1962 in television

For the American TV schedule, see: 1962-63 American network television schedule.

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 died 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 23 – First publicly available live transatlantic television broadcast via Telstar 1.
• 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

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