1947 in television
The year 1947 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television -related events in 1947 .
Events
January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 22 - The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River , KTLA , begins operation in Hollywood, California .
January 30 ? The FCC rejects CBS ' color television system.
February 10 to March 11 - BBC television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis.
March 11 - The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Network .
September 30 - The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million people, becoming television's first mass audience.
October 5 - The first presidential address is telecast from the White House . President Truman speaks about the world food crisis.
October 13 - The puppet show Junior Jamboree , later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie , premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois .
November 6 - Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington .
November 8 - Memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.
The first Hollywood film production for TV, The Public Prosecutor .
There are 14,000 television sets in use in the United States .
Debuts
Television shows
Series
Debut
Ended
Picture Page (UK)
October 8 , 1936
1939
1946
1952
Starlight (UK)
November 3 , 1936
1939
1946
1949
For The Children (UK)
April 24 , 1937
1939
July 7 , 1946
1950
The Voice of Firestone Televues
1943
1947
1949
1963
Missus Goes A Shopping
August 1 , 1944
1949
The World In Your Home
1944
1948
Hour Glass
May 9 , 1946
March 1947
Face to Face
June 9 , 1946
January 26 , 1947
Cash and Carry
June 20 , 1946
July 1 , 1947
Serving Through Science
August 15 , 1946
1947
Kaleidoscope (UK)
November 2 , 1946
1953
Pinwright's Progress (UK)
November 29 , 1946
May 16 , 1947
Campus Hoopla
1946
1947
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
November 8 , 1946
June 24 , 1960
I Love to Eat
1946
1947
Let's Rhumba
1946
1947
Muffin the Mule (UK)
1946
1955
Paging You
1946
1948
Television Screen Magazine
1946
1949
You Are an Artist
1946
1950
Doorway to Fame
May 2 , 1947
July 4 , 1949
Kraft Television Theater
May 7 , 1947
1958
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
October 13 , 1947
1957
Meet the Press
November 6 , 1947
present
Mary Kay and Johnny
November 18 , 1947
March 11 , 1950
Howdy Doody
December 27 , 1947
September 24 , 1960
Americana
1947
1949
Birthday Party
1947
1949
Café Continental
1947
1953
Charade Quiz
1947
1949
Eye Witness
1947
1948
Juvenile Jury
1947
1954
In the Kelvinator Kitchen
1947
1948
Musical Merry-Go-Round
1947
1949
Small Fry Club
1947
1951
Ending this year
Births
January 8 - Laurie Walters , actress (Eight is Enough )
February 2 - Farrah Fawcett , actress
March 1 - Alan Thicke , actor
March 6 - Rob Reiner , actor, comedian , movie producer
April 12 - David Letterman - US entertainer
June 21 - Meredith Baxter - actress
June 21 - Michael Gross - actor (he and the aforementioned Baxter would eventually play husband and wife on Family Ties )
July 2 - Larry David , co-creator of Seinfeld
July 3 - Betty Buckley , actress
September 6 - Jane Curtin , actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live , 3rd Rock from the Sun
September 30 - Rula Lenska , British actress
October 26 - Jaclyn Smith , actrss
November 23 - Diana Quick , actress
December 29 - Ted Danson , actor
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