# 1933 in television

The year 1933 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1933.

## Events

* January 23 – W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
* January 24 – John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast by KMBC radio.
* April 21 – The first television revue, named Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
* August 4 – W9XAT in Minneapolis, Minnesota makes its first transmission.
* RCA performs private field tests in Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.

## Ending this year

* The Television Ghost (1931–1933)

## Television shows

| Series | Debut | Ended |
| The Television Ghost | 1931 | 1933 |

## Births

* January 8 – Charles Osgood, journalist (died 2024)
* January 12 – Ron Harper, actor (died 2024)
* January 17 – Shari Lewis, puppeteer (died 1998)
* February 2 – Tony Jay, actor (died 2006)
* February 6 – Leslie Crowther, actor and host, Crackerjack (died 1996)
* March 12 – Barbara Feldon, actress, Get Smart
* March 13 – Gloria McMillan, actress, Our Miss Brooks (died 2022)
* March 19
** Phyllis Newman, actress, game show panelist (died 2019)
** Renée Taylor, actress, The Nanny
* April 5 – Frank Gorshin, comedian, actor, Batman (died 2005)
* April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor, financial commentator, M*A*S*H (died 2015)
* April 26 – Carol Burnett, actress, comedian, The Carol Burnett Show
* May 3 – Alex Cord, actor, Airwolf (died 2021)
* May 7 – Roger Perry, actor, Arrest and Trial, Harrigan and Son (died 2018)
* May 20 – Constance Towers, actress, General Hospital
* May 21 – Richard Libertini, actor (died 2016)
* June 8 – Joan Rivers, comedian and host, The Joan Rivers Show, Fashion Police (died 2014)
* June 20 – Danny Aiello, actor (died 2019)
* June 21 – Bernie Kopell, actor, Get Smart, The Love Boat
* June 22 – Jacques Martin, presenter and producer (died 2007)
* June 27 – Gary Crosby, singer and actor (died 1995)
* July 23 – Bert Convy, actor and game show host (died 1991)
* July 25 – Ken Swofford, actor (died 2018)
* July 26 – Kathryn Hays, actress, As the World Turns (died 2022)
* July 29 – Robert Fuller, actor, Laramie
* July 30 – Edd Byrnes, actor, 77 Sunset Strip (died 2020)
* August 1 – Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian (died 2009)
* August 11 – Jerry Falwell, televangelist (died 2007)
* August 16
** Gary Clarke, actor, The Virginian
** Julie Newmar, actress, Batman
* August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor, Picket Fences
* September 13 – Eileen Fulton, actress, As the World Turns
* September 15 – Henry Darrow, Puerto Rican-American actor, The High Chaparral (died 2021)
* September 17 – Pat Crowley, actress, A Date With Judy, Please Don't Eat the Daisies
* September 18 – Robert Blake, actor, Baretta (died 2023)
* September 19 – David McCallum, Scottish-born actor, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS (died 2023)
* September 27
** Greg Morris, actor, Mission: Impossible, Vega$ (died 1996)
** Kathleen Nolan, actress, The Real McCoys
* November 3
** Ken Berry, actor, F Troop, Mama's Family (died 2018)
** Michael Dukakis, American politician
* November 4 – Junko Ikeuchi, Japanese actress, Nemuri Kyōshirō: Burai-hikae (died 2010)
* November 5 – Herb Edelman, actor, The Good Guys, The Golden Girls (died 1996)
* November 19 – Larry King, talk show host (died 2021)
* November 26 – Robert Goulet, singer (died 2007)
* November 28 – Hope Lange, actress, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (died 2003)
* December 3 – Les Crane, host (died 2003)
* December 8 – Flip Wilson, comedian and host, The Flip Wilson Show (died 1998)
* December 15
** Tim Conway, actor, The Carol Burnett Show, McHale's Navy (died 2019)
** William Link, producer (died 2020)
* December 22 – Elizabeth Hubbard, actress, The Doctors, As the World Turns (died 2023)
* December 26 – Caroll Spinney, puppeteer, Sesame Street (died 2019)