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Overview of the events of 1951 in television
The year 1951 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1951.
Events
March 22 – RCA introduces an eight-pound (3.6 kg) monochrome television camera with a 53-pound (24 kg) backpack transmitter, both operated by batteries. It is the first portable television camera.
May 28 – Then US Supreme Court upholds the Federal Communications Commission 's approval of the CBS color television system.
May 31 – Nederlandse Televisie Stichting (NTS), as predecessor of Nederlandse Omroep Stichting Televisie (NOS) , a first regular television broadcasting service start in Amsterdam , Netherlands .[1]
June 25 – CBS presents its first commercial color telecast featuring Arthur Godfrey , Ed Sullivan , and Faye Emerson .
June – RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system.
August 11 – The first baseball game is televised in color, a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves .
September 4 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast occurs in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference .
September 29
October 2 – Danish language television station , DR1 , first launched in Copenhagen .[2]
October 3 – The first live coast-to-coast network telecast of a World Series baseball game.
October 12 – The Holme Moss transmitter is initiated in Northern England , making BBC Television available to the region for the first time.
October 17 – Television broadcasts begin in Argentina from Primera Televisora Argentina on channel 7, Buenos Aires.
October 20 – The CBS Eye logo makes its television debut.
November 11 – Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrates black-and-white video recording using a modified Ampex tape recorder.
November 18 – Edward R. Murrow on See It Now presents a split screen view of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. It has erroneously been referred to as the first live transcontinental telecast.
December – TV Tupi in São Paulo (Brazil) begins broadcasting Sua Vida Me Pertence ("Your Life Belongs To Me") starring Vida Alves, pioneering the telenovela genre.
December 24 – The first televised opera composed for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti , is broadcast by NBC.
Ernie Kovacs ' Time for Ernie and Ernie in Kovacsland television series premiere. Kovacs explores the boundaries of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects.
Programs/programmes
Series
Debut
Ended
Picture Page (UK)
October 8, 1936
1939
1946
1952
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
Kraft Television Theater
May 7, 1947
1958
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
October 13, 1947
1957
Meet the Press
November 6, 1947
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Howdy Doody
December 27, 1947
September 24, 1960
Café Continental
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
May 23, 2004
CBS Evening News
August 15, 1948
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Foodini the Great
August 23, 1948
June 23, 1951
Ford Theatre
October 17, 1948
July 10, 1957
The Alan Dale Show
1948
1951
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
1948
January 1, 1958
Break the Bank
1948
1957
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
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 Lone Ranger
September 15, 1949
June 6, 1957
Come Dancing (UK)
September 29, 1949
1995
The Aldrich Family
October 2, 1949
May 29, 1953
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
Debuts
January 3 – Dragnet , crime drama, on NBC (1951–1959 Series One B&W, 1967-1970 Series Two Color)
March 3 – Watch Mr. Wizard on NBC (1951–1965)[3]
March 12 - Miss Susan , soap opera on NBC (1951)[4]
June 2 - The daytime version of A Date with Judy debuts on ABC .
June 16 – Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town , variety show , with Faye Emerson and Skitch Henderson , on CBS
July 6 – Front Page Detective debuts on Dumont .[5]
July 16 – A British version of the What's My Line? , game show, on BBC (Like its American counterpart, it became one of the top-rated programs for the rest of the decade and made a celebrity of its host, Eamonn Andrews )
August 3 - The Ad-Libbers , comedy sketch game show, on CBS. (1951)
September 3 – The first long-running soap opera , Search for Tomorrow , on CBS (1951–1986)
September 11 - The Bill Goodwin Show , a talk/variety program on NBC. (1951-1952)[6]
September 24 – Love of Life on CBS (1951–1980)
October 15 – Situation comedy I Love Lucy , starring Lucille Ball with her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz , on CBS (1951–1957); produced on film in front of a studio audience, using three film cameras, instead of being broadcast live, and making Ball the world's first major female television star
Television version of Amos & Andy (1951–1953)
The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957), on NBC, starring Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
Ending during 1951
Births
Date
Name
Notability
January 7
Helen Worth
British actress (Coronation Street )
January 12
Kirstie Alley
Actress (Cheers , Veronica's Closet )
Rush Limbaugh
Radio talk show host & commentator
January 15
Charo
Actress, singer, guitarist
January 26
Walt Willey
Actor
January 30
Charles S. Dutton
Actor (Roc )
February 13
Ellen Bry
Actress (St. Elsewhere )
February 15
Jane Seymour
Actress (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman )
February 20
John Voldstad
Actor (Newhart )
February 16
William Katt
Actor (The Greatest American Hero )
February 20
John Voldstad
Actor (Newhart )
February 23
Patricia Richardson
Actress (Home Improvement )
February 24
Debra Jo Rupp
Actress (That '70s Show )
March 8
Deborah Harmon
Actress (Just the Ten of Us )
March 12
Caren Kaye
Actress
March 17
Kurt Russell
Actor (The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters )
March 19
Fred Berry
Actor (What's Happening!! ) (d. 2003)
April 13
Peter Davison
Actor (Doctor Who )
April 21
Tony Danza
Actor (Taxi , Who's the Boss? )
April 27
Paul O'Keefe
Actor (The Patty Duke Show )
April 29
Ellen Crawford
Actress (ER )
May 8
Deborah Harmon
Actress (Just the Ten of Us )
May 9
Alley Mills
Actress (The Wonder Years )
May 18
Denny Dillon
Actress and comedian (Saturday Night Live , Dream On )
May 25
Patti D'Arbanville
Actress (New York Undercover )
June 5
Ellen Foley
Singer and actress (Night Court )
June 13
Richard Thomas
Actor (The Waltons )
June 17
Joe Piscopo
Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live )
June 20
Tress Macneille
Voice actress (Dot Warner on Animaniacs )
June 26
Pamela Bellwood
Actress (Dynasty )
Robert Davi
Actor (Profiler )
June 27
Julia Duffy
Actress (Newhart )
July 7
Roz Ryan
Actress (Amen , The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack )
July 10
Phyllis Smith
Actress (The Office )
July 12
Cheryl Ladd
Actress (Charlie's Angels )
Jamey Sheridan
Actor (Homeland )
July 17
Lucie Arnaz
Actress (Here's Lucy ), daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
July 21
Robin Williams
Actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy ) (d. 2014)
July 23
Edie McClurg
Actress (The Hogan Family )
July 24
Lynda Carter
Actress (Wonder Woman )
July 31
Barry Van Dyke
Actor (Airwolf , Diagnosis: Murder ), son of Dick Van Dyke
August 3
Jay North
Actor (Dennis the Menace )
August 5
Chip Fields
Actress (Good Times )
August 6
Catherine Hicks
Actress (Annie Camden on 7th Heaven )
August 14
Carl Lumbly
Actor (Cagney and Lacey , Alias )
August 17
Robert Joy
Canadian actor (CSI: NY )
August 19
Randi Oakes
Actress and model (CHiPs )
September 2
Mark Harmon
Actor (NCIS )
September 5
Michael Keaton
Actor
September 9
Tom Wopat
Actor (The Dukes of Hazard )
September 12
Joe Pantoliano
Actor
September 13
Jean Smart
Actress (Designing Women )
September 25
Mark Hamill
Actor (Avatar: The Last Airbender , Regular Show )
October 18
Pam Dawber
Actress (Mork & Mindy )
October 30
Harry Hamlin
Actor (L.A. Law )
November 6
Nigel Havers
English actor (Don't Wait Up )
November 9
Lou Ferrigno
Actor (The Incredible Hulk )
November 16
Miguel Sandoval
Actor (Medium )
November 17
Stephen Root
Actor (NewsRadio , King of the Hill )
November 20
Rodger Bumpass
Actor (Squidward Tentacles on SpongeBob SquarePants )
December 1
Treat Williams
Actor (Everwood )
December 4
Patricia Wettig
Actress (thirtysomething , Brothers & Sisters )
December 5
Morgan Brittany
Actress (Dallas )
References
^ nl:Nederlandse Televisie Stichting (Dutch language) Retrieved date on October 3, 2017.
^ en:DR1 Retrieved date on October 3, 2017.
^ Watch Mr. Wizard at Encyclopedia of Television
^ a b Erickson, Hal (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008 . McFarland. p. 189. ISBN 9780786438280 . Retrieved 19 October 2017 .
^ a b 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 (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 98. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8 .
^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television . Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8 .