Editing 1974 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 6 – [[CIII-DT|CKGN-TV]] begins broadcasting in [[Brantford]], [[Ontario]].
*January 31 – CBS airs a multi-Emmy-winning adaptation of [[Ernest J. Gaines]]' novel ''[[The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman]]'', which follows the 110-year life of a former slave from the Civil War to the [[Civil Rights Movement]].  [[Cicely Tyson]] portrays the title role.
*February 1 – KITC (now [[KIVI-TV]]) begins broadcasting in [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]], [[Idaho]].
*February 2 – The Filipino government television station [[DWGT-TV|GTV 4]] (now known as the [[People's Television Network]]) begins operations, under the [[Presidential Communications Office|National Media Production Center]].
*February 8 – After 20 years, ''[[The Secret Storm]]'' airs its 5195th and final episode on [[CBS]] Daytime. The show is replaced ten days later by ''[[Tattletales]]'', a game show hosted by [[Bert Convy]].
*March 11 – The children's special ''[[Free to Be... You and Me]]'', produced by comedic actress [[Marlo Thomas]], airs on ABC.
*March 13 – ''[[The Execution of Private Slovik]]'' airs on NBC. A made-for-television film, it told the story of [[Eddie Slovik|Pvt. Eddie Slovik]], the only [[United States|American]] soldier to be executed for desertion since the [[American Civil War]].
*March 18 – [[Lucille Ball]] ends her 23-year consecutive television reign when ''[[Here's Lucy]]'' is cancelled.
*April 5 – After 264 hour-long episodes, ''[[The Dean Martin Show]]'' ends its run on [[NBC]], then spins off to 10 years of ''[[The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast]]''.
*April 6 – [[Waterloo (ABBA song)|"Waterloo"]] wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] for Sweden and launches [[ABBA]] on their stellar global career.
*May 4 – Steve Frame ([[George Reinholt]]) marries Alice Matthews ([[Jacqueline Courtney]]) for the second time on a special hour-long broadcast of ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'', coinciding with the show's tenth anniversary.
*June 8 – [[Jon Pertwee]] makes his final regular appearance as the [[Third Doctor]] in the concluding moments of Part Six of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]''. [[Tom Baker]] briefly appears as the [[Fourth Doctor]] at the conclusion of this serial.
*August 5 – For the first time on a pre-school children's programme, the [[United Kingdom|UK]] show ''Inigo Pipkin'' covers the death of the main character, Inigo, as the actor who played him ([[George Woodbridge (actor)|George Woodbridge]]) had died. The show is renamed ''[[Pipkins]]''.
*August 8 – US President [[Richard Nixon]] announces pending resignation (effective August 9) live on television.
*September 10 – The controversial TV movie ''[[Born Innocent (film)|Born Innocent]]'', starring [[Linda Blair]], airs on [[NBC]].  The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female [[rape]] scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film.
*October 6 – ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', the popular British sketch comedy which aired its final episode this year, is first shown in the U.S. on [[KERA-TV]] in [[Dallas, Texas]], at 10pm.<ref>{{cite book|last1=McCall|first1=Douglas|title=Monty Python : a chronology, 1969–2012|date=2014|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=078647811X|page=36|edition=Second}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Young|first1=Bill|title=Monty Python, 1969-2014|url=http://tellyspotting.kera.org/2014/07/23/monty-python-1969-2014/|website=Tellyspotting: Your Brit TV Pub|publisher=KERA|access-date=26 February 2015}}</ref>
*December 28 – [[Tom Baker]] makes his first full appearance as the [[Fourth Doctor]] in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Robot (Doctor Who)|Robot]]''.
*On the American soap opera ''[[Love of Life]]'', Meg Dale ([[Tudi Wiggins]]) calls her son Ben ([[Christopher Reeve]]) a "bastard", the first time a profanity was spoken on American daytime television.{{when|date=July 2014}}{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}