The year 1963 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1963.

Events

• January 13 BBC Television broadcasts the play The Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The play co-stars a young American folk music singer named Bob Dylan.
• April 1 German terrestrial channel ZDF (pronounced tseh-deh-ehf) began broadcasting.
• May 15 First television pictures transmitted from a US manned space capsule ("Faith 7"). Due to the poor picture quality, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live.
• July 22 Bob Crane quits his DJ job at radio station KNX to become a regular on The Donna Reed Show.
• September 2 CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• September 9 NBC also expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes.
• September 30 BBC Television begins using a globe as their symbol. They would continue to use it in varying forms until 2002.
• October 1 ABC News at last drops its dependence on outside sources of news film and begins to rely on its own camera crews.
• November 22 All three major U.S. networks start pre-emptions for a week following the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The pre-emptions unofficially begin a few minutes after Kennedy was shot; on the top-rated American soap opera As the World Turns, Nancy Hughes (Helen Wagner) was in the middle of a discussion with Grandpa (Santos Ortega) about Bob's (Don Hastings) decision to invite Lisa (Eileen Fulton) to Thanksgiving dinner. Walter Cronkite interrupted Wagner mid-speech to deliver the bulletin. As the World Turns continued for one more scene (at that time, the show was transmitted live) before Cronkite cut in permanently. News of the assassination, and later the funeral procession, were the first television broadcasts across the Pacific Ocean (via Relay 1 satellite).
• November 23 UK BBC tv That Was The Week That Was broadcasts its famous, non-satirical Kennedy tribute episode. William Hartnell stars in the very first episode of Doctor Who: "An Unearthly Child". So many people complained of having missed it (because of the disruption to schedules caused by the assassination) that on the following Saturday Episode 1 was repeated followed by Episode 2.
• November 24 Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
• December 7 - Instant Replay is used for the first time during the live transmission of the Army Navy Game by its inventor, director, Tony Verna.
• For the first time, most Americans say that they get more of their news from television than newspapers.
• The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.

Debuts

• January 1 Astro Boy (known as Mighty Atom in Japanese), Japan's first anime, was launched on Fuji TV.
• January 6 Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom premieres on NBC (1963 1988, 2002 present).
• January 7 - World in Action, investigative current affairs series, premieres on Granada Television in Britain (1963 1998).
• April 1 General Hospital (created by Frank and Doris Hursley) and The Doctors premiere on the same day, the former on ABC (1963 present) and the latter on NBC (1963 1982).
• August 9 Ready Steady Go! premieres on ITV (1963 1966).
• September 16 The Outer Limits premieres on ABC (1963 1965).
• September 17 The Fugitive premieres on ABC (1963 1967).
• September 18 - The Patty Duke Show premieres on ABC (1963 1966)
• September 20 Burke's Law premieres on ABC (1963 1965).
• September 24 Petticoat Junction premieres on CBS (1963 1970).
• September 29 The Judy Garland Show premieres on CBS (1963 1964). My Favorite Martian premieres on CBS (1963 1966).
• November 23 Doctor Who premieres on BBC Television (1963 1989, 1996, 2005 present). The first actor to play the The Doctor is William Hartnell (1963 1966).
• The Littlest Hobo premieres in Canada (1963 1965; 1979 1985).
• Mack & Myer for Hire debuts this year in syndication (1963 1964).

Television shows

1940s

• Meet the Press (1947 present).
• Candid Camera (1948 2004).
• The Ed Sullivan Show (1948 1971).
• Bozo the Clown (1949 present).
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949 1995).

1950s

• The Jack Benny Show (1950 1965).
• Truth or Consequences (1950 1988).
• What's My Line (1950 1967).
• I Love Lucy (1951 1957)
• Adventures of Superman (1951 1957)
• Love of Life (1951 1980).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951 present).
• Search for Tomorrow (1951 1986).
• American Bandstand (1952 1989).
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952 1966)
• Death Valley Days (1952 1975)
• The Guiding Light (1952 2009)
• Hockey Night in Canada (1952 present)
• The Today Show (1952 present).
• Panorama (UK) (1953 present).
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953 1983).
• Face the Nation (1954 present).
• Lassie (1954 1974)
• The Milton Berle Show (1954 1967).
• Rin Tin Tin (1954 1959)
• The Secret Storm (1954 1974).
• The Tonight Show (Steve Allen, 1954 1957; Jack Paar, 1957 1962).
• 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 (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).
• The Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz Show (The Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour) (1957 1960)
• 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).
• Juke Box Jury (1959 1967, 1979, 1989 1990).
• The Bell Telephone Hour (1959 1968).
• The Twilight Zone (1959 1964, 1985 1988, 2002).

1960s

• The Andy Griffith Show (1960 1968)
• Coronation Street, UK (1960 present)
• The Flintstones (1960 1966).
• My Three Sons (1960 1972)
• ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961 1998)
• The Avengers, UK (1961 1969)
• Ben Casey (1961 1966).
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 1966).
• Four Corners, Australia (1961 present)
• The Fulton Sheen Program (1961 1968).
• It's Academic (1961 present).
• Mister Ed (1961 1966).
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961 1981).
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961 1969)
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 1971).
• Combat! (1962 1967).
• The Jetsons (1962 1963, 1984 1985, 1987).
• The Late Late Show, Ireland (1962 present)
• The Lucy Show (1962 1968).
• Match Game (1962 1969, 1973 1984, 1990 1991, 1998 1999).
• Professional Bowlers Tour (1962 1997)
• The Saint, UK (1962 1969)
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962 1992)
• The World Tonight, Philippines (1962 present)
• Z-Cars, UK (1962 1978)
• The Patty Duke Show, (1963 1966)
• Doctor Who, UK (1963 1989), (1996), (2005 present)
• Mack & Myer for Hire (1963 1964)

Ending this year

• May Empire (1962 1963).
• May The Voice of Firestone (1949 1963).
• June - The Real McCoys (1957 1963)
• June 20 Leave It to Beaver (1957 1963).
• September 10 Hawaiian Eye (1959 1963).

Births

• January 4 Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian
• February 17 Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player
• February 26 - Chase Masterson, actress, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• May 8 Stella Gonet, actress
• May 25 Mike Myers, Canadian actor
• May 28 Michelle Collins, actress
• May 29 Lisa Whelchel, actress, The Facts of Life
• June 9 Johnny Depp, actor
• June 15 Helen Hunt, actress
• June 17 Greg Kinnear, actor
• July 30 Lisa Kudrow, actress, Friends
• August 19 John Stamos, actor
• November 21 Nicollette Sheridan, actress
• December 18 Brad Pitt, actor

Deaths

• November 22 John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

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