Editing 1965 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 1 – Comedian [[Soupy Sales]], who hosted the "Lunch With Soupy Sales" children's program on New York City's [[WNYW|WNEW-TV]], encourages his young viewers to send him money from their parents' pants and pocketbooks and send them to him, and in return he would "send you a postcard from [[Puerto Rico]]!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/|title=Soupy Sales' 'Green Pieces of Paper' Scandal|first=David|last=Mikkelson|date=20 March 2001|website=Snopes|accessdate=9 April 2023}}</ref> Days later, when he actually got response, he declared that he was joking and that cash contributions would be donated to charity, but WNEW suspended Sales for two weeks over the incident.<ref name="soupy-sez">{{Cite book|last=Sales|first=Soupy|author2=Charles Salzberg|title=Soupy Sez! My Life and Zany Times|year=2001|publisher=M. Evans and Co.|location=New York|isbn=0-87131-935-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/soupysezmyzanyli00sale}}</ref>
*February 22 – A new, videotaped production of the 1957 special ''[[Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein musical)|Cinderella]]'', by [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], airs on CBS with young [[Lesley Ann Warren]] (in the title role) starring alongside [[Ginger Rogers]], [[Walter Pidgeon]], and [[Celeste Holm]].
*March 11 – After months of speculation, [[Vivian Vance]] announces she is departing ''[[The Lucy Show]]'' following the conclusion of its third season. She would return to the series for guest appearances a few years later, a tradition that continued into [[Lucille Ball]]'s following series, ''[[Here's Lucy]]''.
*March 24 – Live TV pictures from the US uncrewed moon probe [[Ranger 9]] are transmitted prior to its impact.
*April 5 – [[TEN (TV station)|TEN10]] opens in [[Sydney, Australia]], with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special ''TV Spells Magic''.
*April 15 – Paul Bryan ([[Ben Gazzara]]) gets bad news from his doctor and sets out to do all the things he never had time for, in the [[Kraft Suspense Theatre]] episode entitled "Rapture at Two-Forty."  This will serve as the pilot for the series ''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]'', which will premiere on September 13 and run until 1968.
*April 21 – [[The Beach Boys]] appear on ''[[Shindig!]]'' performing their most recent hit, "[[Do You Want to Dance|Do You Wanna Dance?]]"
*April 26 – Brazil's largest TV network, [[Rede Globo]], begins broadcasting.
*April 28 – ''My Name Is Barbra'', [[Barbra Streisand]]'s first TV special, airs on CBS.
*May 2 – [[The Rolling Stones]] make their second appearance on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''.
*June 4 – The launch of the [[Gemini 4]] space mission is broadcast in color by NBC. All three networks would carry the launch of [[Gemini 5]] in color that August and all subsequent crewed space launches.
*July 31 - [[GTV (Ghana)]] begins as GBC TV, making it the first television station in Ghana.
*August 1 – [[Cigarette]] adverts are banned from UK television, though pipe tobacco and [[cigar]] adverts continue until 1992.
*August 6 – [[BBC]] withdraws a planned airing of ''[[The War Game]]'' on [[BBC One|BBC1]]'s ''[[The Wednesday Play|Wednesday Play]]'' anthology series; the network, officially, deems the film's depiction of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and its aftermath as "too horrifying" to air on television, though it was widely believed that government pressure led to the banning.  The film would win the 1966 [[Academy Award for Documentary Feature]], and BBC would not screen the film on-air until 1985.
*September – [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]], and [[NBC]], begin transitioning a majority of their prime-time programming towards color, with NBC virtually all their programming in color, and ABC and CBS over half of their programs, while keeping some of them in black-and-white due to production costs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/color60s/|title=Color Revolution: Television In The Sixties - TVObscurities|website=Television Obscurities|date=14 March 2009 |accessdate=9 April 2023}}</ref> 
*September 10 – The first [[National Geographic Magazine|''National Geographic Special'']], a chronicle of a 1963 U.S. expedition to [[Mount Everest]], airs on [[CBS]].
*September 12 
**[[NBC]] takes over telecasts of the [[American Football League]], with most of the games being broadcast in color.
**[[The Beatles]] appear on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' for the fourth and final time, performing songs from their new album ''[[Help!]]''.  This appearance was videotaped on August 14 before the group launched their U.S. tour the following night at Shea Stadium (Sunday, August 15, 1965).
*September 13 – ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today]]'' on [[NBC]] goes color.
*September 25 - ''[[The Beatles (TV series)|The Beatles]]'' cartoons debut on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] for 39 episodes through October 21, 1967.
*September 29 - Sistema Nacional de Televisión (as [[Sistema Nacional de Televisión (Paraguayan TV channel)|TV Cerro Cora]]) begins the first television broadcasts in [[Paraguay]].
*October 4 – [[Pope Paul VI]]'s visit to New York receives saturation television coverage on all three major American television networks. The Papal Mass at [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] is broadcast in color.
*October 17 – [[WIAT|WBMG-TV]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama]] launches on channel 42, sharing dual [[CBS]]/[[NBC]] affiliation with crosstown [[WTVM|WAPI-TV]]—and allowing viewers in the Birmingham market to watch more programming from those networks that WAPI did not have room for (including ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', ''[[The CBS Evening News]]'', and ''[[The Tonight Show]]'').  The setup lasts until 1970, when WAPI takes sole affiliation with NBC and WBMG does the same with CBS.  At the same time, [[WSES|WCFT-33]] in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]] and [[WGWW|WHMA-40]] in [[Anniston, Alabama|Anniston]] become exclusive affiliates of CBS.  Like WBMG, Channels 33 and 40 were dual affiliates of NBC and CBS.
*November 5 – Katie Holstrum ([[Inger Stevens]]) and Congressman Glen Morley ([[William Windom (actor)|William Windom]]) are married in ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (TV series)|The Farmer's Daughter]]'' episode entitled "To Have and To Hold".
*November 15 – ''[[The Huntley-Brinkley Report]]'' on [[NBC]] goes color on a regular basis, the first network evening newscast to be colorcast nightly.
*November 25 – [[CBS]] airs the first color broadcast of an [[National Football League|NFL]] [[American football|football]] game, a [[NFL on Thanksgiving Day|Thanksgiving Day matchup]] between the [[Baltimore Colts]] and [[Detroit Lions]].
*November 28 – [[Julie Andrews]]' first TV special airs on NBC.
*December 4 – ''[[TV Guide]]'' launches its Montana edition and now covers all of the contiguous U.S. (A Hawaii edition will be launched in 1968.)
*December 9 – ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' premieres on CBS.
*December 21 – A production of ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' by the [[New York City Ballet]] airs on [[CBS]].
;Also in 1965
*Three [[independent station (North America)|independently affiliated]] stations in the [[Philadelphia]] market—The "Other Big 3 in Philly"—start operations: [[WTXF|WIBF]] (channel 29) opens on May 16; [[WKBS-TV]] (channel 48) opens on September 1 (and operates until 1983); and [[WPHL-TV]] (channel 17) opens on September 17.
* [[Motorola]] introduces the first successful rectangular tube color TV to the mass market.
* ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' moves to 12:00 noon on NBC, which would make the show a hit on the network for many years.