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1 Events

• February 8 - The Secret Storm airs its 5195th and final episode. The show is replaced ten days later by Tattletales, a game show hosted by Bert Convy.
• August 8 - US President Richard Nixon resigns live on television.
• September 10 - The controversial TV movie Born Innocent , starring Linda Blair, was first screened on the NBC network in the United States. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to a women's prison, drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television.
• Monty Python's Flying CircusMonty Python's Flying Circus (aka MPFC was the popular BBC sketch comedy show from Monty Python. The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was recorded September 7, 1969, and broadcast on October 5 of the same year on BBC One not BBC Two as is oft, the popular BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly sketch comedy which aired its final episode this year, is first shown in the US on an educational TV station in DallasDallas redirects here. For other uses see Dallas (disambiguation Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas. It is the county seat of Dallas County and small portions of the city al, TexasTexas joined the United States of America as its 28th member state in 1845. It has the postal abbreviation TX . The state name derives from a word in a Caddoan language of the Hasinai, tejas meaning friends or allies Spanish explorers mistakenly applied t.

2 Debuts

• January 5January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year (361 in leap years). Events 1463 Poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris. 1477 Battle of Nancy, Charles the Bold killed, Burgundy beco - TiswasTiswas was an anarchic Saturday morning children's British TV show which ran from 1974 to 1983. It also had a fanatical following among students and parents. The name reputedly stood for one of: 'This Is Saturday, Wear A Smile', 'Today Is Saturday, Watch starts as a local programme in the Midlands in the UK and the television show was not fully networked until 1979Events January-February January 1 Sino-American relations: United States and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings. (1974- 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du)
• January 7 - How to Survive a Marriage debuts in a 90-minute special on NBC daytime. The episode shows the first nudity (which was merely simulated and not seen) on American daytime television.
• January 15 - Happy Days premieres on ABC (1974- 1984)
• February 1 - Good Times, a spinoff of Maude, premieres on CBS (1974-1979)
• February 18 - Tattletales, hosted by Bert Convy, premieres on CBS daytime (1974- 1978, 1982-1984)
• September 9 - Rhoda premieres on CBS (1974-1978)
• Chico and the Man premieres (1974-1978)
• Derrick (1974- 1998), German Krimi written by Herbert Reinecker, starring Horst Tappert
• Land of the Lost premieres (1974- 1977)
• Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landon (1974- 1983)
• The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast premieres (1974-1984)
• The Rockford Files premieres (1974- 1980)
• Wish You Were Here...? premieres in the UK (1974-present)