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1972 in television

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The year 1972 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable television-related events.

Events

  • January 3 – Show Boat is aired for the first time on network television in the United States, on NBC
  • January 21 – The first convention of Star Trek fans is held in New York City's Statler-Hilton hotel
  • Mid-February – John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-host an entire week on The Mike Douglas Show in the U.S.
  • February 19 – Sammy Davis Jr. makes a guest appearance on All in the Family
  • March 18 – After losing a 15-year court battle over the legality of its business relationship with The Herald-Traveler, CBS' Boston, Massachusetts affiliate WHDH-TV Channel 5 signs off the air. At 3 a.m. on March 19, WCVB takes over the Channel 5 frequency, simultaneously switching affiliations to the ABC network following CBS' loss of interest in the channel during the long legal wrangle.
  • March 27 - The Amateur's Guide to Love begins on the air, making it CBS' first attempt to make a game show since 1968 when To Tell the Truth went off the air. It fails after 3 months
  • April 4 – After a three-year courtship, Emily Nugent (Eileen Derbyshire) marries Ernest Bishop (Stephen Hancock) on ITV soap Coronation Street in the U.K.
  • May – The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson relocates its production from New York City to the NBC studios in Burbank, California. The Tonight Show will remain there until relocating back to New York in February 2014
  • July 21 – Victoria Wyndham makes her first appearance as vixen (and later, good girl) Rachel Davis on the U.S. soap opera Another World
  • August 1 – Three years after it was first filmed, the Israel Broadcasting Authority finally agrees to screen Barricades, a controversial documentary film that offers a sympathetic portrayal of Palestinians expelled from their homes in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
  • August 26 – Effective with this issue, TV Guide in the U.S. discontinues the practice of using a "C" to indicate color programs, and instead starts using a "BW" for monochrome, saving a lot of printer's ink in the process. At thIS time about half of the TV households in the U.S. have color sets
  • September 1 – A day for CBS' daytime lineup that marks the end of an era. CBS airs reruns of popular primetime shows, The Lucy Show, The Beverly Hillbillies and My Three Sons for the final time, as reruns dominating CBS' daytime lineup (a tradition since 1959). The following Monday, all three shows move to syndication
  • September 4 – Another eventful day for CBS' daytime schedule. The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It becomes the longest running game show on American television. The Joker's Wild and Gambit also debut, bringing game shows back to CBS' schedule in a more successful attempt than The Amateur's Guide to Love, which was cancelled on June 23, and replacing the morning reruns dominating CBS' daytime lineup (a staple since 1959).
  • September 9 – The Lawrence Welk Show opens its 18th season on location in Hawaii
  • October 27 – The 5000th episode of CBS children's show Captain Kangaroo airs
  • November 8 – Home Box Office (HBO) is launched, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  • November 21 – In the second part of a two-part story which began the previous week, Beatrice Arthur's character, Maude Findlay, on the U.S. television sitcom Maude, decides to go through with an abortion, in a move that shocks CBS executives and Maude advertisers. (Rue McClanahan makes her first appearance as Vivian Cavender in this two-parter; she will become a regular cast member the following season)
  • December 31
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