1974 in television

1974 in television
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The year 1974 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1974.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1974-75 American network television schedule.

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Television shows
4 Ending this year
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

January 6 - CKGN-TV begins broadcasting in Brantford, Ontario.
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 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.
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 resigns live on television.
September 10 - The controversial TV movie Born Innocent, starring Linda Blair, was first screened on the NBC network in the United States. 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.
December 28 - Tom Baker makes his first full appearance as the Fourth Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Robot.
Monty Python's Flying Circus, the popular British sketch comedy which aired its final episode this year, is first shown in the US on KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas.
March 11 - The children's special Free to Be... You and Me, produced by comedic actress Marlo Thomas, airs on ABC.
Meg Dale (Tudi Wiggins) calls her son Ben (Christopher Reeve) a "bastard" on the soap opera Love of Life, the first time a profanity was spoken on American daytime television.
The documentary series Legacy for the Future first airs on NHK in Japan.
US television game show program Match Game is the #1 rated program and #1 rated game show for the second year in a row.
January 31 - Cicely Tyson portrays the life of a 110-year-old black woman, spanning the history of the U.S. from the Civil War to the civil-rights movement, in the multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines' novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, on CBS.

Debuts

January 5 - Tiswas starts as a local programme in the Midlands (ATV) in the UK, but the television show wasn't fully automatically networked through ITV until 1979 (1974-1982).
January 7 - How to Survive a Marriage debuts in a 90-minute special on NBC daytime. The episode shows the first nudity (which was merely simulated and not visible) on American daytime television. Jackpot! (1974-1975), a game show, premiered earlier in the day on NBC.
January 15 - Happy Days premieres on ABC (1974-1984). It will spawn a record eight spin-off series (five live-action, three animated).
February 1 - Good Times, a spinoff of Maude (which itself was a spinoff of All in the Family,) premieres on CBS (1974-1979).
February 18 - Tattletales, hosted by Bert Convy, premieres on CBS daytime (1974-1978, 1982-1984).
May 6 - The $10,000 Pyramid moves to ABC with Dick Clark as host. *July 1 - High Rollers premieres on NBC (1974-1976; 1978-1980).
September 7- Land of the Lost premieres on NBC (1974-1977).
September 7- Shazam! premieres on CBS (1974-1977).
September 9 - Rhoda premieres on CBS (1974-1978).
September 9 - The $25,000 Pyramid premieres in syndication with host Bill Cullen; basically The $10,000 Pyramid with larger prizes.
Dinah! premieres (syndicated 1974-1980), succeeding Dinah Shore's cancelled NBC daytime show Dinah's Place.
September 11 - Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landon, premieres on NBC (1974-1983).
September 13 - Chico and the Man (1974-1978),The Rockford Files (1974-1980), and Police Woman (1974-1978) all premiere on NBC .
Countdown premieres on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1974-1987).
Derrick (1974-1998), German Krimi written by Herbert Reinecker, starring Horst Tappert.
Definition (TV series) premieres on CTV daytime (1974-1989).
Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins premieres on CBC (1974-1975).
House of Pride premieres on CBC (1974-1976).
Wish You Were Here...? premieres on ITV (1974-2003, 2007-).
July 4 - CBS airs its first Bicentennial Minute. They will continue until the end of 1976.
March 3 - Nova premieres on PBS (1974-present).
Name That Tune premieres on NBC daytime with Dennis James hosting, and in nighttime syndication with Tom Kennedy hosting.