01/23/1965
- "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC-TV.
02/01/1965
- Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news.
04/28/1965
- Barbara Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbara" special
on CBS-TV.
05/18/1965
- Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for
the Star Trek Captain.
06/12/1965
- Sonny & Cher make their first TV appearance on "American
Bandstand."
07/19/1965
- Shooting begins on Star Trek's 2nd pilot, "Where No Man
Has Gone Before."
09/05/1965
- NBC & ABC-TV's western series, "Wagon train" ends.
Show had 442 episodes.
09/10/1965
- CBS & NBC-TV's comedy series, "The Jack Benny show"
ends. Show had 343 episodes.
09/14/1965
- "My mother the car" debuts on NBC-TV. Show lasts until
September 6, 1966 with only 30 episodes.
09/14/1965
- ABC-TV's comedy, "F-Troop" premiers. Show runs until 8/31/1967
and had 65 episodes.
09/15/1965
- CBS-TV's situation comedy, "Green Acres" premiers. Show
runs until 9/7/1971 and had 170 episodes.
09/15/1965
- NBC-TV's drama series, "I Spy" premiers and runs until
9/9/1968 with a total of 82 episodes.
09/15/1965
- ABC-TV's western series, "The big valley" premiers. Show
runs until 5/19/1969 and had 112 episodes.
09/15/1965
- ABC-TV's situation comedy, "Gidget" begins. Show runs
until 9/1/1966 with only 32 episodes.
09/15/1965
- CBS-TV's comedy series, "Hogans Heroes" premiers. Show
runs until 7/4/1971 with 168 filmed episodes.
09/15/1965
- ABC-TV's western series, "The big valley" premiers. Show
runs until 5/19/1969 and had 112 episodes.
09/15/1965
- "Lost in Space", CBS-TV's science fiction, adventure series
premieres. Show ran until 9/11/1968 with 83 episodes.
09/16/1965
- NBC-TV's comedy/variety, "The Dean Martin show" begins.
Show runs until 5/24/1974.
09/17/1965
- CBS-TV's western series, "The wild, wild west" premiers.
Show runs until 9/19/1969 with 104 episodes.
09/18/1965
- NBC-TV's comedy, "I dream of Jeannie" aires and runs until
7/1/1970 and had 139 episodes.
09/18/1965
- "Get Smart" premieres on NBC & CBS-TV. Show runs until
9/11/1970 with 138 episodes.
09/19/1965
- "The FBI", a crime drama series starring Ephram Zimbalist
Jr. debuts on ABC and lasts until September 8, 1974. A total
of 240 episodes were made.
09/25/1965
- A "Beatles" cartoon show begins in U.S.
11/08/1965
- "Days of Our Lives" premieres on daytime TV. (originally
was 30 minutes long-expanded to 1 hour in 1975)
12/09/1965
- "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres.
12/29/1965
- The James Bond movie, "Thunderball" premieres in U.S.
12/29/1965
- CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 season at $18.8
million per year
Top singles of '65:
Get Off My Cloud (The Rolling Stones)
Help! (The Beatles)
Help Me Rhonda (The Beach Boys)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones)
I Got You Babe (Sonny and Cher)
Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits)
Stop! In The Name Of Love (The Supremes)
Turn, Turn, Turn (The Byrds)
Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs)
Yesterday (The Beatles)
Movies of '65:
The
Nanny
Thunderball
Doctor Zhivago
The Sound of Music
Cat Ballou
Famous Deaths:
January 4 - T.S. Eliot "Thomas
Sterns Elliot" (emphysema)
January 24 - Winston Churchill "Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Churchill"
February 15 - Nat King Cole (lung cancer)
February 23 - Stan Laurel "Arthur Stanley Jefferson" (heart
attack)
May 1 - Spike Jones (emphysema)
November 8 - Dorothy Kilgallen (suspected suicide)
Famous Births:
Feb 23rd - Kristin Davis
Feb 25th - Carrot Top
March 9th - Brian Bosworth
March 25th - Sarah Jessica Parker
April 4th - Robert Downey Jr.
April 16th - Jon Cryer
April 16th - Martin Lawrence
May 27th - Todd Bridges
May 31st - Brooke Shields
July 22nd - Patrick Laborteaux
July 22nd - David Spade
July 23rd - Slash
Sept 3rd - Charlie Sheen
Special events of '65:
Chevrolet
is the first to build more than 3 million cars and trucks
in a single year!
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