1974 In Television ,
Other Events Of 1975 ,
1976 In Television and the
List Of 'years In Television' .
''For the American network television schedule, please see 1975-76 American Network Television Schedule .''
- January 6 - '' Another World '' becomes the first American Soap Opera to start airing hour-long telecasts.
- March 1 - Colour Television transmissions begin in Australia .
- April 3 - Meg Richardson ( Noele Gordon ) marries Hugh Mortimer ( John Bentley ) on the soap opera '' Crossroads ''.
- April 18 - Alice Cooper 's first television special, ''Welcome To My Nightmare: The Making Of A Record Album'' airs.
- April 21 - '' Days Of Our Lives '' becomes the second American soap opera to expand from thirty minutes to an hour in length.
- April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on '' The Tomorrow Show ''.
- May 24 - In the UK , Independent Television programs are blacked out by a strike.
- June - '' As The World Turns '' airs its last live episode and switches to pre-recording, making it the last Soap Opera to do so.
- September 5 - A bomb explodes in the wine bar/delicatessen on '' Number 96 '', in an attempt to shake up the cast and earn back lost viewers.
- September 8 - '' Match Game '' starts airing weekly episodes in syndication.
- October 11 - --- Andy Kaufman makes his debut on the first episode of '' Saturday Night Live '', lip syncing portions of the theme to '' Mighty Mouse ''
- October 28 - A James Bond film is shown on British television for the first time, Dr. No on ITV.
- November 3 - '' The Price Is Right '' expands to 60-minutes and has remained that way to this day.
- November 7 - ''The New Original Wonder Woman'' airs as a TV movie, leading to a weekly series, '' Wonder Woman '', which debuts in 1976 .
- November 10 - The producers of the long-running Serial Drama '' The Guiding Light '' change the show's name to ''Guiding Light'', in an attempt to modernize the show's image. The show's announcer, however, continues to call the series ''The Guiding Light'' in his announcements until the early 1980s.
- December 1 - Top-rated '' As The World Turns '', bowing to competition from NBC , expands to one hour in length.
- 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.
- Sony introduces the Betamax video recorder in the US.
- The In Soviet Georgia television advertisements for Dannon yogurt first air in the United States.
- ''The Edge of Night'' moves from CBS to ABC.
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