# 1995 in American television

In American television in 1995, notable events included television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.

## Notable events
### January

| Date | Event |
| 2 | The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues in two major markets: as a by-product of an affiliation deal between ABC and The E.W. Scripps Company, and a related deal between CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting, Westinghouse-owned WBZ-TV (channel 4) in Boston, Massachusetts switches from NBC to CBS, while NBC aligns with former CBS affiliate WHDH (which will remain affiliated with the network until New Year's Eve 2016). In Baltimore, CBS switches affiliations to Westinghouse-owned WJZ-TV (channel 13) after 46 years as an ABC affiliate, while ABC joins Scripps-owned WMAR (channel 2) and NBC reunites with WBAL-TV (channel 11) after 13 years as a CBS affiliate. Later that year, Westinghouse acquires CBS, making both WBZ-TV and WJZ-TV CBS owned-and-operated stations. |
| 2 | G-Force: Guardians of Space, the second American adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (the first being Battle of the Planets) becomes the first-ever anime to air on Cartoon Network. On January 29, Robot Carnival, Vampire Hunter D, and Twilight of the Cockroaches also debut, followed in February of next year by Speed Racer. This predates the March 1997 debut of Toonami, which will go on to popularize anime on the network and in the West. |
| 5 | All My Children celebrates its 25th anniversary and broadcasts a prime-time special on ABC. |
| 5 | In an interview with Kathleen Gingrich, mother of Republican politician Newt Gingrich, on CBS' Eye to Eye, Mrs. Gingrich said she could not say what her son thought about First Lady Hillary Clinton on the air. Connie Chung asked Mrs. Gingrich to "just whisper it to me, just between you and me," and Mrs. Gingrich's microphone volume was turned up as she replied "He thinks she's a bitch." Many people interpreted Chung's suggestion that if Mrs. Gingrich would whisper this statement it would be promised that the statement would be off the record. Bill Carter for The New York Times reported, "Ms. Chung had become the object of some of the most ferocious criticism, justified or not, ever directed at any network anchor as a result of her now infamous interview with Speaker Newt Gingrich's mother, Kathleen." The interview was also parodied on Saturday Night Live. |
| 11 | The WB, a joint venture between Warner Bros. Television and Tribune Broadcasting in conjunction with original network CEO Jamie Kellner, launches. Among the programs offered are four situation comedies (two family-oriented, one family-focused but adult-targeted and one adult-oriented soap opera-inspired satire): The Wayans Bros. (starring former In Living Color DJ/cast member Shawn Wayans and his younger brother, Marlon Wayans), The Parent 'Hood (starring Robert Townsend), Unhappily Ever After and Muscle. While the former three series wound up lasting five seasons, Muscle fails to survive its first season. In addition to being available on around 70 affiliates, The WB is also initially distributed directly to cable and satellite providers via the superstation feed of Chicago charter affiliate WGN-TV (owned by Tribune) to serve markets where the lack of available independent stations or stations that passed over the network in favor of fellow fledgling network UPN prevented The WB from maintaining an exclusive affiliation at launch. (This ended in August 1999, as a result of The WB gaining full-time affiliates in some underserved mid-sized markets and a small-market cable feed being launched to serve smaller markets.) |
| 16 | The United Paramount Network (UPN) launches, with a two-hour premiere of Star Trek: Voyager. This results in an affiliation change in San Antonio between Fox affiliate KRRT (now KMYS) and independent station KABB, as KRRT leaves Fox for the new network (due to its then-ownership by Paramount Pictures, UPN's part-owner) and KABB assumes the Fox affiliation. |
| 16 | The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues in the Flint/Tri-Cities, Michigan market, as NBC affiliate WNEM-TV in Bay City and CBS affiliate WEYI-TV in Saginaw swap affiliations. The move is deemed necessary by CBS to restore coverage in areas underserved by its then-new affiliate WGPR in adjacent Detroit, since WNEM-TV's signal is stronger than that of WEYI-TV. |
| 24 | Live broadcasts of the O. J. Simpson trial begin; as a result, many network soap operas are partially pre-empted, more or less, for nine months. |

### February

| Date | Event |
| 2 | Seinfeld broadcasts its 100th episode on NBC. |
| 20 | What a Cartoon! (also known as World Premiere Toons) launches on TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network simultaneously as part of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast special "1st Annual World Premiere Toon-In". The first short, "The Powerpuff Girls in Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins", was shown at the end of the special. The series will prove to launch the careers of many prominent animators such as Butch Hartman, Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Seth MacFarlane. |
| 21 | Ted Danson reprises his role as Sam Malone from Cheers in an episode of its spin–off Frasier. |
| 25 | In what would be his final television appearance, George Burns is presented with the very first SAG Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors Guild. |

### March

| Date | Event |
| 6 | Deborah Norville begins assuming her duties as host of Inside Edition. |
| 6 | The Jenny Jones Show taped an episode titled "Revealing Same Sex Secret Crush", in which the secret admirers of six guests were revealed. Three days after the episode was taped, one of the guests, Jonathan Schmitz, murdered his secret admirer, Scott Amedure. |
| 13 | The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues in Seattle-Tacoma, as Gaylord Broadcasting-owned KSTW joins CBS for the third time while former CBS affiliate KIRO-TV joins the UPN network. |
| 31 | All major U.S. networks interrupt their regular programming to break the news regarding the murder of Tejano music superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The lead item on national television network evening news programs in Corpus Christi, Texas had been the end of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. Within thirty minutes of its announcement, Selena's murder became the lead item on all television stations in South Texas. Univision and Telemundo are among the first national news stations to arrive at the crime scene. Coverage of the singer's death and the murder trial would dominate American newscasts in 1995. |

### April

| Date | Event |
| 2 | Fox airs National Hockey League games for the first time. |
| 12 | Drew Barrymore appears on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman. In honor of Letterman's birthday, guest Barrymore dances on his desk and flashes him "on-air". |
| 18 | Rox becomes the first television series distributed via internet. |
| 28–29 | WCW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling showcase the "Collision in Korea". It is the first ever American pro wrestling event held in North Korea. It is rebroadcast in both Japan and the United States with the main event being between Ric Flair and Antonio Inoki. |

### May

| Date | Event |
| 7 | Jurassic Park makes its network broadcast television premiere on NBC. |
| 9 | CBS broadcasts Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan, starring Elizabeth Montgomery. This turned out to be Montgomery's final live-action acting role (her final acting role in general was in a voice-over role on Batman: The Animated Series) as she would die on May 18. |
| 12 | As the World Turns broadcasts its milestone 10,000th episode on CBS. |
| 21 | Above Suspicion starring Christopher Reeve premieres on HBO. In it, Reeve plays a paralyzed cop who plots to murder his wife. Six days after Above Suspicion first airs, Reeve is seriously injured in a fall while riding on horseback, resulting in him becoming a quadriplegic for the remainder of his life. |
| 24 | ABC announces that an episode of the soap opera All My Children was deleted from broadcasting due to the then-recent Oklahoma City bombing; in the story, villainess Janet Green was supposed to explode the church in which her ex Trevor Dillon was to marry her rival Laurel Banning. |

### June

| Date | Event |
| 24 | Fox broadcasts the fourth game of the Stanley Cup Finals between the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings. This marks the first time that a clinching game from the Stanley Cup Finals is broadcast on American network television since the sixth game of the 1980 Finals on CBS. |

### July

| Date | Event |
| 1 | After being purchased by New World Communications from Argyle Television, three additional stations switch to Fox as part of the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment: KDFW (channel 4) in Dallas-Ft. Worth, KTBC (channel 7) in Austin, Texas and KTVI (channel 2) in St. Louis. KDFW and KTBC both defect from CBS, while KTVI leaves ABC. Independent station KTVT (channel 11) in Dallas takes the CBS affiliation in that area through an affiliation deal between the network and Gaylord Broadcasting (owners of KTVT); in Austin, former Fox affiliate KBVO (channel 42) swaps affiliations with KTBC and changes its calls to KEYE; and in St. Louis, KDNL (channel 30) swaps its Fox affiliation with KTVI and joins ABC. Former Fox-owned station KDAF-TV (channel 33) joins The WB, taking that affiliation from KXTX-TV (channel 39) due to a temporary arrangement in which KXTX would carry WB programming, until such time Fox was cleared to move to channel 4. KXTX-TV then becomes an independent station. Fox Kids, Fox's children programming block, doesn't follow the rest of the network's programming to KTBC and KTVI because of their commitments to news, and instead air on independent stations K13VC and KNLC. As a result of a dispute between Fox and KNLC, however, Fox Kids is moved to KTVI the following year. |
| 11 | ABC airs the 66th annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game from Arlington, Texas. It was ABC's first broadcast of baseball's All-Star Game since 1988 and their last to date. |
| 24 | WFMZ-TV initiates their very first daytime Berks Edition at 5:30 pm and the First Nighttime Newscast at 10:30 pm, covering the entire Berks County and all across the Lehigh Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey. |
| 31 | The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire and merge with Capital Cities/ABC Inc. The purchase would include the ABC network itself, stakes in A&E Television Networks, Lifetime and ESPN Inc., and the ownership in the limited partnership-ran animation studio DIC Productions, L.P. The sale would be completed in 1996. |

### August

| Date | Event |
| 4 | Shortly after CBS' affiliation agreement with Westinghouse Broadcasting, its flagship station at that time, KDKA-TV finally brings back the program CBS This Morning after a few years of preempting. |
| 7 | NBC wins the rights to broadcast the 2002 Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City, Utah for $545 million. |
| 14 | ABC affiliate in Rockford, WREX-TV and NBC affiliate WTVO swaps network affiliations due to a group deal with Quincy Newspapers. |
| 17 | On the series finale of Yo! MTV Raps, numerous high-profile names in the world of hip-hop close the show out with a freestyle rap session. |
| 17 | The Tribune Company acquired a 12.5% limited partnership interest in The WB for $12 million; the deal gave Tribune an option to increase its stake in the network up to a 25% interest; Tribune would eventually increase its ownership share in the WB to 22.5% on March 31, 1997. |
| 21 | As a result of the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment, longtime NBC affiliate WLUK-TV in Green Bay becomes the first of four "Big three" affiliates that SF Broadcasting (a joint venture of Savoy Communications and Fox Broadcasting) has purchased from Burnham Broadcasting to switch its affiliation to Fox. NBC eventually aligns with former Fox affiliate WGBA-TV. Two more NBC-affiliated stations (WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, and KHON-TV in Honolulu), along with ABC affiliate WVUE in New Orleans switch their affiliations to Fox on January 1, 1996. NBC again swaps affiliations with the former Fox affiliates in Mobile and Honolulu (WPMI and KHNL respectively), while ABC joins WB affiliate WGNO and former Fox affiliate WNOL joins The WB. |
| 22 | Larry Hagman, former main actor of Dallas and I Dream of Jeannie, undergoes a liver transplant. |

### September

| Date | Event |
| 4 | The very first edition of WCW Monday Nitro airs from the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota on TNT. |
| 5 | Alan Kalter becomes the second announcer of the Late Show with David Letterman replacing Bill Wendell. |
| 6 | In front of a nationwide audience watching on ESPN and on HTS in the Baltimore market, Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. surpasses New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig on Major League Baseball's list for most consecutive games played. |
| 8 | The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues when longtime ABC affiliate WGHP-TV (channel 8) in High Point, North Carolina is sold directly to Fox (acquired via New World Communications from Citicasters, along with WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama due to ownership conflicts) and as a result, becomes a Fox-owned station. Former Fox affiliates WNRW-TV (channel 45)/WGGT-TV (channel 48, now MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV-TV) assume the ABC affiliation, and WNRW-TV changes its callsign to WXLV-TV to reflect the new affiliation. Both stations retain a secondary UPN affiliation until WGGT-TV leaves its WXLV-TV simulcast to become a full-time UPN affiliate the next year. |
| 8 | With the cancellation of the 1988 incarnation of Family Feud, The Price Is Right becomes the last remaining Goodson-Todman show on the air until a revival of Match Game three years later. |
| 9 | Kids' WB debuts on The WB, anchored by Animaniacs, which transfers over from Fox's children's programming block, Fox Kids. It debuted on Fox Kids 2 years before. |
| 10 | A major compensation deal between NBC and CBS after the Westinghouse-Group W/CBS deal as a result of the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment becomes effective: two NBC O&O's (KCNC-TV in Denver and KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City) and the network's Philadelphia affiliate KYW-TV become CBS-affiliated stations (and quickly after that CBS-owned stations after Westinghouse merged with CBS), while former CBS affiliate KSL-TV in Salt Lake City joins NBC and CBS O&O WCAU in Philadelphia becomes an NBC-owned station. Meanwhile, in Miami, CBS-owned WCIX (channel 6) and NBC-owned WTVJ (channel 4) swap channel positions, with WCIX becoming WFOR-TV as a result of the change. Two related swaps also occur in Denver, as former ABC affiliate KUSA-TV joins NBC, and former CBS affiliate KMGH-TV switches to ABC as a result of an affiliation deal between the network and McGraw-Hill, KMGH's owners. |
| 10 | The 47th Primetime Emmy Awards are aired on Fox. |
| 10 | CBS acquires ABC affiliate WPRI-TV from Narragansett Television and swaps affiliations with WLNE-TV, thus reversing a swap that took place in 1977. |
| 10 | UPN Kids launches on UPN, featuring two new series, Space Strikers and Teknoman. |
| 10 | As part of a deal between Outlet Communications and NBC, WB affiliate WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina switches to NBC, ending WNCN's 9-month affiliation with The WB. Former NBC affiliate WRDC elevates its UPN affiliation to full-time status, while WRAZ, which had signed on three days earlier, joins the WB. |
| 17 | Part 2 of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" serves as the Season 7 premiere of The Simpsons on Fox. An America's Most Wanted special, "Springfield's Most Wanted", precedes the episode. |
| 22 | KASW signs on the air in Phoenix, Arizona, as part of a LMA with, and taking The WB from, KTVK which becomes independent. In addition, KASW also assumes the local broadcast rights to Fox Kids, which Fox affiliate KSAZ-TV is pre-empting in favor of news. |
| 27 | Jennifer Love Hewitt joins the cast of Party of Five, after appearing in three failed shows as a cast member, the Fox series Shaky Ground and the ABC series The Byrds of Paradise and McKenna. |
| 30 | Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, and Darrell Hammond join the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live. |

### October

| Date | Event |
| 2 | In Major League Baseball's first "do or die" tie-breaker game since 1980, the Seattle Mariners defeat the California Angels 9–1 to clinch the American League West title and their first ever postseason berth. The game is nationally televised on ESPN with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on the call. |
| 3 | More than 150 million people tune in to watch the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, which ends with Simpson being found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The verdict is met with both praise and criticism. |
| 8 | Game 5 of the American League Division Series between the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees is broadcast on ABC/The Baseball Network with Brent Musburger and Jim Kaat on the call. With Seattle down by the score of 5–4 going into the bottom of the 11th inning, Edgar Martínez lines a double to the left field fence off of New York reliever Jack McDowell, scoring both Joey Cora and Ken Griffey Jr. to send the Mariners to the League Championship Series for the first time. Martinez's game-winning hit and the aftermath remains the Mariners' most famous moment. During 1995, there were rumors that the Mariners might relocate to the Tampa area. Their success this season leads to renewed local interest in the team and the building of Safeco Field, which opened in July 1999. |
| 15 | ABC affiliate W58BT goes on the air and former ABC affiliate WSJV-TV switches to Fox. |
| 18 | In the Michiana region of Indiana, Elkhart-based ABC affiliate WSJV swaps affiliations with South Bend-based Fox affiliate W58BT (which will become WBND-LP by the end of the year). The rush for W58BT to switch to ABC (at the insistence of network executives, who didn't want to wait for W58BT to sign-on a new transmitter) causes a partial transmitter failure, which is fixed within a few days. |
| 20 | Robert MacNeil anchors The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS for the last time. |
| 21 | ABC and NBC begin their unprecedented shared coverage of the World Series through their soon to be concluding revenue sharing joint-venture with Major League Baseball called The Baseball Network. ABC, who last broadcast a World Series in 1989 airs Games 1, 4, and 5 (with Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver on the call) while NBC, who last broadcast a World Series in 1988, airs Games 2, 3 and the decisive Game 6 (with Bob Costas, Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker on the call). (A seventh game, if necessary, would have been televised by ABC.) While NBC will continue to hold some MLB rights for the next few years, Game 5 on October 26 would prove to be the last Major League Baseball game to be broadcast by ABC until Game 1 of the 2020 American League Wild Card Series between the Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins. |
| 28 | In Toledo, Ohio, NBC affiliate WTVG swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WNWO and becomes an ABC owned-and-operated station. |
| 28 | The Atlanta Braves win the 1995 World Series in six games over the Cleveland Indians, making them the first Major League team to win a championship for three different cities (first being Boston in 1914 and then Milwaukee in 1957). It is also the final broadcast for The Baseball Network, which as previously mentioned, was a joint-venture between Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC. |

### November

| Date | Event |
| 1 | Clear Channel Communications, owners of recently purchased WHP-TV in Harrisburg, entered into a local marketing agreement with Gateway Communications, owners of WLYH-TV in Lancaster to start operating the station. As a result, WLYH-TV's news operation has been discontinued. |
| 2 | Characters from various NBC comedies appear on different shows. The lead character from Caroline in the City appears on Friends, while Friends characters Ross appears on The Single Guy and Chandler appears on Caroline in the City. |
| 7 | Major League Baseball reaches a television deal with Fox and NBC, allowing the former to obtain MLB game rights. Fox paid $575 million for the five-year contract, a fraction less of the amount of money that CBS had paid for the Major League Baseball television rights for the 1990–1993 seasons. |
| 13 | ABC's 30-minute soap opera Loving is turned into The City. |
| 20 | On ABC, One Life to Live broadcasts its 7,000th episode and debuts a new opening sequence. |
| 20 | ROX and Computer Chronicles are broadcast via the Internet—these are the first Internet broadcasts in the history of television. |

### December

| Date | Event |
| 1 | The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues as WHBQ-TV (channel 13) in Memphis, Tennessee ends its ABC affiliation after 45 years. WHBQ-TV is acquired by Fox Television Stations from Communications Corporation of America and joins Fox, while former Fox affiliate WPTY-TV (channel 24) joins ABC. |
| 11 | On NBC, The Today Show becomes the highest-rated morning news program (and would remain so until 2012). |
| 16 | WLYH-TV in Lancaster ends its affiliation with CBS following a local marketing agreement with WHP-TV, and as a result, WLYH-TV became a primary UPN affiliate, cutting back the programming hours within the programming schedule. |
| 18 | As part of the Monday Night War, World Championship Wrestling booker Eric Bischoff has WWF performer Alundra Blayze (now going by the name Madusa) appear on TNT's WCW Monday Nitro, where she throws her WWF Women's Championship into a trash can. |
| 31 | Cartoon Network broadcasts the World Premiere Toons Countdown Call-In Show, a three-hour marathon during New Year's Eve where viewers decide to vote and call for their favorite What a Cartoon! short. The Dexter's Laboratory pilot (later known as "Changes"), was chosen the winner of the special as the network could later greenlit as a full animated series premiering in 1996. |

## Programs
### Programs debuting in 1995

| Date | Show | Network |
| January 1 | Taxicab Confessions | HBO |
| January 2 | Cybill | CBS |
| January 2 | The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show | Syndication |
| January 4 | Washington Journal | C-SPAN |
| January 4 | Double Rush | CBS |
| January 4 | Women of the House | CBS |
| January 8 | House of Buggin' | Fox |
| January 9 | A Whole New Ballgame | ABC |
| January 9 | The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder | CBS |
| January 11 | Muscle | The WB |
| January 11 | Unhappily Ever After | The WB |
| January 11 | The Wayans Bros. | The WB |
| January 14 | Fudge | ABC |
| January 15 | Get Smart | Fox |
| January 15 | Modern Marvels | The History Channel |
| January 16 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Syndication |
| January 16 | Vanishing Son | Syndication |
| January 16 | The Puzzle Place | PBS Kids |
| January 16 | Star Trek: Voyager | UPN |
| January 17 | Marker | UPN |
| January 17 | The Watcher | UPN |
| January 17 | Golf Central | Golf Channel |
| January 18 | The Parent 'Hood | The WB |
| January 23 | Pig Sty | UPN |
| January 23 | Platypus Man | UPN |
| January 26 | Pointman | PTEN |
| January 29 | Extreme | ABC |
| January 31 | The Marshal | ABC |
| February 20 | What a Cartoon! | Cartoon Network |
| March 4 | NHL 2Night | ESPN2 |
| March 5 | The Great Defender | Fox |
| March 8 | The George Wendt Show | CBS |
| March 10 | VR.5 | Fox |
| March 11 | The Office | CBS |
| March 13 | Medicine Ball | Fox |
| March 14 | Under One Roof | CBS |
| March 21 | NewsRadio | NBC |
| Pride & Joy | | NBC |
| March 22 | Sliders | Fox |
| March 23 | Skeleton Warriors | CBS |
| March 26 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | HBO |
| March 26 | The Outer Limits | Showtime |
| March 31 | The Wright Verdicts | CBS |
| April 1 | Amazing Grace | NBC |
| April 2 | Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | HBO |
| April 8 | The Maxx | MTV |
| April 10 | In the House | NBC |
| April 14 | Colby's Clubhouse | TBN |
| April 18 | Legend | UPN |
| May 27 | Bringing up Jack | ABC |
| May 28 | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist | Comedy Central |
| May 28 | My Wildest Dreams | Fox |
| June 5 | Singled Out | MTV |
| July 12 | 20th Century with Mike Wallace | The History Channel |
| July 19 | Road Rules | MTV |
| August 7 | Squawk Box | CNBC |
| August 8 | Aeon Flux | MTV |
| August 20 | Exit 57 | Comedy Central |
| August 23 | Kirk | The WB |
| August 28 | Nowhere Man | UPN |
| August 29 | Live Shot | UPN |
| August 31 | The Crew | Fox |
| September 2 | Wild About Animals | Syndication |
| September 4 | Bananas in Pyjamas | Syndication |
| September 4 | WCW Monday Nitro | TNT |
| September 4 | Xena: Warrior Princess | Syndication |
| September 5 | Deadly Games | UPN |
| September 6 | Carnie! | Syndication |
| September 8 | Timon & Pumbaa | Syndication and CBS |
| September 9 | Gadget Boy & Heather | Syndcation |
| September 9 | Earthworm Jim | Kids' WB |
| September 9 | Freakazoid! | Kids' WB |
| September 9 | Pinky and the Brain | Kids' WB |
| September 9 | The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries | Kids' WB |
| September 9 | The Preston Episodes | Fox |
| September 9 | Hang Time | NBC |
| September 10 | Cleghorne! | The WB |
| September 10 | First Time Out | The WB |
| September 10 | Simon | The WB |
| September 10 | Space Strikers | UPN Kids |
| September 11 | Danny! | Syndication |
| September 11 | Day & Date | Syndication |
| September 11 | Gabrielle | Syndication |
| September 11 | LAPD: Life on the Beat | Syndication |
| September 11 | Lauren Hutton and... | Syndication |
| September 11 | The Mark Walberg Show | Syndication |
| September 11 | Tempestt | Syndication |
| September 11 | Ned & Stacey | Fox |
| September 11 | Partners | Fox |
| September 11 | Bless This House | CBS |
| September 12 | The Monroes | ABC |
| September 13 | Central Park West | CBS |
| September 13 | Courthouse | CBS |
| September 13 | The Drew Carey Show | ABC |
| September 13 | The Naked Truth | ABC |
| September 14 | Charlie Grace | ABC |
| September 15 | Maybe This Time | ABC |
| September 15 | Strange Luck | Fox |
| September 15 | The Stephanie Miller Show | Syndication |
| September 16 | Santo Bugito | CBS |
| September 16 | The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat | CBS |
| September 16 | Masked Rider | Fox Kids |
| September 16 | Brotherly Love | NBC |
| September 16 | Minor Adjustments | NBC |
| September 16 | Night Stand with Dick Dietrick | Syndication |
| September 16 | U.S. Customs: Classified | Syndication |
| September 17 | Almost Perfect | CBS |
| September 17 | The Client | CBS |
| September 18 | Can't Hurry Love | CBS |
| September 18 | George & Alana | Syndication |
| September 19 | Hudson Street | ABC |
| September 19 | Murder One | ABC |
| September 19 | The Pursuit of Happiness | NBC |
| September 21 | Caroline in the City | NBC |
| September 21 | The Single Guy | NBC |
| September 22 | American Gothic | CBS |
| September 22 | Dweebs | CBS |
| September 22 | Bonnie | CBS |
| September 23 | 8-Track Flashback | VH1 |
| September 23 | JAG | NBC |
| September 24 | Space: Above and Beyond | Fox |
| September 28 | New York News | CBS |
| October 1 | Misery Loves Company | Fox |
| October 1 | Too Something | Fox |
| October 1 | Inspiration, Please! | Faith & Values Channel |
| October 2 | Flipper | Syndication |
| October 2 | Family Challenge | The Family Channel |
| October 2 | Wild Animal Games | The Family Channel |
| October 9 | Wishbone | PBS |
| October 14 | Mad TV | Fox |
| October 16 | Littlest Pet Shop | Syndication |
| October 21 | Street Fighter: The Animated Series | USA Network |
| October 22 | The Little Lulu Show | HBO |
| October 27 | Goosebumps | Fox Kids |
| October 28 | Dumb and Dumber | ABC |
| October 30 | High Society | CBS |
| November 3 | Mr. Show with Bob and David | HBO |
| November 4 | The Adventures of Hyperman | CBS |
| November 6 | Little Bear | Nick Jr. |
| November 13 | The City | ABC |
| December 3 | What's So Funny? | Fox |
| December 9 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | CBS |

### Programs returning in 1995

| Show | Last aired | Previous network | New title | Returning |
| Square One TV | 1992 | PBS | Square One TV Math Talk | Unknown |

### Programs ending in 1995

| Date | Show | Debut |
| January 1 | Liquid Television | 1991 |
| January 6 | SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron | 1993 |
| January 21 | Wild C.A.T.s | 1994 |
| January 26 | My So-Called Life | 1994 |
| January 27 | The New Price Is Right | 1994 |
| January 28 | The Boys Are Back | 1994 |
| February 1 | Hearts Afire | 1992 |
| February 2 | My Brother and Me | 1994 |
| February 13 | 2 Stupid Dogs | 1993 |
| February 13 | Ghostwriter | 1992 |
| February 19 | Get Smart | 1995 |
| February 25 | Free Willy | 1994 |
| February 28 | Me and the Boys | 1994 |
| March 3 | M.A.N.T.I.S. | 1994 |
| March 6 | Models Inc. | 1994 |
| March 12 | The Brothers Grunt | 1994 |
| March 13 | A Whole New Ballgame | 1995 |
| March 15 | All-American Girl | 1994 |
| March 25 | The 5 Mrs. Buchanans | 1994 |
| March 27 | The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show | 1995 |
| April 4 | On Our Own | 1994 |
| April 6 | Extreme | 1995 |
| April 12 | The Pink Panther | 1993 |
| April 12 | The Cosby Mysteries | 1994 |
| April 12 | Double Rush | 1995 |
| April 12 | The George Wendt Show | 1995 |
| April 23 | House of Buggin' | 1995 |
| May 7 | Matlock | 1986 |
| May 11 | Muscle | 1995 |
| May 12 | VR.5 | 1995 |
| May 15 | Pig Sty | 1995 |
| May 16 | Marker | 1995 |
| May 16 | In the Heat of the Night | 1988 |
| May 20 | Star Search | 1983 |
| May 21 | Sirens | 1993 |
| May 22 | Blossom | 1991 |
| May 22 | Taz-Mania | 1991 |
| May 22 | The Critic | 1994 |
| May 23 | Full House (returned in 2016) | 1987 |
| May 28 | Tiny Toon Adventures | 1990 |
| June 7 | The Watcher | 1995 |
| June 10 | The Mommies | 1993 |
| June 11 | McGee and Me! | 1989 |
| June 14 | Earth 2 | 1994 |
| June 16 | Supermarket Sweep (returned in 2000) | 1965 |
| June 17 | Empty Nest | 1988 |
| June 17 | Madman of the People | 1994 |
| June 19 | The Maxx | 1995 |
| June 23 | The Jon Stewart Show | 1993 |
| June 24 | Bringing up Jack | 1995 |
| June 30 | Love Connection | 1983 |
| July 1 | The State | 1993 |
| July 4 | Thunder Alley | 1994 |
| July 10 | Platypus Man | 1995 |
| July 26 | Northern Exposure | 1990 |
| July 31 | The Great Defender | 1995 |
| August 15 | Marker | 1995 |
| August 17 | Yo! MTV Raps (returned in 2022) | 1988 |
| August 18 | Love & War | 1992 |
| August 27 | WWF Wrestling Challenge | 1986 |
| September 2 | Name Your Adventure | 1992 |
| September 8 | Family Feud (returned in 1999) | 1976 |
| September 8 | Women of the House | 1995 |
| September 15 | Batman: The Animated Series | 1992 |
| October 13 | Quicksilver | 1994 |
| October 19 | Charlie Grace | 1995 |
| October 19 | The Monroes | 1995 |
| October 28 | The Preston Episodes | 1995 |
| November 9 | Dweebs | 1995 |
| November 9 | The Moxy Show | 1993 |
| November 10 | Loving | 1983 |
| November 15 | Courthouse | 1995 |
| November 24 | Legends of the Hidden Temple (returned in 2021) | 1993 |
| November 25 | Aladdin | 1994 |
| November 27 | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | 1993 |
| December 3 | Space Strikers | 1995 |
| December 8 | Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills | 1994 |
| December 9 | The Baby Huey Show | 1994 |
| December 9 | Bump in the Night | 1994 |
| December 16 | Fudge | 1995 |
| December 17 | Cleghorne! | 1995 |
| December 17 | First Time Out | 1995 |
| December 22 | Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? | 1991 |
| December 25 | The Marshal | 1995 |
| Unknown date | Return to the Sea | 1991 |

### Entering syndication in 1995

| Show | Seasons | In Production |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 6 | Yes |
| America's Most Wanted | 7 | Yes |
| Beyond Reality | 2 | No |
| Blossom | 5 | No |
| Dinosaurs | 4 | No |
| The Hitchhiker | 6 | No |
| Home Improvement | 4 | Yes |
| Melrose Place | 4 | Yes |
| Seinfeld | 6 | Yes |
| Step by Step | 4 | Yes |
| Tales from the Crypt | 6 | Yes |

### Programs changing networks in 1995

| Show | Moved from | Moved to |
| Animaniacs | Fox Kids | Kids' WB |
| The Busy World of Richard Scarry | Showtime | Nick Jr. Channel |
| G-Force: Guardians of Space | TBS | Cartoon Network |
| Madeline | The Family Channel | ABC |
| TV Nation | NBC | Fox |
| The Critic | ABC | Fox |
| Sister, Sister | ABC | The WB |
| One West Waikiki | CBS | First-run syndication |

### Milestone episodes and anniversaries

| Show | Network | Episode # | Episode title | Episode airdate | Source |
| Home Improvement | ABC | 100th episode | "Wilson's Girlfriend" | May 23 | |

### Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

| Premiere date | Title | Channel |
| January 7 | Fudge-a-Mania | ABC |
| April 3 | Danielle Steel's Vanished | NBC |
| May 14 | The Langoliers | ABC |
| September 17 | Danielle Steel's Zoya | NBC |
| October 29 | Degree of Guilt | NBC |

## Networks and services
### Launches

| Network | Type | Launch date |
| America One | Cable and satellite | Unknown |
| Free Speech TV | Cable television | Unknown |
| HTV | Cable | January 1 |
| The History Channel | Cable and satellite | January 1 |
| The WB | Cable and satellite | January 11 |
| UPN | Cable and satellite | January 16 |
| The Golf Channel | Cable and satellite | January 17 |
| Classic Sports Network | Cable and satellite | May 6 |
| Outdoor Life Network | Cable and satellite | July 31 |
| CNNfn | Cable and satellite | December 29 |
| Speedvision | Cable and satellite | December 31 |
| Great American Country | Cable television | December 31 |

### Conversions and rebrandings

| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion Date |
| La Cadena Deportiva Prime Ticket | Prime Deportiva | Cable television | Unknown |
| BBC World Service Television | BBC World | Cable television | January 26 |
| TV! Channel | INTRO Television | Cable and satellite | September |

### Closures

| Network | Type | End date | Notes | Sources |
| Prime Sports Upper Midwest | Cable and satellite | December 31 | | |

## Television stations
### Station launches

| Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation |
| January 2 | Grundy, VA | WLFG | 68 | Religious Independent |
| January 15 | Ashland, WI (Duluth, MN) | W25CA | 25 | America One |
| January 29 | Tice/Fort Myers, FL | WRXY-TV | 49 | CTN |
| January 30 | Baltimore, MD | W61BT | 61 | The WB |
| March 1 | Macon, GA | WPGA-TV | 58 | Fox |
| March 7 | Oklahoma City, OK | K19EA | 19 | The Box |
| April 1 | Ketchikan, AK | KUBD | 4 | TBN |
| April 3 | Boston, MA | W32AY | 32 | Telemundo |
| April 3 | Hartford-New Haven, CT | WTVU | 59 | The WB |
| April 5 | Hot Springs/Little Rock, AR | KVTH | 26 | Victory Television Network |
| May 1 | Sitka, AK | K05KH | 5 | Fox |
| June | Reno, NV | K47CO | 47 | Univision |
| June 1 | New Orleans, LA | WUPL | 54 | UPN |
| June 2 | Houston, TX | KZJK | 61 | Shop at Home Network |
| June 5 | Littleton, NH | WMUR-LP | 29 | Fox |
| June 10 | Omaha, NE | KXVO | 15 | The WB |
| June 13 | Sioux Falls, SD | KCSD-TV | 23 | PBS / SDPB |
| June 14 | Phoenix, AZ | K69HJ | 69 | ACN |
| June 21 | Austin, TX | K09VR | 9 | Independent (Texas Student Media) |
| June 21 | Fort Myers, FL | W59CY | 59 | Daystar |
| June 28 | Joplin, MO | K44ER | 44 | unknown |
| July 10 | Laredo, TX | K39EL | 39 | TBN Enlace USA |
| July 11 | Abilene, TX | K40BM | 40 | Telemundo |
| July 11 | Kalispell, MT | K52EQ | 52 | ABC |
| July 13 | Manhattan, KS | K21ER | 21 | Independent |
| August | North Platte, NE | K11TW | 11 | UPN |
| August 7 | Wake Forest, NC (Raleigh/Durham) | WRAY-TV | 30 | Independent |
| August 12 | Bluefield-Beckley, WV | WVGV-TV | 59 | The WB |
| August 13 | Cedar Rapids, IA | KFXA | 28 | Fox |
| August 28 | Bangor, ME | WBGR-LP | 33 | The WB |
| September 1 | Concord, NH | WNBU | 21 | Independent |
| September 3 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, MX (Laredo, TX) | XHFTX | 57 | Fox |
| September 8 | Raleigh, NC | WRAZ | 50 | The WB |
| September 22 | Phoenix, AZ | KASW | 61 | The WB |
| September 27 | Albuquerque, NM | K45DL | 45 | Religious independent |
| October 6 | Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM | KASY-TV | 50 | UPN/The WB |
| October 7 | Tamuning, GU | K26HK | 26 | Independent |
| October 18 | South Bend, IN | W58BT | 58 | ABC |
| November 20 | Hagåtña, GU | KUAM-LP | 20 | CBS |
| November 29 | Nashville, TN | WNAB | 58 | The WB |

### Stations changing network affiliation

| Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Prior affiliation | New affiliation |
| January 2 | Baltimore, MD | WMAR-TV | 2 | NBC | ABC |
| January 2 | Baltimore, MD | WBAL-TV | 11 | CBS | NBC |
| January 2 | Baltimore, MD | WJZ-TV | 13 | ABC | CBS |
| January 2 | Boston, MA | WBZ-TV | 4 | NBC | CBS |
| January 2 | Boston, MA | WHDH-TV | 7 | CBS | NBC |
| January 9 | Phoenix, AZ | KTVK | 3 | ABC | Independent |
| January 9 | Phoenix, AZ | KNXV-TV | 15 | Independent | ABC |
| January 16 | Flint/Saginaw, MI | WNEM-TV | 5 | NBC | CBS |
| January 16 | Flint/Saginaw, MI | WEYI-TV | 25 | CBS | NBC |
| January 16 | San Antonio, TX | KABB | 29 | Independent | Fox |
| January 16 | San Antonio, TX | KRRT | 35 | Fox | UPN |
| January 31 | Terre Haute, IN | WBAK-TV | 38 | ABC | Fox |
| March 6 | Sacramento/Stockton, CA | KXTV | 10 | CBS | ABC |
| March 6 | Sacramento/Stockton, CA | KOVR | 13 | ABC | CBS |
| March 13 | Seattle/Tacoma, WA | KIRO-TV | 7 | CBS | UPN |
| March 13 | Seattle/Tacoma, WA | KSTW | 11 | Independent | CBS |
| July 1 | Austin, TX | KTBC | 7 | CBS | Fox |
| July 1 | Austin, TX | KBVO-TV | 42 | Fox | CBS |
| July 1 | Dallas/Fort Worth, TX | KDFW | 4 | CBS | Fox |
| July 1 | Dallas/Fort Worth, TX | KTVT | 11 | Independent | CBS |
| July 1 | Dallas/Fort Worth, TX | KDAF | 33 | Fox | The WB |
| July 1 | Dallas/Fort Worth, TX | KXTX-TV | 39 | The WB | Independent |
| August 7 | Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA | WLNE-TV | 6 | CBS | ABC |
| August 7 | Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA | WPRI-TV | 12 | ABC | CBS |
| August 7 | St. Louis, MO | KTVI | 2 | ABC | Fox |
| August 7 | St. Louis, MO | KDNL-TV | 30 | Fox | ABC |
| August 13 | Dubuque, IA | KFXB-TV | 40 | ABC | Fox |
| August 14 | Rockford, IL | WREX | 13 | ABC | NBC |
| August 14 | Rockford, IL | WTVO | 17 | NBC | ABC |
| August 28 | Green Bay/Appleton, WI | WLUK-TV | 11 | NBC | Fox |
| August 28 | Green Bay/Appleton, WI | WGBA-TV | 26 | Fox | NBC |
| September 3 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC | WGHP | 8 | ABC | Fox |
| September 3 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC | WXLV-TV | 45 | Fox | ABC |
| September 3 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC | WGGT-TV | 48 | Fox | ABC |
| September 3 | Greenville/Spartanburg, SC | WFBC-TV | 40 | ABC | Independent |
| September 7 | Raleigh/Durham/Goldsboro, NC | WNCN | 17 | The WB | NBC |
| September 7 | Raleigh/Durham/Goldsboro, NC | WRDC | 28 | NBC | UPN |
| September 10 | Denver, CO | KCNC-TV | 4 | NBC | CBS |
| September 10 | Denver, CO | KMGH-TV | 7 | CBS | ABC |
| September 10 | Denver, CO | KUSA | 9 | ABC | NBC |
| September 10 | Philadelphia, PA | KYW-TV | 3 | NBC | CBS |
| September 10 | Philadelphia, PA | WCAU-TV | 10 | CBS | NBC |
| September 10 | Salt Lake City, UT | KUTV | 2 | NBC | CBS |
| September 10 | Salt Lake City, UT | KSL-TV | 5 | CBS | NBC |
| October 10 | West Point, MS | WLOV-TV | 27 | ABC | Fox |
| October 18 | South Bend, IN | WSJV | 28 | ABC | Fox |
| October 28 | Toledo, OH | WTVG | 13 | NBC | ABC |
| October 28 | Toledo, OH | WNWO-TV | 24 | ABC | NBC |
| December 1 | Memphis, TN | WHBQ-TV | 13 | ABC | Fox |
| December 1 | Memphis, TN | WPTY-TV | 24 | Fox | ABC |
| December 2 | Evansville, IN | WTVW | 7 | ABC | Fox |
| December 2 | Evansville, IN | WEHT | 25 | CBS | ABC |
| December 2 | Evansville, IN | WEVV-TV | 44 | Fox | CBS |
| December 16 | Harrisburg/Lancaster, PA | WLYH-TV | 15 | CBS | UPN |

### Stations changing channel numbers

| Date | City of license/Market | Station | Affiliation | Prior channel | New channel |
| September 10 | Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL | WTVJ | NBC | 4 | 6 |
| September 10 | Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL | WCIX → WFOR-TV | CBS | 6 | 4 |

## Births

| Date | Name | Notability |
| January 4 | Maddie Hasson | Actress (The Finder, Twisted) |
| January 8 | Ryan Destiny | Actress |
| January 9 | Nicola Peltz | Actress (Bates Motel) |
| January 13 | Natalia Dyer | Actress (Stranger Things) |
| January 13 | Qaasim Middleton | Actor (The Naked Brothers Band) |
| January 24 | Dylan Everett | Canadian actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| January 24 | Callan McAuliffe | Actor |
| January 27 | Malika Andrews | American sports journalist |
| January 30 | Danielle Campbell | Actress (The Originals) |
| February 8 | Jordan Todosey | Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation) |
| February 23 | Zion Moreno | Actress (Control Z, Gossip Girl) |
| February 24 | Brittany Raymond | Actress |
| February 28 | Quinn Shephard | Actress |
| March 2 | Veronica Dunne | Actress (K.C. Undercover) |
| March 7 | Haley Lu Richardson | Actress (Ravenswood, Recovery Road) |
| March 10 | Grace Victoria Cox | Actress (Under the Dome) |
| March 27 | Taylor Atelian | Actress (According To Jim) |
| March 29 | Marc Musso | Actor |
| April 1 | Logan Paul | Actor and pro wrestler (Logan Paul VS., Foursome, WWE) |
| April 9 | Cierra Ramirez | Actress (The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Fosters, Good Trouble) |
| April 12 | Miguel Luciano | Actor (Talia in the Kitchen) |
| April 15 | Cody Christian | Actor (Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf) |
| April 21 | Thomas Doherty | Scottish actor (The Lodge, Descendants, Gossip Girl) |
| April 23 | Gigi Hadid | Actress (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) |
| May 1 | Jake Cannavale | Actor |
| May 4 | Shameik Moore | Actor (Incredible Crew, The Get Down) |
| May 6 | Tiera Skovbye | Canadian actress (Riverdale) |
| May 12 | Kenton Duty | Actor (Shake It Up) |
| May 12 | Luke Benward | Actor (Ravenswood) |
| May 12 | Sawyer Sweeten (d.2015) | Actors (Everybody Loves Raymond) |
| May 12 | Sullivan Sweeten | Actors (Everybody Loves Raymond) |
| June 2 | Sterling Beaumon | Actor (Lost, The Killing) |
| June 20 | Serayah | Actress (Empire) |
| June 20 | Aidan Drummond | Canadian actor (The Collector) |
| June 21 | Andrew Dismukes | Comedian |
| July 2 | Nicole Alyse Nelson | Actress (I Am Frankie) |
| July 7 | Chloe Greenfield | Actress (ER) |
| July 9 | Georgie Henley | Actress (The Chronicles of Narnia) |
| July 13 | Sam Straley | Actor (The Kids Are Alright) |
| August 4 | Jessica Sanchez | Singer (American Idol) |
| August 12 | Austin Zajur | Actor |
| August 18 | Parker McKenna Posey | Actress (My Wife and Kids) |
| August 20 | Lulu Antariksa | Actress (How to Rock) |
| August 26 | Gracie Dzienny | Actress (Supah Ninjas) |
| August 28 | Ben Petry | Actor |
| September 5 | Caroline Sunshine | Actress (Shake It Up) |
| September 12 | Ryan Potter | Actor (Supah Ninjas, Lab Rats: Elite Force, Titans), voice actor (Big Hero 6: The Series) |
| September 16 | Victory Van Tuyl | Actress (Marvin Marvin) |
| September 17 | Patrick Mahomes | Football player |
| September 18 | Megan Lee | Actress (Make It Pop) |
| September 19 | Natalia Wójcik | Voice actress (Annie on Little Einsteins) |
| September 20 | Sammi Hanratty | Actress |
| October 3 | Ayo Edebiri | Actress (Big Mouth, The Bear) |
| October 10 | Da'Vinchi | Actor and rapper (All American, BMF) |
| October 15 | Billy Unger | Actor (Lab Rats, Lab Rats: Elite Force) |
| October 23 | Ireland Baldwin | Actress and daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger |
| October 25 | Conchita Campbell | Actress (The 4400) |
| October 30 | Rachel Hilson | Actress (Love, Victor) |
| October 31 | Mateo Arias | Actor (Kickin' It) |
| November 2 | Brandon Soo Hoo | Actor (Incredible Crew, From Dusk till Dawn: The Series) |
| November 3 | Kendall Jenner | Actress (Keeping Up with the Kardashians) |
| November 13 | Stella Hudgens | Actress |
| November 16 | Noah Gray-Cabey | Actor (My Wife and Kids, Heroes) |
| November 22 | Katherine McNamara | Actress and singer (Shadowhunters) |
| November 29 | Laura Marano | Actress (Without a Trace, The X's, Back to You, Austin & Ally) |
| December 12 | C.J. LeBlanc | Actor (NCIS: New Orleans, Queen Sugar) |
| December 18 | Elizabeth Stanton | Actress |
| December 29 | Ross Lynch | Actor (Austin & Ally, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and singer (R5) |
| December 29 | Nick Merico | Actor (Every Witch Way) |

## Deaths

| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
| February 5 | Doug McClure | 59 | Actor (The Virginian) |
| February 9 | David Wayne | 81 | Actor (Ellery Queen) |
| February 22 | Ed Flanders | 60 | Actor (St. Elsewhere) |
| March 28 | Hugh O'Connor | 32 | Actor (Lonnie Jamison on In the Heat of the Night) |
| April 23 | Howard Cosell | 77 | Sports journalist/commentator (Monday Night Football) |
| April 25 | Art Fleming | 70 | Original host of (Jeopardy!) |
| May 18 | Elizabeth Montgomery | 62 | Actress (Samantha Stephens on Bewitched) |
| May 26 | Friz Freleng | 88 | Animator (Looney Tunes) |
| June 30 | Gale Gordon | 89 | Actor (The Lucy Show) |
| July 4 | Eva Gabor | 76 | Hungarian-born actress (Lisa Douglas on Green Acres) |
| August 3 | Ida Lupino | 77 | Actress & director |
| August 11 | Phil Harris | 91 | Actor (The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show) |
| August 24 | Gary Crosby | 62 | Actor (Adam-12) |
| October 4 | Linda Gary | 50 | Actress, Voice Actress (Spider-Man) |
| December 25 | Dean Martin | 78 | Singer, actor and host (The Dean Martin Show) |

## Television debuts

* Anthony Anderson – In the House
* Michael Clarke Duncan – The Bold and the Beautiful
* Mike Epps – Def Comedy Jam
* Lee Evans – The World of Lee Evans
* Will Ferrell – Saturday Night Live
* Darrell Hammond – Saturday Night Live
* Chris Kattan – NewsRadio
* Ron Livingston – JAG
* Cheri Oteri – Saturday Night Live
* Anna Nicole Smith – The Naked Truth
* Dave Willis – Cartoon Planet