The year 1962 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1962.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1962-63 American network television schedule.

Events

• January 1 The 1962 Rose Bowl game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast color television broadcast of a college football game in the United States.
• March 24 Boxer Benny Kid Paret falls unconscious at the hands of fellow boxer Emile Griffith during a televised boxing match at Madison Square Garden. Paret died ten days later.
• April 16 Walter Cronkite succeeds Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News; he will remain so for the next 19 years.
• May 27 - General Electric Theater airs it last episode on CBS.
• July 23 First publicly available live transatlantic television broadcast via Telstar 1.
• September 1 Channel Television, the ITV franchise for the Channel Islands, goes on air.
• September 14 Wales West and North Television (Teledu Cymru) goes on air to the North and West Wales region, extending ITV to the whole of the UK.
• Broadcast of S bados Alegres begins, program later becomes S bados Gigantes.
• Cigarette adverts are banned from children's programmes in the UK. Actors in these adverts now have to be over 21, and connection to social success is no longer allowed. The tobacco companies also start a policy of not advertising before 9pm.
• The U.S. All-Channel Receiver Act requires UHF tuners to be on all consumer sets (channels 14 through 83), as well as VHF.http://www.cbc.ca/hdtv/history.htmlhttp://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/spectrumhistory.htm
• Zenith markets its first color TV, a 21" round screen set.

Debuts

• January 2 Z-Cars (UK) premieres on BBC Television (1962 1978)
• April 17 Brothers in Law (UK) premieres on BBC Television (1962)
• July 1 Police Five (UK) premieres on ITV (1962 1992)
• July 6 The Late Late Show (Ireland) premieres on RT (1962 present)
• September 19 The Virginian premieres on NBC, and begins a nine year run, and is the first western to air in 90-minute installments (1962 1971)
• September 23 The Jetsons premieres on ABC (1962 1963, 1984 1985, 1987). This was the very first program to air in color on ABC
• September 26 The Beverly Hillbillies premieres on CBS (1962 1971)
• October 1 The Lucy Show premieres on CBS (1962 1968); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson debuts on NBC (1962 1992); ABC launches Discovery (1962 1971)
• October 2 Combat! premieres on ABC (1962 1967)
• October 4 The Saint (UK) premieres on ITV (1962 1969)
• October 10 McHale's Navy premieres on ABC (1962 1966)
• December 31 Match Game premieres on NBC (1962 1969, 1973 1984, 1990 1991, 1998 1999)
• To Tell the Truth premieres on CTV (1962 1964)

Television shows

1940s

• 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 Voice of Firestone (1949 1963).

1950s

• The Jack Benny Show (1950 1965).
• Truth or Consequences (1950 1988).
• I Love Lucy (1951 1957)
• What's My Line (1950 1967).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951 present).
• Love of Life (1951 1980).
• Search for Tomorrow (1951 1986).
• American Bandstand (1952 1989).
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952 1966).
• The Guiding Light (1952 2009).
• The Today Show (1952 present).
• Panorama (UK) (1953 present).
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953 1983).
• Face the Nation (1954 present).
• The Milton Berle Show (1954 1967).
• The Secret Storm (1954 1974).
• The Tonight Show (1954 present).
• Zoo Quest (UK) (1954 1964).
• Captain Kangaroo (1955 1984).
• Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955 1976).
• Gunsmoke (1955 1975).
• The Lawrence Welk Show (1955 1982).
• This Is Your Life (UK) (1955 2003).
• Armchair Theatre (UK) (1956 1968).
• As the World Turns (1956 2010).
• Opportunity Knocks (UK) (1956 1978).
• The Edge of Night (1956 1984).
• The Price Is Right (1956 1965).
• What the Papers Say (UK) (1956 present).
• Leave It to Beaver (1957 1963).
• The Sky at Night (UK) (1957 present).
• Blue Peter (UK) (1958 present).
• Grandstand (UK) (1958 2007).
• The Donna Reed Show (1958 1966).
• Bonanza (1959 1973).
• Hawaiian Eye (1959 1963).
• Juke Box Jury (1959 1967, 1979, 1989 1990).
• The Bell Telephone Hour (1959 1968).
• The Twilight Zone (1959 1964, 1985 1988, 2002).

1960s

• Coronation Street (UK) (1960 present).
• The Lucy Show (1962 1968) (CBS)
• My Three Sons (1960 1972).
• The Andy Griffith Show (1960 1968).
• The Flintstones (1960 1966).
• Ben Casey (1961 1966).
• Four Corners (Australia) (1961 present).
• It's Academic (1961 present).
• Mister Ed (1961 1966).
• The Avengers (UK) (1961 1969).
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 1966).
• The Fulton Sheen Program (1961 1968).
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961 1981).
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961 1969).

Ending this year

• March 25 - Bus Stop (1961 1962).
• December Cheyenne (1955 1962).
• The Brighter Day (1954 1962).
• Hancock's Half Hour (1956 1962).
• The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958 1962).

Births

• January 5 - Suzy Amis, actress
• January 17 Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 7 Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comedian
• February 17 - Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• February 27 - Adam Baldwin, actor
• March 18 - Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
• March 21 Matthew Broderick, actor
  • Rosie O'Donnell, actress, comedian, and talk show show
• March 24 - Marcia Cross, actress
• May 24 - Gene Anthony Ray, actor, dancer and choreographer (died 2003)
• July 3 Tom Cruise, actor
• July 8 Rob Burnett, one time head writer for David Letterman
• July 13 Tom Kenny, actor and voice actor
• July 19 - Anthony Edwards, actor
• July 24 Cleo Rocos, British actress
• July 31 Wesley Snipes, actor
• September 11 Elizabeth Daily, actress
  • Kristy McNichol, actress
• September 26 - Melissa Sue Anderson, actress
• October 1 - Esai Morales, actor
• October 4 Caron Keating, television presenter (died 2004)
• October 13 Kelly Preston, actress
• November 11 Demi Moore, actress
• November 19 Jodie Foster, actress and director
• November 28 Jon Stewart, television host and comedian
• December 6 Janine Turner, actress
• December 9 Felicity Huffman, actress

Deaths

• January 13 Ernie Kovacs
• August 5 Marilyn Monroe

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