1976 - The critically acclaimed drama FAMILY premiered on ABC. 1977 - The last telecast of THE JACKSONS variety show aired on CBS 198...

1971 - James Taylor made his prime-time television debut on ABC's the " Johnny Cash Show ." 1990 - Aerosmith appeared on Sa...

1948 - NBC began airing its first nightly newscast, "The Camel Newsreel Theatre", which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels. 19...

1958 - "The Dick Clark Show" debuted on ABC. Connie Francis, Pat Boone and Jerry Lee Lewis were the first performers to appear on ...

1972 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono began a weeklong stay as co-hosts on "The Mike Douglas Show." 1980 - Walter Cronkite announced h...

1989 - The 100th episode of "Murder, She Wrote" aired on CBS.

1960 - Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the "Tonight Show" with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors...

1958 - The "Annette" serial began on ABC-TV's "Mickey Mouse Club." 1981 - U.S. President Reagan was filmed through...

1964 - The Beatles made their American TV debut on " The Ed Sullivan Show ." 73 million people watched the show. 1975 - Cher ...

1976 - The TV series " Laverne and Shirley " debuted  on ABC. 2002 - Stephen King's three-part, six-hour miniseries " R...

1949 - The first Emmys were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club. 1961 - John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news co...

1947 - KTLA, Channel 5, in Hollywood, CA, began operation as the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River. 1968 -...

1990 - MTV's "Unplugged" made its debut with Squeeze as the first performers. 2002 - The 100th episode of "Ally McBeal...

1953 - Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS, as Lucy Ricardo, of "I Love Lucy," gave birth to a baby b...

1974 - The first episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" aired on ABC. 1975 - "The Jeffersons" debuted on CBS. 1978 - T...

1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Footb...

1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered. 1972 - NBC debuted "Sanford & Son." 1976 - "Bionic Woman" debuted...

1966 - Elizabeth Montgomery’s character, Samantha, on "Bewitched," had a baby. The baby's name was Tabitha. 1973 - ABC aired t...

1949 - "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends" was debuted on CBS. 1949 - "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", the Chicago-based children’s...

1962 - The NFL entered into a single-network agreement with CBS for telecasting all regular-season games for $4.65 million annually. 1971 - ...