1977 in American television

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1976–77 United States network television schedule
1977–78 United States network television schedule
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1977 advertisement for a 50-inch (130 cm) Sega-Vision television.

This is a list of American television-related events in 1977.

Events

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Date Event
January 3 Holly Hallstrom becomes the third model on the CBS game show The Price Is Right along with Janice Pennington and Dian Parkinson. This lineup would remain unchanged for the next thirteen years until Kathleen Bradley joined in 1990.
January 15 Bill Murray joins the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live, replacing Chevy Chase who left the previous year.
January 30 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, based on The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book series, premieres on ABC; Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy star as Frank and Joe Hardy, and Pamela Sue Martin stars as Nancy Drew. The series at first alternated between the two characters, with The Brady Bunch Hour airing sporadically.
February 4 American Bandstand celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark and telecast by ABC. An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry, Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman, Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels, Doc Severinsen, Les McCann, Donald Byrd, Chuck Mangione and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven."
February 27 Fed up with excessive violence and distorted images of sex on TV, the Reverend Donald Wildmon declares "Turn the Television Off Week." He is largely ignored.
March 1 The CBS game show Match Game is named the #1 rated game show on television for the fifth year in a row.
March 4 Freddie Prinze makes his final appearance on the NBC sitcom Chico and the Man. Prinze had actually taped the episode in question a mere hours before he fatally shot himself on January 28, 1977.
March 7 Second Chance, the forerunner to Press Your Luck, premieres on ABC.
March 11 Sesame Street broadcasts its 1,000th episode.
March 15 Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti are seen in "La bohème" on PBS and heard in stereo on local (mostly NPR) stations in the first live "simulcast" from the Met.
March 19 The series finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show is broadcast on CBS.
March 27 In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ABC affiliate WITI and CBS affiliate WISN-TV swap affiliations, reversing a swap that took place in 1961.[1][2]
March 30 Esther Rolle departs the CBS sitcom Good Times shortly after the conclusion of the two-part fourth-season finale, "Love Has a Spot On Its Lung." due to the dismissal of John Amos (who portrayed her on-screen husband James Evans) and the stereotypical behavior of its de facto star Jimmie Walker (who portrayed her son J.J. Evans). Rolle does not return until the sixth and final season in September 1978.
April 22 Cleveland's CBS station WJW-TV changes its name to WJKW-TV.
June 6 Lisa Peluso makes her first appearance on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Wendy Wilkins, a role she would play until December 1985.
June 27 In San Diego, California, ABC, angered over the forced loss of their affiliation from XETV in nearby Tijuana, Mexico in 1973, moves from the station which forced the change, KCST-TV, to NBC affiliate KGTV. KCST-TV assumes KGTV's former NBC affiliation and is now KNSD, an NBC O&O.
August 14 NBC affiliate WRDU-TV changes its call sign to WPTF-TV, following Durham Life's purchase of the station.
August 16 Television stations nationwide interrupt regular programming following news of the death of Elvis Presley. As a result, Elvis in Concert airs on CBS on October 3 that year to bad reviews.
September 5 In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ABC affiliate WRBT (now WVLA-TV) and NBC affiliate WBRZ-TV swap affiliations. WBRZ-TV makes its move in search for stronger programming (ABC is, at the time, the nation's #1 rated television network, while NBC is in last place). The move is a precursor to similar events that will take place in the course of the next few years.
September 14 A tube top-clad woman named Yolanda Bowsley is called into Contestants' Row on the CBS game show The Price Is Right, and while running down her breasts pop out of her shirt. The incident was censored with a large blue bar but it is still remembered today.
Cheryl Ladd is introduced as Kris Munroe, the younger sister of former Angel Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) in the second season premiere of Charlie's Angels.
September 20 The third part of the three-part fifth season premiere of Happy Days airs on ABC. The episode is highlighted by a scene in which Fonzie literally jumps over a shark while on water-skis.
September 21 Eleven-year old Janet Jackson joins the cast of the CBS sitcom Good Times for its final two seasons as Penny Gordon, an upstairs neighbor who is abused by her biological mother (Chip Fields), later adopted by Willona (Ja'Net DuBois), in the four-part season opener "The Evans Get Involved". Comedian Johnny Brown, who recurred as the building superintendent Bookman from Seasons 2 to 4, also joins the main cast.
September 24 Marla Gibbs joins the cast of the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons as a series regular in the fourth season as fan-favorite Florence Johnston. Zara Cully, who portrayed Mother Jefferson, appears in only three episodes that season, prior to her death at age 86 in February 1978.
October 23 CBS affiliates WTEN in Albany, New York and WCDC in Adams, Massachusetts swap affiliations with ABC affiliate WAST after WTEN/WCDC's incoming owners Knight-Ridder sign an affiliation deal for the station with ABC.
October 24 A new Peanuts special, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, airs on CBS. It shows and names "Heather", the Little Red-Haired Girl, thereupon ending the 'mystery'.
November 6 KTVZ in Bend, Oregon signs-on as an NBC affiliate. Bend is technically still part of the Portland DMA at the time, but in 1981, it becomes its own television market.
November 30 CBS commentator Eric Sevareid bade farewell in his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, after 48 years at CBS News.
December 2 Billy Crystal sets a winner's circle record by getting the contestant to the top of the pyramid in 26 seconds on ABC's The $20,000 Pyramid. The record still stands today.
December 11 In Huntsville, Alabama, NBC affiliate WAAY-TV swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WYUR in search for stronger programming (at the time, NBC is in last place among the three major networks, and ABC is in first place).
December 17 Miskel Spillman, guest hosts an episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Spillman, who is at the time, an 80-year-old German immigrant and grandmother from New Orleans, won the only "Anyone Can Host" contest. She is to date, the only non-celebrity to host an episode of SNL. She was also, the oldest host in SNL's history until 88-year-old Betty White hosted on May 8, 2010. It is also in this episode that musical guest Elvis Costello halted his band the Attractions seven seconds into their scheduled performance of the song "Less Than Zero" in favor of "Radio Radio", which was a then unreleased song that was critical of mainstream broadcasting.

Programs

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Debuting this year

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Date Title Network
January 3 Lovers and Friends NBC
Shoot for the Stars
January 10 Circus of the Stars CBS
January 17 Busting Loose
January 30 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries ABC
January 31 The Andros Targets CBS
February 2 Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected NBC
February 18 Hunter CBS
March 7 Second Chance ABC
March 15 Eight Is Enough
Three's Company
March 20 Loves Me, Loves Me Not CBS
March 23 How Do You Like Your Eggs? QUBE
April 1 This Week in Baseball Syndication
May 7 Quark NBC
June 13 It's Anybody's Guess
July 6 Comedy Time
July 18 The Better Sex ABC
August 3 The Kallikaks NBC
September 5 The Fitzpatricks CBS
September 10 Baggy Pants and the Nitwits NBC
CB Bears
I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali
The New Archie and Sabrina Hour
The Red Hand Gang
Search and Rescue
Space Sentinels
Thunder
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics ABC
The Skatebirds CBS
Space Academy
September 12 The Betty White Show
Young Dan'l Boone
Lucan ABC
September 13 Soap
Mulligan's Stew NBC
The Richard Pryor Show
September 14 Inside the NFL HBO
September 15 Carter Country ABC
CHiPs NBC
September 16 Sanford Arms
Logan's Run CBS
September 17 Operation Petticoat ABC
September 19 The San Pedro Beach Bums ABC
The Amazing Spider-Man CBS
September 20 Lou Grant CBS
September 21 The Oregon Trail NBC
September 22 Man from Atlantis
September 24 The Love Boat ABC
October 1 We've Got Each Other CBS
October 3 Knockout NBC
To Say the Least
October 9 On Our Own CBS
October 27 James at 15 NBC
December 1 Pinwheel Nickelodeon

Resuming this year

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Title Final aired Previous network New title Returning network Date of return
The Mickey Mouse Club 1959 ABC The New Mickey Mouse Club Syndication January 17

Ending this year

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Date Title Debut
January 7 New Howdy Doody Show 1976
January 26 The Practice
March 3 The McLean Stevenson Show
March 13 Phyllis 1975
March 18 Sanford and Son 1972
March 19 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970
March 30 The Streets of San Francisco 1972
April 13 Sirota's Court 1976
April 15 The Electric Company 1971
April 17 McCloud 1970
April 24 McMillan & Wife 1971
April 27 Loves Me, Loves Me Not 1977
May 16 The Andros Targets
May 27 Hunter
July 30 The Feather and Father Gang 1976
August 24 Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected 1977
August 31 The Kallikaks
September 1 Comedy Time
September 2 Let's Make a Deal 1971
October 4 The Richard Pryor Show 1977
October 14 Sanford Arms
November 16 Busting Loose
November 30 The Oregon Trail
December 3 Emergency! 1972
December 13 Mulligan's Stew 1977
December 19 The San Pedro Beach Bums
December 30 Storybook Squares 1969

Changing networks

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Show Moved from Moved to
The Bionic Woman ABC NBC
Wonder Woman CBS
The Tony Randall Show
Tattletales CBS Syndication
The Mickey Mouse Club ABC Syndication

Made-for-TV movies

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Debut Name Network
May 13 The San Pedro Bums ABC
October 10[3] Killer on Board NBC
November 10 The Incredible Hulk CBS
November 23 The Last of the Mohicans NBC
November 26 The Hobbit NBC
December 11 It Happened One Christmas ABC

Miniseries

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Debut Name Network
January 23 Roots ABC
April 3 Jesus of Nazareth NBC

Networks and services

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Launches

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Network Type Launch date Notes Source
CBN Satellite Channel Satellite television April 29
Tri-State Christian Television Cable television May 20
Madison Square Garden Sports Network Cable television September 22

Conversions and rebrandings

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There are no conversions and rebrandings for Cable and satellite television channels in this year.

Closures

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There are no closures for Cable and satellite television channels in this year.

Television stations

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Sign-ons

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Date City of License/Market Station Channel Affiliation Notes/Ref.
January 17 Medford, Oregon KSYS 8 PBS
March 6 Plattsburgh, New York WCFE-TV 57
April Corpus Christi, Texas KORO 28 Spanish International Network Now a Univision affiliate
April 10 Fresno, California KMTF 18 PBS
May 1 Mason City, Iowa KYIN 24 Part of Iowa Public Television
June 30 Long Beach/Los Angeles, California KSCI 18 Independent
September 10 South Bend, Indiana WHME 46
October 17 Boston, Massachusetts WXNE-TV 25
October 21 Rock Springs, Wyoming KTUX 13 CBS
November 6 Bend, Oregon KTVZ 21 NBC
December 1 New Haven, Connecticut WEDY 65 PBS Part of Connecticut Public Television
December 8 Fayetteville, Arkansas KTVP 29 CBS
December 15 Park Falls/Superior, Wisconsin
(Duluth, Minnesota) 		WLEF-TV 36 PBS Part of Wisconsin Public Television
December 21 Fort Wayne, Indiana WFFT-TV 55 Independent
December 28 Sheridan, Wyoming KSGW-TV 12 NBC (primary)
CBS (secondary) 		Satellite of KOTA-TV/Rapid City, South Dakota
Unknown New York City W60AI 60 Independent Signed on as a translator of WWHT

Network affiliation changes

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Date City of License/Market Station Channel Old affiliation New affiliation Notes/Ref.
March 27 Milwaukee, Wisconsin WISN-TV 12 CBS ABC
WITI 6 ABC CBS
June 27 San Diego, California KCST-TV 39 ABC NBC These affiliation changes were part of ABC's retaliation for KCST-TV previously forcing the ABC affiliation to move to that station from XETV in nearby Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, four years earlier.
KGTV 10 NBC ABC
September 5 Baton Rouge, Louisiana WBRZ-TV 2 NBC ABC
WRBT 33 ABC NBC
October 23 Adams, Massachusetts WCDC-TV 19 ABC CBS WCDC-TV is a satellite of WTEN/Albany, New York
Albany, New York WTEN 10
December 11 Huntsville, Alabama WAAY-TV 31 NBC ABC
WYUR 48 ABC NBC

Station closures

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Date City of License/Market Station Channel Affiliation Notes/Ref.
May 4 Fort Dodge, Iowa KVFD-TV 21 NBC November 23, 1953

Births

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Date Name Notability
January 7 Dustin Diamond Actor (Saved by the Bell) (died 2021)
Daniela Sea Actor
Cecilia Vega American journalist
January 8 Amber Benson Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and singer
January 18 Lloyd Ahlquist American internet personality
January 19 Benjamin Ayres Canadian actor (Saving Hope)
January 21 Jerry Trainor Actor (Drake & Josh, iCarly, Wendell & Vinnie, T.U.F.F. Puppy, Bunsen Is a Beast)
January 26 Vince Carter NBA basketball player
January 28 Joey Fatone Singer and actor
January 29 Justin Hartley Actor (Passions, Smallville, The Young and the Restless, This Is Us)
Sam Jaeger Actor (Parenthood)
January 31 Bobby Moynihan Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, We Bare Bears, DuckTales, Me, Myself & I)
Kerry Washington Actress (Scandal)
February 2 Michael Koman Writer
Shakira Colombian singer (Dancing with Myself, The Voice)[4]
February 3 Maitland Ward Actress (The Bold and the Beautiful, Boy Meets World)
February 6 Josh Stewart Actor
February 9 A. J. Buckley Irish-born Canadian actor (CSI: NY)
February 14 Jim Jefferies Actor and comedian
February 16 Paul Brittain Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
February 18 Ike Barinholtz Actor (Mad TV, The Mindy Project)
Kristoffer Polaha Actor
February 20 Stephon Marbury NBA basketball player
February 21 Steve Francis NBA basketball player
February 26 Greg Rikaart Actor (The Young and the Restless)
March 3 Buddy Valastro Baker
March 7 Mark Taylor Actor
Heather McComb Actress
March 8 Alison Becker Actress (Mayne Street, Parks and Recreation)
James Van Der Beek Actor (Dawson's Creek)
Tom Brady Film director
March 9 Rupert Evans Actor
March 10 Jeff Branson Actor (The Young and the Restless, All My Children, Guiding Light)
Bree Turner Actress (Undressed, Grimm)
March 15 Brian Tee Actor (Chicago Med)
March 17 Jorma Taccone Actor
March 23 Joanna Page Welsh actress (Gavin & Stacey, Poppy Cat, Q Pootle 5)
March 24 Jessica Chastain Actress
March 26 Bianca Kajlich Actress (Rules of Engagement, Undateable)
March 27 Malia Jones Model
March 28 Annie Wersching Actress (General Hospital, 24, Bosch, The Vampire Diaries) (died 2023)
March 31 Erica Tazel Actress
April 1 Jon Gosselin American former television personality
April 6 Teddy Sears Actor (Raising the Bar, American Horror Story, Masters of Sex, The Flash)
April 10 Stephanie Sheh Voice actress (Three Delivery, Peter Rabbit, The Legend of Korra)
April 12 Jordana Spiro Actress (The Huntress, My Boys, The Mob Doctor)
Sarah Jane Morris Actress (Brothers & Sisters)
April 14 Sarah Michelle Gellar Actress (Swans Crossing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ringer, The Crazy Ones)
Rob McElhenney Actor (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
April 18 Adam Sinclair Actor
April 23 Eric Edelstein Actor (Shameless, Monsters vs. Aliens, Clarence, We Bare Bears)
Kal Penn Actor (House, Designated Survivor)
John Oliver Actor
John Cena Professional wrestler and actor
April 24 Eric Balfour Actor (24, Haven) and singer
Rebecca Mader Actress (Justice, Lost, Once Upon a Time)
April 25 Manolo Cardona Actor
April 26 Jason Earles Actor (Hannah Montana, Kickin' It, Hotel Du Loone)
McKenzie Westmore Actress (Passions, All My Children)
Tom Welling Actor (Smallville)
Leonard Earl Howze Actor
April 28 Zeb Wells Writer
April 29 Brandon McMillan American television personality
April 30 Alexandra Holden Actress
May 2 Jenna von Oÿ Actress (Blossom)
May 3 Jeffrey Garcia Voice actor (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Back at the Barnyard, Planet Sheen)
May 10 Todd Lowe Actor (Gilmore Girls, True Blood)
May 12 Rebecca Herbst Actress (Days of Our Lives, General Hospital)
Rachel Wilson Canadian actress (Heather on Total Drama)
May 13 Neil Hopkins Actor (Lost)
Brian Thomas Smith Actor
Samantha Morton Actress
May 16 Adam MacDonald Actor
Lynn Collins Actress
May 20 Matt Czuchry Actor (Gilmore Girls, The Good Wife)
May 23 Heather Wahlquist Actress
Lisa Joy Screenwriter
Richard Ayoade English actor (Gadget Man, Strange Hill High, Apple & Onion)
May 27 Shanola Hampton Actress
May 28 Elisabeth Hasselbeck Talk show host
Brian Friedman Dancer
May 29 Rory Albanese Writer
May 31 Eric Christian Olsen Actor (NCIS: Los Angeles, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil)
June 1 Sarah Wayne Callies Actress (Prison Break, The Walking Dead, Colony)
Danielle Harris Actress (The Wild Thornberrys, That's Life, Father of the Pride)
June 2 Zachary Quinto Actor (Heroes, American Horror Story)
AJ Styles Pro wrestler
June 5 Navi Rawat Actress (The O.C., Numb3rs)
Liza Weil Actress (Gilmore Girls, How to Get Away with Murder)
June 6 Amber Nash American actress
June 8 Kanye West American rapper
June 11 Ryan Dunn American stunt performer (Jackass, Viva La Bam) (died 2011)
June 14 Sullivan Stapleton Australian actor (Blindspot)
June 17 Lauren Pritchard Comic actress (Mad TV)
June 20 Amos Lee Singer
June 28 Bob Smiley Writer
Hua Hsu Writer
June 29 Zuleikha Robinson British actress (Lost, Rome) and singer
June 30 Colton Dunn Comedian, actor and writer (Superstore)
July 1 Liv Tyler Actress (The Leftovers)
July 2 John Paesano Composer
July 4 Stephen Rannazzisi Actor
July 7 Jessica Chobot Host
July 8 Milo Ventimiglia Actor (Gilmore Girls, Heroes, This Is Us)
July 12 Steve Howey Actor (Reba, Shameless)
July 13 Ashley Scott Actress (Dark Angel, Birds of Prey, Jericho)
Kari Wahlgren Voice actress (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Naruto, Ben 10, Legion of Super Heroes, The Fairly OddParents)
July 15 Lana Parrilla Actress (Spin City, Boomtown, Windfall, Swingtown, Miami Medical, Once Upon a Time)
July 16 Raney Shockne Composer
July 18 Kelly Reilly British actress (Black Box, True Detective, Under Suspicion)
Luis Moncada Actor
July 19 Gennifer Hutchison Writer
Erin Cummings Actress
July 23 Shane McRae Actor
July 26 Tony Sampson Canadian voice actor (Eddy on Ed, Edd n Eddy)
July 27 Jason Zimbler Actor (Clarissa Explains It All)
Rich Blomquist Actor
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Actor
July 29 Rodney Jerkins Rapper
July 30 Jaime Pressly Actress (My Name Is Earl, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Mom)
Mike Seal Actor
August 2 Edward Furlong Actor (CSI: NY)
Artemis Pebdani Actress
August 3 Tom Brady Quarterback in the NFL
August 6 Joe DeRosa Actor
August 8 Lindsay Sloane Actress (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
Michael Chernus Actor
August 11 Toby Chu American film composer
August 15 Nicole Paggi Actress (Hope & Faith)
August 17 Emily Schulman Actress (Small Wonder)
August 19 Callum Blue English actor (Smallville, Dead Like Me, The Tudors)
Brooke Mueller Actress
T. J. Holmes American journalist
August 25 Jonathan Togo Actor (CSI: Miami)
August 28 Adam Rayner English actor
August 30 Michael Gladis Actor
September 1 Adrienne Wilkinson Actress (Venice: The Series, Suspense)
September 2 Jimmy Smith Fighter
September 7 Steve Borst Writer
September 8 Nate Corddry Actor
September 11 Jackie Buscarino Voice actress (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe)
Ludacris Rapper and actor
Todd Williams Actor
September 15 Kenny Blank Actor (The Parent 'Hood, As Told by Ginger) and singer
Marisa Ramirez Actress
September 17 Jim Conroy Voice Actor (Celebrity Deathmatch, Kenny the Shark, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Jellystone!, The Cuphead Show!)
September 18 Barrett Foa Actor (NCIS: Los Angeles)
Sara Haines American television host
September 19 Erica Ash Actress (Mad TV, The Big Gay Sketch Show)
September 24 Elizabeth Bogush Actress (Titans, The Mountain)
Alexis DeJoria Racer
September 25 Dave Jeser Writer (Drawn Together)
Clea DuVall Actress
September 26 Sirena Irwin Voice actress (SpongeBob SquarePants, Stripperella, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Pig Goat Banana Cricket)
September 27 Mike Maronna Actor (The Adventures of Pete & Pete)
October 11 Matt Bomer Actor (Guiding Light, Tru Calling, Chuck, White Collar)
Rhett McLaughlin TV host
October 13 Paul Pierce NBA basketball player
Kiele Sanchez Actress (Married to the Kellys, Lost, Related, The Glades, Kingdom)
October 14 Agata Gotova Actress
October 17 Alimi Ballard Actor (Numb3rs, The Catch)
Jason Reitman Actor
October 20 Jennifer Hall Actress (Up All Night)
Sam Witwer Actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human)
October 26 Jon Heder Voice actor (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Pickle and Peanut, Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh)
Chaz Lamar Shepherd Actor (7th Heaven, The Game)
October 27 Mat Lucas Voice actor (Star Wars: Clone Wars)
October 29 Brendan Fehr Canadian actor (Roswell, CSI: Miami)
November 2 Gabriella Pession Actress
Jason Cerbone Actor
November 4 Liz Cackowski Actress
Lindsay Czarniak American sports anchor and reporter
November 10 Brittany Murphy Actress (Drexell's Class, King of the Hill) (d. 2009)
Lea Moreno Young Actress (Legacy, Brutally Normal, DAG)
November 14 Brian Dietzen Actors (NCIS)
November 15 Sean Murray
November 16 Gigi Edgley Australian actress (Farscape, The Secret Life of Us, Rescue Special Ops)
Maggie Gyllenhaal Actress, singer and sister of Jake Gyllenhaal
November 17 Scoot McNairy Actor
Mike Cernovich TV host
November 18 Miranda Raison British actress (MI-5, Spotless)
November 19 Reid Scott Actor (It's All Relative, My Boys, Motorcity, Veep)
Sanaa Hamri Director
November 20 Josh Turner Actor
November 24 Colin Hanks Actor
November 25 Jill Flint Actress (Royal Pains, The Night Shift)
November 27 Alex Wagner American journalist
November 30 Nelsan Ellis Actor (True Blood) (d. 2017)
December 1 Nate Torrence Actor (Motorcity, Hello Ladies, Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
Akiva Schaffer Actor
December 3 David Iserson Screenwriter
December 5 Matt Gutman American reporter
December 6 Lindsey Alley Actress (The Mickey Mouse Club, On the Patio)
December 7 Big Jay Oakerson Actor
December 10 Netfa Perry Actress (The Steve Harvey Show)
December 12 Colin White Canadian former professional ice hockey player
December 15 Geoff Stults Actor (7th Heaven)
December 17 Katheryn Winnick Canadian actress (Vikings)
December 24 Michael Raymond-James Actor (True Blood, Terriers, Once Upon a Time)
December 28 Michael Spears Actor
December 29 Katherine Moennig Actress (The L Word, Three Rivers, Ray Donovan)
December 30 Lucy Punch Actress (The Class, Ben and Kate)
December 31 Donald Trump Jr. Television presenter

Deaths

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Date Name Age Notability
January 28 Burt Mustin 92 Actor (Leave It to Beaver)
January 29 Freddie Prinze 22 Actor and comedian (Chico and the Man)
February 28 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson 71 Comedian (The Jack Benny Program)
March 27 Diana Hyland 41 Actress (The Fugitive, Peyton Place)
April 21 Gummo Marx 84 Actor
June 13 Matthew Garber 21 English actor (Mary Poppins)
June 14 Alan Reed 69 Actor (original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones)
August 16 Elvis Presley 42 Singer and actor (The Ed Sullivan Show)
August 17 Quincy Howe 76 Journalist and presidential debate moderator
August 19 Groucho Marx 86 Comedian, television host (You Bet Your Life)
August 22 Sebastian Cabot 59 Actor (Family Affair)
August 29 Jean Hagen 54 Actress (Make Room for Daddy)
October 14 Bing Crosby 74 Singer, actor, TV producer (Hogan's Heroes)

Television debuts

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "In Brief." Broadcasting, September 27, 1976, pg. 28. [1][permanent dead link‍] (the text incorrectly states that WISN-TV had been a CBS affiliate since 1954, omitting the 1961 affiliation switch.)
  2. ^ "Milwaukee connection." Broadcasting, October 18, 1976, pg. 36[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "Killer on Board (TV Movie 1977)". iMDb. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  4. ^ "Shakira: Colombian Pop Star". Biography. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
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