January 15 - The inaugural Super Bowl is simulcast on CBS and NBC. Also on CBS later that evening, The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Sullivan's request, the band changes their lyrics from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together".
March - The long-running western Gunsmoke is renewed for the fall 1967 season, after widespread viewer protest. After CBS planned to cancel the aging Saturday-night series, outcry as far up as the United States Congress led the network to move Gunsmoke to the early evening on Mondays. To make room, Gilligan's Island, which had been renewed for next season, is canceled.
May 1 - "The United Network", formerly the Overmyer Network, finally starts broadcasts in the United States, and quickly fails after only a month on the air.
July 1 - BBC2 becomes Europe's first colour TV broadcaster, though still experimental at this stage. The colour service is launched with live coverage from the Wimbledon Championships.
July 10 - The Peanuts springtime special "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" airs for the first time on CBS.
July 28 - In the VPRO television show Hoepla, model Phil Bloom flashes nude in front of the cameras. Several angry viewers complain by sending letters of protests.
September 17 - The Doors appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and perform "Light My Fire". Sullivan had requested that the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher" be changed for the show. Jim Morrison performed it the way it was written and The Doors were banned from the show.
October 1 - First colour television was introduced in France using SECAM system.
October 1 - In the VPRO TV show Hoepla, model Phil Bloom is seen reading a newspaper claiming that she will not appear naked again since the previous scandal on July the 28th. When she folds the newspaper however; she is completely nude. The emission creates a big scandal with even questions in the Dutch parliament about her nude appearance. It's the first time a nude woman appears in a television program.
December 2 - Colour television is officially launched on BBC2.
March 11 - This was the last day that French-language TV stations in Canada were required to run "personals" (classified advertising) between 6-7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.