1974 in television
Overview of the events of 1974 in television
The year 1974 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of television -related events of that year.
Events
January 6 – CKGN-TV begins broadcasting in Brantford , Ontario .
January 31 – CBS airs a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines ' novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement . Cicely Tyson portrays the title role.
February 1 – KITC (now KIVI-TV ) begins broadcasting in Boise , Idaho .
February 2 – The Filipino government television station GTV 4 (now known as the People's Television Network ) begins operations, under the National Media Production Center .
February 8 – After 20 years, The Secret Storm airs its 5195th and final episode on CBS Daytime. The show is replaced ten days later by Tattletales , a game show hosted by Bert Convy .
March 11 – The children's special Free to Be... You and Me , produced by comedic actress Marlo Thomas , airs on ABC.
March 13 – The Execution of Private Slovik airs on NBC. A made-for-television film, it told the story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik , the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War .
March 18 – Lucille Ball ends her 23-year consecutive television reign when Here's Lucy is cancelled.
April 5 – After 264 hour-long episodes, The Dean Martin Show ends its run on NBC , then spins off to 10 years of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast .
April 6 – "Waterloo" wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden and launches ABBA on their stellar global career.
May 4 – Steve Frame (George Reinholt ) marries Alice Matthews (Jacqueline Courtney ) for the second time on a special hour-long broadcast of Another World , coinciding with the show's tenth anniversary.
June 8 – Jon Pertwee makes his final regular appearance as the Third Doctor in the concluding moments of Part Six of the Doctor Who serial Planet of the Spiders . Tom Baker briefly appears as the Fourth Doctor at the conclusion of this serial.
August 5 – For the first time on a pre-school children's programme, the UK show Inigo Pipkin covers the death of the main character, Inigo, as the actor who played him (George Woodbridge ) had died. The show is renamed Pipkins .
August 8 – US President Richard Nixon announces pending resignation (effective August 9) live on television.
September 10 – The controversial TV movie Born Innocent , starring Linda Blair , airs on NBC . The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film.
October 6 – Monty Python's Flying Circus , the popular British sketch comedy which aired its final episode this year, is first shown in the U.S. on KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas , at 10pm.[1] [2]
December 28 – Tom Baker makes his first full appearance as the Fourth Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Robot .
On the American soap opera Love of Life , Meg Dale (Tudi Wiggins ) calls her son Ben (Christopher Reeve ) a "bastard", the first time a profanity was spoken on American daytime television.[when? ] [citation needed ]
Programmes
Debuts
January 5 – Tiswas , a local programme in the Midlands (ATV ) in the UK, though not fully automatically networked through ITV until 1979 (1974–82)
January 7
January 15 – Happy Days on ABC (1974–84)
February 1 – Good Times (a spinoff of Maude ) on CBS (1974–79)
February 10 – Apple's Way on CBS (1974–1975)
February 12 – Bagpuss (12 February – 7 May 1974)
February 18 – Tattletales , hosted by Bert Convy , on CBS daytime (1974–78, 1982–84)
March 3 – Nova on PBS (1974–present)
March 13 – Clyde Frog Show on PBS (1974–1976)
April 12 – Ultraman Leo on TBS in Japan (1974–75)
May 6 – The $10,000 Pyramid moves to ABC , with Dick Clark as host
July 1
July 4 – CBS airs its first Bicentennial Minute (They will continue until the end of 1976)
July 29 – Name That Tune on NBC daytime with Dennis James hosting, and in nighttime syndication with Tom Kennedy hosting
September 4 – That's My Mama on CBS (1974–1975)
September 7 (Saturday)
September 9 (Monday)
September 11 – Little House on the Prairie on NBC (1974–83)
September 12
September 13 (Friday)
September 14 (Saturday)
September 23 – Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins on CBC (1974–75)
October 20 – Derrick , German Krimi written by Herbert Reinecker , starring Horst Tappert , on ZDF (1974–1988)
November 8 – Countdown on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1974–87)
December 20 – Chéri-Bibi on ORTF (1974–75)
December 23 – The Big Showdown and The Money Maze on ABC daytime
Unknown date – House of Pride on CBC (1974–76)
Ending this year
Births
Date
Name
Notability
January 14
Kevin Durand
Canadian actor (Dark Angel , Lost , The Strain )
January 18
Devon Odessa
Actress (My So-Called Life )
Maulik Pancholy
Actor (30 Rock , Phineas and Ferb , Sanjay and Craig )
January 19
Frank Caliendo
Comedian and impressionist (Mad TV , Fox NFL Sunday )
January 22
Erica Messer
Writer
January 23
Tiffani Thiessen
Actress (Saved by the Bell , Beverly Hills, 90210 , White Collar )
Rebekah Elmaloglou
Actress
Norah O'Donnell
American television journalist
January 24
Ed Helms
Actor and comedian (The Daily Show , The Office )
January 28
Ty Olsson
Actor
January 31
Anna Silk
Canadian actress (Lost Girl )
February 5
Rod Roddenberry
Television producer
Omarosa
Reality TV personality[6]
February 7
Steve Nash
NBA basketball player
February 8
Seth Green
Actor, comedian and director (Family Guy , Robot Chicken )
Joshua Morrow
Actor (The Young and the Restless )
February 9
Amber Valletta
Actress (Legends , Blood & Oil )
February 10
Elizabeth Banks
Actress (Scrubs , 30 Rock , Moonbeam City )
February 11
Alex Jones
Radio show host
February 12
Lisa Brenner
Actress (All My Children )
February 16
Mahershala Ali
Actor (The 4400 , House of Cards , Luke Cage )
February 17
David Lipper
Actor (Full House )
Jerry O'Connell
Actor (Sliders , Crossing Jordan )
February 18
Nicole St. John
Actress (Futurama )
Jillian Michaels
American personal trainer
February 24
Bonnie Somerville
Actress (Grosse Pointe , In-Laws , Code Black )
Jenna Wolfe
Journalist
March 1
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Actor (Zack Morris on Saved by the Bell )
Cara Buono
Actress (The Sopranos , Mad Men )
March 3
David Faustino
Actor (Married... with Children )
March 5
Kevin Connolly
Actor (Unhappily Ever After , Entourage )
Eva Mendes
Actress
March 7
Jenna Fischer
Actress (The Office You, Me and the Apocalypse )
March 10
Cristián de la Fuente
Actor
March 12
Jama Williamson
Actress (Parks and Recreation , Hollywood Heights , School of Rock , Just Add Magic )
March 14
Grace Park
American-Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica , Hawaii Five-0 )
March 17
Marisa Coughlan
Actress (Wasteland , Side Order of Life )
March 20
Paula Garcés
Actress
March 21
Rhys Darby
Actor
March 23
Randall Park
Actor (Fresh Off the Boat )
March 24
Alyson Hannigan
Actress (Free Spirit , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , How I Met Your Mother ) and singer
March 25
Lark Voorhies
Actress (Saved by the Bell )
March 31
Angela Dotchin
Actress (Shortland Street )
April 8
Chris Kyle
United States Navy SEAL sniper who appeared on the reality television show Stars Earn Stripes (died 2013)
April 10
Omar Metwally
Actor
April 11
Tricia Helfer
Canadian actress and model (Battlestar Galactica )
April 12
Marley Shelton
Actress (Eleventh Hour , The Lottery )
April 15
Danny Pino
Actor (Cold Case , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit )
April 16
Grizz Chapman
Actor (30 Rock )
Valarie Rae Miller
Actress
April 18
Edgar Wright
Screenwriter
April 21
Kevin Hageman
Screenwriter
April 23
Barry Watson
Actor (7th Heaven )
April 26
Ivana Miličević
Bosnian-American actress (Banshee )
April 27
Joseph Millson
Actor
April 28
Penélope Cruz
Spanish-American actress and model
Vernon Kay
English television and radio presenter
May 7
Breckin Meyer
Actor (Franklin & Bash )
May 15
Russell Hornsby
Actor (Lincoln Heights , In Treatment , Grimm )
May 17
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Actor (Heroes , Covert Affairs )
May 20
The White Buffalo
Musician
May 21
Fairuza Balk
Actress (Ray Donovan )
May 22
Sean Gunn
Actor (Gilmore Girls )
A.J. Langer
Actress (Drexell's Class , My So-Called Life , It's Like, You Know... , Three Sisters , Private Practice )
May 23
Ken Jennings
Host
May 29
Aaron McGruder
Writer
June 1
Melissa Sagemiller
Actress (Sleeper Cell , Raising the Bar )
June 2
Leah Cairns
Actress
June 3
Arianne Zucker
Actress and model (Days of Our Lives )
June 5
Chad Allen
Actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman )
June 6
Danny Strong
Actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Gilmore Girls )
Sonya Walger
English actress (The Mind of the Married Man , Lost , FlashForward , The Catch )
June 7
Bear Grylls
English adventurer and TV host
June 12
Jason Mewes
American actor
June 13
Steve-O
American stunt performer and entertainer (Jackass )
Valeri Bure
American former ice hockey right winger
June 17
Matthew Senreich
American voice actor
June 19
Bumper Robinson
Actor (Transformers: Animated , Avengers Assemble , Ben 10: Omniverse )
June 21
Maggie Siff
Actress (Sons of Anarchy )
June 22
Donald Faison
Actor (Scrubs )
Lecy Goranson
Actress (Roseanne )
June 26
Derek Jeter
MLB baseball player
June 28
Rob Dyrdek
Actor
June 30
Tony Rock
Actor and comedian (All of Us , Mann & Wife )
July 3
Corey Reynolds
American actor
July 16
Chris Pontius
American stunt performer (Jackass )
July 18
Michael Dante DiMartino
American writer
July 19
Eric Price
Actor and comedian (Mad TV )
Ramin Djawadi
Composer
July 22
Franka Potente
Actress (American Horror Story )
July 23
Stephanie March
Actress (Conviction , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit )
July 24
Eugene Mirman
Russian-born American actor (Delocated , Bob's Burgers )
Jay R. Ferguson
American actor (Mad Men )
July 25
Lauren Faust
Animator (The Powerpuff Girls , Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , Wander Over Yonder )
Adrienne Janic
Host
July 26
Genevieve Gorder
HGTV host
Gary Owen
Comedian
July 27
Takehiro Hira
Japanese actor (Giri/Haji )
July 28
Elizabeth Berkley
Actress (Saved by the Bell )
July 29
Josh Radnor
Actor (How I Met Your Mother )
July 30
Hilary Swank
Actress (Camp Wilder , Beverly Hills, 90210 , The One Percent ) and singer
August 1
Matt Braunger
Actor (Mad TV )
Ming Chen
Actor
August 3
Mollie Hemingway
American conservative author
August 6
Ever Carradine
Actress (Once and Again , Commander in Chief , Goliath )
August 7
Chico Benymon
Actor (Half & Half )
August 13
Karine Jean-Pierre
White House Press Secretary and political analyst (NBC News , MSNBC )
August 14
Christopher Gorham
Actor
Tomer Sisley
Actor
August 15
Natasha Henstridge
Canadian actress (She Spies )
August 16
Edwin E. Aguilar
Animator (The Simpsons , The Oblongs )
August 20
Amy Adams
Actress
Misha Collins
Actor (Supernatural , Gotham Knights )
August 22
Jenna Leigh Green
Actress and singer (Sabrina the Teenage Witch )
Kay Cannon
Actress
August 24
Jennifer Lien
Actress (Star Trek: Voyager )
August 25
Eric Millegan
Actor (Bones )
August 26
Meredith Eaton
Actress
August 28
Kristin Booth
Canadian actress (Signed, Sealed, Delivered )
August 29
Jay Onrait
Canadian television personality
September 1
Jhonen Vasquez
Animator (Invader Zim )
Betty Nguyen
News anchor
September 6
Chad Coleman
Actor (The Wire , The Walking Dead , The Expanse )
September 10
Ben Wallace
NBA basketball player
September 17
Rasheed Wallace
NBA basketball player
September 18
Travis Schuldt
Actor (Scrubs , It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia , Community )
Xzibit
Rapper and actor (Pimp My Ride , Empire )
Emily Rutherfurd
Actress
September 19
Jimmy Fallon
Comedian and talk show host (Saturday Night Live , The Tonight Show )
Edi Patterson
Actress
September 24
Jackie Sandler
Actress and wife of Adam Sandler
Michelle Ray Smith
Actress (Guiding Light )
September 27
Carrie Brownstein
Actress
September 29
Brian Ash
Screenwriter
October 2
Courtney Hansen
Actress
October 4
Douglas Emerson
Actor (Beverly Hills, 90210 )
October 6
Jeremy Sisto
Actor (Law & Order , Six Feet Under )
October 7
Allison Munn
Actress (What I Like About You , One Tree Hill , Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn )
Alexander Polinsky
Actor (Charles in Charge , Legion of Super Heroes , Teen Titans )
October 8
Martin Henderson
New Zealand actor (Grey's Anatomy )
October 10
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Analyst for NASCAR on NBC
October 11
Greg Poehler
Actor
October 16
Björn Yttling
Songwriter
October 18
Joy Bryant
Actress (Parenthood )
October 21
Jeff Richards
Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live , Mad TV )
November 4
Melissa Lee
News anchor
November 6
Zoe McLellan
Actress (JAG , Dirty Sexy Money , NCIS: New Orleans )
November 8
Matthew Rhys
Welsh actor (Brothers & Sisters , The Americans , The Owl House )
November 11
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor (Growing Pains )
November 12
Tamala Jones
Actress (For Your Love , Castle )
November 17
Leslie Bibb
Actress (Popular , Crossing Jordan )
November 18
Chloë Sevigny
Actress (Big Love , American Horror Story ) and singer
November 20
Marisa Ryan
Actress (Major Dad )
November 24
Stephen Merchant
Actor
November 28
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Rapper
December 1
Prentice Penny
Writer
December 11
Lisa Ortiz
Voice actress (Sonic X , Slayers , Pokémon )
Ben Shephard
Television presenter
December 13
Debbie Matenopoulos
TV host
December 15
P. J. Byrne
Actor (The Legend of Korra , Justice League Action , The Game )
December 17
Sarah Paulson
Actress (American Horror Story )
Giovanni Ribisi
Actor (Dads )
Marissa Ribisi
Actress (Grown Ups )
December 18
Kari Byron
Actress and TV host (Head Rush , MythBusters )
December 20
Rachel Ramras
Actress
December 24
Ryan Seacrest
TV host
December 25
Patrick Brennan
Actor
December 26
Tiffany Brissette
Actress (Small Wonder )
December 27
Kylee Cochran
Actress
Masi Oka
Japanese-American actor (Heroes , Hawaii Five-0 )
December 29
Maria Dizzia
Actress (Orange is the New Black )
Mekhi Phifer
Actor (ER )
Asheru
Hip hop artist
Deaths
Television debuts
See also
References
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