The year 1965 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1965.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1965-66 American network television schedule.

Events

• February 22 A new, videotaped production of the 1957 special Cinderella, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs on CBS with young Lesley Ann Warren (in the title role) starring alongside Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, and Celeste Holm.
• March 24 Live TV pictures from the US unmanned moon probe Ranger 9 are transmitted prior to its impact.
• April 5 - TEN10 opens in Sydney, Australia, with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special TV Spells Magic.
• April 15 Paul Bryan (Ben Gazzara) gets bad news from his doctor and sets out to do all the things he never had time for, in the Kraft Suspense Theatre episode entitled "Rapture at Two-Forty." This will serve as the pilot for the series Run for Your Life, which will premiere on September 13 and run until 1968.
• April 21 The Beach Boys appear on Shindig! performing their most recent hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?"
• April 28 My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand's first TV special, airs on CBS.
• May 2 - The Rolling Stones make their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
• June 18 The original scheduled launch date of the "station that never was", WDV-11 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. The city government had decreed in November 1963 that television could never be introduced in Warrnambool.
• August 1 Cigarette adverts are banned from UK television, though pipe tobacco and cigar adverts continue until 1992.
• August 6 - BBC withdraws a planned airing of The War Game on BBC1's Wednesday Play anthology series; the network, officially, deems the film's depiction of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and its aftermath as "too horrifying" to air on television, though it was widely believed that government pressure led to the banning. The film would win the 1966 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, and BBC would not screen the film on-air until 1985.
• September 10 - The first ational Geographic Special, a chronicle of a 1963 U.S. expedition to Mount Everest, airs on CBS.
• September 12 The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing songs from their new album Help!.
• September 13 Today on NBC goes color.
• October 4 Pope Paul VI's visit to New York receives saturation television coverage on all 3 American networks.
• October 17 WBMG-TV in Birmingham, Alabama launches on channel 42, sharing dual CBS/NBC affiliation with crosstown WAPI-TV and allowing viewers in the Birmingham market to watch more programming from those networks that WAPI did not have room for (including The Ed Sullivan Show, The CBS Evening News, and The Tonight Show). The setup lasts until 1970, when WAPI takes sole affiliation with NBC and WIAT does the same with CBS.
• November 5 Katie Holstrum (Inger Stevens) and Congressman Glen Morley (William Windom) are married in The Farmer's Daughter episode entitled "To Have and To Hold".
• November 15 The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC goes color.
• November 25 - CBS airs the first color broadcast of an NFL football game, a Thanksgiving Day matchup between the Baltimore Colts and Detroit Lions.
• November 28 Julie Andrews' first TV special airs on NBC.
• December 4 Effective with this issue, TV Guide launches its Montana edition and now covers all of the contiguous U.S. (A Hawaii edition will be launched in 1968.)
• December 9 A Charlie Brown Christmas airs on CBS for the first time.
• December 21 - A production of The Nutcracker by the New York City Ballet airs on CBS.

Also in 1965

• First television broadcasts in Paraguay.
• Three independently-affiliated stations in the Philadelphia market The "Other Big 3 in Philly" start operations: WIBF (channel 29) opens on May 16; WKBS-TV (channel 48) opens on September 1 (and operates until 1983); and WPHL-TV (channel 17) opens on September 17.
• Motorola introduces the first succussful rectangular tube color TV to the mass market.

Noted Debuts

• January 2 World of Sport premieres on ITV in the UK with Eamonn Andrews as its first host (1965 1985).
• June 28 Dick Clark's Where the Action Is premieres on ABC daytime (1965 1967).
• September 13 Run for Your Life premieres on NBC (see above).
• September 14 My Mother, the Car premieres on NBC (1965 1966) ... and sets a standard that comics and critics will joke about for years.
• September 14 Please Don't Eat the Daisies premieres on NBC (1965 1967).
• September 15 CBS debuts Lost in Space (1965 1968) and Green Acres (1965 1971). Meanwhile, on ABC, The Big Valley premieres (1965 1969), and NBC launches I Spy (1965 1968).
• September 16 The Dean Martin Show premieres on NBC (1965 1974).
• September 17 The Wild Wild West (1965 1969) and Hogan's Heroes (1965 1971) premiere on CBS.
• September 18 I Dream of Jeannie premieres on NBC, and so does Get Smart (both 1965 1970).
• September 19 The F.B.I. premieres on ABC (1965 1974).
• September 30 Thunderbirds premieres on the ITV network (1965 1966).
• November 8 The soap opera Days of our Lives debuts on NBC (1965 present).
• December 20 2 new game shows premiere on ABC's daytime schedule: the original Supermarket Sweep (1965 1967) and The Dating Game (1965 1973).
• Quentin Durgens, M.P. premieres (1965 1969).
• United! premieres on BBC1 in the UK (1965 1967).

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).

1950s

• Truth or Consequences (1950 1988).
• What's My Line (1950 1967).
• Love of Life (1951 1980).
• Search for Tomorrow (1951 1986).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951 present).
• American Bandstand (1952 1989).
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952 1966).
• The Guiding Light (1952 2009).
• The Honeymooners (1952 1970).
• The Today Show (1952 present).
• Panorama (UK) (1953 present).
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953 1983).
• Face the Nation (1954 present).
• The Secret Storm (1954 1974).
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962 1992).
• 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 present).
• Opportunity Knocks (UK) (1956 1978).
• The Edge of Night (1956 1984).
• What the Papers Say (UK) (1956 present).
• 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).

1960s

• Coronation Street (UK) (1960 present).
• 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).
• Combat! (1962 1967).
• Match Game (1962 1969, 1973 1984, 1990 1991, 1998 1999).
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 1971).
• The Late Late Show (Ireland) (1962 present).
• The Lucy Show (1962 1968).
• The Saint (UK) (1962 1969).
• Z-Cars (UK) (1962 1978).
• Doctor Who (UK) (1963 1989, 1996, 2005 present).
• General Hospital (1963 present).
• The Patty Duke Show (1963 1966)
• Petticoat Junction (1963 1970).
• Ready Steady Go! (1963 1966).
• The Doctors (1963 1982).
• The Addams Family (1964 1966).
• Another World (1964 1999).
• I Dream Of Jeannie (1965 1970)
• Bewitched (1964 1972).
• Crossroads (UK) (1964 1988, 2001 2003).
• Danger Man (UK) (1960 1961, 1964 1966).
• Daniel Boone (1964 1970).
• Flipper (1964 1967)
• Gilligan's Island (1964 1967).
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964 1970).
• Jeopardy! (1964 1975, 1984 present).
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964 1968).
• The Mavis Bramston Show (Australia) (1964 1968).
• The Munsters (1964 1966).
• Peyton Place (1964 1969).
• Shindig! (1964 1966).
• The Wednesday Play (UK) (1964 1970).
• Top of the Pops (UK) (1964 2006).
• Days of our Lives (soap opera) (1965-presnt)
• This Hour Has Seven Days (1964 1966).
• Tom and Jerry (1965 1972, 1975 1977, 1980 1982).
• Get Smart (1965 1970)
• Jonny Quest (1964 1965)

Ending this year

• January 16 The Outer Limits (debuted 1963, pulled in mid-season due to declining ratings)
• March 11 Jonny Quest (1964 1965) (Canceled because every episode went over budget)
• September 3 The Price Is Right (1956 1965) (The series returned seven years later in its current form).
• The Jack Benny Show (1950 1965).

Changes of network affiliation

• My Three Sons moves from ABC to CBS.
• Hazel moves from NBC to CBS.

Births

• January 3 Penny Smith, television presenter.
• January 4 Julia Ormond, English actress
• January 22 Diane Lane, actress
• February 3 Maura Tierney, actress
• February 7 Chris Rock, actor and comedian.
• February 23 Kristin Davis, actress.
• March 25 Sarah Jessica Parker, actress.
• April 16 - Jon Cryer, actor.
  • Martin Lawrence, actor and comedian.
• April 26 Kevin James, actor.
• May 7 Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (died 1999)
• May 27 - Todd Bridges, actor.
• May 31 Brooke Shields, actress and model.
• July 7 Jeremy Kyle, television presenter.
• July 22 Shawn Michaels, wrestler
• August 6 Mark Speight, British television presenter (died 2008)
• August 10 - Claudia Christian, actress.
• August 29 Dina Spybey, actress
• September 3 Charlie Sheen, actor.
• September 9 - Constance Marie, actress.
• November 4 - Kiersten Warren, actress.
• November 21 - Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-born English actor.
• November 30 Ben Stiller, actor.
• December 21 Andy Dick, actor.

Deaths

• April 27 Edward R. Murrow, CBS newsman.

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