1973 In Television ,
Other Events Of 1974 ,
1975 In Television and the
List Of 'years In Television' .
''For the American network television schedule, please see 1974-75 American Network Television Schedule .''
- February 8 - '' The Secret Storm '' airs its 5195th and final episode. The show is replaced ten days later by '' Tattletales '', a game show hosted by Bert Convy .
- March 13 - '' The Execution Of Private Slovik ''. A made for television film, it told the story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik , the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War .
- May 4 - Steve Frame ( George Reinholt ) marries Alice Matthews ( Jacqueline Courtney ) for the second time on a special hour-long broadcast of '' Another World '', coinciding with the show's tenth anniversary.
- June 8 - Actor Jon Pertwee makes his final regular appearance as the Third Doctor in the concluding moments of Part 6 of the Doctor Who serial '' Planet Of The Spiders ''. Actor Tom Baker briefly appears as the Fourth Doctor at the conclusion of this serial.
- August 5 - For the first time on a pre-school children's programme, the UK show ''Inigo Pipkin'' covers the death of the main character, Inigo, as the actor who played him ( George Woodbridge ) had died. The show is renamed '' Pipkins ''.
- August 8 - US President Richard Nixon resigns live on television.
- September 10 - The controversial TV movie '' Born Innocent '', starring Linda Blair , was first screened on the NBC network in the United States. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female Rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film.
- December 28 - Actor Tom Baker makes his first full appearance as the Fourth Doctor in the Doctor Who serial '' Robot ''.
- '' Monty Python's Flying Circus '', the popular British sketch comedy which aired its final episode this year, is first shown in the US on an educational TV station in Dallas , Texas .
- The children's special '' Free To Be... You And Me '' first airs on American television, produced by comedic Actress Marlo Thomas .
- Meg Dale ( Tudi Wiggins ) calls her son Ben ( Christopher Reeve ) a "bastard" on the soap opera '' Love Of Life '', the first time a profanity was spoken on American daytime television.
- The documentary series '' Legacy For The Future '' first airs on NHK in Japan .
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