Editing 1955 in television (section)

==Events==
[[Image:Elvis in Louisiana Hayride.JPG|thumb|[[Elvis]] appears in ''[[Louisiana Hayride]]'']]
*January 10 – ''[[Minuto de Dios]]'' begins airing on [[television in Colombia]]; it will still be running more than 60 years later.
*March 5 – [[Elvis Presley]] appears on [[television]] for the first time. The program is ''[[Louisiana Hayride]]'', televised locally in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]].
*March 12 – The first Flemish children's TV show, ''[[Kom Toch Eens Kijken]]'', is broadcast, hosted by Bob Davidse (Nonkel Bob) and [[Terry Van Ginderen]] (Tante Terry).<ref name=Adriaens>{{cite book|last=Adriaens|first=Manu|title=Blijven kijken! 50 jaar televisie in Vlaanderen|publisher=Uitgeverij Lannoo|location=Tielt|year=2003}}</ref>
*March 15 – The play ''[[No Time for Sergeants (United States Steel Hour)|No Time for Sergeants]]'' is broadcast by the [[American Broadcasting Company]] in ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]'' series, starring [[Andy Griffith]] in his television debut.
*April 1 – The [[DuMont Television Network]] in the [[United States]] drastically decreases its programming; just eight series keep the network operating, in anticipation of its eventual shutdown [[1956 in television|sixteen months later]].
*May 9 – In the United States:
** [[Harpo Marx]] makes a memorable appearance on ''[[I Love Lucy]]''.
** [[Jim Henson]]'s puppet show ''[[Sam and Friends]]'' first airs on [[WRC-TV]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]
*May 10 – The first episode of the long-running and popular Flemish TV sitcom ''[[Schipper naast Mathilde]]'' is broadcast.<ref name=Adriaens/>  
*June 7 – The quiz show craze begins with the premiere of ''[[The 64,000 Dollar Question]]'' in the U.S. The series spawns many imitations, including ''[[Twenty-One (game show)|Twenty-One]]'' the next year, which will later be the focus of a [[Quiz show scandals|quiz show scandal]] that results in congressional hearings.
*June 24 – Channel 4 Bang Khum Phron is launched by Thai Thorathat (Thai Television, predecessor of [[MCOT HD]]), the first official [[television station]] in [[Thailand]].{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} 
*June 29 – ''[[Life with the Lyons]]'', one of the first successful British [[sitcom]]s (starring British-domiciled American couple [[Ben Lyon]] and [[Bebe Daniels]]), premieres on the [[BBC Television Service]], having previously been broadcast only on radio. It will later transfer to ITV.
*July 19 – [[Eesti Televisioon]] begins broadcasting from [[Tallinn]] in the [[Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rustrana.ru/print.php?nid=515|script-title=ru:История Телевидения|date=2007-10-11|work=www.rustrana.ru|language=ru|access-date=2009-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110101628/http://www.rustrana.ru/print.php?nid=515|archive-date=2009-01-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*August 1 – [[Austria]]n [[ORF (broadcaster)|ORF Television]], predecessor of [[ORF eins]], an officially regular broadcasting service, starts in [[Vienna]].<ref>[[ORF (broadcaster)]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*September 22 – [[Commercial television]] starts in the [[United Kingdom]] with the [[Independent Television Authority]]'s first [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] franchise beginning broadcasting in [[London]] – [[Associated-Rediffusion]] on weekdays, [[Associated Television|ATV]] during weekends, ending the previous [[BBC]] monopoly. The rest of the UK receives its regional ITV franchises during the next seven years. The first advertisement shown is for Gibbs SR toothpaste.
*September 28 – [[World Series]] baseball is broadcast in color for the first time in the U.S. [[WITN-TV]] in [[Washington, North Carolina]], signs on the air with game 1 of the [[1955 World Series]] as their first telecast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.witn.com/station/misc/27442154.html|title=WITN History: A Look At How We Began In 1955|date=Jul 2, 2015|accessdate=Oct 13, 2022|archive-date=July 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702034347/http://www.witn.com/station/misc/27442154.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
*December 10 – The first Saturday morning cartoon series debuts on U.S. television, ''[[Mighty Mouse|The Mighty Mouse Playhouse]]'' on [[CBS]].
*December 24 – The [[Lennon Sisters]] make their television debut on ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in the U.S.
*December 25 – After being broadcast by radio since 1932, the [[Royal Christmas Message]] is broadcast on British television for the first time, in sound only at 3.00pm on both television channels, live from [[Sandringham House]]. The first visual Christmas message is shown in 1957.