This is a list of television-related events in 1997. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Events

• January 1 - The U.S. television networks adopt ratings systems for their programming, similar to those used for motion pictures.
• January 3 - NBC's The Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time.
• January 6 - The UK's Channel 4 closes down for the last time. From 6am, the channel broadcasts 24 hours a day.
• February 3 - UK channels Bravo And Trouble changed identity
• February 9 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series in terms of episodes aired.
• March 10 - Dave Spikey becomes the 6th host of the final series of ITV weekday morning game show Chain Letters.
• March 17 - Toonami debuts on Cartoon Network.
• March 30 - Five, the UK's fifth & last terrestrial channel, launches at 6.00pm. The first faces seen are the Spice Girls, who perform 1-2-3-4-5, a rewritten version of the Manfred Mann song 5-4-3-2-1.
• April 20 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Superstar Bret Hart appeared on The Simpsons, the first wrestler appear on this longest running cartoon.
• June 6 - Actress Farrah Fawcett makes a bizarre appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. Fawcett tells long, rambling stories without a point, fails to understand simple questions, and gets easily distracted by things like blinking lights on the set.
• July 3 - Peter Snow presents Newsnight for the last time, though he will continue to make occasional appearances as a policial analyst until 2005.
• July 15 - A tribute episode is aired on Another World in honor of core cast member Victoria Wyndham's 25 years with the program.
• August 13 - South Park is aired for the first time on Comedy Central.
• August 31 - BBC1 continues to air through the whole night in the UK for the first time (apart from general elections), simulcasting with BBC World to bring news updates of Diana, Princess of Wales's car accident.
• September – After several years of anchoring ABC's successful "TGIF" Friday night situation comedy programming block, Family Matters and Step by Step switch networks to CBS. Both shows, which were in their waning years (and would be cancelled in 1998), anchor CBS's new Friday night lineup of family-friendly programming.
• October 4 - BBC One adopts new "hot air balloon" globe identifications to coincide with the introduction of the network's new corporate logo. See BBC One 'Balloon' idents.
• October 13 - Canadian cable channels like Comedy Network, Food Network, HGTV, Prime, Teletoon began launching, Speedvision was introduced there.
• October 27 - UK Living changes its name to Living TV, to distance itself from the forthcoming UKTV network.
• November 1 - The UKTV network is launched in the UK. Existing channel UK Gold is joined by UK Horizons, UK Arena and UK Style.
• November 2 - A third production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's version of Cinderella airs on ABC. This version, starring Brandy Norwood and Whitney Houston, is produced by The Walt Disney Company, who made their own version of the story as an animated film in 1950.
• November 8 - BBC One closes down for the last time, making BBC Two England's last terrestrial channel to still closedown at night. From the next day, BBC News 24 broadcasts on BBC1 through the night.
• November 9 - BBC News 24 launched, the BBC's first new UK channel since BBC Two in 1964.
• November 9 - Bret Hart lost his last match in the WWF (World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)) via submission to Shawn Michaels, however Hart never tapped out. see Montreal Screwjob.
• December 16 - An episode of Pokémon (called Dennō Senshi Porygon) in Japan causes 685 children to have epileptic seizures.

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Debuts

• January 6 - Sunset Beach premieres on NBC (1997-1999).
• January 12 - King of the Hill premieres on FOX (1997-present).
• March 3 - Daria premieres on MTV (1997-2001).
• March 4 - Just Shoot Me! premieres on NBC (1997-2003).
• March 4 - The Practice premieres (1997-2004).
• March 10 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB (1997-2003).
• March 10 - It Takes Two (game show) returns to the Family Channel for 12 weeks host Dick Clark (entertainer)
• March 30 - Family Affairs premieres on Channel 5 (1997-2005).
• March 31 - 100% (game show) premieres on Channel 5 (1997-2001)
• March 31 - Teletubbies premieres on BBC1 (1997-2001).
• April 19- The Angry Beavers premieres on Nickelodeon (1997-2001)
• June 1- Port Charles premieres on ABC.
• July 14 - Johnny Bravo premieres on Cartoon Network (1997-2003).
• July 15 - Cow and Chicken premieres on Cartoon Network (1997-1999).
• July 27 - Stargate SG-1 (1997-present).
• August 13 - South Park premieres on Comedy Central (1997-present).
• September 1 Pensacola: Wings of Gold premieres on USA (1997-2000)
• September 6- City Guys premieres on NBC (1997-2001)
• September 8 - Ally McBeal premieres on FOX (1997-2002).
• September 13 - Disney's One Saturday Morning premieres on ABC (1997-2002) featuring Recess and Pepper Ann.
• September 22- Brooklyn South premieres on CBS (1997-1998)
• September 23 - Dharma & Greg premieres on ABC (1997-2002).
• September 28 - The Wonderful World of Disney returns on ABC after a seven year break (1997-present).
• October 1 - Ned's Newt (1997-1998).

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Daria is an American animated television series that aired from 1997 to 2002 and was created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn for MTV. A spin-off of MTVs Beavis and Butt-head, Daria also became something of a cultural icon. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (64th in leap years). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (64th in leap years). ... The Practice (March 4, 1997 - May 16, 2004) was an ABC legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston, Massachusetts law firm. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... Port Charles was a soap opera which aired on ABC from June 1, 1997 to October 3, 2003. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... Johnny Bravo was an American animated television series about the boorish, skirt-chasing title character who constantly searches for a woman willing to date him. ... Cartoon Network is an American cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... Cow and Chicken is an American animated television series, created by David Feiss, first broadcast on the Cartoon Network from 1997 to the year 2000. ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... South Park is an American, Emmy Award-winning[1] animated television comedy series about four fourth-grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... Comedy Central is a cable television and satellite television channel in the United States and, as of October 19, 2006, in Poland[1] and of January 15, 2007 in Germany[2]. Two more countries are following, from April 30 in the Netherlands and from May in Italy. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... City Guys was a comedy-drama television show that ran from 1997 to August 2001. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... Ally McBeal is an American television series which ran on the FOX network from 1997 to 2002, and was one of the best-known dramedy television series of the 1990s. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... ABC Kids is a three-hour block of animated cartoons and live-action childrens television shows, broadcast on the ABC network in the U.S. and on the CTV network in Canada on Saturday mornings. ... Recess was an American animated television series that was created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere, and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. ... Pepper Ann was an animated series created by Sue Rose and shown in the United States on ABC. It debuted in September 1997. ... 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Miniseries

• Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac, a reunion of the 1979-1993 series
• The Last Don

Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac was a miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the auther of The Godfather. ...

Television shows

1940s

• Meet the Press (1947-present).
• Candid Camera (1948-present)

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1950s

• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951-present).
• Guiding Light (1952-present).
• The Today Show (1952-present).
• Panorama (UK) (1953-present).
• Face the Nation (1954-present).
• The Tonight Show (1954-present).
• This Is Your Life (UK) (1955-2003).
• As the World Turns (1956-present).
• What the Papers Say (UK) (1956-present).
• The Sky at Night (UK) (1957-present).
• Blue Peter (UK) (1958-present).
• Grandstand (UK) (1958-present).

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1960s

• Coronation Street (UK) (1960-present).
• Four Corners (Australia) (1961-present).
• It's Academic (1961-present).
• The Late Late Show (Ireland) (1962-present).
• General Hospital (1963-present).
• Another World (1964-1999).
• Top of the Pops (UK) (1964-2006).
• Days of Our Lives (1965-present).
• Play School (1966-present).
• The Money Programme (1966-present).
• 60 Minutes (1968-present).
• One Life to Live (1968-present).
• Sesame Street (1969-present).

Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Four Corners is Australias longest-running and most respected investigative journalism/current affairs television program. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Its Academic is a televised academic quiz competition for high school students, currently airing on NBC affiliates in Washington, DC (WRC-TV), Charlottesville, Virginia (WVIR), and Baltimore, Maryland (WJZ). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera on the American ABC television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West since its inception). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ... Days of our Lives (Days or DOOL) is an American soap opera. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Play School is an educational television programme for pre-school aged children. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... This MONEY PROGRAMME is a scam trying to encourage young scots to pay as little as 300 pounds a fortnight and, they say it is for your pention but it is not. ... 60 Minutes is an investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... One Life to Live (OLTL) is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968. ... Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...

1970s

• All My Children (1970-present).
• Monday Night Football (1970-present).
• Masterpiece Theatre (1971-present).
• Soul Train (1971-present).
• Emmerdale (UK) (1972-present).
• Newsround (UK) (1972-present).
• The Price Is Right (1972-present).
• Last of the Summer Wine (UK) (1973-present).
• The Young and the Restless (1973-present).
• Derrick (1974-1998).
• Wish You Were Here...? (UK) (1974-present).
• Arena (UK) (1975–present).
• Good Morning America (1975-present).
• Saturday Night Live (1975-present).
• the fifth estate (Canada) (1975-present).
• Wheel of Fortune (1975-present).
• 20/20 (1978-present).
• Grange Hill (UK) (1978-present).
• Antiques Roadshow (UK) (1979-present).
• Nightline (1979-present).
• This Old House (1979-present).

All My Children (AMC) is an American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. ... Masterpiece Theatre is a long-running anthology television series produced by WGBH which premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Soul Train is a long-running American music-related syndicated television program. ... For the 1994 debut album by The Cardigans, see Emmerdale (album). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Newsround (originally called John Cravens Newsround, before the departure of Craven) is a BBC childrens news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was the worlds first television news magazine aimed specifically at children. ... The Price Is Rights US 35th season logo. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British television sitcom. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... For the Australian band, see Young and restless (band). ... Derrick is a German TV series produced by ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Chief Inspector (Oberinspektor) Stephan Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper), who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings (with only three unsolved cases). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Wish You Were Here. ... Arena is a British television documentary series, which has run in occasional seasons on the BBC TWO network since 1978. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcasted on the ABC television network. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... The correct title of this article is the fifth estate. ... This article discusses the current version of the U.S. game show. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Grange Hill is a British childrens television drama series which is shown on BBC1. ... Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antique appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Nightline is a late-night hard news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ... This Old House is a magazine and television program which is aired on the American public broadcast network PBS that follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks. ...

1980s

• Entertainment Tonight (1981-present).
• What Now (1982-present)
• Timewatch (UK) (1982-present)
• Jeopardy! (1964-1975, 1984-present).
• The Bill (UK) (1984-present).
• EastEnders (UK) (1985-present).
• Neighbours (Australia) (1985-present).
• Sally (1985-2002).
• The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-present).
• Comic Relief (UK) (1986-present).
• Casualty (UK) (1986-present).
• ChuckleVision (UK) (1987-present).
• Inspector Morse (1987-2000).
• The Bold and the Beautiful (1987-present).
• America's Most Wanted (1988-present).
• The American Experience (1988-present).
• Fair City (1988-present).
• Home and Away (1988-present).
• This Morning (1988-present).
• Red Dwarf (UK) (1988-1999).
• Murphy Brown (1988-1998).
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988-1999).
• The Ward (UK) (1988-2000).
• Electric Circus (Canada) (1988-2003).
• Baywatch (1989-2001).
• Cops (1989-present).
• Family Matters (1989-1998).
• Seinfeld (1989-1998).
• The Simpsons (1989-present).

Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is syndicated by CBS Paramount Domestic Television throughout the United States, Canada, on the Nine Network in Australia and on UBC Inside in Thailand. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... What Now is a long running New Zealand childrens program. ... Timewatch is a long running television series produced by the BBC. It presents a broad range of historical investigations focusing forgotten events or forgotten aspects of major events. ... Jeopardy! is a popular international television quiz game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also created Wheel of Fortune. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural first shown on ITV1, at 8pm, usually on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[3] and continuing to date. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Neighbours is a long-running Australian soap opera, which began airing in March 1985. ... Sally Jessy Raphaël (born Sally Lowenthal on February 25, 1935 in Easton, Pennsylvania) is an American tabloid talk show host. ... The Oprah Winfrey Show is the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, and is hosted, produced and owned by Oprah Winfrey. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ... ChuckleVision is a popular British childrens television series, shown on CBBC, first shown in 1987. ... Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987–2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bold and the Beautiful (often called Bold or annotated to B&B) is an American television soap opera, created by Lee Phillip Bell and William J. Bell. ... AMW redirects here; for other uses of that term, see AMW (disambiguation). ... American Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx) is a television program aired on the PBS network in the United States. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This Morning has been the name of several noted programs on television and radio: This Morning (television program), British breakfast television show, This Morning (radio program), Canadian radio show on CBC Radio One from 1997 to 2002. ... An artists impression of a planet in orbit around a red dwarf According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star, of the main sequence, either late K or M spectral type. ... Murphy Brown was an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988 to May 18, 1998. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ... Childrens Ward (briefly retitled The Ward in 1995) was a British childrens television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Childrens ITV strand on weekday afternoons. ... Electric Circus, aka EC, was a Canadian live dance music television program aired on MuchMusic and Citytv. ... Baywatch was a popular American television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Family Matters was an American sitcom about a middle-class, African-American family living in Chicago. ... Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of nine seasons. ... Simpsons redirects here. ...

1990s

• Law & Order (1990-present).
• America's Funniest Home Videos (1990-present).
• Beverly Hills 90210 (1990-2000).
• One Foot in the Grave (UK) (1990-2000).
• Home Improvement (1991-1999).
• Rugrats (1991-2004).
• The Jerry Springer Show (1991-present).
• The Red Green Show (1991-present).
• Barney & Friends (1992-2002).
• Dateline NBC (1992-present).
• Mad About You (1992-1999).
• The Larry Sanders Show (1992-1998).
• Melrose Place (1992-1999).
• The Real World (1992-present).
• Frasier (1993-2004).
• Ricki Lake (1993-2004).
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-present).
• NYPD Blue (1993-present).
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999).
• The Late Show with David Letterman (1993-present).
• The Nanny (1993-1999).
• The X-Files (1993-2002).
• WWF RAW Is War/WWF War Zone (1993-present).
• ER (1994-present).
• Friends (1994-2004).
• Party of Five (1994-2000).
• Pokémon (Japan) (1997-2002).
• Time Team (UK) (1994-present).
• Touched by an Angel (1994-2003).
• JAG (1995-present).
• Pamela Wallin Live (Canada) (1995-1999).
• Sesame Park (Canada) (1995-2002).
• Sliders (1995-2000).
• Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001).
• The Drew Carey Show (1995-2004).
• The Wheezer Bros. (1995-2001).
• Timon and Pumbaa (1995-1998).
• 7th Heaven (1996-2006).
• Dexter's Laboratory (1996-present).
• Doug (1991-1994, 1996-1999).
• Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005).
• Hey Arnold! (1996-2004).
• Judge Judy (1996-present).
• Only Fools and Horses (UK) (1981-1983, 1985-1993, 1996-1997, 2001-2003) (the only episode aired this year was a 10-minute special appeal Comic Relief 1997 Sketch).
• Spin City (1996-2002).
• The Daily Show (1996-present).
• The Demon Headmaster (UK) (1996-1998).
• The Newsroom (Canada) (1996-1997, 2003-2004).

Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Americas Funniest Home Videos (often simply abbreviated to AFV, previously AFHV), is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. ... Beverly Hills 90210 was a popular primetime television soap opera that aired from October 1990 to May 2000 on the Fox Network in the United States and subsequently on various networks around the world. ... One Foot in the Grave was a popular BBC television situation comedy series written by David Renwick. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A rugrat may also be a pejorative term for a toddler. ... The Jerry Springer Show (first aired September 20, 1991) is an internationally known television tabloid talk show, hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician. ... The Red Green Show is a television comedy that aired on CBC Television in Canada and on PBS in the United States from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC. Reruns currently air on CBC Television, CBC Country Canada, The Comedy Network, and various PBS stations. ... Barney & Friends is a popular childrens television show produced in the United States, mainly aimed at preschoolers. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Current co-anchors Stone Phillips and Ann Curry. ... Mad About You was an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992 to May 24, 1999. ... The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that originally aired from 1992 to 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the USA. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders. ... Melrose Place is an American television series that ran between 1992 and 1999, created by Darren Star for the FOX network. ... The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally executive produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. ... Frasier is a popular American situation comedy television series that starred Kelsey Grammer. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Ricki Lake was a daytime talk show hosted by U.S. actress Ricki Lake. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night talk show on NBC, that is also syndicated world-wide. ... NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... The Nanny was an American sitcom that aired from November 3, 1993 to June 23, 1999 on CBS. It starred Fran Drescher as the nanny named Fran (as Ann Hampton Callaway sang in the theme she wrote). ... For other uses, see The X-Files (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... ER is a long-running, award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Party of Five was an American television series that aired for the first time on September 12, 1994 and ended on May 3, 2000 after six seasons. ... The Pokémon logo. ... Time Team is a popular British television series explaining the process of archaeology for the layman in the UK. Broadcast by Channel 4, the programme was first shown in 1994, and is presented by Tony Robinson. ... Touched by an Angel was an American drama television series created by John Masius and Martha Williamson that ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21st, 1994 to April 27th, 2003, and aired in many countries all around the world. ... JAG (the American Military acronym for Judge Advocate General) is a popular American adventure and drama television show, that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pamela Wallin Live was a Canadian interview series which aired on CBC Newsworld from 1995 to 1999. ... Sesame Park was a Canadian version of Sesame Street. ... This article is about the sci-fi television show. ... The starship Voyager (NCC-74656), an Intrepid-class starship. ... The Drew Carey Show was a long-running American sitcom (set in Cleveland, Ohio) that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its everyman characters and themes . ... The Wheezer Bros. ... love you all!!! Timon and Pumbaa are a fictional meerkat and warthog duo first introduced in Disneys popular 1994 animated film The Lion King. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Dexters Laboratory (Dexters Lab for short) was an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky. ... Doug was an animated television series on Nickelodeon and is the first Nicktoon ever made, starring a 6th grader named Doug Funnie (full name: Douglas Yancey Funnie). ... Everybody Loves Raymond, sometimes referred to as Raymond, or ELR was a long-running American sitcom broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2005. ... Hey Arnold! is an American animated television series that aired from October 7, 1996 until June 8, 2004 on Nickelodeon. ... For the person, see Judith Sheindlin. ... Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were originally broadcast in the UK between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spin City was an American sitcom television series that ran from 1996 to 2002 on ABC, based on a fictional local government running New York City, originally starring Michael J. Fox as Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York. ... The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning half-hour American satiric news television program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network. ... The Front Cover of The Demon Headmaster The Demon Headmaster is a series of books by Gillian Cross which were later adapted as a television series starring Terence Hardiman in the title role. ... The Newsroom is an award winning Canadian television comedy series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996-1997, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons. ...

Ending this year

February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Sailor Moon , officially translated as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) is the title of a famous media franchise created by Japanese manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... Married… with Children was a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Martin was an American television sitcom produced by HBO Independent Productions (a subsidiary of HBO, in turn a division of Time Warner) that aired for five seasons from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997 on FOX. The show starred comedian Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (141st in leap years). ... Roseanne is an American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997, starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to two or more new recipients. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action television series based on the Superman comic books. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... Hangin with Mr. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Changes of Network Affiliation

• JAG, from NBC to CBS.
• Family Matters, from ABC to CBS.
• Step by Step, from ABC to CBS.
• Clueless, from ABC to UPN.
• Batman: The Animated Series, from FOX to The WB.

JAG (the American Military acronym for Judge Advocate General) is a popular American adventure and drama television show, that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television. ... NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... Family Matters was an American sitcom about a middle-class, African-American family living in Chicago. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... Step by Step was an American television sitcom which was aired on ABC from September 20, 1991 to August 15, 1997 and with a network change moved to CBS from September 19, 1997 to June 26, 1998. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... House, see Clueless (House episode). ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... The animated Batman shoots his grappling gun from a rooftop in a scene from the episode, On Leather Wings. ... For the animal, see Fox. ... The WB Television Network is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ...

Deaths

• January 16 - Ennis Cosby, 27, Bill Cosby's son is murdered.
• February 26 - David Doyle, 67, actor.
• April 15 - Donald Bexley, 87, actor (Bubba on Sanford & Son).
• May 4 - Alvy Moore, 75, actor on (Hank Kimball on Green Acres).
• May 11 - Howard Morton, 71, character actor (Officer Ralph Simpson on Gimme a Break!).
• June 8 - Reid Shelton, 72, actor.
• June 24 - Brian Keith, 75, actor (Uncle Bill on Family Affair).
• July 4 - Charles Kuralt, 63, journalist.
• August 27 - Brandon Tartikoff, 48, former president of NBC.
• September 9 - Burgess Meredith, 89, actor.
• September 17 - Red Skelton, 84, comedian.
• October 16 - Audra Lindley, 79, actress (Mrs. Roper on Three's Company')'.
• October 24 - Don Messick, 71, voice actor who voiced Scooby-Doo among others.
• October 30 - Sydney Newman, 80, producer.
• December 18 - Chris Farley, 33, accidental overdose of cocaine and morphine.
• December 25 - Denver Pyle, 77, actor (Uncle Jesse on The Dukes of Hazzard).