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Overview of the events of 1947 in television
The year 1947 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television -related events during 1947.
January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 22 – The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River , KTLA , begins operation in Hollywood.
January 29 – RCA company demonstrates an all-electronic color television system using live images, to the US Federal Communications Commission .
January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS ' color television system.
February 10-March 11 – BBC television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis.
March 11 – The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Network .
July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission . (Only television receivers are present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera is at a remote studio.)
September 30 – The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places), becoming television's first mass audience.
October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the White House . President Truman speaks about the world food crisis. It is preceded by a Jell-O commercial, and features the president discussing his program for food rationing. The address is televised by WTVW-TV (presently WJLA-TV Channel 7 in Washington DC) as part of its inaugural broadcast. It is also simulcast by radio. It was long believed that no copy of this broadcast existed, but segments are preserved on kinescope in the Library of Congress. (For the record, President Franklin Roosevelt 's address broadcast over NBC experimental television W2XBS—now WNBC —at the 1939 New York World's Fair preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is the first from inside the White House.)
October 13 – The puppet show series Junior Jamboree , later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie , premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois.
November 6 – Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington, D.C.
November 8 – Memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.
The first Hollywood movie production for TV, The Public Prosecutor .
There are 250,000 television sets in use in the United States.
Television shows [ edit ]
Series
Debut
Ended
Network
Swing Into Sports
1947
1949
Dumont
The Jack Eigen Show
1947
1951
Dumont
Chicagoland Mystery Players
1947
July 23, 1950
WGN-TV
Small Fry Club
1947
1951
Dumont
Juvenile Jury
1947
1954
NBC
The Swift Home Service Club
May 1947
?
NBC
Doorway to Fame
May 2, 1947
July 4, 1949
Dumont
Kraft Television Theater
May 7, 1947
1958
NBC
King Cole's Birthday Party
May 15, 1947
June 23, 1949
Dumont
In the Kelvinator Kitchen
1947
1948
NBC
The Walter Compton News
June 16, 1947
January 1948
Dumont
Major League Baseball on NBC
July 8, 1947
October 17, 2000
NBC
Musical Merry-Go-Round
1947
1949
NBC
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
October 13, 1947
1957
KNBH
Meet the Press
1947
Still in broadcast
NBC
Pantomime Quiz
November 13, 1947
October 9, 1959
KTLA
Mary Kay and Johnny
November 18, 1947
March 11, 1950
Dumont
Charade Quiz
1947
1949
Dumont
Television Playhouse
December 4, 1947
April 11, 1948
NBC
Americana
1947
1949
NBC
Howdy Doody
December 27, 1947
September 24, 1960
NBC
Eye Witness
1947
1948
Know Your New York
1947
1948
Dumont
Highway to the Stars
1947
1947
Dumont
Look Upon a Star
1947
1947
Dumont
Ending this year [ edit ]
January 2 – Jack Hanna , zookeeper
January 8 – Laurie Walters , actress (Eight is Enough )
January 17 - Jane Elliot , actress (General Hospital )
January 19 - Paula Deen , chef, cookbook author, and TV personality
January 21 - Jill Eikenberry , actress (L.A. Law )
January 31
February 2
February 3 - Tonea Stewart , actress (In the Heat of the Night )
February 4 - Dan Quayle , politician
February 20 – Peter Strauss , actor
February 24 – Edward James Olmos , actor (Miami Vice , Battlestar Galactica )
February 26 – Steve Melnyk , golfer
February 28 - Stephanie Beacham , actress (Dynasty , The Colbys )
March 1 – Alan Thicke , actor (Growing Pains ) (d. 2016)
March 6 – Rob Reiner , actor (All in the Family ), producer and director
March 7 – Richard Lawson , actor
March 12 – Mitt Romney , politician
March 19 – Glenn Close , actress
March 24 - Alan Sugar , English television presenter
March 25 - Elton John , English singer, pianist and composer
April 2 - Sam Anderson , actor, Perfect Strangers , Angel , Lost
April 4
April 6 – John Ratzenberger , actor (Cheers )
April 11 - Meshach Taylor , actor (d. 2014)
April 12
April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , NBA basketball player
April 18
April 19 - Jeff Maxwell , actor (M*A*S*H )
April 26 - Boyd Matson , former anchor of National Geographic Explorer
May 6 - Alan Dale , actor (The Young Doctors , Neighbours )
May 10 - Marion Ramsey , actress and singer (Cos ) (d. 2021)
May 16 - Andrew Lack , television executive
May 25 - Karen Valentine , actress (Room 222 )
May 29 - Anthony Geary , actor (General Hospital )
June 3 - Shuki Levy , Israeli-American music composer
June 14 - Len Berman , American television sportscaster
June 20 - Paul Kreppel , actor and director (It's a Living )
June 21
June 22
June 25 - Jimmie Walker , actor (Good Times )
June 26 - Carmen Finestra , producer and TV writer
June 29 - Richard Lewis , comedian and actor (Anything but Love )
July 1 - Shirley Hemphill , comedian and actress (What's Happening!! ) (d. 1999)
July 2 – Larry David , actor, writer and producer (Seinfeld , Curb Your Enthusiasm )
July 3 – Betty Buckley , actress and singer (Eight is Enough )
July 5 – Joe Brown , judge
July 8 - Kim Darby , actress
July 9 - O. J. Simpson , actor and former NFL football player
July 20
July 22 – Albert Brooks , actor (The Simpsons ), comedian and director
July 23
July 24 - Robert Hays , American actor (Iron Man , Angie , Starman , FM )
July 27 - Betty Thomas , actress (Hill Street Blues )
July 28 - Sally Struthers , actress (All in the Family )
July 30
August 8 - Larry Wilcox , actor (CHiPs )
August 13 - Gretchen Corbett , actress, The Rockford Files
August 19 - Gerald McRaney , actor (Simon & Simon , Major Dad , Promised Land )
August 20 - Ray Wise , actor (Twin Peaks )
August 22 - Cindy Williams , actress (Laverne and Shirley ) (d. 2023)
August 28 - Debra Mooney , actress (Everwood )
September 4 – Jane Curtin , actress and comedian (Saturday Night Live , Kate and Allie , 3rd Rock from the Sun )
September 6 – Bob Jenkins , announcer (d. 2021)
September 21 - Stephen King , author
September 27
October 1
October 12 – Chris Wallace , television news anchor
October 17 – Michael McKean , actor (Laverne & Shirley , Better Call Saul )
October 18 – Joe Morton , actor
October 24 – Kevin Kline , actor
October 26 – Hillary Clinton , politician
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss , actor (The Education of Max Bickford )
October 31
November 2 - Kate Linder , actress (The Young and the Restless )
November 3 - Shadoe Stevens , actor
November 9 - Robert David Hall , actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation )
November 13 - Joe Mantegna , actor (Criminal Minds )
November 18 - Jameson Parker , actor (Simon & Simon )
November 24 – Dwight Schultz , actor (The A-Team , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Chowder )
November 25 – John Larroquette , actor (Night Court )
December 2 – Leonard Lightfoot , American actor
December 11
December 21 – Kay Robertson , American television personality
December 23 – Peter Kostis , American golf analyst
December 29 – Ted Danson , actor (Cheers , Becker , CSI: Crime Scene Investigation )
December 31 – Tim Matheson , actor (Jonny Quest , Space Ghost , The West Wing )
References [ edit ]
^ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946–Present . Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9 .
^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television . Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8 .
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