1974 in American television
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This is a list of American television-related events in 1974.
Events
Date | Event | Ref. |
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January 31 | CBS broadcasts The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ novel of the same name. It followed the 110-year life of a former slave from the American Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. the title role was portrayed by Cicely Tyson. | |
February 1 | KIVI-TV signs-on the air, giving the Boise market its first full-time ABC affiliate. | |
February 8 | After 20 years and 5,195 episodes, The Secret Storm ends its run on CBS’s daytime schedule. Ten days later, the show is replaced by Tattletales, a Bert Convy-hosted game show that is devoted to celebrity gossip. | |
March 11 | The children’s special Free to Be… You and Me, produced by comedic actress Marlo Thomas, airs on ABC. | |
March 13 | The Execution of Private Slovik airs on NBC. It was a made-for-TV film that told the story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion after the American Civil War. | |
March 18 | CBS's cancellation of Here's Lucy marks the end of the television reign of Lucille Ball, which lasted 23 consecutive years beginning with the 1951 premiere of I Love Lucy. | |
April 5 | The Dean Martin Show ends its run on NBC after 264 hour-long episodes. NBC would continue to air periodic editions of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast over the next 10 years. | |
April 26 | KPVI signs-on the air, giving the Idaho Falls market its first full-time ABC affiliate. | |
August 8 | U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his pending resignation live on television, effective at 12 Noon EDT the next day, at which time Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as President. | |
WEVU (now WZVN-TV) signs-on the air, giving the Fort Myers market its first full-time ABC affiliate. | ||
September 10 | Born Innocent, a controversial film starring Linda Blair, airs on NBC. 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. | |
October 6 | Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British sketch comedy series that aired its final episode this year, is first shown on American television when PBS member station KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas airs it at 10 p.m. Central Daylight Time.[1][2] | |
November 28 | For the fourth time this year, ABC aligns with a new station as WOPC-TV in Altoona, Pennsylvania brings full-time ABC service to the Altoona-State College market. WOPC-TV struggles for viewers and goes dark in 1982; ABC would return to Altoona (and channel 23) in 1988 when Fox affiliate WWPC-TV (then a satellite of WWCP-TV in Johnstown) breaks from its simulcast with WWCP-TV. |
Other notable events
- On the CBS soap opera Love of Life, Meg Dale (Tudi Wiggins) calls her son Ben (Christopher Reeve) a "bastard", the first time a swear word was spoken on American daytime television.
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
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August 5 | Bakersfield, California | KJTV | 17 | ABC | CBS | |
October 6 | Monroe, Louisiana | KNOE-TV | 8 | CBS (primary) NBC (secondary) |
CBS (exclusive) | |
West Monroe/Monroe, Louisiana | KLAA | 14 | Independent | NBC | Was temporarily off the air from 1971 to 1974 | |
Unknown date | Augusta, Georgia | WJBF-TV | 6 | ABC (primary) NBC (secondary) |
ABC (exclusive) | |
WRDW-TV | 12 | CBS (primary) NBC (secondary) |
CBS (exclusive) |
Station closures
Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Sign-on date | Notes |
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April 30 | Roanoke, Virginia | WRFT-TV | 27 | ABC | March 4, 1966 | |
Unknown date | Chicago, Illinois | WXXW | 20 | PBS | Would return to the air in February 1983 as WYCC | |
Pago Pago, American Samoa | KVZK-10 | 10 | unknown | October 5, 1964 | ||
KVZK-12 | 12 |
Television shows
Debuting this year
- January 7
- How to Survive a Marriage on NBC daytime in a 90-minute special
- Jackpot! on NBC (1974–75)
- January 15 - Happy Days on ABC (1974–84)
- February 1 - Good Times (a spinoff of Maude) on CBS (1974–79)
- February 10 - Apple's Way on CBS (1974–75)
- February 12 - Bagpuss (February 12-May 7)
- February 18 - Tattletales on CBS daytime (1974–78, 1982–84)
- March 3 - Nova on PBS (1974–present)
- May 6 - The $10,000 Pyramid on ABC daytime
- July 1
- High Rollers on NBC (197-76, 1978–80)
- Winning Streak on NBC daytime
- July 4 - Bicentennial Minute on CBS (July 4, 1974 – December 31, 1976)
- July 29 - Name That Tune on NBC daytime and in nighttime syndication
- September 4 - That's My Mama on CBS (1974–75)
- September 7
- Land of the Lost (1974–77 on NBC)[3]
- Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974–76 on CBS)
- Shazam! (1974–77 on CBS)
- Hong Kong Phooey (1974 on ABC)
- September 9
- Rhonda (1974-78 on CBS)
- Dinah! (1974-80 in syndication)
- The $25,000 Pyramid in syndication
- September 11 - Little House on the Prairie (1974–83) on NBC
- September 12 - Harry O on ABC (1974–76)
- September 13
- Chico and the Man (1974–78) on NBC
- The Rockford Files (1974–80) on NBC
- Police Woman (1974–78 on NBC)
- The Texas Wheelers (1974 on ABC)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–75 on ABC)
- Planet of the Apes (1974 on CBS)
- September 14
- The New Land (1974 on ABC)
- Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974-75 on CBS)
- September 21
- Nakia (1974 on ABC)
- December 23 on ABC daytime
Ending this year
- January 11
- Love, American Style (1969–74)
- Room 222 (1969-1974)
- February 8 - The Secret Storm (1954–74)
- March 8 -- The Brady Bunch (1969–74)
- March 11 - The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971–74)
- Mach 5 - Lotsa Luck (1973–74)
- March 18 - Here's Lucy (1968–74)
- March 23 - The Partridge Family (1970–74)
- March 24 - The Dean Martin Show (1965–74)
- May 7 - Bagpuss (1974)
- May 29 - The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1971–74)
- June 27
- Audubon Wildlife Theatre (1968–74)
- The Flip Wilson Show (1970–74)
- September 8 - The F.B.I. (1965–74)
- October 4 - The Texas Wheelers (1974)
- October 12 - Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–74)
- October 19 - The New Land (1974)
- December 20 - The Newlywed Game (1966–74)
- December 28 - Nakia (1974)
Births
Deaths
See also
References
- ^ Young, Bill. "Monty Python: 1969-2014". Tellyspotting: Your Brit TV Pub. KERA. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^ McCall, Douglas (2014). Monty Python: a chronology, 1969-2012 (Second ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 36. ISBN 0-7864-7811X
- ^ The NBC Saturday Morning Preview Revue (1974).
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