1958 in television

none thumb | right 1958 television radio film music The year 1958 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1958. Events January 1 – Suomen Televisio, later known as Yle TV1, begins regular broadcasting.Yle TV1#History Retrieved January 13, 2017. January 28 – Short-lived station KTRX signs on the air in Kennewick, Washington. January 14 – Television Wales and the West (TWW), the first ITV franchise for South Wales and West of England, begins broadcasting. January 17 – TV Peru, the first television channel in Peru, begins operations.https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1970-71-TV-Factbook/TV-Factbook-1970-71.pdf Television Factbook 1971 5 April 2024 1054-b January 25 – Royal Thai Channel 5, officially launched in Bangkok, Thailand.Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Channel 5#History Retrieved January 13, 2017. February 17 – Pope Pius XII designates St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television. Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set was said to improve reception. April 19 – Chronicle Broadcasting Network, the predecessor of ABS-CBN Corporation in the Philippines, launches DZXL-TV Channel 9.2025-02-07 FACT CHECK: Hindi totoong babalik sa Channel 3 ang ABS-CBN https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2025/2/7/fact-check-hindi-totoong-babalik-sa-channel-3-ang-abs-cbn-2012 ABS-CBN 2025-10-14 tlFrancisco Butch February 6, 2024 The Butcher, The odyssey of Channel 9 https://www.pikapika.ph/pikadaily/the-butcher-the-odyssey-of-channel-9/the-butcher March 22, 2025 Pikapika.ph April 30 – Moldova TV signs on the air at 19:00, making it the very first television network in Moldova. May 2 – CCTV-1 began on an experimental basis as Peking Television. July 1 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) links television broadcasting across Canada. The CBC's microwave network between Nova Scotia and British Columbia, completed this year, makes it the longest in the world. July 3 – The "Telecopter", a Bell Model 47 rented by television station KTLA in Los Angeles, and outfitted with a television camera, makes the world's first flight by a television news helicopter. Following a technical failure, it makes its first successful news flight the following day.Pool, Bob, "Obituary: John D. Silva, 92; TV Engineer Devised the World's First News Helicopter," The Washington Post, December 11, 2012, p. B6. August 23 – Television Belgrade, as predecessor for RTS 1, a first regular television broadcasting station officially service start in Serbia, former part of Yugoslavia.sr:Београдска телевизија емитобаће данас свој први програм Belgrade Television will broadcast its first programme today https://istorijskenovine.unilib.rs/view/index.html#panel:ppissue:UB_00064_19580823page:5 30 December 2024 Borba 23 August 1958 Belgrade, Yugoslavia 11 sr Belgrade University Library August 30 – Southern Television, the ITV franchise for South Central and South East England, begins broadcasting. September 16 – Orson Welles's The Fountain of Youth is broadcast on NBC-TV's Colgate Theatre.Welles, Orson, and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1992 0-06-016616-9424–425 Filmed in 1956 for a proposed Desilu series, the half-hour program airs only once and becomes the only unsold pilot ever to win a Peabody Award.Adams, Val, "Peabody Awards for 1958 Listed". The New York Times, April 8, 1959.Arnaz, Desi. A Book. New York: William Morrow, 1976. 0688003427307 Fall – The quiz show scandals resulted in the cancellation of the original big-money game show, CBS' "The $64,000 Question", and creating havoc within the US television industry. October 1 – Shanghai Television, as early television station launched in China, first regular service to start.:zh:上海电视台#历史 (Chinese language) Retrieved January 14, 2017. October 3 – Television Iran, as predecessor of IRIB TV1, a first regular program service television broadcasting station launched in Iran.https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1958/1958-10-13-BC.pdf Broadcasting 13 October 1958 17 April 2024 114 October 17 – Fred Astaire makes his TV starring debut in the NBC special, An Evening with Fred Astaire, which later won nine Emmy Awards and is one of the first TV specials to be preserved on videotape. September 20 – Radio Valencia Televisión signs on the air in Venezuela with test transmissions began on April 30. November 30 – During the live broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network in the UK, actor Gareth Jones suffers a fatal heart attack between two of his scenes while in make-up. December 15 – Channel 4, the flagship station of América Televisión, as well as the first every privately owned television station in Peru, begins officially regular broadcasting service first to viewers in Lima.América Televisión Retrieved January 7, 2017. SF DRS, the German-language Swiss television channel, debuts. Ampex demonstrates their design for a color video tape recorder. In the United Kingdom, the top-rated show of the year is the ITV game show Dotto, adapted from an American game show which in turn was based on children's Connect the dots game. The original American version of "Dotto" was the first game show to be implicated in the quiz show scandals, and was cancelled in August. Top-rated prime-time game show Twenty-One is cancelled by NBC in October after former contestant Herb Stempel charged that the series was rigged and that he had been ordered to lose a match to the popular Charles Van Doren. DuMont company sells its television manufacturing assets to Emerson company. The quality decreases. Programs/programmes Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960) Howdy Doody (1947–1960) Meet the Press (1947–present) Candid Camera (1948–present) The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) Bozo the Clown (1949–present) Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995) The Voice of Firestone (1949–1963) The Jack Benny Show (1950–1965) Truth or Consequences (1950–1988) What's My Line (1950–1967) Your Hit Parade (1950–1959) Dragnet (1951–1959) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960) I Love Lucy (1951–1960) Love of Life (1951–1980) Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955-1958) Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present) American Bandstand (1952–1989) The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966) The Guiding Light (1952–2009) The Today Show (1952–present) This Is Your Life (1952–1961) Panorama (UK) (1953–present) The Good Old Days (UK) (1953–1983) Disneyland (1954–1958) ends on September 3, to resume on September 12 as Walt Disney Presents (1958–1961) Face the Nation (1954–present) The Brighter Day (1954–1962) The Milton Berle Show (1954–1967) The Secret Storm (1954–1974) The Tonight Show (1954–present) Zoo Quest (UK) (1954–1964) Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962) Captain Kangaroo (1955–1984) Cheyenne (1955–1962) Dixon of Dock Green (UK) (1955–1976) Gunsmoke (1955–1975) Jubilee USA (1955–1960) The Mickey Mouse Club (1955–1959) The Lawrence Welk Show (1955–1982) This Is Your Life (UK) (1955–2003) Armchair Theatre (UK) (1956–1968) As the World Turns (1956–2010) The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (1956–1961) Hancock's Half Hour (UK) (1956–1962) Opportunity Knocks (UK) (1956–1978) The Edge of Night (1956–1984) The Gale Storm Show, Oh! Susanna (1956–1960) The Jane Wyman Show, Fireside Theatre (1949-1958) The Price Is Right (1956–1965) The Steve Allen Show (1956–1960) What the Papers Say (UK) (1956–2008) The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1957–1960) The Army Game (UK) (1957–1961) Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963) The Real McCoys (1957-1963) The Sky at Night (UK) (1957–present) General Motors Presents (1953–1956, 1958–1961) Debuts January 4 – Sea Hunt in syndication (1958–1961) January 20 – Love That Jill on ABC (1958) March 14 – Stahlnetz on West Germany's ARD (1958–1968) April 19 – The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby on Italy's RAI 1 (1958) June 16 – Variety View (1958–1959) (Melbourne, Australia) June 19 – Confession, hosted by Jack Wyatt, on ABC (1958–1959) June 23 – Polka Go-Round on ABC (1958–1959) August 25 – Concentration on NBC (1958–1973) September 6 – Wanted Dead or Alive on CBS (1958–1961) September 22 – Peter Gunn on NBC (1958–1961) September 24 – The Donna Reed Show on ABC (1958–1966) September 29 – The Huckleberry Hound Show, Hanna Barbera's second series, in syndication (1958–1962) September 30 – The Rifleman on ABC (1958–1963) October 2 Behind Closed Doors on NBC (1958–1959) The Unforeseen on CBC (1958–1960) October 5 Lawman on ABC (1958–1962) Encounter, an anthology series originating from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, began a five-week run on ABC, having been cancelled after the November 2 episode October 8 – Bat Masterson on NBC (1958–1961) October 10 77 Sunset Strip on ABC (1958–1964) Grandstand on BBC Television (1958–2007) Man with a Camera on ABC (1958-1960) October 15 – Mole's Adventure (Japan), the oldest surviving anime television show.http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-06-19/oldest-tv-anime-color-screenshots-posted Oldest TV Anime's Color Screenshots Posted Anime News Network June 19, 2013 January 2, 2014 October 16 – Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's TV programme, debuts on BBC Television (1958–present) October 17 – An Evening With Fred Astaire on NBC; first show prerecorded on color videotape, wins nine Emmy Awards November 4 – Flight (1958–1959) syndicated premiere on NBC NYC; produced by California National Presentation November 7 – Our Mutual Friend on BBC Television (1958–1959) December 22 – Quatermass and the Pit on BBC Television (1958–1959) Autumn Affair (1958–1959), the first Australian-produced television soap opera (on ATN-7 in Sydney, starting 1959 also shown on GTV-9 in Melbourne) Café Continental (1958–1961) (Sydney and Melbourne Australia) Don Messer's Jubilee (1958–1969) The Friendly Giant (1958–1985) The Shirley Abicair Show (1958) (Sydney and Melbourne Australia) Your Life in Their Hands on BBC Television (1958–1964 and many revivals) Unknown – This is Alice in first-run syndication (1958–1959) Ending this year Date Show DebutMarch 30 Sally1957April 14 Love That Jill1958April 28 Adventures of Superman 1952 May 16Dick and the Duchess 1957McNeil Alex Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present 1996 Penguin Books USA, Inc. New York, New York 0-14-02-4916-8 216 4thMay 31 The Polly Bergen Show 1957June 7The Life of Riley 1953 June 13 The Patrice Munsel Show 1957Brooks Tim Marsh Earle F. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present June 24, 2009 Random House Publishing Group 978-0-307-48320-1 1060 https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Patrice+Munsel+Show%22+ABC&pg=PA1060 September 11, 2023 en June 24Educated Evans1957June 26 Climax! 1954July 8Mr. Adams and Eve 1957September 6Club OasisSeptember 15The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show 1950September 25Sergeant Preston of the Yukon1955October 1Kraft Television Theatre 1947UnknownThe Jeannie Carson Show 1956 Births Date Name Notability January 1 Renn Woods Actress (Roots) January 4 Matt Frewer Actor (Max Headroom, The Pink Panther) January 12 Christiane Amanpour Host January 17 Deran Sarafian Actor January 20 Lorenzo Lamas Actor (Falcon Crest) January 26 Ellen DeGeneres Actress & talk show host (Ellen) January 27 Susanna Thompson Actress (Once and Again) January 29 Judy Norton Taylor Actress (The Waltons) January 30 Brett Butler Actress (Grace Under Fire) February 2 Douglas McGrath Actor (died 2022) February 13 Donal Gibson Actor February 16 Lisa Loring Actress (The Addams Family) Ice-T Actor & rapper (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) February 19 Leslie David Baker Actor (The Office)February 21 Jack Coleman Actor (Dynasty, Heroes) Kim Coates Actor Denise Dowse Actress (Beverly Hills, 90210, The Guardian, Charmed) February 23 Norm Spencer Actor (X-Men: The Animated Series, Rescue Heroes) (died 2020)February 24 Todd Fisher Actor Margaret Larson Presenter February 25 Mark Moses Actor (Desperate Housewives, Mad Men) February 26 Greg Germann Actor (Ally McBeal)Tim KainePolitician July 22, 2016 Tim Kaine: Everything You Need to Know https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tim-kaine/story?id=40280767 2025-07-26 ABC News en March 3 Miranda Richardson Actress March 4 Patricia Heaton Actress (Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle)March 10 Sharon Stone Actress Mary Murphy Choreographer March 15 Deb Lacusta Actress March 17 Christian Clemenson Actor (CSI: Miami, Boston Legal) March 19 Fred Stoller Actor & comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond) March 20 Holly Hunter Actress (The Incredibles) March 21 Gary Oldman Actor & filmmaker Brad Hall Actor (Saturday Night Live, The Single Guy, Watching Ellie) Sabrina Le Beauf Actress (The Cosby Show) March 22 Laurie David American environmental activist March 25 James McDaniel Actor (NYPD Blue) March 27 Michael O'Leary Actor & screenwriter (Guiding Light) March 30 Maurice LaMarche Voice actor (The Brain on Animaniacs) April 2 Amelia Marshall Soap opera actress Jon Klein CNN former president April 3 Alec Baldwin Actor (30 Rock) April 4 Constance Shulman Actress (Doug, Orange is the New Black) April 14 John D'Aquino Actor (seaQuest DSV, Cory in the House) April 21 Andie MacDowell Actress April 26 Giancarlo Esposito Actor Tommy Habeeb American television host April 29 Eve Plumb Actress (The Brady Bunch) Michelle Pfeiffer Actress Rosanna Scotto American news anchor May 1 Nick Stellino Chef, author and TV presenterMay 10Rick SantorumPolitician and commentator 2013-05-13 Rick Santorum Fast Facts CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/13/us/rick-santorum-fast-facts/index.html 2024-06-16 CNN en (CNN, Newsmax TV) May 20 Matt McCoy Actor May 21 Tim Hill Actor May 23 Drew Carey Actor, comedian, game show host (The Price Is Right) Lea DeLaria Actress, comedian May 26 Margaret Colin Actress (As the World Turns, Gossip Girl) May 27 Linnea Quigley Actress May 29 Karen Maruyama Actress May 30 Ted McGinley Actor (Married... with Children, Hope & Faith) May 31 Roma Maffia Actress (Profiler) June 5 Beth Hall Actress June 7 Prince Singer and actor (died 2016) June 12 Rebecca Holden Actress & singer June 21 Eric Douglas Actor June 22 Bruce Campbell Actor (Burn Notice) & director June 27 Robert Newman Actor July 3 Rick Sanchez Journalist July 4 Steve Hartman Sportcaster July 5 Peter Tolan Writer July 6 Jennifer Saunders Actress & comedian (Absolutely Fabulous) July 8 Kevin Bacon Actor July 11 John Tinker Writer July 14 Joe Keenan Writer Gail Mancuso American film and television director July 20 Billy Mays American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (died 2009) July 23 Keenan Ivory Wayans Actor & comedian (In Living Color) July 24 Joe Keenan Writer July 27 Vincenzo Nicoli Actor (Hank Zipzer) July 28 Michael Hitchcock Actor Isaac Florentine Israeli film director July 30 Richard Burgi Actor (The Sentinel, Desperate Housewives) July 31 Mark Cuban Television personality, and NBA basketball team owner August 1 Michael Penn Composer August 6 Ira Angustain Actor (The White Shadow) August 8 Deborah Norville TV presenter (Today, Inside Edition) August 9 Amanda Bearse Actress (Married... with Children) August 10 John Goldwyn American film producer August 13 David Feherty Golfer August 15 Rondell Sheridan Actor (That's So Raven) August 16 Angela Bassett Actress Madonna Singer & actress Jonathan Prince Actor August 18 Madeleine Stowe Actress (Revenge) Steven Zirnkilton American voice actor Reg E. Cathey American actor (died 2018) August 22 Colm Feore American-Canadian actor (24, House of Cards) August 24 Steve Guttenberg Actor August 25 Christian LeBlanc Actor (The Young and the Restless)August 29 Lenny Henry English actor and comedian (Chef!) Michael Jackson Singer and actor (died 2009) September 3 Kevin Kiner Composer September 4 Drew Pinsky American media personality September 6 Jeff Foxworthy American actor September 11 Roxann Dawson Actress (Star Trek: Voyager) Julia Nickson Actress Scott Patterson Actor (Gilmore Girls) September 12 Kim Fupz Aakeson Writer September 14 Terry Dubrow American plastic surgeon and television personality September 16 Jennifer Tilly Actress September 19 Kevin Hooks Actor & director (The White Shadow) September 21 Penny Smith TV presenter Jennifer Caron Hall Actress September 22 Kevin Sorbo Actor (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys) September 26 Dan FosterTalent show judge (Idols, Nigeria's Got Talent) (died 2020)Leland John 2020-06-24 Dan Foster, the American-Born ‘Big Dawg’ of Nigerian Radio, Dies at 61 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/obituaries/dan-foster-dead-coronavirus.html 2024-05-20 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 September 27 Shaun Cassidy Actor September 29 Karen Young Actress October 1 Clyde Phillips Writer October 5 Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist October 9 Michael Paré Actor October 16 Tim Robbins Actor October 19 Michael Steele Political commentatorhttps://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/04/07/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-michael-steele.html 10 Things You Didn't Know About Michael Steele July 4, 2024 U.S. News & World Report Danielle Burton February 2, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090202053601/http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/04/07/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-michael-steele.html live (MSNBC)October 20Scott HallAmerican pro wrestler (ECW, TNA, NJPW, WCW, WWE) (died 2022) Eric Scott Actor (The Waltons) October 22 Michael Price Writer October 23 Jonathan Wolff American composer Viggo Mortensen American actor October 27 Nina Easton American author, journalist, TV commentator, entrepreneur, and film producer October 31 Debbie McGee English television, radio and stage performer November 1 Rachel Ticotin Actress (Ohara, Skin, Law & Order: LA) Stephen Hopkins Director November 5 Robert Patrick Actor (The X-Files, Scorpion) November 7 Jon Scott American television news anchor November 9 Reid Harrison Writer November 11 Donna Wilkes Actress November 12 Megan Mullally Actress & singer (Will & Grace, Bob's Burgers) November 16 Marg Helgenberger Actress (Ryan's Hope, China Beach, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) Julie Johnson Actress November 17 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Actress November 18 Oscar Nunez Cuban-American actor (The Office) November 19 Terrence C. Carson Singer and actor (Living Single, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) November 22 Jamie Lee Curtis Actress (Anything But Love) Mark Malone American football quarterback November 24 Alain Chabat Actor November 25 Dana Tyler News anchor November 29 Devon Scott Actress December 1 Charlene Tilton Actress (Dallas) December 7 Edd Hall US announcer December 10 John J. York US soap actor December 11 Isabella Hofmann Actress December 12 Sheree J. Wilson Actress (Dallas, Walker, Texas Ranger) December 13 Clark Brandon Actor (The Fitzpatricks, Mr. Merlin) December 25 Cheryl Chase Voice actress (Angelica Pickles on Rugrats) December 27 Barbara Crampton Actress (Days of Our Lives) December 31 Bebe Neuwirth Actress, singer and dancer (Cheers, Frasier) Johnny Hardwick Voice actor (King of the Hill) (died 2023) Television debuts Alan Alda – The Phil Silvers Show Heather Angel – Studio 57 Bonnie Bedelia – Playhouse 90 Bruno Cremer – En votre ame et conscience Louise Fletcher – Flight Charles Grodin – Decision George Hamilton – The Veil Richard Harris – Play of the Week Barry Humphries – Wild Life and Christmas Belles Michael Lonsdale – En votre ame et conscience Jan Malmsjö – Min syster och jag Donald Moffat – Naked City Michael J. Pollard – Omnibus Vanessa Redgrave – Sunday Night Theatre Oliver Reed – The Invisible Man Maximilian Schell – Der Meisterdieb Vic Tayback – Buckskin References 1958