The year 1975 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1975.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1975-76 United States network television schedule.

Events

• January 3, 1975 - The original Jeopardy! ends its run after almost 11 years and 2,753 episodes on NBC.
  • Also on that same network, the largest Super Jackpot won in the history of Jackpot, $38,750 was won between two contestants, the biggest prize in American daytime television game shows at the time.
• January 6 Another World became the first American soap opera to start airing hour-long telecasts.
  • On the same day, Wheel of Fortune aired its first episode on NBC's daytime schedule. The show was hosted by a little-known singer-songwriter named Chuck Woolery; his assistant was Susan Stafford. A modest success when it first premiered, the show went on to become one of the most famous game shows in history (thanks to television syndication) when a syndicated version began in 1983 with a different presenter and hostess.
  • The ORTF was dislocked into 7 societies : TF1, Antenne 2, FR3, INA, SFP, Radio France & TDF.
• March 1 It's "C-Day" in Australia. Full-time colour broadcasting takes effect today.
• March 18 McLean Stevenson's character Henry Blake dies in the M*A*S*H episode Abyssinia, Henry, its third season finale.
• April 3 Meg Richardson (Noele Gordon) married Hugh Mortimer (John Bentley) on the soap opera Crossroads.
• April 21 Days of our Lives became the second American soap opera to expand from thirty minutes to an hour in length.
• April 28 Tom Snyder interviewed John Lennon on The Tomorrow Show.
• May 7 Matt Helm was shown as a pilot episode in the US but the actual television series would not be shown until later that same year.
• September 5 A bomb exploded in the wine bar/delicatessen on Number 96, in an attempt to shake up the cast and earn back lost viewers.
• September 8 Match Game started airing weekly episodes in syndicated primetime as Match Game PM.
  • Until September 12, The Price Is Right expanded to one hour for a whole week.
• October 11 Andy Kaufman made his debut on the first episode of Saturday Night Live, lip syncing portions of the theme to Mighty Mouse.
• October 25 The classic "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show airs on CBS.
• October 28 A James Bond film was shown on British television for the first time, Dr. No on ITV.
• November Sony introduced the Betamax video recorder in the US. The LV-1901 came in a teakwood console with a 19" color TV set and retailed for $2,495.
• November 3 The Price is Right expanded to an hour in length to its current six-game, two Showcase Showdown, and Showcase format, still used as of the 2011 12 season (Season 40).
• November 7 The New Original Wonder Woman aired as a TV movie, leading to a weekly series, Wonder Woman, which premiered in 1976.
• November 10 The producers of the long-running serial drama The Guiding Light changed the show's name to Guiding Light, in an attempt to modernize the show's image. The show's announcer, however, continued to call the series The Guiding Light in his announcements until the early 1980s.
• December 1 Top-rated As the World Turns, bowing to competition from NBC, expanded to one hour in length, its current format. The Edge of Night moves to ABC, as CBS has no room in its schedule; that network starts daytime reruns of All in the Family on this day.
• Fred Silverman became the head of ABC Entertainment, initiating an era of what was disparagingly called "T&A" or "Jiggle television". His programming choices resulted in ABC achieving ratings dominance.
• The first "Love in the Afternoon" television advertisements aired touting ABC's daytime lineup, although sparsely until 1977.
• The In Soviet Georgia television advertisements for Dannon yogurt first aired in the United States.
• US television program Match Game (note: not Match Game PM) was rated #1 in overall television programming and game shows for the third year running.
• January 11 On All in the Family, a tearful Edith (played by Jean Stapleton) said goodbye to her neighbor for almost five years, Louise Jefferson (played by Isabel Sanford), as The Jeffersons moved on up to their sitcom, until the spin-off aired the next week.
• In The Second Season of CBS's The Jeffersons, Mike Evans left to work on episodes on Good Times, which Damon Evans (no relation to Michael), joined the cast this season until the fourth season in 1978, the character of Lionel Jefferson was seen less frequently.
• March 4 The first "People's Choice Awards" were presented on CBS.
• September 29 WGPR-TV, channel 62 in Detroit, became the first television station in the U. S. to be owned and operated by blacks. (It is now CBS-owned WWJ-TV.)
• September 30 The Muhammad Ali Joe Frazier title fight from the Philippines the "Thrilla in Manila" was sent by satellite to the U. S. and shown on HBO.
• November 23 Memories of the "Heidi Game" returned to haunt NBC as that network was forced to join Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in progress at the conclusion of an overtime NFL game.

Debuts

• January 2 The Sweeney premieres on ITV in the UK (1975 1978).
• January 6 Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC's daytime lineup (1975 1989). Blank Check premieres the same day, and lasts 26 weeks.
• January 17 Baretta, starring Robert Blake, premieres on ABC (1975 1978).
• January 18 The Jeffersons, a spinoff of All in the Family, premieres on CBS (1975 1985).
• January 23 Barney Miller debuts on ABC (1975 1982).
• April 4 The Good Life premieres on BBC1 in the UK (1975 1978).
• April 5 Himitsu Sentai Gorenger premieres on TV-Asahi (formerly NET) in Japan (1975 1977).
• May The Don Lane Show premieres on the Nine Network in Australia (1975 1983).
• May 31 Jim'll Fix It premieres on BBC1 (1975 1994).
• June 16 Spin-Off and Musical Chairs premiere on CBS's daytime lineup.
• July 7 Ryan's Hope premieres on ABC's daytime lineup (1975 1989).
• September 4 -
  • "The Bobby Vinton Show" premiers on CTV in Canada and across the U.S. in syndication. (1975 1978)
  • Space: 1999 premieres (syndicated 1975 1977).
• September 6
  • Hanna-Barbera's The New Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show premieres on ABC Saturday Morning (1975 1976); it's Hanna-Barbera's only new series for the fall of 1975.
  • Supersonic, a pop music program, debuts on London Weekend Television (1975 1977).
  • Funny Farm (CTV, 1975 1980)
• September 8 Phyllis, a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show debuts on CBS. It stars Cloris Leachman as Mary Richards' old landlady who moves to San Francisco to start a new life (1975 1977).
• September 9
  • Welcome Back, Kotter premieres on ABC (1975 1979).
  • Shades of Greene begins on Thames Television in the UK (1975 1976).
• September 12 Pop Quest, a children's musical quiz show, premieres on ITV (1975 1978).
• September 14 - Three for the Road premieres on CBS and ends promptly on November 30. (1975)
• September 19 Fawlty Towers premieres on BBC Two in the UK (1975, 1979).
• October 1 Arena premieres on BBC2 in the UK (1975 present).
• October 11 Saturday Night Live premieres on NBC with George Carlin hosting (1975 present).
• November 3 Good Morning America premieres on ABC with co-anchors David Hartman and Nancy Dussault (1975 present).
• November 7 Wonder Woman premieres on ABC (1975 1979)
• November 30 McCoy premieres on NBC (1975 1976)
• December 16 One Day at a Time, produced by Norman Lear, premieres on CBS (1975 1984).
• Bod debuts (and completes) (1975).
• Paddington premieres on BBC One in the UK.
• The Fifth Estate debuts on CBC (1975 present).
• King of Kensington debuts on CBC (1975 1980).
• Match Game PM (1975 1982).
• Runaround premieres on ITV (1975 1981).

Television shows

1940s

• Meet the Press (1947 present).
• Candid Camera (1948 present).
• Bozo the Clown (1949 present).
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949 1995)

1950s

• Truth or Consequences (1950 1988).
• Love of Life (1951 1980).
• Search for Tomorrow (1951 1986).
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951 present).
• American Bandstand (1952 1989).
• 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).
• The Tonight Show (1954 present).
• The Wonderful World of Disney (1954 present; 1969 1979 with this title)
• Captain Kangaroo (1955 1984).
• Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955 1976).
• The Lawrence Welk Show (1955 1982) .
• This Is Your Life (UK) (1955 2003).
• As the World Turns (1956 2010).
• 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).

1960s

• Coronation Street, UK (1960 present)
• Four Corners, Australia (1961 present)
• It's Academic (1961 present)
• The Mike Douglas Show (1961 1981)
• Wide World of Sports (1961 1997)
• The Late Late Show, Ireland (1962 present)
• Z-Cars, UK (1962 1978)
• Doctor Who, UK (1963 1989, 1996, 2005 present)
• The Doctors (1963 1982)
• General Hospital (1963 present)
• Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963 1988, 2002 present)
• Another World (1964 1999)
• Crossroads, UK (1964 1988, 2001 2003).
• Top of the Pops, UK (1964 2006)
• Days of our Lives (1965 present).
• World of Sport, UK (1965 1985)
• Play School (1966 present).
• The Money Programme (UK) (1966 present).
• The Carol Burnett Show (1967 1978).
• 60 Minutes (1968 present).
• Dad's Army (UK) (1968 1977).
• Hawaii Five-O (1968 1980).
• Magpie (UK) (1968 1980).
• One Life to Live (1968 present).
• Hee Haw (1969 1993).
• Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969 1976).
• Sesame Street (1969 present).
• The Benny Hill Show (UK) (1969 1989).

1970s

• All My Children (1970 present)
• Mary Tyler Moore (1970 1977)
• McCloud (1970 1977)
• Monday Night Football (1970 present)
• Play for Today (UK) (1970 1984).
• All in the Family (1971 1979).
• Columbo (1971 1978).
• Masterpiece Theatre (1971 present).
• McMillan & Wife (1971 1977).
• Old Grey Whistle Test (UK) (1971 1987).
• Soul Train (1971 2008)
• Are You Being Served? (UK) (1972 1985).
• Emergency! (1972 1977).
• Emmerdale Farm (UK) (1972 present).
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972 1984).
• John Craven's Newsround (UK) (1972 present).
• Maude (1972 1978).
• M*A*S*H (1972 1983).
• Sanford and Son (1972 1977).
• The Bob Newhart Show (1972 1978)
• The Price Is Right (1972 present).
• The Waltons (1972 1981).
• Barnaby Jones (1973 1980).
• Kojak (1973 1978, 2005 present).
• Last of the Summer Wine (UK) (1973 present).
• Match Game (1962 1969, 1973 1984, 1990 1991, 1998 1999).
• Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 1986).
• The Six Million Dollar Man (1973 1978).
• Superstars (UK) (1973 1985, 2003 2005).
• The Tomorrow Show (1973 1982).
• The Young and the Restless (1973 present).
• Chico and the Man (1974 1978).
• Countdown (Australia) (1974 1987).
• Derrick (1974 1998).
• Dinah! (1974 1980).
• Good Times (1974 1979).
• Happy Days (1974 1984).
• Land of the Lost (1974 1977).
• Little House on the Prairie (1974 1983).
• Police Woman (1974 1978).
• Rhoda (1974 1978).
• Tattletales (1974 1978, 1982 1984).
• Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (1974 1984).
• The Rockford Files (1974 1980).
• Tiswas (UK) (1974 1982).
• Wish You Were Here...? (UK) (1974 present).
• Tom and Jerry (1965 1972, 1975 1977, 1980 1982).

Ending this year

• January 16 Ironside (1967 1975).
• March 7 The Odd Couple (1970 1975).
• March 28 Ultraman Leo (Japan) (1974 1975).
• March 31 Gunsmoke (1955 1975).
• April 13 Mannix (1967 1975).
• April 18 How to Survive a Marriage (1974 1975).
• April 26 Kung Fu (1972 1975)
• August 1 Death Valley Days (1952 1975)
• September What's My Line? (1950 1967; 1968 1975)

Game Shows Whose Runs Ended, Later Revived

• January 3 Jeopardy! (1964 1975, 1984 present).
• June 13 The Joker's Wild (1972 1975, 1978 1986)
• June 13 Now You See It (1974 1975, 1989).
• June 27 Password (1961 67, 71 75, 79 81, 84 89, 2008 2009).
• June 27 Split Second (1972 1975, 1986)
• September Truth or Consequences (on and off from 1950 1955, 1956 1975, 1977 1978, 1987 1988)

Changes of network affiliation

• The Edge of Night moves from CBS to ABC.

Births

• January 1 Georgina Mellor, British actress.
• January 29 Sara Gilbert, actress. (Roseanne)
• February 22 Drew Barrymore, actress
• March 15 Eva Longoria, actress.
• March 27 Stacy Ferguson, actress, singer. (Kids Incorporated, Wild Orchid, The Black Eyed Peas) (Fergie)
• April 6 Zach Braff, actor. (Scrubs)
• April 30 - Johnny Galecki, actor.
• June 4 Angelina Jolie, actress
• June 7 Allen Iverson, NBA star
• June 27 Tobey Maguire, actor.
• August 7 Charlize Theron, South African actress.
• October 5 Kate Winslet, English actress.
• October 12 Marion Jones, athlete player
• November 21 Cherie Johnson, actress
• December 17 Milla Jovovich, actress.
• December 27 Heather O'Rourke, actress (died 1988).
• December 30 Tiger Woods, Pro golf player

Deaths

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