Editing 1952 in television (section)

===Debuts===
*January 6 - ''[[Claudia (U.S. TV series)|Claudia]]'' on [[NBC]] (moved to [[CBS]] on March 31, 1952){{r|mcneil|page1=167}} 
*January 14 – ''[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]'' on NBC (1952–present)<ref name="mcneil">McNeil, Alex (1996). ''Total Television''. Penguin Books USA, Inc. {{ISBN|0-14-02-4916-8}}.</ref>
*March 1 – ''[[Death Valley Days]]'' in [[broadcast syndication|syndication]] (1952–1975)
*June 19 – ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'' on CBS (1952–1967)
*June 30 – the [[soap opera]] ''[[The Guiding Light]]'' (1952–2009) on CBS,  which began on radio in 1937, becoming the longest-running regularly scheduled drama in television history
*July 10 - The prime time version of ''[[A Date with Judy (television program)|A Date with Judy]]'' debuts on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
*September –  the religious drama ''[[This Is the Life (TV series)|This Is the Life]]'' on [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]], and ran until the late 1980s
*September 19 – ''[[Adventures of Superman (TV series)|Adventures of Superman]]'' in syndication (1952–1958)
*October 26 – ''[[Victory at Sea]]'' (1952–1953) on NBC, one of the first historic documentary series
*October 3 –  ''[[Our Miss Brooks]]'' (1952-1956) on CBS
*November 1 – ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' on [[CBC Television|CBC]] (1952–present)
*November 6 – ''[[Biff Baker, U.S.A.]]'' on CBS (1952–1953)
*November 8 – ''[[My Hero (U.S. TV series)|My Hero]]'' on NBC (1952–1953)
*December 1 – ''[[The Abbott and Costello Show]]'' in syndication (1952–1954)
*December 15 – ''[[Flower Pot Men]]'' on [[BBC|BBC Television]] (1952)
*''[[American Bandstand]]'', originally called ''Bandstand'', as a local program in [[Philadelphia]] (1952–1989)
*''[[Life Is Worth Living]]'' with Bishop [[Fulton J. Sheen]] on DuMont (1952–1955), then on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1955–1957)
*''[[My Little Margie]]'' (1952–1955), starring [[Gale Storm]]
*''[[See It Now]]'', hosted by [[Edward R. Murrow]]
*''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' on ABC (1952–1966)
*''[[The Ernie Kovacs Show]]'', where Kovacs explores the boundaries of television technology with his use of special effects (1952–1953)
*''[[Meet the Masters]]'', a program about classical music, on NBC and [[WGN-TV]]
*''[[This Is Your Life (American franchise)|This Is Your Life]]'' in the U.S. (1952–1961)
*''[[Life with Elizabeth]]'', a sitcom featuring [[Betty White]] (1952–1955)