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1977 in television
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The year 1977 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television -related events in 1977 .
For the American TV schedule, see: 1977-78 American network television schedule .
Events
January 15 - Bill Murray joins the cast of Saturday Night Live , replacing Chevy Chase who left the previous year.
February 1 - Colour television transmissions commence in Italy , under the RAI banner of television channels.
February 4 - American Bandstand celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark . An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry , Seals & Crofts , Gregg Allman , Junior Walker , Johnny Rivers , the Pointer Sisters , Charlie Daniels , Doc Severinsen , Les McCann , Donald Byrd , Chuck Mangione and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven."
September 14 - A tube top-clad woman named Yolanda Bowsley is called into Contestant's Row on The Price is Right , and while running down her breasts pop out of her shirt! The incident was censored with a large blue bar but it is still remembered today.
November 26 - Just after 5.10pm in the Southern Television ITV region, a pirate hijacks the sound of the ITN News and broadcasts a message claiming to be Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command. Thousands of viewers ring Southern Television, ITN, and even the police for an explanation.
November 30 - CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid bade farewell in his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite , after 48 years at CBS News .
Don Novello first appears on Saturday Night Live .
Lisa Peluso makes her first appearance on Search for Tomorrow .
Scum , an entry in BBC1 's Play for Today anthology strand, is pulled from transmission due to controversy over its depiction of life in a Young Offenders' Institution (at that time known in the UK as a Borstal). Two years later the director Alan Clarke makes a film version with most of the same cast, and the original play itself is eventually transmitted in 1991 .
Colour television licenses exceed black and white licenses for the first time in the UK .
US television game show Match Game is the #1 rated game show on television for the fifth year in a row.
February 27 - Fed up with excessive violence and distorted images of sex on TV, the Reverend Donald Wildmon declares "Turn the Television Off Week." Few people do.
March 15 - Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti are seen in "La Boheme " on PBS and heard in stereo on local (mostly NPR) stations in the first live "simulcast" from the Met.
Debuts
Miniseries
Television shows
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
All My Children (1970 -present).
Monday Night Football (1970-present).
Play for Today (UK) (1970-1984).
All in the Family (1971 -1979).
Columbo (1971-1978).
Masterpiece Theatre (1971-present).
Old Grey Whistle Test (UK) (1971-1987).
Soul Train (1971-present).
Are You Being Served? (UK) (1972 -1985).
Emmerdale Farm (UK) (1972-present).
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1984).
John Craven's Newsround (UK) (1972-present).
Maude (1972-1978).
M*A*S*H (1972-1983).
The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978).
The Price Is Right (1972-present).
The Waltons (1972-1981).
Barnaby Jones (1973 -1980).
Kojak (1973-1978, 2005-present).
Last of the Summer Wine (UK) (1973-present).
Match Game '77 (1962-1969, 1973-1984 , 1990 -1991, 1998 -1999).
Schoolhouse Rock! (1973-1986).
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978).
Superstars (UK) (1973-1985 , 2003-2005).
The Tomorrow Show (1973-1982).
The Young and the Restless (1973-present).
Chico and the Man (1974 -1978).
Countdown (Australia) (1974-1987).
Derrick (1974-1998).
Dinah! (1974-1980).
Good Times (1974-1979).
Happy Days (1974-1984).
Land of the Lost (1974-1977).
Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983).
Police Woman (1974-1978).
Rhoda (1974-1978).
Tattletales (1974-1978, 1982-1984).
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (1974-1984).
The Rockford Files (1974-1980).
Tiswas (UK) (1974-1982).
Wish You Were Here...? (UK) (1974-present).
Arena (UK) (1975 –present).
Baretta (1975-1978).
Barney Miller (1975-1982).
Good Morning America (1975-present).
Jim'll Fix It (UK) (1975-1994 ).
King of Kensington (Canada) (1975-1980).
Match Game PM (1975-1981).
One Day at a Time (1975-1984).
Pop Quest (UK) (1975-1978).
Runaround (UK) (1975-1981).
Ryan's Hope (1975-1989).
Saturday Night Live (1975-present).
The Don Lane Show (Australia) (1975-1983).
the fifth estate (Canada) (1975-present).
The Good Life (UK) (1975-1978).
The Jeffersons (1975-1985).
The Sweeney (UK) (1975-1978).
Tom and Jerry (1965-1972, 1975-1977 , 1980-1982).
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979).
Wheel of Fortune (1975-present).
Alice (1976 -1985).
Charlie's Angels (1976-1981).
Family Feud (1976-1985, 1988-1995, 1999-present).
In Search of... (1976-1982).
Laverne & Shirley (1976-1983).
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (UK) (1976-1982).
Quincy, M.E. (1976-1983).
Second City Television (SCTV) (Canada) (1976-1984).
The Bionic Woman (1976-1978).
The Muppet Show (UK) (1976-1981).
The P.T.L. Club (1976-1987).
What's Happening!! (1976-1979).
Wonder Woman (1976-1979).
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Births
January 1 - Keeley Hawes , British actress .
January 4 - Anna Brees , British television newscaster.
January 4 - Jane Dougall , British television news reporter.
January 5 - Helen Fospero , British television news reader.
January 7 - Dustin Diamond , American actor and comedian.
February 20 - Stephon Marbury , American basketball player.
April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar , American actress.
April 23 - John Cena , American professional wrestler.
June 8 - Kanye West , American rapper.
August 20 - Kristen Miller , American actress.
Deaths
January 28 - Burt Mustin , 92, actor.
January 29 – Freddie Prinze , 22, actor and comedian .
February 28 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson , 71, comedian .
August 16 - Elvis Presley , 42, musician.
August 19 - Groucho Marx , 86, comedian, television host.
August 22 - Sebastian Cabot , 59, actor.
August 29 - Jean Hagen , 54, actress.
October 14 - Bing Crosby , 74, singer.
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