher Grace
  Topher Grace
  
  Christopher John "Topher" Grace is an United States actor, best known for playing the lead role of Eric Forman on the long-running Fox Broadcasting Company live-action sitcom That '70s Show, and the villain Eddie Brock in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3....
  , US actor.
• August 23 - Kobe Bryant
  Kobe Bryant
  
  Kobe Bean Bryant is an United States National Basketball Association All-Star Game shooting guard who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association....
  , NBA player Los Angeles Lakers
  Los Angeles Lakers
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
  .
• October 14 - Usher, singer and entertainer
• November 10 - Eve
  Eve (rapper)
  
  Eve Jihan Jeffers , better known as Eve, is a grammy winning rapper, singer, actress, and musician. She has sold millions of albums during her musical career....
  , American rapper.
• December 18 - Katie Holmes
  Katie Holmes
  
  Kate "Katie" Noelle Holmes is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB Television Network television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003....
  , US actor.

Deaths

• February 28 - Zara Cully
  Zara Cully
  
  Zara Cully was an United States character actor known for her acid-tongued portrayal of Olivia Jefferson on the TV sitcom The Jeffersons....
  , US actor (Mother Olivia Jefferson) on The Jeffersons.
• March 18 - Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood
  
  Peggy Wood , born Mary Margaret Wood, was an Academy Award nominated United States actor of stage, film and television....
  , US actor.
• April 22 - Will Geer
  Will Geer
  
  Will Geer was an American actor. Geer's real name was William Aughe Ghere. He is remembered for his portrayal of the character Grandpa Walton, in the popular 1970s TV series The Waltons....
  , US actor (Grandpa Walton) on The Waltons
• May 21 - Bruce Geller
  Bruce Geller
  
  Bruce Geller was an United States composer, screenwriter, and television producer.Born in New York City, New York, Geller graduated from Yale University....
  , screenwriter, producer
• June 29 - Bob Crane
  Bob Crane
  
  Robert Edward Crane was an American disc jockey and Emmy Award-nominated actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his violent and unsolved death....
  , US actor (Col. Hogan on 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....
  ), murdered.
• December 1, David Nixon, magician