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The year 1974 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1974. For the American TV schedule, see: 1974-75 American network television schedule. Events - January 6 CKGN-TV begins broadcasting in Brantford, Ontario.
- January 31 CBS airs a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines' novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. Cicely Tyson portrays the title role.
- February 8 After 20 years, The Secret Storm airs its 5195th and final episode on CBS Daytime. The show is replaced ten days later by Tattletales, a game show hosted by Bert Convy.
- March 11 The children's special Free to Be... You and Me, produced by comedic actress Marlo Thomas, airs on ABC.
- March 13 The Execution of Private Slovik airs on NBC. A made for television film, it told the story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
- April 6 "Waterloo" wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden and launches ABBA on their stellar global career.
- May 4 Steve Frame (George Reinholt) marries Alice Matthews (Jacqueline Courtney) for the second time on a special hour-long broadcast of Another World, coinciding with the show's tenth anniversary.
- June 8 Jon Pertwee makes his final regular appearance as the Third Doctor in the concluding moments of Part Six of the Doctor Who serial Planet of the Spiders. Tom Baker briefly appears as the Fourth Doctor at the conclusion of this serial.
- August 5 For the first time on a pre-school children's programme, the UK show Inigo Pipkin covers the death of the main character, Inigo, as the actor who played him (George Woodbridge) had died. The show is renamed Pipkins.
- August 8 US President Richard Nixon resigns live on television.
- September 10 The controversial TV movie Born Innocent, starring Linda Blair, airs on NBC. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film.
- December 28 Tom Baker makes his first full appearance as the Fourth Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Robot.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus, the popular British sketch comedy which aired its final episode this year, is first shown in the US on KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas.
- Meg Dale (Tudi Wiggins) calls her son Ben (Christopher Reeve) a "bastard" on the soap opera Love of Life, the first time a profanity was spoken on American daytime television.
- US television game show program Match Game is the #1 rated program and #1 rated game show for the second year in a row.
Debuts - January 5 Tiswas starts as a local programme in the Midlands (ATV) in the UK, but the television show wasn't fully automatically networked through ITV until 1979 (1974 1982).
- January 7 How to Survive a Marriage debuts in a 90-minute special on NBC daytime. The episode shows the first nudity (which was merely simulated and not visible) on American daytime television. Jackpot! (1974 1975), a game show, premiered earlier in the day on NBC.
- January 15 Happy Days premieres on ABC (1974 1984). It spawns a record eight spin-off series (five live-action, three animated).
- February 1 Good Times, a spinoff of Maude (which itself was a spinoff of All in the Family,) premieres on CBS (1974 1979).
- February 18 Tattletales, hosted by Bert Convy, premieres on CBS daytime (1974 1978, 1982 1984).
- April 12 Ultraman Leo premieres on TBS in Japan (1974 1975).
- May 6 The $10,000 Pyramid moves to ABC with Dick Clark as host.
- July 1 High Rollers premieres on NBC (1974 1976; 1978 1980).
- September 7 Land of the Lost premieres on NBC (1974 1977).
- September 7 Valley of the Dinosaurs premieres on CBS (1974 1976).
- September 7 Shazam! premieres on CBS (1974 1977).
- September 7 Hong Kong Phooey premieres on ABC (1974).
- September 9 Rhoda premieres on CBS (1974 1978).
- September 9 The $25,000 Pyramid premieres in syndication with host Bill Cullen; basically The $10,000 Pyramid with larger prizes.
- Dinah! premieres (syndicated 1974 1980), succeeding Dinah Shore's cancelled NBC daytime show Dinah's Place.
- September 11 Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landon, premieres on NBC (1974 1983). It spawns two spin-off series.
- September 13 Chico and the Man (1974 1978),The Rockford Files (1974 1980), and Police Woman (1974 1978) all premiere on NBC .
- Countdown premieres on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1974 1987).
- Derrick, German Krimi written by Herbert Reinecker, starring Horst Tappert, premieres on ZDF (1974 1988).
- Definition (TV series) premieres on CTV daytime (1974 1989).
- Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins premieres on CBC (1974 1975).
- House of Pride premieres on CBC (1974 1976).
- Wish You Were Here...? premieres on ITV (1974 2003, 2007 ).
- July 4 CBS airs its first Bicentennial Minute. They will continue until the end of 1976.
- March 3 Nova premieres on PBS (1974 present).
- Name That Tune premieres on NBC daytime with Dennis James hosting, and in nighttime syndication with Tom Kennedy hosting.
Television shows 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Ending this year Births - January 2 Ursula Holden-Gill, British actress.
- January 12 Melanie Chisholm, British singer. Spice Girls
- January 30 Christian Bale, Welsh actor.
- February 17 Jerry O'Connell, actor
- March 1 Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor
- March 24 Alyson Hannigan, actress.
- March 31 Angela Dotchin, actress.
- April 11 Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model.
- April 17 Victoria Beckham, English singer. Spice Girls
- April 23 Barry Watson, actor. 7th Heaven
- May 27 Denise van Outen, British actress and singer.
- June 26 Derek Jeter, baseball player, New York Yankees
- July 26 Genevieve Gorder.
- August 15 Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model.
- October 7 Allison Munn, American actress
- November 11 Leonardo DiCaprio, actor.
- November 28 Kristian Schmid, Australian actor
- December 13 Sara Cox, radio and television presenter.
- December 17 Giovanni Ribisi and Marissa Ribisi, actor and actress
Deaths - March 20 Chet Huntley, journalist, co-anchor of the NBC nightly newscast.
- April 17 Frank McGee, journalist, NBC news.
- April 30 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora on Bewitched).
- July 15 Christine Chubbuck, news reporter on WXLT in Sarasota, Florida, suicide by gunshot on the air.
- October 13 Ed Sullivan, host of the Ed Sullivan Show.
- November 5 Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'hara on Batman).
- December 26 Jack Benny, American comedian (born 1894)
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