1950 in television
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The year 1950 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1950.
Events
- February – European Broadcasting Union (EBU) inaugurated.
- February 23 – First televised report of general election results in the United Kingdom.
- April 4 – The BBC Television (UK) aspect ratio changes from 5:4 to 4:3.
- May – Desilu Productions formed by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in the United States.
- June 17 – WAND (at this time called WTVP) goes on the air in Decatur, Illinois.
- July 26 – First television broadcast station in Mexico, XHTV, Mexico City on channel 4; Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo is the first announcer to appear.[1]
- September 18 – First television network in South America launches, PRF-TV on channel 3 in São Paulo, Brazil.
- September 30 – First BBC television broadcast from an aircraft.
- October 10 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approves CBS's color television system, effective November 20.
- October 25 - Cuba signs on to television as Havana's Union Radio TV signs on for the first time, the first television station in the Carribean.
New shows
- January 4 – Abe Burrows' Almanac debuts on CBS (1950).
- February 2 – What's My Line (1950) debuts on CBS (1950–1967).
- February 25 – Your Show of Shows premieres on NBC (1950–1954).
- March 23 – Beat the Clock premieres on CBS (1950–1961).
- June 17–October 12 – Hawkins Falls premieres on NBC (1951–1955).
- July 3 – The Hazel Scott Show on the DuMont Television Network (1950).
- July 10 – Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC.
- July 11 – Andy Pandy premieres on the BBC (1950, 1970, 2002).
- September 5 – The Cisco Kid, starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carillo, premieres (1950-1956).
- September 6 – Stars Over Hollywood premieres on NBC (1950-1951).[2]
- September 7 – The game show Truth or Consequences debuts (1950–1988).
- September 10 – The Colgate Comedy Hour series debuts on NBC (1950-1955).
- September 18 – The Paul Winchell Show debuts on NBC with the title The Speidel Show.
- October 4 – Four Star Revue debuts on NBC (1950–1953).[3]
- October 5 – The comedy quiz show You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premieres (1950–1961).
- October 12 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts (1950–1958).
- October 28 – The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, premieres (1950–1965).
Television series
Series | Debut | Ended |
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Picture Page (UK) | October 10, 1936 | 1939 |
1945 | 1952 | |
For The Children (UK) | April 26, 1937 | 1939 |
July 7, 1946 | 1950 | |
The Voice of Firestone Televues | 1943 | 1947 |
1949 | 1963 | |
Kaleidoscope (UK) | November 2, 1946 | 1953 |
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports | November 8, 1946 | June 24, 1960 |
Muffin the Mule (UK) | 1946 | 1955 |
You Are an Artist | 1946 | 1950 |
Kraft Television Theater | May 7, 1947 | 1958 |
Kukla, Fran and Ollie | October 13, 1947 | 1957 |
Meet the Press | November 6, 1947 | — |
Mary Kay and Johnny | November 18, 1947 | March 11, 1950 |
Howdy Doody | December 27, 1947 | September 24, 1960 |
Café Continental (UK) | 1947 | 1953 |
Juvenile Jury | 1947 | 1954 |
Small Fry Club | 1947 | 1951 |
Television Newsreel (UK) | January 5, 1948 | 1954 |
The Original Amateur Hour | January 18, 1948 | September 27, 1970 |
Court of Current Issues | February 9, 1948 | June 26, 1951 |
Author Meets the Critics | April 1948 | October 10, 1954 |
Hollywood Screen Test | April 15, 1948 | 1953 |
Texaco Star Theater | June 8, 1948 | 1953 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | June 20, 1948 | June 6, 1971 |
Candid Camera | August 10, 1948 | 2014 |
CBS Evening News | August 15, 1948 | — |
Foodini the Great | August 23, 1948 | June 23, 1951 |
Actors Studio | September 1948 | June 1950 |
Ford Theatre | October 17, 1948 | July 10, 1957 |
The Morey Amsterdam Show | December 17, 1948 | October 12, 1950 |
The Alan Dale Show | 1948 | 1951 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts | 1948 | January 1, 1958 |
Break the Bank | 1948 | 1957 |
Cartoon TeleTales | 1948 | 1950 |
Celebrity Time | 1948 | September 1952 |
Club Seven | 1948 | 1951 |
The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | 1955 |
Winner Take All | 1948 | 1952 |
The Goldbergs | January 17, 1949 | 1956 |
Ripley's Believe It or Not! | March 1, 1949 | October 5, 1950 |
Think Fast | March 26, 1949 | October 8, 1950 |
Captain Video | June 27, 1949 | April 1, 1955 |
Mama | July 1, 1949 | March 17, 1957 |
Martin Kane, Private Eye | August 7, 1949 | June 17, 1954 |
The Little Revue | September 4, 1949 | April 21, 1950 |
The Lone Ranger | September 15, 1949 | June 6, 1957 |
Come Dancing (UK) | September 29, 1949 | 1995 |
The Aldrich Family | October 2, 1949 | May 29, 1953 |
The Life of Riley | October 4, 1949 | March 28, 1950 |
January 2, 1953 | August 22, 1958 | |
The Ruggles | November 3, 1949 | June 19, 1952 |
One Man's Family | November 4, 1949 | June 21, 1952 |
March 1, 1954 | April 1, 1955 | |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends | 1949 | 1959 |
What's My Line? | February 2, 1950 | 1975 |
Your Show of Shows | February 25, 1950 | June 5, 1954 |
Hawkins Falls | June 17, 1950 | July 1, 1955 |
Your Hit Parade | July 10, 1950 | 1959 |
1974 | 1974 | |
Andy Pandy (UK) | July 11, 1950 | 1970 |
2002 | 2005 | |
Truth or Consequences | September 7, 1950 | 1988 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour | September 10, 1950 | December 25, 1955 |
You Bet Your Life | October 5, 1950 | 1961 |
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | October 12, 1950 | 1958 |
The Jack Benny Program | October 28, 1950 | 1965 |
The Adventures of Ellery Queen | 1950 | 1959 |
1975 | 1976 | |
The Cisco Kid | September 5, 1950 | March 22, 1956 |
Programs ending during 1950
Date | Show | Debut |
---|---|---|
March 11 | Mary Kay and Johnny | 1947 |
March 29 | Abe Burrows' Almanac | 1950 |
June 23 | Actors Studio | 1948 |
Unknown | Cartoon Teletales | |
For The Children (UK) | 1946 | |
You Are an Artist |
Births
Date | Name | Notability |
---|---|---|
January 3 | Victoria Principal | Actress (Dallas) |
January 7 | Erin Gray | Actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Silver Spoons) |
January 16 | Debbie Allen | Actress, dancer, choreographer (Fame) |
January 23 | Richard Dean Anderson | Actor (MacGyver) |
January 25 | John Terry | Actor (Las Vegas, Lost) |
January 29 | Ann Jillian | Actress (It's a Living) |
January 30 | Trinidad Silva | Actor (died 1988) |
February 3 | Morgan Fairchild | Actress (Flamingo Road) |
Pamela Franklin | Actress | |
February 12 | Michael Ironside | Actor |
February 14 | Frank Collison | Actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) |
February 15 | Donna Hanover | American journalist |
February 17 | Lynne Moody | Actress (That's My Mama, Knots Landing) |
February 18 | Cybill Shepherd | Actress (Moonlighting, Cybill) |
February 22 | Julius Erving | NBA basketball player |
Julie Walters | Actress | |
February 24 | Evelyn Guerrero | American actress |
February 26 | Bill Ritter | American journalist |
March 2 | Matthew Laurance | Actor (Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills, 90210) |
March 3 | Tim Kazurinsky | Actor (Saturday Night Live) |
March 10 | Aloma Wright | Actress (Scrubs, Days of Our Lives) |
March 12 | Jon Provost | Actor (Lassie) |
March 13 | William H. Macy | Actor |
Charles Krauthammer | American political columnist | |
March 18 | Brad Dourif | Actor |
Jim Knobeloch | Actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) | |
March 20 | William Hurt | Actor (died 2022) |
March 23 | Terry Sweeney | Actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Hype) |
March 26 | Martin Short | Canadian-American actor, comedian (SCTV, Saturday Night Live) |
Tony Papenfuss | Actor (Newhart) | |
March 30 | Robbie Coltrane | Actor (died 2022) |
March 31 | Ed Marinaro | Football player, actor (Hill Street Blues, Blue Mountain State) |
April 4 | Christine Lahti | Actress (Chicago Hope) |
April 12 | David Cassidy | Actor, singer (The Partridge Family) (died 2017) |
April 13 | Ron Perlman | Actor (Beauty and the Beast, Sons of Anarchy) |
William Sadler | Actor (Roswell) | |
April 14 | Randolph Powell | Actor (Logan's Run, Dallas) |
April 17 | L. Scott Caldwell | Actress (Lost) |
April 28 | Jay Leno | Comedian, talk show host (The Tonight Show) |
Stuart Gillard | Writer | |
May 1 | Dann Florek | Actor (Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) |
May 7 | Tim Russert | American television journalist (died 2008) |
May 9 | Marcheline Bertrand | American actress (died 2007) |
May 12 | Bruce Boxleitner | Actor (Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Babylon 5) |
Gabriel Byrne | Actor | |
May 13 | Stevie Wonder | Singer and musician |
May 15 | Nicholas Hammond | American-born Australian actor (The Amazing Spider-Man) |
May 28 | Denny Delk | American Voice Actor (Wicket W. Warrick, Ewoks (TV series)) |
May 31 | Gregory Harrison | Actor (Trapper John, M.D.) |
June 1 | John M. Jackson | Actor (JAG) |
June 3 | Melissa Mathison | American film and television screenwriter (died 2015) |
June 5 | Daniel von Bargen | American character actor (died 2015) |
June 8 | Kathy Baker | Actress (Picket Fences) |
June 13 | Belinda Bauer | Australian actress |
June 19 | Rosie Shuster | Canadian-born comedy writer and actress |
June 26 | Michael Paul Chan | Actor |
July 5 | Huey Lewis | Actor |
July 10 | Nick Jameson | Actor (24, Lost) |
July 11 | Bruce McGill | Actor |
July 21 | Jordan Clarke | Actor (Guiding Light) |
July 23 | Belinda Montgomery | Actress (Man from Atlantis, Miami Vice, Doogie Howser, M.D.) |
August 3 | Jo Marie Payton | Actress (Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, The Proud Family) |
John Landis | Actor | |
August 11 | Steve Wozniak | American electronics engineer |
August 12 | Jim Beaver | Actor (Supernatural) |
August 13 | Jane Carr | Actress |
September 1 | Phil McGraw | Television host |
September 2 | Harvey Levin | Television producer |
September 5 | Kathy Cronkite | Actress |
September 7 | Julie Kavner | Actress (Marge on The Simpsons) |
September 9 | Joe Lisi | Actor (Third Watch) |
September 11 | Amy Madigan | Actress |
September 12 | Bruce Mahler | Actor (Seinfeld) |
September 18 | Anna Deavere Smith | Actress |
September 19 | Joan Lunden | American TV host |
September 21 | Bill Murray | Actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) |
September 27 | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Actor |
September 30 | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Actor, director (Chicago Hope) |
October 2 | Ian McNeice | Actor |
October 3 | Pamela Hensley | Actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Matt Houston) |
October 4 | Alan Rosenberg | Actor (L.A. Law, Civil Wars) |
October 5 | Jeff Conaway | Actor (Taxi) (died 2011) |
October 9 | Gary Frank | Actor (Family) |
October 17 | Howard Rollins | Actor (In the Heat of the Night) (died 1996) |
October 20 | William Russ | Actor (Boy Meets World) |
October 31 | John Candy | Canadian comedian and actor (SCTV) (died 1994) |
Jane Pauley | American television host | |
November 4 | Markie Post | Actress (The Fall Guy, Night Court, Hearts Afire) (died 2021) |
November 8 | Mary Hart | American television personality |
November 10 | Jack Scalia | Actor |
November 13 | Jules Sylvester | Actor, animal trainer, television presenter (1000 Ways to Die, Black-ish) |
November 16 | David Leisure | Actor (Empty Nest) |
November 18 | Dennis Haskins | Actor (Saved by the Bell) |
November 24 | Stanley Livingston | Actor (My Three Sons) |
November 28 | Ed Harris | Actor (Westworld) |
December 6 | Thom Barry | Actor (Cold Case) |
December 13 | Lindsey Ginter | Actor (Lost) |
Wendie Malick | Actress (Dream On, Just Shoot Me!, Hot in Cleveland) | |
December 21 | Jane How | Actress |
References
- ^ Quiles, Alfredo (2011-08-06). "Fallece Castellot, pionero de radio y TV en México". El Universal. Mexico City. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
- ^ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9.
- ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television. Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.