Editing 1962 in television (section)

==Programs/programmes==
*''[[American Bandstand]]'' (1952–1989)
*''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' (UK) (1956–1968)
*''[[As the World Turns]]'' (1956–2010)
*''[[Ben Casey]]'' (1961–1966)
*''[[Blue Peter]]'' (UK) (1958–present)
*''[[Bonanza]]'' (1959–1973)
*''[[Bozo the Clown]]'' (1949–present)
*''[[Candid Camera]]'' (1948–present)
*''[[Captain Kangaroo]]'' (1955–1984)
*''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]'' (1961–1963)
*''[[Come Dancing]]'' (UK) (1949–1995)
*''[[Coronation Street]]'' (UK) (1960–present)
*''[[Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series)|Dennis the Menace]]'' (1959–1963)
*''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' (UK) (1955–1976)
*''[[Face the Nation]]'' (1954–present)
*''[[Four Corners (Australian TV program)|Four Corners]]'' (Australia) (1961–present)
*''[[Grandstand (BBC)|Grandstand]]'' (UK) (1958–2007)
*''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1955–1975)
*''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' (1951–present)
*''[[Hawaiian Eye]]'' (1959–1963)
*''[[Hazel (TV series)|Hazel]]'' (1961–1966)
*''[[It's Academic]]'' (1961–present)
*''[[Juke Box Jury]]'' (1959–1967, 1979, 1989–1990)
*''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' (1957–1963)
*''[[Love of Life]]'' (1951–1980)
*''[[Meet the Press]]'' (1947–present)
*''[[Mister Ed]]'' (1961–1966)
*''[[My Three Sons]]'' (1960–1972)
*''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]'' (1958–1963)
*''[[Opportunity Knocks (UK TV series)|Opportunity Knocks]]'' (UK) (1956–1978)
*''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' (UK) (1953–present)
*''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]'' (1957–1966)
*''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' (1960–1964)
*''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'' (1951–1986)
*''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' (1952–1966)
*''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' (1960–1968)
*''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' (UK) (1961–1969)
*''[[The Bell Telephone Hour]]'' (1959–1968)
*''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' (1961–1966)
*''[[The Donna Reed Show]]'' (1958–1966)
*''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' (1948–1971)
*''[[The Edge of Night]]'' (1956–1984)
*''[[The Flintstones]]'' (1960–1966)
*''[[The Fulton Sheen Program]]'' (1961–1968)
*''[[The Good Old Days (UK TV series)|The Good Old Days]]'' (UK) (1953–1983)
*''[[Guiding Light|The Guiding Light]]'' (1952–2009)
*''[[The Jack Benny Show]]'' (1950–1965)
*''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]'' (1955–1982)
*''[[The Lucy Show]]'' (1962–1968) (CBS)
*''[[The Mike Douglas Show]]'' (1961–1981)
*''[[The Milton Berle Show]]'' (1954–1967)
*''[[The Price is Right (1956)|The Price Is Right]]'' (1956–1965)
*''[[The Real McCoys]]'' (1957–1963)
*''[[The Secret Storm]]'' (1954–1974)
*''[[The Sky at Night]]'' (UK) (1957–present)
*''[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]'' (1952–present)
*''[[The Tonight Show]]'' (1954–present)
*''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' (1959–1964)
*''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'' (1959–1963)
*''[[The Voice of Firestone]]'' (1949–1963)
*''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' (UK) (1955–2003)
*''[[Truth or Consequences]]'' (1950–1988)
*''[[Wagon Train]]'' (1957-1965)
*''[[Walt Disney anthology series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'' (1961–1969)
*''[[What the Papers Say]]'' (UK) (1956–2008) 
*''[[What's My Line (1950)|What's My Line]]'' (1950–1967)
*''[[Zoo Quest]]'' (UK) (1954–1964)

===Debuts===
*January 2 – ''[[Z-Cars]]'' (UK) on [[BBC One|BBC Television]] (1962–1978)
*March 8 – ''[[Oh! Those Bells]]'' on [[CBS]] (1962)
*April 6 – ''[[Little Blue Light]]'' (Голубой огонёк, ''Goluboy ogonyok'') in the Soviet Union (1962–present)
*April 17 – ''[[Brothers in Law (TV series)|Brothers in Law]]'' (UK) on [[BBC One|BBC Television]] (1962)
*July 6 – ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]'' (Ireland) on [[RTÉ]] (1962–present)
*July 26 - ''[[The Lively Ones (TV series)|The Lively Ones]]'' on NBC (1962-1963)<ref name=tt>{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Alex|title=Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present |date=1996|publisher=Penguin Books USA, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=0-14-02-4916-8|page= 487|edition=4th}}</ref>
*September 3 – ''The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series'' on Syndication (1962–1963) 
*September 19 – ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'' on NBC, beginning a nine-year run, and is the first [[Western (genre)|western]] to air in 90-minute installments (1962–1971)
*September 21 – ''[[Don't Call Me Charlie!]]'' on NBC (1962–1963)
*September 23 – ''[[Ensign O'Toole]]'' on NBC (1962–1963); ''[[The Jetsons]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], the first program to air in color on the network (1962–1963, 1984–1985, 1987)
*September 26 – ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'' premieres on CBS (1962–1971)
*October 1 – ''[[The Lucy Show]]'' on CBS (1962–1968); ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' on NBC (1962–1992); ''[[Discovery (1960s TV series)|Discovery]]'' on ABC  (1962–1971)
*October 2 – ''[[Combat!]]'' on ABC (1962–1967)
*October 4 – ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'' (UK) on ITV (1962–1969)
*October 11 – ''[[McHale's Navy]]'' on ABC (1962–1966)
*December 10- ''Bonne Nuit les Petits'' on [[Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française|RTF]] (France) and [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé]] (Canada) 
*December 31 – ''[[Match Game]]'' on NBC (1962–1969, 1973–1984, 1990–1991, 1998–1999, 2016–present)
*''[[To Tell the Truth (Canada)|To Tell the Truth]]'' on [[CTV television network|CTV]] (1962–1964)

===Ending this year===
{| class="wikitable"
! Date || Show || Debut 
|-
|January 6
| ''[[The Yogi Bear Show]]'' 
|rowspan="2"|1961
|-
|March 1
| ''[[The New Bob Cummings Show]]'' 
|-
| March 13
| ''[[Mess Mates]]''
| 1960
|-
|March 25
| ''[[Bus Stop (TV series)|Bus Stop]]''
|rowspan="3"|1961
|-
|April 4
|''[[Straightaway (TV series)|Straightaway]]''
|-
|April 18
|''[[Top Cat]]''
|-
|May 10
|''[[Outlaws (1960 TV series)|Outlaws]]''
|1960
|-
|May 23
|''[[Window on Main Street]]''
|1961
|-
|May 25
|''[[Father of the Bride (TV series)|Father of the Bride]]''
|1961
|-
|May 31
|''[[Oh! Those Bells]]''
|1962
|-
|June 5
|''[[Ichabod and Me]]''
|rowspan="2"|1961
|-
|September 12
|''[[The Alvin Show]]''
|-
|September 28
| ''[[The Brighter Day]]'' 
| 1954
|-
|rowspan="2"|Unknown
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' 
| 1955
|-
| ''[[Quick Draw McGraw|The Quick Draw McGraw Show]]'' 
| 1959
|}