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The year 1982 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events in 1982.
For the American TV schedule, see: 1982-83 American network television schedule.
uary 1 - Central Independent Television starts broadcasting in the English Midlands, replacing ATV.
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The year 1982 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events in 1982.
For the American TV schedule, see: 1982-83 American network television schedule.
Events
*January 1 - Central Independent Television starts broadcasting in the English Midlands, replacing ATV. Also, TVS starts broadcasting to the South & South East of England, replacing Southern, and TSW starts broadcasting to the South West England, replacing Westward.
- January 3 - Bryant Gumbel begins his 15 year stint as co-anchor on the Today Show.
- February 3 - Singer Jermaine Jackson guest-stars as Tootie gets to meet her idol on a very special The Facts of Life.
- February 18 - First color television broadcasts in Pakistan.
- March 4 - The short-lived Police Squad! airs on ABC (last episode was shown on July 8).
- March 26 - The final episode of the soap opera Search for Tomorrow airs on CBS. NBC picks it up immediately; the first new episode of the serial airs on the network March 29.
- March 26 - Password Plus is cancelled by NBC after 801 episodes.
- April 2 - John Chancellor signs off for the last time on the NBC Nightly News. He is replaced by the team of Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw, which will last 17 months.
- April 9 - The season finale of Dallas finds J.R. Ewing's longtime enemy Cliff Barnes fighting for his life after a suicide attempt.
- May 2 - The Weather Channel launches in the US
- October 10 - Boys from the Blackstuff premieres on BBC2 (last episode was shown on November 7).
- October 22 - Susan Stafford leaves Wheel of Fortune to work on humanitarian work. Auditions take place for who will replace her.
- November 1 - S4C, the first Welsh language TV service is launched.
- November 2 - Channel 4 starts broadcasting in the UK. The first programme shown is the game show Countdown, which, barring the news, is the only programme from the launch night that is still running today.
- December 13 - Vanna White takes over hosting roles for Susan Stafford on Wheel of Fortune; a role she holds .
- December 26 - The animated adaptation of the Raymond Briggs book The Snowman premieres on Channel 4. It has been shown every Christmas since.
- December 29 - A puzzling appearance by Nastassja Kinski on Late Night with David Letterman. Kinski appears with an unusual hair style, which Letterman described as "looking like there was an owl perched on top of her head". Kinski seemed to be somewhat oblivious to the jokes and everything else that was going on around her. The show's second guest, comedian John Candy, came out with his hair moussed up in a pile.
Also in 1982
- The National Association of Broadcasters strikes down its long-standing Television Code in response to a Washington, D.C. circuit court ruling which declared parts of it unconstitutional.
- Surround Sound is introduced for home use by Dolby.
- Norman Lear purchases Avco Embassy Pictures and rechristens TAT Communications Company as Embassy Television.
- Mary Jo Catlett replaces Nedra Volz on Diff'rent Strokes, as the New Housekeeper, Mrs. Pearl Gallagher, from 1982 until the series ending in 1986.
- Future Seinfeld co-star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus joins the cast of Saturday Night Live until 1985, after becoming a regular castmember/featured player for three seasons (1982-1985).
- First time of CCTV New Year's Gala on air, this program is before day of Chinese Lunar New Year every year, more than 800 million watching this program, only mainland of China.
- Tom Wopat and John Schneider leave The Dukes of Hazzard in a much publicized contract dispute. Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer are cast as Coy and Vance respectively. Bo and Luke were explained to have joined the NASCAR circuit, although Wopat and Schneider would return before season's end.
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Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
- Search for Tomorrow moves from CBS to NBC; in the final CBS episode, Travis and Liza's boat blows up in a fiery explosion off the coast of St. Kitts and Nevis. At the end of the episode, viewers are told to "Follow the Search" to another network. NBC is never mentioned in the promos.
Births
- January 1 - Natalie Denning, British model
- January 3 - Amanda Robbins, British model
- January 19 - Jodie Sweetin, US actress (Full House).
- March 3 - Jessica Biel, US actress.
- March 11 - Thora Birch, US actress.
- July 17 - Brooke Kinsella, UK actress.
- September 3 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
- September 30 - Lacey Chabert, US actress, voice actor (Party of Five, The Wild Thornberrys, Mean Girls).
- October 15 - Toran Caudell, voice actor ("Arnold" from Hey Arnold! in 1996-1997 and "Wolfgang" in 1997).
- December 17 - Leander Suleiman, US actress.
Deaths
- January 1 - Victor Buono, 43, actor.
- January 5 - Hans Conried, 64, actor.
- January 10 - Paul Lynde, 55, actor and comedian known for his work on Bewitched and Hollywood Squares.
- January 18 - Trent Lehman, a former child actor on Nanny and the Professor, (suicide).
- March 5 - John Belushi, 33, actor, best known for Saturday Night Live
- May 15 - Hugh Beaumont, 73, actor (Ward Cleaver) on Leave It to Beaver.
- July 21 - Dave Garroway, 69, journalist, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- December 6 - Will Lee, 74, actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street.
- December 23 - Jack Webb, 62, actor, producer, best known for playing Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet.
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