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The year 1975 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of television-related events which happened that year.

Events

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Programs

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Debuts

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Ending this year

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Date Show Debut
January 3 Jeopardy! (returned in 1984) 1964
January 4 Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers 1974
January 16 Ironside 1967
March 7 The Odd Couple 1970
March 28 Ultraman Leo (Japan) 1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
March 31 Gunsmoke 1955
April 13 Mannix 1967
April 18 How to Survive a Marriage 1974
April 26 Kung Fu 1972
May 20 Adam-12 1968
June 13 Now You See It (returned in 1989) 1974
The Joker's Wild (returned in 1977) 1972
June 27 Split Second (returned in 1986)
Password (returned in 1979 as Password Plus) 1961
August 1 Death Valley Days 1952
September 5 What's My Line? 1950
September 26 Jackpot (returned in 1985) 1974

Changes of network affiliation

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Show Moved from Moved to
The Edge of Night CBS ABC
The Bugs Bunny Show ABC CBS

Births

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Date Name Notability
January 2 Dax Shepard Actor (Parenthood)
January 3 Danica McKellar Actress (The Wonder Years, Young Justice, Static Shock)
Jason Marsden Actor (Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Boy Meets World, The Weekenders, Static Shock, Justice League, The Fairly OddParents, Kim Possible, Loonatics Unleashed, Generator Rex)
January 4 Jill Marie Jones Actress (Girlfriends)
January 5 Bradley Cooper Actor (Alias)
January 7 Stephanie Birkitt American attorney
January 9 Patrick Sabongui Canadian actor (The Flash)
January 12 Lisa Rieffel Actress
January 17 Freddy Rodriguez Actor (Six Feet Under, The Night Shift)
January 28 Terri Conn Actress (As the World Turns, One Life to Live)
January 29 Sharif Atkins Actor (ER, White Collar)
Sara Gilbert Actress (Roseanne, The Talk)
February 11 Nischelle Turner TV host
February 18 Sarah Joy Brown Actress (General Hospital)
February 22 Drew Barrymore Actress and producer (Saturday Night Live, Santa Clarita Diet, The Drew Barrymore Show)
February 23 Michael Cornacchia Actor (Legion of Super Heroes, The Kids Are Alright)
February 25 Chelsea Handler Actress and producer
February 27 Christina Nigra Actress (Out of This World)
March 1 Shane Johnson Actor
March 2 Jesse Bochco Producer
March 5 Jolene Blalock Actress and model (Star Trek: Enterprise)
March 7 Audrey Marie Anderson Actress (Once and Again, The Unit, Arrow)
T. J. Thyne Actor (Bones)
March 9 Chaske Spencer Actor
March 12 Marc Menard Canadian actor (All My Children, House, Watch Over Me)
March 15 Eva Longoria Actress (Desperate Housewives)
will.i.am Rapper
March 17 Tracy Wolfson Sportscaster
March 22 Guillermo Diaz Actor (Weeds)
March 21 Justin Pierce Actor (died 2000)
March 27 Fergie Rapper and singer
April 2 Adam Rodriguez Actor (CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds)
Deedee Magno Hall Filipino-American actress (Pearl on Steven Universe)
April 3 Aries Spears Comedian and actor (Mad TV)
April 5 Mike Bloom Musician
April 6 Zach Braff Actor (Scrubs)
April 14 Antwon Tanner Actor (One Tree Hill)
Amy Birnbaum Voice actress (Pokémon, Sonic X, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Magical DoReMi,Yu-Gi-Oh!) and singer
Anderson Silva Brazilian mixed martial artist (UFC)[8]
Lita Pro wrestler
April 22 Dannah Feinglass Actress (Mad TV, WordGirl, The Mighty B!, Newsreaders)
April 30 Johnny Galecki Actor (Roseanne, The Big Bang Theory)
May 3 Christina Hendricks Actress (Mad Men, Another Period)
Dulé Hill Actor (The West Wing, Psych)
Willie Geist American television personality
May 8 Wilmer Calderon Actor (The Shield, Bosch)
May 10 Andrea Anders Actress (Joey, Better Off Ted)
Julie Nathanson Actress (The Zeta Project, Avengers Assemble, Elena of Avalor)
May 11 Coby Bell Actor (Third Watch, The Game)
May 20 Tahmoh Penikett Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica)
May 24 Will Sasso Canadian actor and comedian (Mad TV)
May 27 Jamie Oliver English chef and TV host
May 29 Daniel Tosh Actor and comedian
May 30 CeeLo Green Musician (The Voice)[9]
June 4 Angelina Jolie Actress (Gia Carangi on Gia) and daughter of Jon Voight
June 6 Staci Keanan Actress (My Two Dads, Step by Step)
June 7 Allen Iverson NBA basketball player
June 10 Isaac Hayes III Voice actor
June 12 Michael Muhney Actor (Veronica Mars, The Young and the Restless)
June 14 Laurence Rickard Actor
June 16 Frederick Koehler Actor (Kate & Allie, Oz)
June 17 Jennifer Irwin Canadian actress (Still Standing)
Lisa Gwilym Welsh broadcaster
June 24 Carla Gallo Actress (Carnivàle, Bones)
June 25 Linda Cardellini Actress (ER, Freaks and Geeks, Mad Men, Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Sanjay and Craig)
June 27 Tobey Maguire Actor
Bianca Del Rio Actor
July 2 Elizabeth Reaser Actress
July 3 Ryan McPartlin Actor (Chuck)
July 6 50 Cent Rapper and actor
July 11 Jon Wellner Actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
July 14 Taboo Actor
July 20 Ray Allen NBA basketball player
Judy Greer Actress (Glenn Martin DDS, Two and a Half Men, Archer, Reluctantly Healthy)
July 24 Eric Szmanda Actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Laura Fraser Actress
July 26 Liz Truss British politician[10]
July 31 Annie Parisse Actress (Law & Order)
August 5 Ami Foster Actress (Punky Brewster)
August 7 Charlize Theron Actress (2-time host of Saturday Night Live)
August 11 Tinsley Mortimer American television personality
August 16 George Stults Actor (7th Heaven)
August 18 Kaitlin Olson Actress (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
August 19 Tracie Thoms Actress (Cold Case)
August 21 Alicia Witt Actress and singer (Cybill, Justified)
August 22 Rodrigo Santoro Brazilian actor (Lost, Westworld)
August 25 Michelle Beaudoin Canadian actress (Madison, Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
August 29 Dante Basco Actor (American Dragon: Jake Long, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra)
August 31 Sara Ramirez American-Mexican actress (Grey's Anatomy)
September 1 Scott Speedman British-Canadian actor (Felicity)
September 3 Redfoo Actor and singer
September 8 Larenz Tate Actor (The Royal Family, South Central)
September 18 Charlie Finn Actor (Spud on American Dragon: Jake Long)
Jason Sudeikis Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
September 22 Mireille Enos Actress (The Killing, The Catch)
September 23 Jaime Bergman Actress
October 3 India Arie Singer
Alanna Ubach Actress (Teamo Supremo, Ozzy & Drix, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera)
October 4 Reggie Lee Filipino-American actor (Prison Break, Grimm)
October 5 Kate Winslet English actress (Mildred Pierce)
Parminder Nagra British actress (ER)
Scott Weinger Actor (Full House, Aladdin, Fuller House)
October 8 Terryn Westbrook Actress and singer
October 11 Nat Faxon Actor (Ben and Kate)
October 12 Marion Jones WNBA player
October 16 Kellie Martin Actress (Life Goes On, Christy, ER)
October 22 Jesse Tyler Ferguson Actor (Modern Family)
October 23 Boti Bliss Actress (CSI: Miami)
Michelle Beadle American sports reporter
October 26 Paula Faris Television correspondent
October 30 Steve Kazee Actor
November 1 Bo Bice American singer (American Idol)
November 2 Danny Cooksey Actor (Diff'rent Strokes, The Cavanaughs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Static Shock, Pepper Ann, Xiaolin Showdown, Dave the Barbarian, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil)[11]
November 4 Heather Tom Actress
Curtis Stone Australian celebrity chef
November 12 Angela Watson Model and actress (Step by Step)
November 11 Angélica Vale Actress
November 17 Diane Neal Actress (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
November 20 Joshua Gomez Actor (Chuck)
November 21 Cherie Johnson Actress (Punky Brewster, Family Matters)
November 30 Richard Bacon English television and radio presenter
December 1 David Hornsby Actor (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Fanboy & Chum Chum, Ben 10)[12]
December 8 Celia Walden British journalist
December 10 Emmanuelle Chriqui Canadian actress (Entourage, Cleaners)
December 12 Mayim Bialik Actress (Blossom, The Big Bang Theory) and singer
December 13 James Kyson South Korean-born American actor (Heroes)
December 14 KaDee Strickland Actress (Private Practice)
December 17 Milla Jovovich Actress
December 18 Trish Stratus Pro wrestler (Canada's Got Talent)[13]
December 24 Stephanie Ruhle Journalist
December 27 Heather O'Rourke Actress (Happy Days) (d. 1988)
December 28 Tannis Vallely Director and actress (Head of the Class)
December 29 Shawn Hatosy Actor (Southland)
December 30 Tiger Woods Pro golfer

Deaths

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Date Name Age Notability
January 24 Larry Fine 72 American comic actor (Three Stooges)
May 4 Moe Howard 77
June 3 Ozzie Nelson 69 American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)
June 28 Rod Serling 50 Television writer and creator of (The Twilight Zone (1959–64) and Night Gallery (1969–73))

Television debuts

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Parsons, Patrick (2003). "The Evolution of the Cable-Satellite Distribution System" (PDF). Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 47 (1). Broadcast Education Association: 1–17. doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4701_1. S2CID 62196864. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-02. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
  2. ^ "54 Facts you probably don't know about Don King". Boxing News 24. 2008-01-14.
  3. ^ Smith, Ronald A. (2003). Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780801876929.
  4. ^ "Karriem Allah". Black Belt. Active Interest Media: 35. 1976.
  5. ^ Verducci, Tom (2015-10-21). "Game Changer: How Carlton Fisk's home run altered baseball and TV". Sports Illustrated.
  6. ^ Lowitt, Bruce (1999-11-23). "Rats! Fisk's homer". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  7. ^ "MLB's 20 Greatest Games". MLB. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  8. ^ "Anderson Silva Biography". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  9. ^ "CeeLo Green – The Vogue". Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  10. ^ "Liz Truss Fast Facts". CNN. 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  11. ^ "Danny Cooksey". Discogs. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
  12. ^ David Hornsby [@HornsByDavid] (April 28, 2012). "I was born 12/1/75. Put that #### in Fred C and stop being a dick" (Tweet). Retrieved July 1, 2023 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ "Trish Stratus". TheSportster. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-11-08.