1943 in television

The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1943.

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Events

• May 8 – Opening of Paris Télévision – Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow") after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" programmes are interlaced.
• June – Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
• December 23 – The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
• The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
• Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.

Debuts

• The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943–1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, broadcast from 1949 to 1963).

Television shows

Series	Debut	Ended
The Face of the War	July 18, 1941	1945
Thrills and Chills from Everywhere	August 27, 1941	June 4, 1946
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1943	1947
	1949	1963

Births

• January 1 – Don Novello, actor, Saturday Night Live
• January 13 – Richard Moll, actor, Night Court
• January 14 - Holland Taylor, actress, The Practice, Two and a Half Men
• January 23 – Gil Gerard, actor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
• January 26 - Kathryn Leigh Scott, actress, Dark Shadows
• January 28 – John Beck, actor, Flamingo Road
• February 1 - Tina Sloan, actress, Guiding Light
• February 3 - Blythe Danner, actress, Huff
• February 8 - Creed Bratton, actor, The Office
• February 17 – Claire Malis, actress (d. 2012)
• February 25 - George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, The Beatles (d. 2001)
• February 27 – Mary Frann, actress, Newhart (d. 1998)
• March 8 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress, Webster
• March 18 – Kevin Dobson, actor, Kojak
• March 25 - Paul Michael Glaser, actor, director, Starsky & Hutch
• March 28 - Conchata Ferrell, actress, Two and a Half Men
• March 29 – Eric Idle, actor, comedian, Monty Python's Flying Circus
• March 31 - Christopher Walken, actor
• April 5 - Max Gail, actor, Barney Miller
• May 10 - David Clennon, actor, thirtysomething
• May 12 - Linda Dano, actress, One Life to Live, Another World
• May 24 – Gary Burghoff, actor, M*A*S*H
• May 27 – Bruce Weitz, actor, Hill Street Blues
• May 31 – Sharon Gless, actress, Cagney and Lacey
• June 2 - Charles Haid, actor and director, Hill Street Blues
• June 7
  • Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer, Leave It to Beaver
  • Michael Pennington, English actor and director
• June 16 – Joan Van Ark, actress, Knots Landing
• June 24 – Georg Stanford Brown, Cuban-American actor, The Rookies
• June 28 – John Beasley, actor, Everwood
• July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor, That '70s Show
• July 8 – Ri Chun-hee, North Korean news presenter
• July 9 – Suzanne Rogers, actress, Days of Our Lives
• July 11 – Susan Seaforth Hayes, actress, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless
• July 23 – Lucy Lee Flippin, actress, Little House on the Prairie
• July 29 – Roz Kelly, actress, Happy Days
• July 31 – Susan Flannery, actress, Days of Our Lives
• August 2 – Max Wright, actor, ALF
• August 12 - Jim Storm, actor, Dark Shadows
• August 13 - Lillian Hurst, actress, Lost
• August 17 - Robert De Niro, actor
• August 18 - Martin Mull, actor, Roseanne, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Danny Phantom
• August 27 - Tuesday Weld, actress, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
• August 28 - David Soul, American-British actor and singer, Starsky & Hutch
• September 25
  • Lee Aaker, actor, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  • Josh Taylor, actor, Days of Our Lives, The Hogan Family
  • Robert Walden, actor, Lou Grant, Brothers, Happily Divorced
• September 27 - Peter Simon, actor, Guiding Light
• October 6 - Michael Durrell, actor, Guiding Light
• October 8 – Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live, Community
• October 15 - Penny Marshall, actress, director, Laverne and Shirley (d. 2018)
• October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, actor, Stargate SG-1
• November 12 – Wallace Shawn, actor
• November 20 – Veronica Hamel, actress, Hill Street Blues
• December 16 – Steven Bochco, writer-producer, Hill Street Blues (d. 2018)
• December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons
• December 27 – Cokie Roberts, political journalist (d. 2019)
• December 28 – Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005)

Deaths

• January 7 - Nikola Tesla, inventor of the Tesla coil (born 1856)