1964 in television

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Popular Television Shows
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.
January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show
January 4 - TV Tokyo launched in Japan.
February 9 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, breaking television ratings records
February 16 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
February 23 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
March 30 - The game show Jeopardy debuts on television.
April 20 - BBC2 starts broadcasting; the existing BBC channel is renamed BBC1.
April 30 - Television sets manufactured as of this date are required to receive UHF channels.
May 4 - The American soap opera Another World debuts on NBC at 3:00 PM Eastern time, as a half-hour show.
September - Shindig! premieres on ABC

The Addams Family on ABC (1964-1966)
Another World on NBC (1964-1999)
Bewitched on ABC (1964-1972)
Gilligan's Island on CBS (1964-1972)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C on CBS (1964-1970)
Jeopardy on NBC daytime TV (1964-1975)
The Munsters on CBS (1964-1966)

I Spy, starring Bill Cosby premieres
The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968)
Bonanza (1959-1973)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966)
Dr Who (1963-1989)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948-1971)
Hanna Barbera's The Flintstones (1960-1966)
Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
Lawrence Welk Show (1955-1982)
Mister Ed (1961-1966)
My Three Sons (1960-1972)
The Tonight Show (1954-present)
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954-1983)