1962 in television

For the American TV schedule, see: 1962–63 United States network television schedule.

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The year 1962 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable events of that year.

Events

• January 1
  • The 1962 Rose Bowl game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast color television broadcast of a college football game in the United States.
  • NBC introduces the Laramie Peacock before a midnight showing of Laramie.
• March 24 – Boxer Benny Kid Paret falls unconscious at the hands of fellow boxer Emile Griffith during a televised boxing match officiated by Ruby Goldstein at Madison Square Garden. Paret dies ten days later.
• April 16 – Walter Cronkite succeeds Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News; he will remain so for the next 19 years.
• May 27 - General Electric Theater airs it last episode on CBS.
• July 6 - Gay Byrne presents the first edition of The Late Late Show on RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televised talk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
• July 23 – First publicly available live transatlantic television broadcast via Telstar 1.
• August 24 - Indonesia begins the first television broadcast with the newly inaugurated TVRI (Televisi Republik Indonesia, the Television Channel of Indonesia). TVRI is the first national television network in Indonesia before 1989. The establishment of TVRI marked the Day of Indonesian National Television.
• September 1 – Channel Television, the ITV franchise for the Channel Islands, goes on air.
• September 14 – Wales West and North Television (Teledu Cymru) goes on air to the North and West Wales region, extending ITV to the whole of the UK.
• Broadcast of Sábados Alegres begins, program later becomes Sábados Gigantes.
• Cigarette adverts are banned from children's programmes in the UK. Actors in these adverts now have to be over 21, and connection to social success is no longer allowed. The tobacco companies also start a policy of not advertising before 9pm.
• The U.S. All-Channel Receiver Act requires UHF tuners to be on all consumer sets (channels 14 through 83), as well as VHF.
• Zenith markets its first color TV, a 21" round screen set.

Programs/Programmes

• American Bandstand (1952–1989)
• Armchair Theatre (UK) (1956–1968)
• As the World Turns (1956–2010)
• Ben Casey (1961–1966)
• Blue Peter (UK) (1958–present)
• Bonanza (1959–1973)
• Bozo the Clown (1949–present)
• Candid Camera (1948–present)
• Captain Kangaroo (1955–1984)
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995)
• Coronation Street (UK) (1960–present)
• Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955–1976)
• Face the Nation (1954–present)
• Four Corners (Australia) (1961–present)
• Grandstand (UK) (1958–2007)
• Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
• Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963)
• I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
• It's Academic (1961–present)
• Juke Box Jury (1959–1967, 1979, 1989–1990)
• Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
• Love of Life (1951–1980)
• Meet the Press (1947–present)
• Mister Ed (1961–1966)
• My Three Sons (1960–1972)
• Opportunity Knocks (UK) (1956–1978)
• Panorama (UK) (1953–present)
• Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986)
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966)
• The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
• The Avengers (UK) (1961–1969)
• The Bell Telephone Hour (1959–1968)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
• The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966)
• The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
• The Edge of Night (1956–1984)
• The Flintstones (1960–1966)
• The Fulton Sheen Program (1961–1968)
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953–1983)
• The Guiding Light (1952–2009)
• The Jack Benny Show (1950–1965)
• The Lawrence Welk Show (1955–1982)
• The Lucy Show (1962–1968) (CBS)
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1981)
• The Milton Berle Show (1954–1967)
• The Price Is Right (1956–1965)
• The Secret Storm (1954–1974)
• The Sky at Night (UK) (1957–present)
• The Today Show (1952–present)
• The Tonight Show (1954–present)
• The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
• The Voice of Firestone (1949–1963)
• This Is Your Life (UK) (1955–2003)
• Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961–1969)
• What the Papers Say (UK) (1956–present)
• What's My Line (1950–1967)
• Zoo Quest (UK) (1954–1964)

Debuts

• January 2 – Z-Cars (UK) on BBC Television (1962–1978)
• April 6 – Little Blue Light (Голубой огонёк, Goluboy ogonyok) in the Soviet Union (1962–present)
• April 17 – Brothers in Law (UK) on BBC Television (1962)
• July 6 – The Late Late Show (Ireland) on RTÉ (1962–present)
• September 19 – The Virginian on NBC, beginning a nine-year run, and is the first western to air in 90-minute installments (1962–1971)
• September 23 – The Jetsons on ABC (1962–1963, 1984–1985, 1987); the first program to air in color on the network
• September 26 – The Beverly Hillbillies premieres on CBS (1962–1971)
• October 1 – The Lucy Show on CBS (1962–1968); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC (1962–1992); Discovery on ABC (1962–1971)
• October 2 – Combat! on ABC (1962–1967)
• October 4 – The Saint (UK) on ITV (1962–1969)
• October 11 – McHale's Navy on ABC (1962–1966)
• December 31 – Match Game on NBC (1962–1969, 1973–1984, 1990–1991, 1998–1999)
• To Tell the Truth on CTV (1962–1964)

Ending this year

Date	Show	Debut
March 25	Bus Stop	1961
September 28	The Brighter Day	1954
Unknown	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	1955
	The Huckleberry Hound Show	1958
	The Quick Draw McGraw Show	1959

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 5	Suzy Amis	Actress
January 17	Jim Carrey	Actor and comedian (In Living Color)
January 28	Creflo Dollar	American televangelist
February 17	Lou Diamond Phillips	Actor (Longmire)
February 27	Adam Baldwin	Actor (Chuck)
March 18	Thomas Ian Griffith	Actor (Another World)
March 21	Matthew Broderick	Actor (2-time host of Saturday Night Live)
	Rosie O'Donnell	Actress, comedian, talk show host (The Rosie O'Donnell Show)
May 24	Gene Anthony Ray	Actor, dancer, choreographer (Fame) (died 2003)
May 28	Michelle Collins	Actress (EastEnders, Coronation Street)
June 7	Simon Day	English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
June 19	Paula Abdul	Singer, choreographer, American Idol judge
July 8	Rob Burnett	Executive producer of Late Show with David Letterman
July 13	Tom Kenny	Voice actor (voice of SpongeBob on SpongeBob SquarePants)
July 19	Anthony Edwards	Actor (Dr. Mark Greene on ER)
July 31	Wesley Snipes	Actor
August 29	Ian James Corlett	Voice actor
August 31	Dee Bradley Baker
September 11	Kristy McNichol	Actress (Empty Nest)
September 15	Scott McNeil	Voice actor
September 26	Melissa Sue Anderson	Actress (Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie)
October 1	Esai Morales	Actor (NYPD Blue)
October 2	Jeff Bennett	Voice actor
October 13	Kelly Preston	Actress
November 11	Demi Moore	Actress (General Hospital)
November 19	Jodie Foster	Actress and director
November 28	Jon Stewart	Comedian and host (The Daily Show)
December 6	Janine Turner	Actress (Northern Exposure)
December 9	Felicity Huffman	Actress (Desperate Housewives)

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
January 13	Ernie Kovacs	42	Comic actor, director, writer, composer
February 8	Myron McCormick	54	Stage actor, radio actor and film actor
February 27	Willie Best	45	Actor
March 1	Roscoe Ates	67
June 19	Will Wright	68
August 5	Marilyn Monroe	36	Iconic sex symbol, actress
October 2	Frank Lovejoy	50	Actor
October 26	Louise Beavers	60	Actress
December 16	Lew Landers	61	Director
December 17	Thomas Mitchell	70	Actor