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Overview of the events of 1933 in television
The year 1933 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of
television -related events during 1933.
Events
January 23 – W9XAL in
Kansas City begins broadcasting.
January 24 –
John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast by KMBC radio.
April 21 – The first television
revue , named Looking In , is shown on the
BBC . The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
August 4 –
W9XAT in
Minneapolis , Minnesota makes its first transmission.
RCA performs private field tests in
Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.
Ending this year
Television shows
Births
January 8 –
Charles Osgood , journalist (died 2024)
January 17 –
Shari Lewis , puppeteer (died 1998)
February 2 –
Tony Jay , actor (died 2006)
February 6 –
Leslie Crowther , actor and host,
Crackerjack (died 1996)
March 12 –
Barbara Feldon , actress,
Get Smart
March 13 –
Gloria McMillan , actress,
Our Miss Brooks
[1] (died 2022)
March 19
April 5 –
Frank Gorshin , comedian, actor,
Batman (died 2005)
April 7 –
Wayne Rogers , actor, financial commentator,
M*A*S*H (died 2015)
April 26 –
Carol Burnett , actress, comedian,
The Carol Burnett Show
May 3 –
Alex Cord , actor,
Airwolf (died 2021)
May 7 –
Roger Perry , actor,
Arrest and Trial ,
Harrigan and Son (died 2018)
May 20 –
Constance Towers , actress,
General Hospital
May 21 –
Richard Libertini , actor (died 2016)
June 8 –
Joan Rivers , comedian and host,
The Joan Rivers Show ,
Fashion Police (died 2014)
June 20 –
Danny Aiello , actor (died 2019)
June 21 –
Bernie Kopell , actor,
Get Smart ,
The Love Boat
June 22 –
Jacques Martin , presenter and producer (died 2007)
June 27 –
Gary Crosby , singer and actor (died 1995)
July 23 –
Bert Convy , actor and game show host (died 1991)
July 25 –
Ken Swofford , actor (died 2018)
July 26 –
Kathryn Hays , actress,
As the World Turns (died 2022)
July 29 –
Robert Fuller , actor,
Laramie
July 30 –
Edd Byrnes , actor,
77 Sunset Strip (died 2020)
August 1 –
Dom DeLuise , actor and comedian (died 2009)
August 11 –
Jerry Falwell , televangelist (died 2007)
August 16
August 25 –
Tom Skerritt , actor,
Picket Fences
September 13 –
Eileen Fulton , actress,
As the World Turns
September 15 –
Henry Darrow , Puerto Rican-American actor,
The High Chaparral (died 2021)
September 17 –
Pat Crowley , actress,
A Date With Judy ,
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
September 18 –
Robert Blake , actor,
Baretta (died 2023)
September 19 –
David McCallum , Scottish-born actor,
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ,
NCIS (died 2023)
September 27
November 3 –
Ken Berry , actor,
F Troop ,
Mama's Family (died 2018)
November 4 –
Junko Ikeuchi , Japanese actress, Nemuri Kyōshirō: Burai-hikae (died 2010)
November 5 –
Herb Edelman , actor,
The Good Guys ,
The Golden Girls (died 1996)
November 19 –
Larry King , talk show host (died 2021)
November 26 –
Robert Goulet , singer (died 2007)
November 28 –
Hope Lange , actress,
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (died 2003)
December 3 –
Les Crane , host (died 2003)
December 8 –
Flip Wilson , comedian and host,
The Flip Wilson Show (died 1998)
December 15
December 22 –
Elizabeth Hubbard , actress,
The Doctors ,
As the World Turns
December 26 –
Caroll Spinney , puppeteer,
Sesame Street (died 2019)
References