1965 in television

1965 in television
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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.

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Television shows
4 Ending this year
5 Changes of network affiliation
6 Births
7 Deaths

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 21 - The Beach Boys appear on Shindig! performing their most recent hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?".
June 18 - Original scheduled launch date of the "station that never was", WDV-11 in Warrnambool, Victoria. The city government had decreed in November of 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!.
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.
April 28 - My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand's first TV special, airs on CBS.

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 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).