1965 in television

The year 1965 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1965.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1965-66 American network television schedule.

Events

• February 22 - A new, videotaped production of the 1957 special Cinderella, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs on CBS with young Lesley Ann Warren in the title role. The production also starred Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, and Celeste Holm.
• March 24 - Live TV pictures from the US unmanned moon probe "Ranger 9" transmitted prior to impact.
• April 15 - Paul Bryan (Ben Gazzara) gets the bad news from his doctor, and sets out to do all the things he never had time for, in the Kraft Suspense Theatre episode entitled "Rapture at Two-Forty." (This will serve as the pilot for the series Run for Your Life, which will premiere this fall and run until 1968.)
• April 21 - The Beach Boys appear on Shindig! performing their most recent hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?".
• April 28 - My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand's first TV special, airs on CBS.
• June 18 - Original scheduled launch date of the "station that never was", WDV-11 in Warrnambool, Victoria. The city government had decreed in November 1963 that television could never be introduced in Warrnambool.
• August 1 - Cigarette adverts are banned from UK television. Pipe tobacco and cigar adverts continue until 1992.
• September 12 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing songs from their new album Help!.
• September 13 - Today goes color.
• October 4 - Pope Paul VI's visit to New York receives saturation television coverage on all 3 American networks.
• October 17 - WBMG-TV (now WIAT) opens in Birmingham, Alabama on channel 42, finally allowing viewers in that city to watch the CBS and NBC stars that WAPI-TV (now WVTM) didn't have room for, including Ed Sullivan, Walter Cronkite, and Johnny Carson.
• November 5 - Katie Holstrum (Inger Stevens) and Congressman Glen Morley (William Windom) are married in The Farmer's Daughter episode entitled "To Have and To Hold".
• November 15 - The Huntley-Brinkley Report goes color.
• November 28 - Julie Andrews' first TV special airs on NBC.
• December 4 - Effective with this issue, TV Guide launches its Montana edition and now covers all of the contiguous U.S. (A Hawaii edition will be launched in 1968.)
• December 9 - A Charlie Brown Christmas airs on CBS for the first time.
• First television broadcasts in Paraguay.
• The War Game, a drama-documentary by director Peter Watkins depicting the events of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom, is controversially pulled from its planned transmission in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand. The BBC was pressured into this move by the British government, which did not want much of the play's content to become public. It was eventually released to cinemas, and won the 1966 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The BBC finally screened the play in 1985.
• The "Other Big 3 in Philly" all started operating this year. WIBF on channel 29 (now WTXF) opened on May 16; WKBS-TV on channel 48 opened on September 1 (it closed in 1983); and WPHL on channel 17 opened on September 17.

Debuts

• January 2 - World of Sport premieres on ITV in the UK with Eamonn Andrews as its first host (1965-1985).
• June 28 - Dick Clark's Where the Action Is premieres on ABC daytime (1965-1967).
• September 13 - Run for Your Life premieres on NBC (see above).
• September 14 - My Mother, the Car premieres on NBC (1965-1966) ... and sets a standard that comics and critics will joke about for years.
• September 14 - Please Don't Eat the Daisies premieres on NBC (1965-1967).
• September 15 - CBS debuts Lost in Space (1965-1968) and Green Acres (1965-1971). Meanwhile, on ABC, The Big Valley premieres (1965-1969), and NBC launches I Spy (1965-1968).
• September 16 - The Dean Martin Show premieres on NBC (1965-1974).
• September 17 - The Wild Wild West (1965-1969) and Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971) premiere on CBS.
• September 18 - I Dream of Jeannie premieres on NBC, and so does Get Smart (both 1965-1970).
• September 19 - The F.B.I. premieres on ABC (1965-1974).
• September 30 - Thunderbirds premieres on the ITV network (1965-1966).
• November 8 - The soap opera Days of our Lives debuts on NBC (1965-present).
• December 20 - 2 new game shows premiere on ABC's daytime schedule: the original Supermarket Sweep (1965-1967) and The Dating Game (1965-1973).
• Quentin Durgens, M.P. premieres (1965-1969).
• United! premieres on BBC1 in the UK (1965-1967).

Television shows

1940s

• Meet the Press (1947-present).
• Candid Camera (1948-present).
• The Ed Sullivan Show (1948-1971).
• Bozo the Clown (1949-present).
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949-1995).

1950s

• Truth or Consequences (1950-1988).
• What's My Line (1950-1967).
• Love of Life (1951-1980).
• Search for Tomorrow (1951-1986).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951-present).
• American Bandstand (1952-1989).
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-1966).
• The Guiding Light (1952-present).
• The Honeymooners (1952-1970).
• The Today Show (1952-present).
• Panorama (UK) (1953-present).
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953-1983).
• Face the Nation (1954-present).
• The Secret Storm (1954-1974).
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962-1992).
• Captain Kangaroo (1955-1984).
• Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955-1976).
• Gunsmoke (1955-1975).
• The Lawrence Welk Show (1955-1982).
• This Is Your Life (UK) (1955-2003).
• Armchair Theatre (UK) (1956-1968).
• As the World Turns (1956-present).
• Opportunity Knocks (UK) (1956-1978).
• The Edge of Night (1956-1984).
• What the Papers Say (UK) (1956-present).
• The Sky at Night (UK) (1957-present).
• Blue Peter (UK) (1958-present).
• Grandstand (UK) (1958-2007).
• The Donna Reed Show (1958-1966).
• Bonanza (1959-1973).
• Juke Box Jury (1959-1967, 1979, 1989-1990).
• The Bell Telephone Hour (1959-1968).

1960s

• Coronation Street (UK) (1960-present).
• My Three Sons (1960-1972).
• The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968).
• The Flintstones (1960-1966) .
• Ben Casey (1961-1966).
• Four Corners (Australia) (1961-present).
• It's Academic (1961-present)
• Mister Ed (1961-1966).
• The Avengers (UK) (1961-1969).
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966).
• The Fulton Sheen Program (1961-1968).
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961-1981).
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961-1969).
• Combat! (1962-1967).
• Match Game (1962-1969, 1973-1984, 1990-1991, 1998-1999).
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971).
• The Late Late Show (Ireland) (1962-present).
• The Lucy Show (1962-1968).
• The Saint (UK) (1962-1969).
• Z-Cars (UK) (1962-1978).
• Doctor Who (UK) (1963-1989, 1996, 2005-present).
• General Hospital (1963-present).
• Petticoat Junction (1963-1970).
• Ready Steady Go! (1963-1966).
• The Doctors (1963-1982).
• The Addams Family (1964-1966).
• Another World (1964-1999).
• Bewitched (1964-1972).
• Crossroads (UK) (1964-1988, 2001-2003).
• Danger Man (UK) (1960-1961, 1964-1966).
• Daniel Boone (1964-1970).
• Flipper (1964-1967)
• Gilligan's Island (1964-1967).
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964-1970).
• Jeopardy! (1964-1975, 1984-present).
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968).
• The Mavis Bramston Show (Australia) (1964-1968).
• The Munsters (1964-1966).
• Peyton Place (1964-1969).
• Shindig! (1964-1966).
• The Wednesday Play (UK) (1964-1970).
• Top of the Pops (UK) (1964-2006).
• Days of our Lives (soap opera) (1965-presnt)
• This Hour Has Seven Days (1964-1966).
• Tom and Jerry (1965-1972, 1975-1977, 1980-1982).
• Get Smart (1965-1970)
• Jonny Quest (1964-1965)

Ending this year

• January 16 - The Outer Limits (debuted 1963, pulled in mid-season due to declining ratings)
• March 11 - Jonny Quest (1964-1965) (Canceled because every episode went over budget)
• September 3 - The Price Is Right (1956-1965).
• The Jack Benny Show (1950-1965).

Changes of network affiliation

• My Three Sons moves from ABC to CBS.
• Hazel moves from NBC to CBS.

Births

• January 3 - Penny Smith, television presenter.
• January 4 - Julia Ormond, English actress
• January 22 - Diane Lane, actress
• February 3 - Maura Tierney, actress
• February 7 - Chris Rock, actor and comedian.
• February 23 - Kristin Davis, actress.
• March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress.
• April 16 - Martin Lawrence, actor and comedian.
• April 26 - Kevin James, actor.
• May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress.
• July 7 - Jeremy Kyle, television presenter.
• August 6 – Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
• September 3 - Charlie Sheen, actor.
• November 30 - Ben Stiller, actor.
• December 21 - Andy Dick, actor.

Deaths

• April 27 - Edward R. Murrow.