1933 in television

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The year 1933 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1933.

Events

• January 23 - W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
• January 24 - John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast on KMBC radio.
• April 21 - The first television revue, Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
• August 4? - W9XAT in Minneapolis, Minnesota makes its first transmission.
• RCA conducts private field tests in Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.

Ending this year

• The Television Ghost (1931-1933).

Television shows

Series	Debut	Ended
The Television Ghost	1931	1933

Births

• January 8 - Charles Osgood, journalist.
• January 17 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer (d. 1998),
• February 2 - Tony Jay, actor (d. 2006)
• March 19 - Phyllis Newman, actress, game show panelist.
  • Renée Taylor, actress.
• April 5 - Frank Gorshin, actor. (d. 2005)
• April 7 - Wayne Rogers, actor, financial commentator.
• April 26 - Carol Burnett, actor, comedian
• May 7 - Roger Perry, actor.
• May 20 - Constance Towers, actress.
• May 21 - Richard Libertini, actor.
• May 23 - Joan Collins, actress.
• June 8 - Joan Rivers, comedian.
• June 20 - Danny Aiello, actor.
• June 21 - Bernie Kopell, actor.
• July 11 - Bob McGrath, actor, singer.
• July 23 - Bert Convy, game show host (d. 1991).
• July 30 - Edd Byrnes, actor.
• August 1 - Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian. (d. 2009)
• August 11 - Jerry Falwell, televangelist (d. 2007)
• August 15 - Jim Lange, game show host.
• August 16 - Julie Newmar, actress.
• August 25 - Tom Skerritt, actor.
• August 27 - Janet McLachlan, actress.
• September 13 - Eileen Fulton, actress.
• September 18 - Robert Blake, actor.
• September 26 - Donna Douglas, actress.
• September 27 - Greg Morris, actor (d. 1996)
  • Kathleen Nolan, actress.
• November 3 - Jeremy Brett, actor (Sherlock Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1995)
  • Ken Berry, actor.
• November 5 - Herb Edelman, actor (d. 1996)
• November 19 - Larry King, talk show host.
• November 28 - Hope Lange, actress (d. 2003)
• December 8 - Flip Wilson, comedian (d. 1998).
• December 15 - Tim Conway, comedian.
• December 26 - Carroll Spinney, puppeteer.