1977 in American television

Television related events in the USA during 1977

List of years in American television:

* 1974
* 1975
* 1976
* 1977
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* 1979
* 1980

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1976–77 United States network television schedule
1977–78 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production
1977 advertisement for a 50-inch (130 cm) Sega-Vision television.

This is a list of American television-related events in 1977.

## Events

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January 3  | Holly Hallstrom becomes the third model on the CBS game show The Price Is Right along with Janice Pennington and Dian Parkinson. This lineup would remain unchanged for the next thirteen years until Kathleen Bradley joined in 1990.
January 15  | Bill Murray joins the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live, replacing Chevy Chase who left the previous year.
January 30  | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, based on The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book series, premieres on ABC; Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy star as Frank and Joe Hardy, and Pamela Sue Martin stars as Nancy Drew. The series at first alternated between the two characters, with The Brady Bunch Hour airing sporadically.
February 4  | American Bandstand celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark and telecast by ABC. An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry, Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman, Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels, Doc Severinsen, Les McCann, Donald Byrd, Chuck Mangione and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven."
February 27  | Fed up with excessive violence and distorted images of sex on TV, the Reverend Donald Wildmon declares "Turn the Television Off Week." He is largely ignored.
March 1  | The CBS game show Match Game is named the #1 rated game show on television for the fifth year in a row.
March 4  | Freddie Prinze makes his final appearance on the NBC sitcom Chico and the Man. Prinze had actually taped the episode in question a mere hours before he fatally shot himself on January 28, 1977.
March 7  | Second Chance, the forerunner to Press Your Luck, premieres on ABC.
March 11  | Sesame Street broadcasts its 1,000th episode on PBS.
March 15  | Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti are seen in "La bohème" on PBS and heard in stereo on local (mostly NPR) stations in the first live "simulcast" from the Met.
March 19  | The series finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show is broadcast on CBS.
March 27  | In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ABC affiliate WITI and CBS affiliate WISN-TV swap affiliations, reversing a swap that took place in 1961.[1][2]
March 30  | Esther Rolle departs the CBS sitcom Good Times shortly after the conclusion of the two-part fourth-season finale, "Love Has a Spot On Its Lung." due to the dismissal of John Amos (who portrayed her on-screen husband James Evans) and the stereotypical behavior of its de facto star Jimmie Walker (who portrayed her son J.J. Evans). Rolle does not return until the sixth and final season in September 1978.
April 22  | Cleveland's CBS station WJW-TV changes its name to WJKW-TV.
June 6  | Lisa Peluso makes her first appearance on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Wendy Wilkins, a role she would play until December 1985.
June 27  | In San Diego, California, ABC, angered over the forced loss of their affiliation from XETV in nearby Tijuana, Mexico in 1973, moves from the station which forced the change, KCST-TV, to NBC affiliate KGTV. KCST-TV assumes KGTV's former NBC affiliation and is now KNSD, an NBC O&O.
August 14  | NBC affiliate WRDU-TV changes its call sign to WPTF-TV, following Durham Life's purchase of the station.
August 16  | Television stations nationwide interrupt regular programming following news of the death of Elvis Presley. As a result, Elvis in Concert airs on CBS on October 3 that year to bad reviews.
September 5  | In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ABC affiliate WRBT (now WVLA-TV) and NBC affiliate WBRZ-TV swap affiliations. WBRZ-TV makes its move in search for stronger programming (ABC is, at the time, the nation's #1 rated television network, while NBC is in last place). The move is a precursor to similar events that will take place in the course of the next few years.
September 14  | A tube top-clad woman named Yolanda Bowsley is called into Contestants' Row on the CBS game show The Price Is Right, and while running down her breasts pop out of her shirt. The incident was censored with a large blue bar but it is still remembered today.
Cheryl Ladd is introduced as Kris Munroe, the younger sister of former Angel Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) in the second season premiere of Charlie's Angels on ABC.
September 20  | The third part of the three-part fifth season premiere of Happy Days airs on ABC. The episode is highlighted by a scene in which Fonzie literally jumps over a shark while on water-skis.
September 21  | Eleven-year old Janet Jackson joins the cast of the CBS sitcom Good Times for its final two seasons as Penny Gordon, an upstairs neighbor who is abused by her biological mother (Chip Fields), later adopted by Willona (Ja'Net DuBois), in the four-part season opener "The Evans Get Involved". Comedian Johnny Brown, who recurred as the building superintendent Bookman from Seasons 2 to 4, also joins the main cast.
September 24  | Marla Gibbs joins the cast of the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons as a series regular in the fourth season as fan-favorite Florence Johnston. Zara Cully, who portrayed Mother Jefferson, appears in only three episodes that season, prior to her death at age 86 in February 1978.
October 23  | CBS affiliates WTEN in Albany, New York and WCDC in Adams, Massachusetts swap affiliations with ABC affiliate WAST after WTEN/WCDC's incoming owners Knight-Ridder sign an affiliation deal for the station with ABC.
October 24  | A new Peanuts special, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown, airs on CBS. It shows and names "Heather", the Little Red-Haired Girl, thereupon ending the 'mystery'.
November 6  | KTVZ in Bend, Oregon signs-on as an NBC affiliate. Bend is technically still part of the Portland DMA at the time, but in 1981, it becomes its own television market.
November 30  | CBS commentator Eric Sevareid bade farewell in his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, after 48 years at CBS News.
December 2  | Billy Crystal sets a winner's circle record by getting the contestant to the top of the pyramid in 26 seconds on ABC's The $20,000 Pyramid. The record still stands today.
December 11  | In Huntsville, Alabama, NBC affiliate WAAY-TV swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WYUR in search for stronger programming (at the time, NBC is in last place among the three major networks, and ABC is in first place).
December 17  | Miskel Spillman, guest hosts an episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Spillman, who is at the time, an 80-year-old German immigrant and grandmother from New Orleans, won the only "Anyone Can Host" contest. She is to date, the only non-celebrity to host an episode of SNL. She was also, the oldest host in SNL's history until 88-year-old Betty White hosted on May 8, 2010. It is also in this episode that musical guest Elvis Costello halted his band the Attractions seven seconds into their scheduled performance of the song "Less Than Zero" in favor of "Radio Radio", which was a then unreleased song that was critical of mainstream broadcasting.

## Programs

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### Debuting this year

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Date  | Title  | Network

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January 3  | Lovers and Friends | NBC
Shoot for the Stars
January 10  | Circus of the Stars | CBS
January 17  | Busting Loose
January 30  | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | ABC
January 31  | The Andros Targets | CBS
February 2  | Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected | NBC
February 18  | Hunter | CBS
March 7  | Second Chance | ABC
March 15  | Eight Is Enough
Three's Company
March 20  | Loves Me, Loves Me Not | CBS
March 23  | How Do You Like Your Eggs? | QUBE
April 1  | This Week in Baseball | Syndication
May 7  | Quark | NBC
June 13  | It's Anybody's Guess
July 6  | Comedy Time
July 18  | The Better Sex | ABC
August 3  | The Kallikaks | NBC
September 5  | The Fitzpatricks | CBS
September 10  | Baggy Pants and the Nitwits | NBC
CB Bears
I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali
The New Archie and Sabrina Hour
The Red Hand Gang
Search and Rescue
Space Sentinels
Thunder
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics | ABC
The Skatebirds | CBS
Space Academy
September 12  | The Betty White Show
Young Dan'l Boone
Lucan | ABC
September 13  | Soap
Mulligan's Stew | NBC
The Richard Pryor Show
September 14  | Inside the NFL | HBO
September 15  | Carter Country | ABC
CHiPs | NBC
September 16  | Sanford Arms
Logan's Run | CBS
September 17  | Operation Petticoat | ABC
September 19  | The San Pedro Beach Bums | ABC
The Amazing Spider-Man | CBS
September 20  | Lou Grant | CBS
September 21  | The Oregon Trail | NBC
September 22  | Man from Atlantis
September 24  | The Love Boat | ABC
October 1  | We've Got Each Other | CBS
October 3  | Knockout | NBC
To Say the Least
October 9  | On Our Own | CBS
October 27  | James at 15 | NBC
December 1  | Pinwheel | Nickelodeon

### Resuming this year

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Title | Final aired | Previous network | New title | Returning network | Date of return

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The Mickey Mouse Club | 1959  | ABC | The New Mickey Mouse Club | Syndication  | January 17

### Ending this year

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Date  | Title  | Debut

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January 7  | New Howdy Doody Show | 1976
January 26  | The Practice
March 3  | The McLean Stevenson Show
March 13  | Delvecchio
March 13  | Phyllis | 1975
March 18  | Sanford and Son | 1972
March 19  | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | 1970
March 30  | The Streets of San Francisco | 1972
April 13  | Sirota's Court | 1976
April 15  | The Electric Company | 1971
April 17  | McCloud | 1970
April 24  | McMillan & Wife | 1971
April 27  | Loves Me, Loves Me Not | 1977
May 16  | The Andros Targets
May 27  | Hunter
July 30  | The Feather and Father Gang | 1976
August 24  | Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected | 1977
August 31  | The Kallikaks
September 1  | Comedy Time
September 2  | Let's Make a Deal | 1971
October 4  | The Richard Pryor Show | 1977
October 14  | Sanford Arms
November 16  | Busting Loose
November 30  | The Oregon Trail
December 3  | Emergency! | 1972
December 13  | Mulligan's Stew | 1977
December 19  | The San Pedro Beach Bums
December 30  | Storybook Squares | 1969

### Changing networks

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Show  | Moved from  | Moved to

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The Bionic Woman | ABC | NBC
Wonder Woman | CBS
The Tony Randall Show
Tattletales | CBS | Syndication
The Mickey Mouse Club | ABC | Syndication

### Made-for-TV movies

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Debut | Name | Network

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May 13  | The San Pedro Bums | ABC
October 10[3] | Killer on Board | NBC
November 10  | The Incredible Hulk | CBS
November 23  | The Last of the Mohicans | NBC
November 26  | The Hobbit | NBC
December 11  | It Happened One Christmas | ABC

### Miniseries

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Debut | Name | Network

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January 23  | Roots | ABC
April 3  | Jesus of Nazareth | NBC

## Networks and services

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### Launches

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Network  | Type  | Launch date  | Notes  | Source

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CBN Satellite Channel | Satellite television  | April 29  |  |
Tri-State Christian Television | Cable television  | May 20  |  |
Madison Square Garden Sports Network | Cable television  | September 22  |  |

### Conversions and rebrandings

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There are no conversions and rebrandings for Cable and satellite television channels in this year.

### Closures

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There are no closures for Cable and satellite television channels in this year.

## Television stations

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### Sign-ons

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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January 17  | Medford, Oregon | KSYS | 8  | PBS  |
March 6  | Plattsburgh, New York | WCFE-TV | 57  |
April  | Corpus Christi, Texas | KORO | 28  | Spanish International Network | Now a Univision affiliate
April 10  | Fresno, California | KMTF | 18  | PBS  |
May 1  | Mason City, Iowa | KYIN | 24  | Part of Iowa Public Television
June 30  | Long Beach/Los Angeles, California | KSCI | 18  | Independent  |
September 10  | South Bend, Indiana | WHME | 46  |
October 17  | Boston, Massachusetts | WXNE-TV | 25  |
October 21  | Rock Springs, Wyoming | KTUX | 13  | CBS |
November 6  | Bend, Oregon | KTVZ | 21  | NBC  |
December 1  | New Haven, Connecticut | WEDY | 65  | PBS  | Part of Connecticut Public Television
December 8  | Fayetteville, Arkansas | KTVP | 29  | CBS  |
December 15  | Park Falls/Superior, Wisconsin
(Duluth, Minnesota) | WLEF-TV | 36  | PBS  | Part of Wisconsin Public Television
December 21  | Fort Wayne, Indiana | WFFT-TV | 55  | Independent  |
December 28  | Sheridan, Wyoming | KSGW-TV | 12  | NBC (primary)
CBS (secondary)  | Satellite of KOTA-TV/Rapid City, South Dakota
Unknown  | New York City | W60AI | 60  | Independent  | Signed on as a translator of WWHT

### Network affiliation changes

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Old affiliation  | New affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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March 27  | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WISN-TV | 12  | CBS  | ABC  |
WITI | 6  | ABC  | CBS  |
June 27  | San Diego, California | KCST-TV | 39  | ABC  | NBC  | These affiliation changes were part of ABC's retaliation for KCST-TV previously forcing the ABC affiliation to move to that station from XETV in nearby Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, four years earlier.
KGTV | 10  | NBC  | ABC
September 5  | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | WBRZ-TV | 2  | NBC  | ABC  |
WRBT | 33  | ABC  | NBC  |
October 23  | Adams, Massachusetts | WCDC-TV | 19  | ABC  | CBS  | WCDC-TV is a satellite of WTEN/Albany, New York
Albany, New York | WTEN | 10  |
December 11  | Huntsville, Alabama | WAAY-TV | 31  | NBC  | ABC  |
WYUR | 48  | ABC  | NBC  |

### Station closures

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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May 4  | Fort Dodge, Iowa | KVFD-TV | 21  | NBC  | November 23, 1953

## Births

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Date | Name | Notability

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January 7  | Dustin Diamond | Actor (Saved by the Bell) (died 2021)
Daniela Sea | Actor
Cecilia Vega | American journalist
January 8  | Amber Benson | Actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and singer
January 18  | Lloyd Ahlquist | American internet personality
January 19  | Benjamin Ayres | Canadian actor (Saving Hope)
January 21  | Jerry Trainor | Actor (Drake & Josh, iCarly, Wendell & Vinnie, T.U.F.F. Puppy, Bunsen Is a Beast)
January 26  | Vince Carter | NBA basketball player
January 28  | Joey Fatone | Singer and actor
January 29  | Justin Hartley | Actor (Passions, Smallville, The Young and the Restless, This Is Us)
Sam Jaeger | Actor (Parenthood)
January 31  | Bobby Moynihan | Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, We Bare Bears, DuckTales, Me, Myself & I)
Kerry Washington | Actress (Scandal)
February 2  | Michael Koman | Writer
Shakira | Colombian singer (Dancing with Myself, The Voice)[4]
February 3  | Maitland Ward | Actress (The Bold and the Beautiful, Boy Meets World)
February 6  | Josh Stewart | Actor
February 9  | A. J. Buckley | Irish-born Canadian actor (CSI: NY)
February 14  | Jim Jefferies | Actor and comedian
February 16  | Paul Brittain | Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
February 18  | Ike Barinholtz | Actor (Mad TV, The Mindy Project)
Kristoffer Polaha | Actor
February 20  | Stephon Marbury | NBA basketball player
February 21  | Steve Francis | NBA basketball player
February 26  | Greg Rikaart | Actor (The Young and the Restless)
March 3  | Buddy Valastro | Baker
March 7  | Mark Taylor | Actor
Heather McComb | Actress
March 8  | Alison Becker | Actress (Mayne Street, Parks and Recreation)
James Van Der Beek | Actor (Dawson's Creek)
Tom Brady | Film director
March 9  | Rupert Evans | Actor
March 10  | Jeff Branson | Actor (The Young and the Restless, All My Children, Guiding Light)
Bree Turner | Actress (Undressed, Grimm)
March 15  | Brian Tee | Actor (Chicago Med)
March 17  | Jorma Taccone | Actor
March 23  | Joanna Page | Welsh actress (Gavin & Stacey, Poppy Cat, Q Pootle 5)
March 24  | Jessica Chastain | Actress
March 26  | Bianca Kajlich | Actress (Rules of Engagement, Undateable)
March 27  | Malia Jones | Model
March 28  | Annie Wersching | Actress (General Hospital, 24, Bosch, The Vampire Diaries) (died 2023)
March 31  | Erica Tazel | Actress
April 1  | Jon Gosselin | American former television personality
April 6  | Teddy Sears | Actor (Raising the Bar, American Horror Story, Masters of Sex, The Flash)
April 10  | Stephanie Sheh | Voice actress (Three Delivery, Peter Rabbit, The Legend of Korra)
April 12  | Jordana Spiro | Actress (The Huntress, My Boys, The Mob Doctor)
Sarah Jane Morris | Actress (Brothers & Sisters)
April 14  | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Actress (Swans Crossing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ringer, The Crazy Ones)
Rob McElhenney | Actor (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
April 18  | Adam Sinclair | Actor
April 23  | Eric Edelstein | Actor (Shameless, Monsters vs. Aliens, Clarence, We Bare Bears)
Kal Penn | Actor (House, Designated Survivor)
John Oliver | Actor
John Cena | Professional wrestler and actor
April 24  | Eric Balfour | Actor (24, Haven) and singer
Rebecca Mader | Actress (Justice, Lost, Once Upon a Time)
April 25  | Manolo Cardona | Actor
April 26  | Jason Earles | Actor (Hannah Montana, Kickin' It, Hotel Du Loone)
McKenzie Westmore | Actress (Passions, All My Children)
Tom Welling | Actor (Smallville)
Leonard Earl Howze | Actor
April 28  | Zeb Wells | Writer
April 29  | Brandon McMillan | American television personality
April 30  | Alexandra Holden | Actress
May 2  | Jenna von Oÿ | Actress (Blossom)
May 3  | Jeffrey Garcia | Voice actor (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Back at the Barnyard, Planet Sheen)
May 10  | Todd Lowe | Actor (Gilmore Girls, True Blood)
May 12  | Rebecca Herbst | Actress (Days of Our Lives, General Hospital)
Rachel Wilson | Canadian actress (Heather on Total Drama)
May 13  | Neil Hopkins | Actor (Lost)
Brian Thomas Smith | Actor
Samantha Morton | Actress
May 16  | Adam MacDonald | Actor
Lynn Collins | Actress
May 20  | Matt Czuchry | Actor (Gilmore Girls, The Good Wife)
May 23  | Heather Wahlquist | Actress
Lisa Joy | Screenwriter
Richard Ayoade | English actor (Gadget Man, Strange Hill High, Apple & Onion)
May 25  | Alberto Del Rio | Pro wrestler[5]
May 27  | Shanola Hampton | Actress
May 28  | Elisabeth Hasselbeck | Talk show host
Brian Friedman | Dancer
May 29  | Rory Albanese | Writer
May 31  | Eric Christian Olsen | Actor (NCIS: Los Angeles, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil)
June 1  | Sarah Wayne Callies | Actress (Prison Break, The Walking Dead, Colony)
Danielle Harris | Actress (The Wild Thornberrys, That's Life, Father of the Pride)
June 2  | Zachary Quinto | Actor (Heroes, American Horror Story)
AJ Styles | Pro wrestler
June 5  | Navi Rawat | Actress (The O.C., Numb3rs)
Liza Weil | Actress (Gilmore Girls, How to Get Away with Murder)
June 6  | Amber Nash | American actress
June 8  | Kanye West | American rapper
June 11  | Ryan Dunn | American stunt performer (Jackass, Viva La Bam) (died 2011)
June 14  | Sullivan Stapleton | Australian actor (Blindspot)
June 17  | Lauren Pritchard | Comic actress (Mad TV)
June 20  | Amos Lee | Singer
June 28  | Bob Smiley | Writer
Hua Hsu | Writer
June 29  | Zuleikha Robinson | British actress (Lost, Rome) and singer
June 30  | Colton Dunn | Comedian, actor and writer (Superstore)
July 1  | Liv Tyler | Actress (The Leftovers)
July 2  | John Paesano | Composer
July 4  | Stephen Rannazzisi | Actor
July 7  | Jessica Chobot | Host
July 8  | Milo Ventimiglia | Actor (Gilmore Girls, Heroes, This Is Us)
July 12  | Steve Howey | Actor (Reba, Shameless)
Brock Lesnar | Wrestler and mixed martial artist[6]
July 13  | Ashley Scott | Actress (Dark Angel, Birds of Prey, Jericho)
Kari Wahlgren | Voice actress (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Naruto, Ben 10, Legion of Super Heroes, The Fairly OddParents)
July 15  | Lana Parrilla | Actress (Spin City, Boomtown, Windfall, Swingtown, Miami Medical, Once Upon a Time)
July 16  | Raney Shockne | Composer
July 18  | Kelly Reilly | British actress (Black Box, True Detective, Under Suspicion)
Luis Moncada | Actor
July 19  | Gennifer Hutchison | Writer
Erin Cummings | Actress
July 23  | Shane McRae | Actor
July 26  | Tony Sampson | Canadian voice actor (Eddy on Ed, Edd n Eddy)
July 27  | Jason Zimbler | Actor (Clarissa Explains It All)
Rich Blomquist | Actor
Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Actor
July 29  | Rodney Jerkins | Rapper
July 30  | Jaime Pressly | Actress (My Name Is Earl, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Mom)
Mike Seal | Actor
August 2  | Edward Furlong | Actor (CSI: NY)
Artemis Pebdani | Actress
August 3  | Tom Brady | Quarterback in the NFL
August 6  | Joe DeRosa | Actor
August 8  | Lindsay Sloane | Actress (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
Michael Chernus | Actor
August 11  | Toby Chu | American film composer
August 15  | Nicole Paggi | Actress (Hope & Faith)
August 17  | Emily Schulman | Actress (Small Wonder)
August 19  | Callum Blue | English actor (Smallville, Dead Like Me, The Tudors)
Brooke Mueller | Actress
T. J. Holmes | American journalist
August 25  | Jonathan Togo | Actor (CSI: Miami)
August 28  | Adam Rayner | English actor
August 30  | Michael Gladis | Actor
August 31  | Jeff Hardy | Pro wrestler[7]
September 1  | Adrienne Wilkinson | Actress (Venice: The Series, Suspense)
September 2  | Jimmy Smith | Fighter
September 7  | Steve Borst | Writer
September 8  | Nate Corddry | Actor
September 11  | Jackie Buscarino | Voice actress (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe)
Ludacris | Rapper and actor
Todd Williams | Actor
September 15  | Kenny Blank | Actor (The Parent 'Hood, As Told by Ginger) and singer
Marisa Ramirez | Actress
September 17  | Jim Conroy | Voice Actor (Celebrity Deathmatch, Kenny the Shark, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Jellystone!, The Cuphead Show!)
September 18  | Barrett Foa | Actor (NCIS: Los Angeles)
Sara Haines | American television host
September 19  | Erica Ash | Actress (Mad TV, The Big Gay Sketch Show)
September 24  | Elizabeth Bogush | Actress (Titans, The Mountain)
Alexis DeJoria | Racer
September 25  | Dave Jeser | Writer (Drawn Together)
Clea DuVall | Actress
September 26  | Sirena Irwin | Voice actress (SpongeBob SquarePants, Stripperella, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Pig Goat Banana Cricket)
September 27  | Mike Maronna | Actor (The Adventures of Pete & Pete)
October 11  | Matt Bomer | Actor (Guiding Light, Tru Calling, Chuck, White Collar)
Rhett McLaughlin | TV host
October 13  | Paul Pierce | NBA basketball player
Kiele Sanchez | Actress (Married to the Kellys, Lost, Related, The Glades, Kingdom)
October 14  | Agata Gotova | Actress
October 17  | Alimi Ballard | Actor (Numb3rs, The Catch)
Jason Reitman | Actor
October 20  | Jennifer Hall | Actress (Up All Night)
Sam Witwer | Actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human)
October 26  | Jon Heder | Voice actor (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Pickle and Peanut, Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh)
Chaz Lamar Shepherd | Actor (7th Heaven, The Game)
October 27  | Mat Lucas | Voice actor (Star Wars: Clone Wars)
October 29  | Brendan Fehr | Canadian actor (Roswell, CSI: Miami)
November 2  | Gabriella Pession | Actress
Jason Cerbone | Actor
November 4  | Liz Cackowski | Actress
Lindsay Czarniak | American sports anchor and reporter
November 10  | Brittany Murphy | Actress (Drexell's Class, King of the Hill) (d. 2009)
Lea Moreno Young | Actress (Legacy, Brutally Normal, DAG)
November 14  | Brian Dietzen | Actors (NCIS)
November 15  | Sean Murray
November 16  | Gigi Edgley | Australian actress (Farscape, The Secret Life of Us, Rescue Special Ops)
Maggie Gyllenhaal | Actress, singer and sister of Jake Gyllenhaal
November 17  | Scoot McNairy | Actor
Mike Cernovich | TV host
November 18  | Miranda Raison | British actress (MI-5, Spotless)
November 19  | Reid Scott | Actor (It's All Relative, My Boys, Motorcity, Veep)
Sanaa Hamri | Director
November 20  | Josh Turner | Actor
November 24  | Colin Hanks | Actor
November 25  | Jill Flint | Actress (Royal Pains, The Night Shift)
November 27  | Alex Wagner | American journalist
November 30  | Nelsan Ellis | Actor (True Blood) (d. 2017)
December 1  | Nate Torrence | Actor (Motorcity, Hello Ladies, Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
Akiva Schaffer | Actor
December 3  | David Iserson | Screenwriter
December 5  | Matt Gutman | American reporter
December 6  | Lindsey Alley | Actress (The Mickey Mouse Club, On the Patio)
December 7  | Big Jay Oakerson | Actor
December 10  | Netfa Perry | Actress (The Steve Harvey Show)
December 12  | Colin White | Canadian former professional ice hockey player
December 15  | Geoff Stults | Actor (7th Heaven)
December 17  | Katheryn Winnick | Canadian actress (Vikings)
December 24  | Michael Raymond-James | Actor (True Blood, Terriers, Once Upon a Time)
December 28  | Michael Spears | Actor
December 29  | Katherine Moennig | Actress (The L Word, Three Rivers, Ray Donovan)
December 30  | Lucy Punch | Actress (The Class, Ben and Kate)
December 31  | Donald Trump Jr. | Television presenter

## Deaths

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Date | Name | Age | Notability

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January 28  | Burt Mustin | 92  | Actor (Leave It to Beaver)
January 29  | Freddie Prinze | 22  | Actor and comedian (Chico and the Man)
February 28  | Eddie "Rochester" Anderson | 71  | Comedian (The Jack Benny Program)
March 27  | Diana Hyland | 41  | Actress (The Fugitive, Peyton Place)
April 21  | Gummo Marx | 84  | Actor
June 13  | Matthew Garber | 21  | English actor (Mary Poppins)
June 14  | Alan Reed | 69  | Actor (original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones)
August 16  | Elvis Presley | 42  | Singer and actor (The Ed Sullivan Show)
August 17  | Quincy Howe | 76  | Journalist and presidential debate moderator
August 19  | Groucho Marx | 86  | Comedian, television host (You Bet Your Life)
August 22  | Sebastian Cabot | 59  | Actor (Family Affair)
August 29  | Jean Hagen | 54  | Actress (Make Room for Daddy)
October 14  | Bing Crosby | 74  | Singer, actor, TV producer (Hogan's Heroes)

## Television debuts

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* Richard Dean Anderson – General Hospital
* Jack Angel – The All-New Super Friends Hour
* Rosanna Arquette – Having Babies II
* Christine Baranski – Busting Loose
* Carole Bouquet – La famille Cigale
* Sofia Coppola – The Godfather Saga
* Jane Curtin – The Love Boat
* Robert Davi – Contract on Cherry Street
* Robert De Niro – The Godfather Saga
* Brian Dennehy – Kojak
* Robert Englund – The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries:Mystery of the Fallen Angels
* Adam Godley – The Ballad of Salomon Pavey
* William Hurt – Kojak
* Nastassja Kinski – Tatort
* Jennifer Jason Leigh – Baretta
* David Margulies – Kojak
* Joe Pantoliano – McNamara's Band
* Mandy Patinkin – Charleston
* Annie Potts – Black Market Baby
* Dennis Quaid – Baretta
* Jennifer Savidge – James at 16
* John Shea – Eight Is Enough
* Meryl Streep – The Deadliest Season
* Jeffrey Tambor – Kojak
* Christoph Waltz – Am dam des
* Ray Winstone – Scum
* John Witherspoon – The Richard Pryor Show

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* Netherlands
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* Scotland
* United States

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## See also

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* 1977 in the United States
* List of American films of 1977

## References

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1. ^ "In Brief." Broadcasting, September 27, 1976, pg. 28. [1][permanent dead link] (the text incorrectly states that WISN-TV had been a CBS affiliate since 1954, omitting the 1961 affiliation switch.)
2. ^ "Milwaukee connection." Broadcasting, October 18, 1976, pg. 36[permanent dead link]
3. ^ "Killer on Board (TV Movie 1977)". iMDb. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
4. ^ "Shakira: Colombian Pop Star". Biography. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
5. ^ "WWE Profile - Alberto Del Rio". ESPN.com. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
6. ^ "Brock Lesnar (Heavyweight) MMA Profile". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
7. ^ "WWE Profile - Jeff Hardy". ESPN.com. 2020-08-22. Retrieved 2025-07-26.

## External links

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* List of 1977 American television series at IMDb

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