1975 in television

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Popular Television Shows
4 Ending this year
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

January 6 - Another World becomes the first American soap opera to start airing hour-long telecasts.
January 23 - Barney Miller debuts on ABC.
March 1 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia
April 18 - Alice Cooper's first television special, Welcome To My Nightmare: The Making Of A Record Album airs
April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show.
May 24 - In the UK, Independent Television programmes are blacked out by a strike.
November 3 - Good Morning America premieres with co-anchors David Hartman and Nancy Dussault.
Andy Kaufman makes his debut on Saturday Night Live, lip syncing portions of the theme to Mighty Mouse.
Fred Silverman becomes the head of ABC Entertainment. Initiating an era of what is disparagingly called "T&A" or "jiggle television", his programming choices result in ABC achieving ratings dominance.

Fawlty Towers premieres on the BBC
The Jeffersons, a spinoff of All in the Family, premieres on CBS (1975-1985)
One Day at a Time, produced by Norman Lear, premieres on CBS (1975-1984)
Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC (1975-present)
Welcome Back, Kotter premieres on ABC (1975-1979)
Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC's daytime lineup.

All In The Family (1971-1979)
All My Children (1970-present)
Barnaby Jones (1973-1980)
The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978)
The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978)
Chico and the Man (1974-1978)
Dr Who (1963-1989)
Good Times (1974-1979)
Happy Days (1974-1984)
Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980)
Ironside (1967-1975)
Kojak (1973-1978)
Land of the Lost (1974-1977)
Lawrence Welk Show (1955-1982)
Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983)
Marcus Welby, M.D (1969-1976)
Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
Maude (1972-1978)
Rockford Files (1974-1980)
Sanford & Son (1972-1977)
Sesame Street (1969-present)
Six Million Dollar Man (1974-1978)
The Tonight Show (1954-present)
The Waltons (1972-1981)
The Wonderful World of Disney (1954-1983)

Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
Ironside (1967-1975)
Jeopardy (1964-1975, to be revived in 1984)
Kung Fu (1972-1975)
Mannix (1967-1975)
The Odd Couple (1970-1975)