# 1925 in television

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The year 1925 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1925.

## Global television events

| Month | Day | Event |
| March | 25 | John Logie Baird performed the first public demonstration of his "televisor" at the Selfridges department store on London's Oxford Street. The demonstrations of moving silhouette images continued through April. The system consisted of 30 lines and 12.5 pictures per second. |
| June | 13 | Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of a moving silhouette (shadowgraphs) and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute movie of a miniature windmill in motion was sent across 8 kilometers from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the United States Navy, the Department of Commerce, and others. Jenkins termed this "the first public demonstration of radiovision". |
| July | 13 | Vladimir Zworykin applies for a patent for color television. |
| c. August–October | | Zworykin first demonstrates his electric camera tube and receiver for Westinghouse corporation executives, transmitting the still image of an "X". The picture is said to be dim, with low contrast and poor definition. |
| October | 2 | John Baird achieves the first live television image with tone graduations (not silhouette or duotone images) in his laboratory. Baird brings office boy William Taynton in front of the camera to become the first face televised. But the rate of five images per second does not show realistic movement. |

## Births

| Date | Name | Notability |
| January 8 | Steve Holland | U.S. actor (died 1997) |
| January 11 | Grant Tinker | U.S. producer, NBC network executive, "The Man Who Saved NBC" (died 2016) |
| January 12 | Katherine MacGregor | U.S. actress (Little House on the Prairie) (died 2018) |
| January 23 | Danny Arnold | U.S. producer, actor and stand-up comedian (died 1995) |
| January 28 | Scotty Bloch | U.S. actress (died 2018) |
| February 27 | William David Powell | TV presenter (died 2015) |
| March 4 | Inezita Barroso | American television writer (died 1968) |
| April 22 | George Cole | U.K. actor (Minder) (died 2015) |
| April 22 | Ken Coleman | Sportcaster (died 2003) |
| May 2 | Roscoe Lee Browne | U.S. actor (died 2007) |
| June 1 | Richard Erdman | U.S. actor (died 2019) |
| June 8 | Barbara Bush | 41st First Lady of the United States (died 2018) |
| June 19 | Charlie Drake | U.K. comic performer (The Worker) (died 2006) |
| June 25 | June Lockhart | U.S. actress (Lassie, Lost in Space) |
| June 29 | Cara Williams | U.S. actress (died 2021) |
| July 4 | Eric Fleming | U.S. actor (died 1966) |
| July 6 | Merv Griffin | U.S. talk show host, producer (Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune) (died 2007) |
| July 6 | John Rich | U.S. producer (died 2005) |
| July 23 | Gloria DeHaven | U.S. actress (died 2016) |
| August 15 | Mike Connors | U.S. actor (Mannix) (died 2017) |
| August 22 | Honor Blackman | U.K. actor (The Avengers) (died 2020) |
| August 29 | Dick Cusack | U.S. actor (died 2003) |
| October 6 | Shana Alexander | American journalist (died 2005) |
| October 13 | Frank D. Gilroy | American director (died 2015) |
| October 16 | Angela Lansbury | U.K. actress (Murder, She Wrote) (died 2022) |
| October 19 | Bernard Hepton | U.K. actor, director (Colditz, The Six Wives of Henry VIII) (died 2018) |
| October 23 | Johnny Carson | U.S. comedian, talk show host (The Tonight Show) (died 2005) |
| October 27 | Mary Kay Stearns | U.S. actress (Mary Kay and Johnny) (died 2018) |
| November 4 | Doris Roberts | U.S. actress (died 2016) |
| November 6 | Nan Winton | U.K. news presenter (died 2019) |
| November 11 | June Whitfield | U.K. comic actress (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous) (died 2018) |
| November 17 | Rock Hudson | U.S. actor (McMillan and Wife) (died 1985) |
| November 24 | Stephen Hancock | U.K. actor (Coronation Street) (died 2015) |
| November 25 | Jack Clark | American game show host (died 1988) |
| November 29 | Robert Hardy | U.K. actor (All Creatures Great and Small) (died 2017) |
| December 13 | Dick Van Dyke | U.S. entertainer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis: Murder) |