Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 3 | Holly Hallstrom becomes the third model on The Price is Right along with Janice Pennington and Dian Parkinson. This lineup would remain unchanged for the next 13 years. |
| January 15 | Bill Murray joins the cast of Saturday Night Live, replacing Chevy Chase who left the previous year. |
| February 4 | American Bandstand celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark. An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry, Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman, Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels, Doc Severinsen, Les McCann, Donald Byrd, Chuck Mangione and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven." |
| February 27 | Fed up with excessive violence and distorted images of sex on TV, the Reverend Donald Wildmon declares "Turn the Television Off Week." Few do. |
| March | US television game show "Match Game" is the #1 rated game show on television for the fifth year in a row |
| March 7 | Second Chance, the forerunner to Press Your Luck, premieres on ABC. |
| March 15 | Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti are seen in "La bohème" on PBS and heard in stereo on local (mostly NPR) stations in the first live "simulcast" from the Met. |
| June | Lisa Peluso makes her first appearance on Search for Tomorrow. |
| September 14 | A tube top-clad woman named Yolanda Bowsley is called into Contestant's Row on The Price is Right, and while running down her breasts pop out of her shirt. The incident was censored with a large blue bar but it is still remembered today. |
| September 24 | Don Novello first appears on Saturday Night Live in his trademark Father Guido Sarducci role. |
| October 24 | A new Peanuts special, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, airs on CBS, and is widely condemned for showing – and naming ("Heather") – the Little Red-Haired Girl, thereupon destroying the "mystery". |
| November 30 | CBS commentator Eric Sevareid bade farewell in his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, after 48 years at CBS News. |
| December | Launch of the QUBE system in Columbus, Ohio. |
| December 2 | Billy Crystal sets a winner's circle record by getting the contestant to the top of the pyramid in 26 seconds on ABC's The $20,000 Pyramid. The record still stands today. |
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