The year 1954 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1954.

Events

• January 1 NBC broadcasts the Rose Parade in NTSC color on 21 stations.
• January 3 RAI launched in Italy.
• January 10 CBMT opens in Montreal, making that city the first in Canada to have 2 stations operating. The new station operates in English, leaving CBFT to continue entirely in French. Thus begins Canada's "two nations" approach to TV.
• January 11 The first weather forecast with an in-vision presenter is televised in the UK.
• March 28 WKAQ-TV became the first television station in Puerto Rico.
• April The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
• June 5 The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.
• June 13 First television broadcast begins in Colombia.
• July 5 First actual news bulletin, News and Newsreel, aired on BBC Television, replacing Television Newsreel.
• September 11 The Miss America Beauty Contest airs for the first time on national television in the United States. 27 million viewers watched as Lee Ann Meriwether won the crown. Meriwether would later become a television actress, co-starring in Barnaby Jones (1973 1980).
• October 2 - The Jimmy Durante Show premieres on NBC (1954 1956).
• November 3 Disney's Alice in Wonderland airs on ABC.
• November 19 TMC Monte Carlo launched in Monaco is the first Microstate Television
• December 12 BBC Television screens its famous, and controversial, adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Television Act 1954 authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.
• The British Academy Television Awards, the most prestigious awards in the British television industry, are first awarded.

Debuts

• January 1 Annie Oakley (1954 1957) premieres.
• January 4 The Brighter Day (1954 1962) premieres.
• March 11 - The Public Defender premieres on CBS (1954 1955).
• April 2 The Grove Family, generally considered the first British TV soap opera, debuts on BBC Television (1954 1957).
• April 8 - Justice premieres on NBC (1954 1956).
• April 18 - The Martha Wright Show debuts on ABC.
• April 26 - The Tony Martin Show debuts on NBC.
• August 5 - So You Want to Lead a Band premieres on ABC (1954 1955)
• August 28 - The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan premieres on NBC (1954 1955).
• September 7 - Stop the Music premieres for the second time on ABC after a two-year hiatus.
• September 7 - It's a Great Life premieres on NBC (1954 1956).
• September 18 - Willy starring June Havoc premieres on CBS (1954 1955).
• September 12 Lassie premieres on CBS (1954 1973)
• September 27 - The Tonight Show begins airing on the NBC network (1954 present).
• October 2 - The Imogene Coca Show premieres on NBC (1954 1955).
• October 2 - The Jimmy Durante Show premieres on NBC (1954 1956).
• October 7 - The Mail Story, subtitled Handle with Care, premieres on ABC (1954).
• October 14 - Flash Gordon, (1954 1955), starring Steve Holland.
• October 15 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin premieres on ABC (1954 1959)
• October 21 The CBS anthology series, Climax! (1954 1958) airs an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel, Casino Royale, starring Barry Nelson as an Americanized version of spy James Bond. This is the first dramatic adaptation of a Bond novel.
• October 27 The Walt Disney anthology series debuts as Disneyland (1954 present; aired as Disneyland 1954 1958).
• November 13 Fabian of the Yard, the first British TV police procedural, debuts on BBC Television (1954 1956).
• December 21 Zoo Quest begins on BBC Television (1954 1964).
• Face the Nation premieres on CBS (1954 present).
• The Jo Stafford Show, a 15-minute prime time variety series, premiered on CBS (1954 1955).
• The Secret Storm (1954 1974) premieres.
• The National premieres as The National News on CBC (1954 present).
• The RCAVictor CT-100 goes on the market as the first color TV to be sold to the public. Other manufacturers follow suit. Sales are dismal. NBC is at the time the only network to offer color programming.
• That's My Boy premieres on CBS.

Television shows

listed by starting year

• Muffin the Mule (1946 1955).
• Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946 1960).
• Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947 1957).
• Howdy Doody (1947 1960).
• Kraft Television Theater (1947 1958).
• Meet the Press (1947 present).
• Candid Camera (1948 present).
• The Ed Sullivan Show (1948 1971).
• Bozo the Clown (1949 present).
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949 1995).
• The Goldbergs (1949 1955).
• The Voice of Firestone (1949 1963).
• Hawkins Falls (1950, 1951 1955)).
• Cisco Kid (1950 1956).
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950 1958).
• The Jack Benny Show (1950 1965).
• Truth or Consequences (1950 1988).
• What's My Line (1950 1967).
• Your Hit Parade (1950 1959).
• Dragnet (1951 1959).
• I Love Lucy (1951 1960).
• Love of Life (1951 1980).
• Search for Tomorrow (1951 1986).
• The Roy Rogers Show (1951 1957).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951 present)
• American Bandstand (1952 1989).
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952 1966).
• Adventures of Superman (1952 1958)
• Death Valley Days (1952 1975)
• The Guiding Light (1952 2009)
• Hockey Night in Canada (1952 present)
• Life is Worth Living (1952 1957).
• Life with Elizabeth (1952 1955)
• My Little Margie (1952 1955).
• This Is Your Life (US) (1952 1961).
• The Today Show (1952 present).
• Buick-Berle Show (1953 1954); the show was renamed The Milton Berle Show (1954 1967) this year.
• General Motors Theatre (Can) (1953 1956, 1958 1961)
• Panorama (UK) (1953 present).
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953 1983).
• Where's Raymond? or The Ray Bolger Show (US) 1953-1955.

Ending this year

• January 11 - Of Many Things (1953 1954).
• February 5 - The Comeback Story (1953 1954).
• March 9 - This Is Show Business ended its run on CBS (1949 1954).
• May 11 - Judge for Yourself with Fred Allen ended its run on NBC (1953 1954).
• June 5-Your Show of Shows (1950 1954).
• June 17-Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949 1954).
• July 2 Television Newsreel (UK) is last shown on the BBC Television Service, to be superseded the following Monday by the new BBC News bulletins. (1948 1954).
• July 2 - The Pride of the Family (1953 1954).
• August 1- Juvenile Jury (1947 1954).
• August 2- The Dennis Day Show (1953 1954).
• October 10- Author Meets the Critics (1947 1954).
• December 5- The Martha Wright Show (1954).
• December 30 - The Mail Story (1954)
• Answers for Americans (1953 1954).
• Jukebox Jury (1953 1954).
• The Paul Winchell Show (1950 1954).
• Rocky King, Inside Detective (1950 1954).

Births

• January 12 Howard Stern, radio and television host.
• January 19 Katey Sagal, actress and singer (Married... with Children).
• January 22 Chris Lemmon, actor and author.
• January 29 Oprah Winfrey, actress and talk-show host.
• February 1 - Bill Mumy, actor and musician (Lost in Space).
• February 2 Christie Brinkley, model and actress.
• February 15 Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama.
• February 17 Rene Russo, actress.
• February 18 - John Travolta, actor.
• March 1 - Catherine Bach, actress.
  • Ron Howard, actor and director.
• March 15 - Craig Wasson, actor.
• March 17 - Lesley-Anne Down, English actress.
• March 24 - Robert Carradine, actor.
  • Donna Pescow, actress and director.
• April 29 Jerry Seinfeld, actor and comedian.
• June 15 James Belushi, actor.
• June 22 - Freddie Prinze, actor and comedian (Chico and the Man) (died 1977).
• June 28 - Alice Krige, South African actress
• August 12 - Sam J. Jones, actor
• September 8 Anne Diamond, television presenter.
• September 30 - Barry Williams, actor (The Brady Bunch).
• October 9 Scott Bakula, actor.
• November 12 - Rhonda Shear, television personality, actress and comedienne
• December 4 - Tony Todd, actor and producer.
• December 28 Denzel Washington, actor.

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