1970 In Television ,
Other Events Of 1971 ,
1972 In Television and the
List Of 'years In Television' .
''For the American network television schedule, please see 1971-72 American Network Television Schedule .''
- January 3 - BBC Open University broadcasts begin in the UK .
- January 27 - Valerie Barlow is electrocuted by a faulty hairdryer, and then perishes in a house fire on '' Coronation Street ''.
- March 11 - ABC cancels '' The Lawrence Welk Show '' after sixteen years on the network. The show, however, returns to the airwaves in Syndication in September, where it would run for another eleven years.
- May - CBS debuts its schedule for the fall 1971 season, and cancels, in the words of Max Baer, Jr. , "every show that had a tree in it." '' Green Acres '', '' The Beverly Hillbillies '', '' Mayberry R.F.D. '', and '' Hee Haw '' all end production. The latter show continued on for two decades in syndication.
- June 6 - '' The Ed Sullivan Show '' goes off the air.
- November - Top-rated '' As The World Turns '' loses the #1 slot in the daytime Nielsens for the first time since 1959 .
- '' The Selling Of The Pentagon '' documentary airs on CBS .
- Michael Zaslow first appears as Roger Thorpe on '' The Guiding Light ''.
- ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' moves from ABC to first-run Syndication .
- ''Hee Haw'', from CBS to first-run syndication.
- January 1 - Suzanne Virdee , British regional TV newscaster.
- January 2 - Catherine Jones , British television presenter.
- January 5 - Jayne Middlemiss , British television presenter.
- January 6 - Charlie Neil , British regional TV weather reader.
- February 16 - Amanda Holden .
- February 23 - Melinda Messenger , British television presenter and model.
- March 9 - Emmanuel Lewis .
- March 23 - Gail Porter , television presenter.
- April 27 - Tess Daly , British television presenter.
- July 9 - Dani Behr , television presenter and Actress .
- July 17 - Peta Brady , actress.
- July 25 - Jessie Wallace , British actress.
- August 7 - Melanie Sykes , British television presenter.
- August 9 - Kate Sanderson
- September 8 - Brooke Burke .
- September 9 - Natasha Kaplinsky , British television presenter.
- September 13 - Louise Lombard , British actress.
- September 28 - Liza Walker , British actress.
- October 19 - Kacey Ainsworth , British actress.
- November 25 - Christina Applegate .
- December 5 - Justine Kerrigan , British actress.
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