March 21 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
April 4April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). There are 271 days remaining. Events 1581 Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. 1721 Sir Robert Walpole enters office as - Violet CarsonAustralian Broadcasting Corporation, 1966. Violet Carson OBE ( September 1, 1898 December 26, 1983) was a British actress. She was born at Ancoats in Manchester. She was most known for her role as the gruff moral voice of Coronation Street Ena Sharples, a makes her last appearance as Ena SharplesEna Sharples was one of the original characters of the long-running British soap opera, Coronation Street''. Ena, played by Violet Carson between 1960 and 1980, was the caretaker of the mission hall, and spent much of her time criticising the activities o on Coronation StreetCoronation Street is Britain's longest-running television soap opera. It was created by Tony Warren and first broadcast on December 9, 1960. The working title of the show was Florizel Street but Agnes, a tea lady at Granada Television (where Coronation St.
April 7April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining. Events 529 first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I 1348 Char - The Oldest Living Graduate , a live drama on NBCSteff Geissbuhler. The feathers are said to represent the network's six divisions. NBC Universal Television is an American television network based in New York's Rockefeller Center. As of May 2004, it became part of NBC Universal. NBC supplies programming, is broadcast; the network had not aired a program like it since 1962. The production is aired from Southern Methodist University and stars Henry Fonda, George Grizzard , and Cloris Leachman.
August 1 - After a failed experiment, the soap opera Another World airs its last regularly scheduled ninety-minute episode. The show returns to sixty minutes on August 4.
December 30 - After 26 years, the longest-running prime-time TV series Disney's Wonderful World is cancelled by NBC. It was picked up by CBS the next fall.
The David Letterman Show debuts on NBC. Letterman's humor does not go over well with a morning audience, and the show is soon cancelled. Letterman would go on to host a late night show two years later.
US viewers get caught up in the "Who Shot J.R.?" cliff hanger on the soap opera series, Dallas, which is solved on a November 21 episode, drawing a record numbers of viewers.
Armchair Thriller is taken off air ( 1978-1980, intermittently since 1956 as Armchair Theatre and Armchair Cinema) ( UK).