1952 in television

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The year 1952 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1952.

Events

July 7 - Turkey's first television station was opened ITU TV.
July 20 – Arrow to the Heart, the first collaboration between director Rudolph Cartier and scriptwriter Nigel Kneale, is broadcast by BBC Television.
August 1 – First TV broadcast in the Dominican Republic by La Voz Dominicana, a TV station based on the radio station of the same name.
September 6 – Television debuts in Canada with the initiation of CBFT in Montreal, Quebec.
September 8 – CBLT in Toronto, Ontario begins broadcasting as Canada's second TV station.
September 20 – The first commercial Ultra High Frequency (UHF) television station in the world, KPTV (now a Fox company affiliate), begins broadcasting in Portland, Oregon on channel 27.
October 7 – WFIL-TV Philadelphia's afternoon series Bandstand, which will become American Bandstand, changes emphasis to teens dancing to popular records
November 16 – CBS Television City in Hollywood, California opens.
The first political advertisements appear on US television. Democrats buy a 30-minute time segment for their candidate, Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson receives unfavorable mail for interfering with a broadcast of I Love Lucy. Dwight Eisenhower buys 20 second commercial segments and wins the election.
The first telecast of an atomic bomb detonation (KTLA).
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission reserved channels for non-commercial, public broadcasting.
There were approximately 146,000 television sets in Canada and most antennas were pointed towards WBEN-TV (now WIVB) in Buffalo, New York.
The first telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is broadcast by CBS.

Programs/programmes

Amos & Andy (1951–1953)
Author Meets the Critics (1947–1954)
Bozo the Clown (1948–present)
Café Continental (UK) (1947–1953)
Candid Camera (1948–present)
Cisco Kid (1950–1956)
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950-1955)
Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995)
Dragnet (1951–1959)
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
Hawkins Falls (1950, 1951–1955)
Howdy Doody (1947–1960)
I Love Lucy (1951–1960)
Juvenile Jury (1947–1954)
Kaleidoscope (UK) (1946–1953)
Kraft Television Theater (1947–1958)
Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947–1957)
Life with Elizabeth (1952–1955)
Love of Life (1951–1980)
Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949–1954)
Meet the Press (1947–present)
Muffin the Mule (UK) (1946–1955)
Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986)
Television Newsreel (UK) (1948–1954)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958)
The Goldbergs (1949–1955)
The Jack Benny Show (1950–1965)
The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957)
The Texaco Star Theater (1948–1953)
The Voice of Firestone (1949–1963)
Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
What's My Line (1950–1967)
Your Hit Parade (1950–1959)
Your Show of Shows (1950–1954)

Debuts

January 6 - Claudia on NBC (moved to CBS on March 31, 1952)^[1]^:167
January 14 – The Today Show on NBC (1952–present)^[1]
March 1 – Death Valley Days in syndication (1952–1975)
June 19 – I've Got a Secret on CBS (1952–1967)
June 30 – the soap opera The Guiding Light (1952–2009) on CBS, which began on radio in 1937, becoming the longest-running regularly scheduled drama in television history
July 10 - The prime time version of A Date with Judy debuts on ABC.
September – the religious drama This Is the Life on DuMont, and ran until the late 1980s
September 19 – Adventures of Superman in syndication (1952–1958)
October 26 – Victory at Sea (1952–1953) on NBC, one of the first historic documentary series
November 1 – Hockey Night in Canada on CBC (1952–present)
November 6 – Biff Baker, U.S.A. on CBS (1952–1953)
November 8 – My Hero on NBC (1952–1953)
December 1 – The Abbott and Costello Show in syndication (1952–1954)
December 15 – Flower Pot Men on BBC Television (1952)
American Bandstand, originally called Bandstand, as a local program in Philadelphia (1952–1989)
Life Is Worth Living with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen on DuMont (1952–1955), then on ABC (1955–1957)
My Little Margie (1952–1955), starring Gale Storm
See It Now, hosted by Edward R. Murrow
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on ABC (1952–1966)
The Ernie Kovacs Show, where Kovacs explores the boundaries of television technology with his use of special effects (1952–1953)
Meet the Masters, a program about classical music, on NBC and WGN-TV
This Is Your Life in the U.S. (1952–1961)
Life with Elizabeth, a sitcom featuring Betty White (1952–1955)

Ending during 1952

Date	Show	Debut
February 23	A Date with Judy (daytime version)	1951
March 27	The Bill Goodwin Show
April 11	Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town
April 24	Stop the Music	1949
June 30	Claudia	1952
Unknown	Picture Page (UK)	1946

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 2	Wendy Phillips	Actress (Falcon Crest)
February 17	Garry Chalk	Voice actor
March 2	Laraine Newman	Comic actress (Saturday Night Live)
March 4	Ronn Moss	Actor, musician (The Bold and the Beautiful)
March 11	Susan Richardson	Actress (Eight is Enough)
April 1	Annette O'Toole	Actress (Smallville)
April 5	Mitch Pileggi	Actor (The X-Files)
April 6	Marilu Henner	Actress (Taxi)
April 16	Billy West	Voice actor (Doug, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Futurama)
April 29	Nora Dunn	Actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
May 2	Christine Baranski	Actress (Cybill, The Good Wife)
May 4	Michael Barrymore	British comedian, presenter
May 6	Gregg Henry	Actor, musician
	Michael O'Hare	Actor (Babylon 5) (d. 2012)
	Fred Newman	Actor (Doug, Between the Lions)
May 11	Frances Fisher	Actress (The Edge of Night)
May 20	Paolo Seganti	Italian actor (As the World Turns)
May 21	Mr. T	Actor (B. A. Baracus on The A-Team)
June 14	Eddie Mekka	Actor (Laverne & Shirley)
June 18	Carol Kane	Actress (Taxi)
June 20	John Goodman	Actor (Roseanne)
July 1	Dan Aykroyd	Comic actor (Saturday Night Live)
July 6	Grant Goodeve	American actor (Eight is Enough)
July 15	Terry O'Quinn	Actor (Lost)
July 17	David Hasselhoff	Actor (Knight Rider, Baywatch)
July 27	Roxanne Hart	Actress (Chicago Hope)
August 1	Brian Patrick Clarke	Actor
August 4	Bobby Buntrock	Actor (Hazel) (d. 1974)
August 10	Daniel Hugh Kelly	Actor (Hardcastle and McCormick)
August 16	Reginald VelJohnson	Actor (Family Matters)
August 18	Patrick Swayze	Actor / dancer (d. 2009)
August 19	Jonathan Frakes	Actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation), director
August 27	Paul Reubens	Comic actor (Pee-wee Herman on Pee-wee's Playhouse)
August 29	Deborah Van Valkenburgh	Actress (Too Close for Comfort)
September 5	Michael Horton	Actor (Murder, She Wrote)
September 9	Angela Cartwright	Actress (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
September 25	Christopher Reeve	Actor (d. 2004)
September 25	Tommy Norden	Actor (Flipper)
September 27	Gail Edwards	Actress (It's a Living, Full House, Blossom)
September 30	John Finn	Actor (Cold Case)
October 9	Sharon Osbourne	TV personality (The Osbournes, The Talk)
October 14	Harry Anderson	Actor (Night Court) (d. 2018)
October 20	Melanie Mayron	Actress, director (Thirtysomething)
October 22	Jeff Goldblum	Actor (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
October 27	Ted Wass	Actor, director (Soap, Blossom)
October 28	Annie Potts	Actress (Designing Women)
October 30	Emily Kuroda	Actress (Gilmore Girls)
November 3	Roseanne Barr	Actress, comedian (Roseanne)
November 3	Jim Cummings	Voice actor (The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Darkwing Duck, CatDog)
November 8	Alfre Woodard	Actress
November 28	S. Epatha Merkerson	Actress (Law & Order)
November 29	Jeff Fahey	Actor (The Marshal, Lost)
November 30	Mandy Patinkin	Actor (Criminal Minds)
December 9	Michael Dorn	Actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
December 10	Susan Dey	Actress (The Partridge Family, L.A. Law)
December 12	Sarah Douglas	Actress (Falcon Crest)
December 25	C. C. H. Pounder	Actress
December 29	Robert Wightman	Actor (The Waltons)

References

1 2 McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television. Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.

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[mcneil-1] 1 2 McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television. Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.