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Events

• January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS' color television system.
• February 10 to March 11 - BBC television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis.
• March 11 - The first successful children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Network.
• September 30 - The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million people, becoming television's first mass audience.
• October 5 - The first presidential address is telecast from the White House. President Truman speaks about the world food crisis.
• October 13 - The puppet show Junior Jamboree, later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres on WBKB in Chicago.
• November 6 - Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington.
• November 8 - Memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.
• The first Hollywood film production for TV, The Public Prosecutor.
• There are 14,000 television sets in use in the United States.

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Debuts

• May 7 - Kraft Television Theater premieres on NBC, the first regularly scheduled drama series on a network (1947-1958).
• November 18 - situation comedy Mary Kay and Johnny debuts on Dumont network (1947-1950).
• November 20 - Meet the Press first network telecast on NBC (1947-present).
• December 27 - Puppet Television Theater (later called Howdy Doody), a children's television program, makes its debut (NBC) (1947-1960).
• Eye Witness premieres (1947-1948).
• In the Kelvinator kitchen premieres (1947-1948).
• Musical Merry-Go-Round premieres (1947-1949).
• Americana premieres (1947-1949).
• Birthday Party premieres (1947-1949).
• Charade Quiz premieres (1947-1949).
• Doorway to Fame premieres (1947-1949).
• Cafe Continental premieres (1947-1953).
• Author Meets the Critics (1947-1954).
• Juvenile Jury (1947-1954).
• Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947-1957).

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Television shows

• Missui Goes A-Shopping (1944-1949).
• The World In Your Home (1944-1948).
• Paging You (1946-1948).
• Television Screen Magazine (1946-1949).
• You Are an Artist (1946-1950).
• Muffin the Mule (1946-1955).
• Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946-1952).
• Picture Page (UK) (1936-1939; 1946-1952).

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Ending this year

• The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943-1947)
• Hour Glass (1946-1947)
• Cash and Carry (1946-1947)
• Campus Hoopla (1946-1947)
• Face to Face (1946-1947)
• I Love to Eat (1946-1947)
• Let's Rhumba (1946-1947)
• Serring Through Science (1946-1947)

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Births

• February 2 - Farrah Fawcett, actress
• March 6 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
• April 12 - David Letterman - US entertainer
• June 21 - Meredith Baxter - actress
• June 21 - Michael Gross - actor (he and the aforementioned Baxter would eventually play husband and wife on Family Ties)
• July 2 - Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld
• September 6 - Jane Curtin, actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live, 3rd Rock from the Sun
• September 30 - Rula Lenska, British actress
• October 27 - Jaclyn Smith, actress
• November 23 - Diana Quick, actress
• December 27 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
• December 29 - Ted Danson, actor