1984 in American television

This article is a list of television-related events during 1984.

Events

Date	Event
January 9	Wendy's "Fluffy Bun" advertisement is first broadcast, which gains Clara Peller and her "Where's the beef?" catchphrase national fame.
January 9	Something About Amelia, a story concerning incest, is broadcast by ABC. Glenn Close, Ted Danson, and Roxana Zal are the main actors.
January 22	During CBS's broadcast of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer Company heralds the introduction of its Apple Macintosh personal computer with the famous advertisement "1984", the only time it is broadcast on national television.
January 23	Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win his first World Wrestling Federation championship at Madison Square Garden; the match is televised by the MSG Network.
January 27	Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
February 1	Arts & Entertainment Network launches from the merger of ARTS and RCA's The Entertainment Channel. It originally broadcasts after kids' channel Nickelodeon signs off.
	Lifetime is launched from the merger of Hearst/ABC's Daytime and Viacom's Cable Health Network.
	In Bakersfield, California, CBS affiliate KPWR-TV changes its call letters to the current KGET-TV, in preparation for an affiliation swap with NBC affiliate KERO-TV the following month.
February 26	KDRV in Medford, Oregon signs on as an ABC affiliate, giving the Medford market full-time access to all three networks for the first time.
February 26	CBS airs the network broadcast television premiere of Star Wars.
February 28	At the 26th Grammy Awards telecast by CBS, Michael Jackson wins a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards.
May 8	Happy Days airs its series finale, "Passages". However, five additional episodes would air from the end of June on through the end of September. The last episode to be aired on ABC, "Fonzie's Spots", is actually #251 in chronological order.
May 18	Character Bobby Ewing finds himself in the crossfire as a rival tries to gun down his brother J.R. on the season finale of the CBS series Dallas.
May 19	CBS tapes the Michael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck in which Larson wins $110,237 cash and prizes. (The episodes, which are split into two parts, would air on June 8 and 11.)
July 14	In what became known as "Black Saturday", Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation takes over Superstation WTBS' Saturday evening time period once occupied by Georgia Championship Wrestling.
July 28	ABC begins their coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Los Angeles. Jim McKay and Peter Jennings served as hosts for the opening ceremonies.
September 10	The game show Jeopardy! returns to television as a syndicated show with new host Alex Trebek.
September 14	Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler host the first MTV Video Music Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, an event which included Madonna's performance of the song "Like a Virgin".
September 20	The Cosby Show debuts on NBC.
September 18	The series finale of Three's Company airs following a three-episode story arc that also sets up the spin-off Three's a Crowd.
September 24	The game show Super Password premieres on NBC at 12:00 noon EST. The new version of the classic game show is one of the few shows to survive at a time period that normally broadcasts news on any of the three major networks, running for 4 1/2 years.
October 1	Montana, the last state in the Union without its own PBS station, gains one when Montana PBS launches.
October 1	American Movie Classics is initiated.
October 8	NBC broadcasts The Burning Bed, which features Farrah Fawcett as a woman who kills her abusive husband. The fact-based film is the highest-rated entertainment event of the 1984–1985 season.
October 27	Turner Broadcasting System initiates the Cable Music Channel in the U.S., only to end it one month later.
November 12	Theresa Saldana appears as herself in the NBC movie Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story, a retelling of her 1982 stabbing incident and its aftermath.
December 17	George C. Scott plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a new version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, broadcast by CBS.
	The ABC soap opera One Life to Live changes its opening sequence and theme song, which lasted until 1991.
	ABC purchases a majority stake of ESPN from Getty Oil Corp.
December 28	The Edge of Night ends after twenty-eight years on CBS and ABC daytime.

Programs

20/20 (1978–present)
60 Minutes (1968–present)
ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998)
Alice (1976–1985)
All My Children (1970-2011)
American Bandstand (1952–1989)
Another World (1964–1999)
As the World Turns (1956–2010)
Battle of the Planets (1978–1985)
Benson (1979–1986)
Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988)
Candid Camera (1948–2004)
Capitol (1982–1987)
Cheers (1982–1993)
Dallas (1978–1991)
Dangermouse (1980–1992)
Days of Our Lives (1965–present)
Derrick (1974–1998)
Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986)
Dynasty (1981–1989)
Face the Nation (1954–present)
Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
Fame (1982–1987)
Family Feud (1976–1985, 1988–1995, 1999–present)
Family Ties (1982–1989)
Fraggle Rock (1983–1987)
General Hospital (1963–present)
Gimme a Break! (1981–1987)
Good Morning America (1975–present)
Guiding Light (1952–2009)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
Happy Days (1974–1984)
Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Hee Haw (1969–1993)
Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Inspector Gadget (1983–1986)
Knight Rider (1982–1986)
Knots Landing (1979–1993)
Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993)
Loving (1983–1995)
Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988)
Mama's Family (1983–1985, 1986–1990)
Masterpiece Theatre (1971–present)
Match Game—Hollywood Squares Hour (1962–1969, 1973–1984, 1990–1991, 1998–1999)
Meet the Press (1947–present)
Monday Night Football (1970–present)
Moneyline (1980–present)
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1963–1988, 2002–present)
Newhart (1982–1990)
Nightline (1979–present)
One Life to Live (1968–2012, 2013)
Press Your Luck (1983–1986)
Professional Bowlers Tour (1962–1997)
Remington Steele (1982–1987)
Ryan's Hope (1975–1989)
Saturday Night Live (1975–present)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1987)
Schoolhouse Rock! (1973–1986)
Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986)
Sesame Street (1969–present)
Silver Spoons (1982–1987)
Simon & Simon (1981–1988)
Solid Gold (1980–1988)
Soul Train (1971–2006)
SportsCenter (1979–present)
St. Elsewhere (1982–1988)
Star Search (1983-1995, 2003)
That's Incredible! (1980–1984)
The A-Team (1983–1987)
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985)
The Edge of Night (1956–1984)
The Facts of Life (1979–1988)
The Fall Guy (1981–1986)
The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
The Love Boat (1977–1986)
The P.T.L. Club (1976–1987)
The Price Is Right (1972–present)
The Today Show (1952–present)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992)
The Young and the Restless (1973–present)
This Old House (1979–present)
This Week in Baseball (1977–1998, 2000–2011)
Three's Company (1977–1984)
Too Close for Comfort (1980–1986)
Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986)
Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
Webster (1983–1989)
Wheel of Fortune (1975–present)

Debuting this year

Date	Title	Network
January 3	Riptide	NBC
January 4	Night Court	NBC
January 6	Blue Thunder	ABC
January 20	The Master	NBC
January 22	Airwolf	CBS
January 28	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer	CBS
March 6	a.k.a. Pablo	ABC
March 19	Kate and Allie	CBS
March 20	Shaping Up	ABC
March 31	Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous	Syndication
April	Video Music Box	WNYC-TV
April 4	Double Trouble	NBC
April 12	The Duck Factory	NBC
April 14	My Little Pony	Syndication
June 2	Leo the Lion	CBN
June 4	Danger Mouse	Nickelodeon
July 2	Scrabble	NBC
July 13	Brothers	Showtime
July 30	Santa Barbara	NBC
August 13	Call to Glory	ABC
September 5	Heathcliff	Syndication
September 7	Kids Incorporated	Syndication
September 8	Dragon's Lair	ABC
	Mighty Orbots
	Turbo Teen
	Challenge of the GoBots	Syndication
September 10	Voltron: Defender of the Universe	Syndication
September 13	Glitter	ABC
September 14	Hawaiian Heat	ABC
September 15	Snorks	NBC
	Pink Panther and Sons	NBC
	The Get Along Gang	CBS
	Muppet Babies
	Pole Position
	Pryor's Place
September 16	E/R
September 16	Punky Brewster	NBC
September 17	The Transformers	Syndication
September 18	Hunter	NBC
September 19	Highway to Heaven
September 20	The Cosby Show
September 20	Who's the Boss?	ABC
September 22	Cover Up	CBS
	Hot Pursuit	NBC
	Finder of Lost Loves	ABC
September 23	Paper Dolls
September 25	Three's a Crowd
September 26	It's Your Move	NBC
September 27	Partners in Crime
September 28	Miami Vice
September 30	Tales from the Darkside	Syndication
September 30	Murder, She Wrote	CBS
October 3	Charles in Charge	CBS
October 7	Out of Control	Nickelodeon
October 8	Trivia Trap	ABC
October 9	Thomas & Friends	Clearwater Features (1984-1986), The Britt Allcroft Company (1986-2000), Gullane Entertainment (2000-2002), HIT Entertainment (2003-2016), Mattel (2016-present)
October 10	Dreams	CBS
October 26	V	NBC
December 30	Crazy Like a Fox	CBS

Resuming this year

Title	Final aired	Previous network	New title	Returning network	Date of return
People are Funny	1960	NBC	Same	Same	March 24
Showoffs	1975	ABC	Body Language	CBS	June 4
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids	1981	CBS	Same	Syndication	September 1
Jeopardy!	1979	NBC	Same	Syndication	September 10
Let's Make a Deal	1981	Syndication	The All-New Let's Make a Deal	Same	September 17
Password Plus	1982	NBC	Super Password	Same	September 24

Changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Showoffs	ABC	CBS
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids	CBS	Syndication
Jeopardy!	NBC	Syndication

Ending this year

Date	Title	Debut
March 10	We Got It Made (returned in 1987)	1983
April 2	Automan
April 7	Mama's Family (returned in 1986)
April 10	a.k.a. Pablo	1984
April 16	Blue Thunder	1984
April 27	Masquerade	1983
April 30	That's Incredible!	1980
May 15	Oh Madeline	1983
May 19	Fantasy Island	1978
May 22	Hart to Hart	1979
May 28	One Day at a Time	1975
June 1	Tattletales	1982
June 2	Whiz Kids	1983
June 14	Lottery!	1983
July 4	Real People	1979
July 11	The Duck Factory	1984
July 12	Happy Days	1974
July 27	Hollywood Squares (returned in 1986)	1966
August 11	Boone	1983
September 1	Monchhichis	1983
	The Little Rascals	1982
	Pac-Man	1982
	Richie Rich	1980
	Rubik, the Amazing Cube	1983
	The Littles
September 5	Jennifer Slept Here
September 8	The Flintstone Funnies	1982
September 18	Three's Company	1977
November 10	The Puppy's Further Adventures	1982
December 1	Dean Martin Celebrity Roast	1973
December 1	The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show	1983
December 8	Captain Kangaroo	1955
	Pole Position	1984
	Pryor's Place	1984
December 11	AfterMASH	1983
December 28	The Edge of Night	1956
December 29	Partners in Crime	1984

Entering syndication

Show	Seasons	In Production	Source
Benson	5	Yes	^[1]
Bizarre	4	Yes	^[1]
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids	7	Yes	^[1]
The Greatest American Hero	3	No	^[1]
Hart to Hart	5	No	^[1]
Trapper John, M.D.	5	Yes	^[1]
Voyagers!	1	No	^[1]

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

V: The Final Battle

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 2	Kristen Hager	Canadian actress (Valemont, Being Human)
January 4	Robin Sydney	Actress (Drake & Josh)
January 6	Kate McKinnon	Actress (The Big Gay Sketch Show, Saturday Night Live) and comedian
January 19	Nathan Ruegger	Voice actor (Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Histeria!)
January 24	Ashley C. Williams	Actress
January 26	Layla Kayleigh	English-American television host
February 1	Lee Thompson Young	Actor (The Famous Jett Jackson, Rizzoli & Isles) (d. 2013)
February 3	Matthew Moy	Actor (2 Broke Girls, Steven Universe)
February 8	Cecily Strong	Actress (Saturday Night Live)
February 15	Josh Byrne	Actor (Step by Step)
February 18	Chelsea Hobbs	Canadian actress (Make It or Break It)
February 24	Wilson Bethel	Actor (The Young and the Restless, Hart of Dixie)
March 4	Sam Marin	Voice actor (Regular Show)
March 10	Olivia Wilde	Actress (House)
March 12	Jaimie Alexander	Actress (Watch Over Me, Kyle XY, Blindspot)
March 14	Liesel Matthews	Actress
March 20	Justine Ezarik	YouTube personality and actress (The Annoying Orange, iJustine)
March 20	Christy Carlson Romano	Actress (Even Stevens, Kim Possible) and singer
March 25	Katharine McPhee	Actress and singer (American Idol, Smash, Scorpion)
March 30	Helena Mattsson	Swedish-American actress (666 Park Avenue)
April 2	Ashley Peldon	Actress (The Mommies) and sister of Courtney Peldon
April 3	Chrissie Fit	Actress (General Hospital, Milo Murphy's Law)
April 5	Marshall Allman	Actor (Prison Break, True Blood)
April 8	Taran Noah Smith	Actor (Home Improvement)
April 8	Kirsten Storms	Actress (Days of Our Lives, Kim Possible, General Hospital)
April 10	Cara DeLizia	Actress (So Weird)
April 10	Mandy Moore	Actress (Tron: Uprising, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, High School USA!, This Is Us, Tangled: The Series) and singer
April 11	Kelli Garner	Actress (Pan Am)
April 16	Claire Foy	English actress (Upstairs Downstairs)
April 18	America Ferrera	Actress (Ugly Betty, Superstore)
April 21	Shayna Fox	Voice actress (Regina "Reggie" Rocket on Rocket Power)
April 22	Michelle Ryan	British actress (Bionic Woman)
April 23	Jesse Lee Soffer	Actor (As the World Turns, The Mob Doctor, Chicago P.D.)
April 26	Emily Wickersham	Actress (NCIS)
April 26	Ryan O'Donohue	Voice actor (Recess, Batman Beyond)
April 27	Patrick Stump	Musician (Fall Out Boy) and actor (Robot Chicken)
April 29	Firass Dirani	Australian actor (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
April 29	Taylor Cole	Actress (Summerland)
May 3	Morgan Kibby	Actress (100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd) and singer
May 8	Julia Whelan	Actress (Once and Again)
May 12	Clare Bowen	Australian actress and singer (Nashville)
May 23	Adam Wylie	Actor (Picket Fences, Hey Arnold!)
May 24	Sarah Hagan	Actress (Freaks and Geeks)
May 27	Darin Brooks	Actor (Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Blue Mountain State)
May 29	Carmelo Anthony	Basketball player
May 29	Kaycee Stroh	Actress (High School Musical)
June 4	Jillian Murray	Actress
June 6	Antonia Prebble	New Zealand actress (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
June 13	Phillip Van Dyke	Actor (Noah Knows Best, voice of Arnold on Hey Arnold! (1997–99))
June 18	Ian Jones-Quartey	Voice actor (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
June 26	Aubrey Plaza	Actress (Parks and Recreation)
June 27	Emma Lahana	New Zealand actress (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
June 27	Khloé Kardashian	Actress (Keeping Up with the Kardashians)
July 5	Danay García	Cuban actress (Prison Break, Fear the Walking Dead)
July 7	Ross Malinger	Voice actor (T.J. Detweiler on Recess (1997–98))
July 8	Alexis Dziena	Actress (Invasion, Entourage)
July 10	Kelly Dowdle	Actress (American Crime Story)
	Aviva Baumann	Actress
	Michaela Dietz	Actress (Amethyst on Steven Universe and Riff on Barney & Friends)
July 11	Rachael Taylor	Australian actress (666 Park Avenue, Crisis, Jessica Jones)
July 11	Serinda Swan	Canadian actress (Breakout Kings, Graceland)
July 19	Andrea Libman	Canadian voice actress (Madeline, Dragon Tales, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
July 19	Kaitlin Doubleday	Actress (Empire)
July 20	James Mackay	Australian actor (Dynasty)
July 26	Grace Gealey	Actress (Empire)
July 27	Taylor Schilling	Actress (Mercy, Orange is the New Black)
July 29	J. Madison Wright Morris	Actress (Earth 2) (d. 2006)
July 30	Gabrielle Christian	Actress (South of Nowhere)
July 30	Gina Rodriguez	Actress (Jane the Virgin)
August 1	Valery Ortiz	Actress (South of Nowhere, What About Brian)
August 3	Emily Baldoni	Swedish-American actress
August 10	Ryan Eggold	Actor (90210, The Blacklist)
August 27	Amanda Fuller	Actress (Last Man Standing)
August 28	Sarah Roemer	Actress (The Event, Chosen)
August 28	Michael Galeota	Actor (The Jersey) (d. 2016)
September 1	Joe Trohman	American musician (Fall Out Boy)
September 4	Kyle Mooney	Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
September 14	Adam Lamberg	Actor (Lizzie McGuire)
September 16	Sabrina Bryan	Actress, singer (The Cheetah Girls; Dancing with the Stars contestant [2 seasons])
September 18	Nina Arianda	Actress
September 19	Kevin Zegers	Canadian actor (Gossip Girl)
September 19	Lydia Hearst	Actress and great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst
September 22	Laura Vandervoort	Canadian actress (Instant Star, V, Smallville, Bitten)
September 23	CariDee English	Model and actress (America's Next Top Model)
September 23	Anneliese van der Pol	Actress (That's So Raven, Raven's Home) and singer
September 25	Zach Woods	Actor (The Office, Silicon Valley)
September 27	Avril Lavigne	Singer and actress
October 1	Beck Bennett	Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
	Josh Brener	Actor (Glory Daze, The Big Bang Theory, Maron, Silicon Valley, Future-Worm!, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
	Sam Saletta	Voice actor (Sam "Squid" Dullard on Rocket Power (1999–2000))
October 3	Ashlee Simpson	Actress, singer (7th Heaven, The Ashlee Simpson Show) and sister of Jessica Simpson
	Jessica Parker Kennedy	Actress (Kaya, The Secret Circle, Black Sails)
	Chris Marquette	Actor (Strong Medicine, The Mummy: The Animated Series, Fillmore!, Joan of Arcadia)
October 4	Glenn McMillan	Brazilian actor (Power Rangers Wild Force)
October 11	Martha MacIsaac	Canadian actress (1600 Penn)
October 14	Jason Davis	Voice actor (Mikey Blumberg on Recess)
October 17	Chris Lowell	Actor (Veronica Mars, Private Practice)
October 24	Ben Giroux	Voice actor (Mikey Munroe on Bunsen Is a Beast)
October 25	Katy Perry	Singer, songwriter, and actress
October 27	Kelly Osbourne	British singer, actress (The Osbournes) and daughter of Ozzy Osbourne
October 27	Emilie Ullerup	Danish-American actress (Sanctuary, Arctic Air)
October 28	Finn Wittrock	Actor (All My Children, American Horror Story)
November 16	Kimberly J. Brown	Actress (Halloweentown, Vampire Princess Miyu, Guiding Light)
November 21	Lindsey Haun	Actress and singer
November 21	Jena Malone	Actress
November 22	Scarlett Johansson	Actress (4-time host of Saturday Night Live)
November 23	Lucas Grabeel	Actor (Halloweentown, High School Musical, Switched at Birth, Pinky Malinky)
November 28	Mary Elizabeth Winstead	Actress (Wolf Lake, The Returned, BrainDead, Mercy Street, Fargo)
December 4	Lindsey Felton	Actress (Thunder Alley, Caitlin's Way)
December 10	Tom Hern	New Zealand actor (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
December 15	Kirsty Lee Allan	Australian actress
December 17	Shannon Woodward	Actress (The Riches, Raising Hope, Westworld)
December 19	Erica O'Keith	Actress (Romeo!)
December 20	Bob Morley	Actor (The 100)
December 22	Greg Finley	Actor (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
February 16	Kenny Williams	69	Game show announcer (The Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, Gambit)
March 1	Jackie Coogan	69	actor (Uncle Fester on The Addams Family)
March 24	Sam Jaffe	93	actor (Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey)
May 2	Jack Barry	66	game show host/producer (The Joker's Wild)
May 16	Andy Kaufman	35	comedian (Latka Gravas on Taxi)
June 15	Ned Glass	78	actor
August 8	Richard Deacon	63	actor (Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver, Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show)
September 24	Neil Hamilton	85	actor (Commissioner Gordon on Batman)
October 18	Jon-Erik Hexum	26	actor (gunshot wound from accident on set of TV series Cover Up)
December 7	Jeanne Cagney	65	actress

References

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