1984 жылғы АҚШ телевизиясының оқиғалары

Television related events in the USA during 1984

This article is a list of television related events during 1984.

Date EventJanuary 2Oprah Winfrey takes over as host of WLS TV's A. M. Chicago, which would serve as a forerunner to her nationwide, syndicated talk show. January 9Wendy's "Fluffy Bun" advertisement is first broadcast, which gains Clara Peller and her "Where's the beef?" catchphrase national fame. Something About Amelia, a story concerning incest, is broadcast by ABC. Glenn Close, Ted Danson, and Roxana Zal are the main actors. January 22During CBS's broadcast of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer Company heralds the introduction of its Apple Macintosh personal computer with the famous advertisement "1984", the only time it is broadcast on national television. January 23Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win his first World Wrestling Federation championship at Madison Square Garden; the match is televised by the MSG Network. January 26Andy Kaufman makes what turns out to be his final television appearance as host of The Top. January 27Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. January 30One of Field Communications' last stations, WKBD TV, is sold to Cox Enterprises. February 1Arts & Entertainment Network launches from the merger of ARTS and RCA's The Entertainment Channel. It originally broadcasts after kids' channel Nickelodeon signs off. Lifetime is launched from the merger of Hearst/ABC's Daytime and Viacom's Cable Health Network. In Bakersfield, California, CBS affiliate KPWR TV changes its call letters to the current KGET TV, in preparation for an affiliation swap with NBC affiliate KERO TV the following month. February 10NBC airs the made for television movie Little House: The Last Farewell. Serving to tie up loose ends to storylines on the main Little House on the Prairie series, The Last Farewell concerns Charles and Caroline deciding to visit Walnut Grove. They learn that a railroad tycoon actually holds the deed to the township, and he wants to take it over for his own financial gain. Despite their best efforts, the townspeople are unable to drive the businessman away. At a town meeting, John Carter offers a supply of explosives that he has. Each man takes a turn blowing up his own building in an emotional farewell to the town. February 2017 of the 24 added minutes are utilized by ABC for the network television premiere of Superman II. Subsequent ABC airings of the longer version would be cut further for more advertising time. The full 146 minute extended cut was shown internationally, including parts of Canada. As with the first film, Alexander and Ilya Salkind prepared a version for worldwide television release that re inserted unused footage (in this case 24 minutes) into the film. It was through this extended version that viewers first caught a glimpse into the Superman II that might have happened had Richard Donner remained as director. In fact, a majority of the added footage was shot by Donner before Richard Lester became director. February 25Eddie Murphy participates in his final live episode as a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The remainder of his appearances for the season would only be in the form of previously recorded sketches. Murphy's final overall episode as a cast member would air on April 14. February 26KDRV in Medford, Oregon signs on as an ABC affiliate, giving the Medford market full time access to all three networks for the first time. CBS airs the network broadcast television premiere of Star Wars. February 28At the 26th Grammy Awards telecast by CBS, Michael Jackson wins a record breaking eight Grammy Awards. March 16Gary Plauché shoots and kills Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and molested Plauché's son, Jody. The killing was captured on camera by a local news crew. Doucet was flown back from California to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, also known as Ryan Field, to face trial. Doucet arrived and was led in handcuffs by police officers through the airport at around 9:30 p. m., where Plauché was waiting for Doucet with a gun. Plauché was friends with several high ranking police officers in the Baton Rouge Police Department; while many people believed that these contacts told Plauché where and when Doucet would be arriving, it was actually an employee of the local ABC affiliate WBRZ TV who gave Plauché the information. A news crew from WBRZ TV was also waiting for Doucet and had set up their cameras to record his arrival. March 19Denver's ABC affiliate KBTV changes its name to KUSA TV to reflect its status with USA Today. March 21New England Sports Network, initially known as NESN is initiated. March 25WNOL TV, an independent station goes on the air in New Orleans. March 28Actress Jeanne Cooper has her own real life facelift procedure performed onscreen during an episode of The Young and the Restless. Cooper's character, Katherine Chancellor is written as having the exact same procedure performed. April 1Nickelodeon celebrates its 5th anniversary. April 7After being cancelled by ABC following its third season, Too Close for Comfort with the aid of Metromedia, is revived for the first run syndicated market. AprilJohn Houlihan wins the Natural Triple Jackpot worth $26,550 on The Joker's Wild, the largest such win on the show. May 6Minneapolis/St. Paul religious station WFBT converts to a general entertainment station after the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation bought out the station, changing the calls to KITN TV. May 8Happy Days airs its series finale, "Passages". However, five additional episodes would air from the end of June on through the end of September. The last episode to be aired on ABC, "Fonzie's Spots", is actually #251 in chronological order. May 18Character Bobby Ewing finds himself in the crossfire as a rival tries to gun down his brother J. R. on the season finale of the CBS series Dallas. May 19CBS tapes the Michael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck in which Larson wins $110,237 cash and prizes. (The episodes, which are split into two parts, would air on June 8 and 11. )May 20The wedding between Steve Andropoulos and Betsy Stewart on As the World Turns attracts 20 million viewers. This makes it the second highest rated hour in American daytime soap opera history behind Luke and Laura's 1981 wedding on General Hospital. June 8Piedmont Triad station WJTM TV changes its name to WNRW TV to honor the death of William N. Rismiller in a shooting incident at its studios June 5. June 23On a broadcast of NBC's Game of the Week between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg hits two crucial, game tying home runs off of Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter in both the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings. The Cubs would go on to win the game in eleven innings, by the score of 12–11. Bob Costas and Tony Kubek were on the call for what would soon become known as "The Sandberg Game". June 27The U. S. Supreme Court rules in NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's television plan violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. As a result, individual schools and athletic conferences are free to negotiate contracts on their own behalf. Together with the growth of cable television, this ruling results in the explosion of broadcast options currently available. Beginning in 1984, the College Football Association sells a television package to ABC and CBS. The Big Ten and Pacific 10 conferences sell their own separate package to ABC. July 14In what became known as "Black Saturday", Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation takes over Superstation WTBS' Saturday evening time period once occupied by Georgia Championship Wrestling. July 17CBS broadcasts W*A*L*T*E*R, a television pilot for the third spin off of M*A*S*H. The pilot stars Gary Burghoff, who reprises his M*A*S*H character Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly. Since the pilot is never picked up by CBS as a series, it is shown as a "CBS Special Presentation". It is shown once in the Eastern and Central time zones of the United States, but pre empted on the West Coast by CBS News coverage of the Democratic National Convention. This is the only known broadcast of the pilot. July 23MTV broadcasts the live World Wrestling Federation event "The Brawl to End It All" from Madison Square Garden in New York City, where Wendi Richter won the WWF Women's Championship from The Fabulous Moolah. July 28ABC begins their coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Los Angeles. Jim McKay and Peter Jennings served as hosts for the opening ceremonies. This is to date, the final time that ABC would broadcast the Summer Olympics. All subsequent, American network television coverage of the Summer games would be handled by NBC. July 30The soap opera Santa Barbara debuts on NBC. Dallas/Ft. Worth independent station KNBN TV changes its call letters to KRLD TV after being bought out by Metromedia. September 9The Tyler Longview market's lone television station KLTV finally receives competition when KLMG TV (now Fox affiliate KFXK TV) signs on and takes KLTV's secondary CBS affiliation. September 10The game show Jeopardy! returns to television as a syndicated show with new host Alex Trebek. September 14Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler host the first MTV Video Music Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, an event which included Madonna's performance of the song "Like a Virgin". September 16The two hour pilot episode of Miami Vice airs on NBC. This episode started developing the trademark Vice style. Aspects of Miami Vice considered revolutionary lay in its music, cinematography, and imagery, which made large segments of each episode resemble a protracted music video. September 17The Transformers debuts in syndication. September 18The series finale of Three's Company airs on ABC following a three episode story arc that also sets up the spin off Three's a Crowd. September 20The Cosby Show debuts on NBC. Meanwhile on ABC, the pilot episode for Who's the Boss? is also broadcast. September 24The game show Super Password premieres on NBC at 12:00 noon EST. The new version of the classic game show is one of the few shows to survive at a time period that normally broadcasts news on any of the three major networks, running for 4 1/2 years. CBS affiliate WJKA (now Fox affiliate WSFX TV) in Wilmington, North Carolina signs on the air, giving Wilmington in market affiliates of all three commercial networks. September 27Kelsey Grammer makes his first appearance as Frasier Crane in the third season premiere of Cheers. October 1Montana, the last state in the Union without its own PBS station, gains one when Montana PBS launches. Nickelodeon retires their silver pinball logo (although it would continue to be used in sign offs until early 1985) and begins using the orange splat as their logo. American Movie Classics is initiated. October 8NBC broadcasts The Burning Bed, which features Farrah Fawcett as a woman who kills her abusive husband. The fact based film is the highest rated entertainment event of the 1984–1985 season. October 11Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman (and the only one until Sarah Palin in 2008) to participate in a presidential or vice presidential debate. October 12Tragedy strikes the CBS drama Cover Up. During filming for the seventh episode of the series, "Golden Opportunity," on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot, a scene is shot that calls for Mac Harper (Jon Erik Hexum) to load bullets into a .44 Magnum handgun. Hexum is duly provided with a functional gun and blanks. The scene does not play as the director wanted it to in the master shot, causing a delay in filming. During the delay, Hexum, restless and impatient, begins playing around to lighten the mood. Unloading all but one (blank) round, Hexum spins the gun, and—simulating Russian roulette—puts the revolver to his right temple and pulls the trigger, apparently unaware of the danger. At a close enough range, the effect of the powder gasses is a small explosion, so although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, there was enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging. Hexum is then rushed to Beverly Hills Medical Center, undergoing five hours of surgery to repair his wounds. The attack attracts a large amount of media coverage and is later aired not only on 20/20, but also on other national television outlets. ABC itself later reports receiving more than 1,000 calls from viewers inquiring about Stossel's health.

Date Title Network January 3 Riptide NBC January 4 Night Court January 6 Blue Thunder ABC January 20 The MasterNBC January 22 Airwolf CBS January 28 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer March 6 a. k. a. Pablo ABC March 19 Kate and Allie CBS March 20 Shaping Up ABC March 31 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Syndication April Video Music Box WNYC TV April 4 Double Trouble NBC April 12 The Duck Factory April 14 My Little Pony Syndication June 4 Danger MouseNickelodeon July 2 Scrabble NBC July 13 Brothers Showtime July 30 Santa Barbara NBC September 5 Heathcliff Syndication September 7 Kids Incorporated September 8 Dragon's Lair ABC Mighty Orbots Turbo Teen Challenge of the GoBots Syndication September 10 Voltron: Defender of the Universe September 13 GlitterABC September 14 Hawaiian Heat September 15 Snorks NBCPink Panther and Sons The Get Along Gang CBS Muppet Babies Pole Position Pryor's Place September 16 E/R Miami ViceNBC Punky Brewster September 17 The Transformers Syndication September 18 Hunter NBC September 19 Highway to Heaven September 20 The Cosby Show Who's the Boss? ABC September 22 Cover Up CBS Hot PursuitNBC Finder of Lost LovesABC September 23 Paper Dolls September 25 Three's a Crowd September 26 It's Your Move NBC September 27 Partners in Crime September 30 Tales from the DarksideNBC Murder, She Wrote CBS October 3 Charles in Charge October 7 Out of Control Nickelodeon October 8 Trivia TrapABC October 10 Dreams CBS October 26 V NBC December 30 Crazy Like a Fox CBS

Date Title DebutMarch 10We Got It Made (returned in 1987)1983April 2AutomanApril 7Mama's Family (returned in 1986)April 10a. k. a. Pablo1984April 16Blue ThunderApril 27Masquerade1983April 30That's Incredible!1980May 15Oh Madeline1983May 19Fantasy Island1978May 22Hart to Hart1979May 28One Day at a Time1975June 1Tattletales1974June 2Whiz Kids1983June 14Lottery!July 4Real People1979July 11The Duck Factory1984July 27Hollywood Squares (returned in 1986)1966August 11Boone1983September 1MonchhichisThe Little Rascals1982Pac ManRichie Rich1980Rubik, the Amazing Cube1983The LittlesSeptember 5Jennifer Slept HereSeptember 8The Flintstone Funnies1982September 18Three's Company1977September 24Happy Days1974November 10The Puppy's Further Adventures1982December 1The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast1974The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show1983December 8Captain Kangaroo1955Pole Position1984Pryor's PlaceDecember 11AfterMASH1983December 25Welcome to Pooh CornerDecember 28The Edge of Night1956December 29Partners in Crime 1984

Show Seasons In Production SourceBenson5YesBizarre4YesJuly 5Danay GarcíaCuban actress (Prison Break, Fear the Walking Dead)July 7Ross MalingerVoice actor (T. J. Detweiler on Recess (1997–98))July 8Alexis DzienaActress (Invasion, Entourage)July 10Kelly DowdleActress (American Crime Story)Aviva BaumannActressJuly 11Rachael TaylorAustralian actress (666 Park Avenue, Crisis, Jessica Jones)Serinda SwanCanadian actress (Breakout Kings, Graceland)Melanie PapaliaActressRob HeapsActorJuly 12Natalie MartinezActressJuly 19Andrea LibmanCanadian voice actress (Madeline, Dragon Tales, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)Kaitlin DoubledayActress (Empire)July 20James MackayAustralian actor (Dynasty)July 21Paloma GuzmánActress (Pretty Little Liars, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Roswell, New Mexico)July 23Krysta RodriguezActressJuly 24LaTangelaActress (Taina)July 26Grace ByersActress (Empire)July 27Taylor SchillingActress (Mercy, Orange is the New Black)July 29J. Madison Wright MorrisActress (Earth 2) (d. 2006)Todd BosleyActorJuly 30Gabrielle ChristianActress (South of Nowhere)Gina RodriguezActress (Jane the Virgin, Carmen Sandiego)August 1Valery OrtizActress (South of Nowhere, What About Brian)August 3Emily BaldoniSwedish American actressAugust 6James HolzhauerAmerican game show contestantAugust 10Ryan EggoldActor (90210, The Blacklist)August 13Eme IkwuakorActorAugust 26Johnny Ray GillActorAugust 27Amanda FullerActress (Last Man Standing)August 28Sarah RoemerActress (The Event, Chosen)Michael GaleotaActor (The Jersey) (d. 2016)September 1Joe TrohmanAmerican musician (Fall Out Boy)Ludwig GöranssonMusicianSeptember 4Kyle MooneyActor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)September 7Ben HollingsworthActorSeptember 14Adam LambergActor (Lizzie McGuire)September 16Sabrina BryanActress, singer (The Cheetah Girls; Dancing with the Stars contestant [2 seasons])September 18Nina AriandaActressBrandon MaxwellDirectorSeptember 19Kevin ZegersCanadian actor (Gossip Girl)Lydia HearstActress and great granddaughter of William Randolph HearstSeptember 22Laura VandervoortCanadian actress (Instant Star, V, Smallville, Bitten)September 23CariDee EnglishModel and actress (America's Next Top Model)Anneliese van der PolActress (That's So Raven, Raven's Home) and singerSeptember 24Matt KempAmerican professional baseball outfielderSeptember 25Zach WoodsActor (The Office, Silicon Valley)September 27Avril LavigneSinger and actressSeptember 30T PainSinger and rapperOctober 1Beck BennettActor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)Josh BrenerActor (Glory Daze, The Big Bang Theory, Maron, Silicon Valley, Future Worm!, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Sam SalettaActor (7th Heaven, Rocket Power)October 3Ashlee SimpsonActress, singer (7th Heaven, The Ashlee Simpson Show) and sister of Jessica SimpsonJessica Parker KennedyActress (Kaya, The Secret Circle, Black Sails) Chris MarquetteActor (Strong Medicine, The Mummy: The Animated Series, Fillmore!, Joan of Arcadia) Nick WrightAmerican sports television personalityOctober 4Glenn McMillanBrazilian actor (Power Rangers Wild Force) Nathalie KelleyActressOctober 11Martha MacIsaacCanadian actress (1600 Penn)October 14Jason DavisVoice actor (Mikey Blumberg on Recess) (d. 2020)October 17Chris LowellActor (Veronica Mars, Private Practice)October 23Meghan McCainTelevision personalityOctober 24Ben GirouxVoice actor (Mikey Munroe on Bunsen Is a Beast)October 25Katy PerrySinger, songwriter, and actress October 27Kelly OsbourneBritish singer, actress (The Osbournes, Chelsea Lately, The 7D) and daughter of Ozzy OsbourneEmilie UllerupDanish American actress (Sanctuary, Arctic Air)October 28Finn WittrockActor (All My Children, American Horror Story)November 12OmarionActorNovember 16Kimberly J. BrownActress (Halloweentown, Vampire Princess Miyu, Guiding Light)November 21Lindsey HaunActress and singerJena MaloneActressNovember 22 Scarlett JohanssonActress (4 time host of Saturday Night Live)November 23 Lucas GrabeelActor (Halloweentown, High School Musical, Switched at Birth) and voice actor (Family Guy, DreamWorks Dragons, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, Elena of Avalor, Spirit Riding Free, Pinky Malinky)Jarah MarianoModelNovember 24Ulambayaryn ByambajavEntertainer (d. 2020)November 25Gaspard UllielActor (Moon Knight) (d. 2022) November 28Mary Elizabeth WinsteadActress (Wolf Lake, The Returned, BrainDead, Mercy Street, Fargo)Trey SongzActorNovember 29Beatrice RosenActress (Cuts, Backstrom)December 4Lindsey FeltonActress (Thunder Alley, Caitlin's Way)December 10Tom HernNew Zealand actor (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)December 11Xosha RoquemoreAmerican actressDecember 12Gabrielle RuizAmerican actressDecember 14Jackson RathboneAmerican actorDecember 15Kirsty Lee AllanAustralian actressDecember 16Theo JamesActorDecember 17Shannon WoodwardActress (The Riches, Raising Hope, Westworld)December 19Erica O'KeithActress (Romeo! )December 20Bob MorleyActor (The 100)December 22Greg FinleyActor (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)December 25MiroBulgarian American professional wrestlerDecember 30LeBron JamesNBA basketball player

Date Name Age Notability February 16Kenny Williams69Game show announcer (The Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, Gambit)March 1 Jackie Coogan69actor (Uncle Fester on The Addams Family)March 24 Sam Jaffe93actor (Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey)March 31Caryl Ledner63Emmy winning writer (Mary White)May 2Jack Barry66game show host/producer (The Joker's Wild)May 16 Andy Kaufman35comedian (Latka Gravas on Taxi)June 15 Ned Glass78actorAugust 8Richard Deacon63actor (Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver, Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show)September 17Richard Basehart70actor (Admiral Harriman Nelson on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)September 24Neil Hamilton85actor (Commissioner Gordon on Batman)October 18 Jon Erik Hexum26actor (gunshot wound from accident on set of TV series Cover Up)December 7Jeanne Cagney65actress