1943 in television
The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1943.
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Events
- May 8 – Opening of Paris Télévision – Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow") after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" programmes are interlaced.
- June – Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
- December 23 – The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
- The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
- Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.
Debuts
- The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943–1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, broadcast from 1949 to 1963).
Television shows
| Series | Debut | Ended |
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| The Face of the War | July 18, 1941 | 1945 |
| Thrills and Chills from Everywhere | August 27, 1941 | June 4, 1946 |
| The Voice of Firestone Televues | 1943 | 1947 |
| 1949 | 1963 |
Births
- January 1 – Don Novello, actor, Saturday Night Live
- January 13 – Richard Moll, actor, Night Court
- January 14 - Holland Taylor, actress, The Practice, Two and a Half Men
- January 23 – Gil Gerard, actor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
- January 26 - Kathryn Leigh Scott, actress, Dark Shadows
- January 28 – John Beck, actor, Flamingo Road
- February 1 - Tina Sloan, actress, Guiding Light
- February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress, Huff
- February 8 - Creed Bratton, actor, The Office
- February 17 – Claire Malis, actress (d. 2012)
- February 25 - George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, The Beatles (d. 2001)
- February 27 – Mary Frann, actress, Newhart (d. 1998)
- March 8 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress, Webster
- March 18 – Kevin Dobson, actor, Kojak
- March 25 - Paul Michael Glaser, actor, director, Starsky & Hutch
- March 28 - Conchata Ferrell, actress, Two and a Half Men
- March 29 – Eric Idle, actor, comedian, Monty Python's Flying Circus
- March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
- April 5 - Max Gail, actor, Barney Miller
- May 10 - David Clennon, actor, thirtysomething
- May 12 - Linda Dano, actress, One Life to Live, Another World
- May 24 – Gary Burghoff, actor, M*A*S*H
- May 27 – Bruce Weitz, actor, Hill Street Blues
- May 31 – Sharon Gless, actress, Cagney and Lacey
- June 2 - Charles Haid, actor and director, Hill Street Blues
- June 7
- Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer, Leave It to Beaver
- Michael Pennington, English actor and director
- June 16 – Joan Van Ark, actress, Knots Landing
- June 24 – Georg Stanford Brown, Cuban-American actor, The Rookies
- June 28 – John Beasley, actor, Everwood
- July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor, That '70s Show
- July 8 – Ri Chun-hee, North Korean news presenter
- July 9 – Suzanne Rogers, actress, Days of Our Lives
- July 11 – Susan Seaforth Hayes, actress, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless
- July 23 – Lucy Lee Flippin, actress, Little House on the Prairie
- July 29 – Roz Kelly, actress, Happy Days
- July 31 – Susan Flannery, actress, Days of Our Lives
- August 2 – Max Wright, actor, ALF
- August 12 - Jim Storm, actor, Dark Shadows
- August 13 - Lillian Hurst, actress, Lost
- August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
- August 18 - Martin Mull, actor, Roseanne, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Danny Phantom
- August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
- August 28 - David Soul, American-British actor and singer, Starsky & Hutch
- September 25
- Lee Aaker, actor, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
- Josh Taylor, actor, Days of Our Lives, The Hogan Family
- Robert Walden, actor, Lou Grant, Brothers, Happily Divorced
- September 27 - Peter Simon, actor, Guiding Light
- October 6 - Michael Durrell, actor, Guiding Light
- October 8 – Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live, Community
- October 15 - Penny Marshall, actress, director, Laverne and Shirley (d. 2018)
- October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, actor, Stargate SG-1
- November 12 – Wallace Shawn, actor
- November 20 – Veronica Hamel, actress, Hill Street Blues
- December 16 – Steven Bochco, writer-producer, Hill Street Blues (d. 2018)
- December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons
- December 27 – Cokie Roberts, political journalist (d. 2019)
- December 28 – Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005)
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