1995 in American television

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1994–95 United States network television schedule
1995–96 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

The following is a list of events affecting American television during 1995. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.

Events[]

Date	Event
January 1	The History Channel is launched.
January 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.
	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.
January 5	All My Children celebrates its 25th anniversary and broadcasts a prime-time special on ABC.
	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."[1] 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."[2] The interview was also parodied on Saturday Night Live.[3]
January 11	The WB Television Network, 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.)
January 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.
	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.
	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys debuts in syndication, starring Kevin Sorbo as "Hercules" and Michael Hurst as "Iolaus".
January 17	The Golf Channel, a TV channel dedicated to the sport of golf, launches.
January 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 1	Classic Sports Network (now known as ESPN Classic) launches.
February 2	Seinfeld broadcasts its 100th episode on NBC.
February 20	What a Cartoon! launches on Cartoon Network as "World Premiere Toons" with the first short being "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", a pilot for The Powerpuff Girls. The show becomes a massive success and will prove to launch the careers of many prominent animators such as Butch Hartman, Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Seth MacFarlane.
February 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 6	Deborah Norville begins assuming her duties as host of Inside Edition.
	On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show entitled "Same-Sex Crushes", Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz will kill Amedure several days after the show airs in syndication.[citation needed]
March 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.
April 5	Fox airs National Hockey League games for the first time.
April 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".
April 18	Rox becomes the first television series distributed via internet.[4][5][6]
May 7	Jurassic Park makes its network broadcast television premiere on NBC.
May 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.
May 12	As the World Turns broadcasts its milestone 10,000th episode on CBS.
May 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.
May 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 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 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.
	Outdoor Life Network (now NBCSN) is launched.
July 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.
July 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.
July 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 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.
August 14	ABC affiliate in Rockford, WREX-TV and NBC affiliate WTVO swaps network affiliations due to a group deal with Quincy Newspapers.[7]
August 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.
August 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.
August 22	Larry Hagman, former main actor of Dallas and I Dream of Jeannie, undergoes a liver transplant.
September 4	Xena: Warrior Princess debuts in syndication, featuring Lucy Lawless as "Xena" and Renee O'Connor as "Gabrielle".
	The very first edition of WCW Monday Nitro airs from the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota on TNT.
September 5	Alan Kalter becomes the second announcer of the Late Show with David Letterman replacing Bill Wendell.
September 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.
September 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.
September 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.
September 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.
	The 47th Primetime Emmy Awards are aired on Fox.
	CBS acquires ABC affiliate WPRI-TV from Narragansett Television and swaps affiliations with WLNE-TV, thus reversing a swap that took place in 1977.
	UPN Kids launches on UPN, featuring two new series, Space Strikers and Teknoman.
	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.
September 11	Sailor Moon premieres in the United States for the first time.
September 15	The final episode of Batman: The Animated Series, entitled "The Lion and the Unicorn", is broadcast on Fox Kids.
September 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.
September 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.
September 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.
September 30	The cast of the X-Men animated series cross over to the Spider-Man series on Fox.
	Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, and Darrell Hammond join the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live.
October 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.
October 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.
October 15	ABC affiliate W58BT goes on the air and former ABC affiliate WSJV-TV switches to Fox.
October 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.[8][9]
October 20	Robert MacNeil anchors The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS for the last time.
October 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.
October 28	In Toledo, Ohio, NBC affiliate WTVG swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WNWO and becomes an ABC owned-and-operated station.
	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 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.
November 7	Major League Baseball reaches a television deal[10][11] with Fox[12] 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][14]
November 13	ABC's 30-minute soap opera Loving (1983–1995) is turned into The City.
November 20	On ABC, One Life to Live broadcasts its 7,000th episode and debuts a new opening sequence.
	ROX and Computer Chronicles are broadcast via the Internet—these are the first Internet broadcasts in the history of television.
December 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.
December 11	On NBC, The Today Show becomes the highest-rated morning news program (and would remain so until 2012).
December 18	As part of the Monday Night Wars, World Championship Wrestling booker Eric Bischoff[15] 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.
December 29	CNNfn, a financial news network from CNN, launches.

Programs[]

Programs debuting in 1995[]

Date	Show	Network
January 1	Modern Marvels	The History Channel
	Taxicab Confessions	HBO
January 2	Cybill	CBS
	The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	Syndication
January 4	Washington Journal	C-SPAN
	Double Rush	CBS
	Women of the House
January 8	House of Buggin'	Fox
January 9	A Whole New Ballgame	ABC
	The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder	CBS
January 11	Muscle	The WB
	Unhappily Ever After
	The Wayans Bros.
January 15	Get Smart	Fox
January 16	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	Syndication
	Vanishing Son
	The Puzzle Place	PTV
	Star Trek: Voyager	UPN
January 17	Marker
	The Watcher
	Golf Central	Golf Channel
January 18	The Parent 'Hood	The WB
January 23	Pig Sty	UPN
	Platypus Man
January 26	Pointman	PTEN
January 29	Extreme	ABC
January 31	The Marshal
February 20	What a Cartoon! (World Premiere Toons)	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
March 22	Sliders	Fox
March 23	Skeleton Warriors	CBS
March 26	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	HBO
	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
	My Wildest Dreams	Fox
June 5	Singled Out	MTV
July 12	20th Century with Mike Wallace	A&E
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	Sailor Moon	Syndication
	Nowhere Man	UPN
August 29	Live Shot
August 31	The Crew	Fox
September 2	Wild About Animals	Syndication
September 4	Bananas in Pyjamas
	WCW Monday Nitro	TNT
	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
	Earthworm Jim	Kids' WB
	Freakazoid!
	Pinky and the Brain
	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
	The Preston Episodes	Fox
	Hang Time	NBC
September 10	Cleghorne!	The WB
	First Time Out
	Simon
	Space Strikers	UPN Kids
	Teknoman
September 11	Danny!	Syndication
	Day & Date
	Gabrielle
	LAPD: Life on the Beat
	Lauren Hutton and...
	The Mark Walberg Show
	Tempestt
	Ned & Stacey	Fox
	Partners
	Bless This House	CBS
September 12	The Monroes	ABC
September 13	Central Park West	CBS
	Courthouse
	The Drew Carey Show	ABC
	The Naked Truth
September 14	Charlie Grace
September 15	Maybe This Time	ABC
	Strange Luck	Fox
	The Stephanie Miller Show	Syndication
September 16	Santo Bugito	CBS
	The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
	Masked Rider	Fox Kids
	Brotherly Love	NBC
	Minor Adjustments
	Night Stand with Dick Dietrick	Syndication
	U.S. Customs: Classified
September 17	Almost Perfect	CBS
	The Client
September 18	Can't Hurry Love
	George & Alana	Syndication
September 19	Hudson Street	ABC
	Murder One	ABC
	The Pursuit of Happiness	NBC
September 21	Caroline in the City	NBC
	The Single Guy
September 22	American Gothic	CBS
	Dweebs
	Bonnie
September 23	8-Track Flashback	VH1
	JAG	NBC
September 24	Space: Above and Beyond	Fox
September 28	New York News	CBS
October 1	Misery Loves Company	Fox
	Too Something
October 2	Flipper	Syndication
	Family Challenge	Family Channel
	Wild Animal Games
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 11	The Little Lulu Show	HBO
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[citation needed]	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
January 27	The New Price is Right
January 28	The Boys Are Back
February 1	Hearts Afire	1992
	Love & War
February 2	My Brother and Me	1994
February 13	2 Stupid Dogs	1993
	Ghostwriter	1992
February 19	Get Smart	1995
February 25	Free Willy	1994
February 28	Me and the Boys
March 3	M.A.N.T.I.S.
March 6	Models Inc.
March 12	The Brothers Grunt
March 13	A Whole New Ballgame	1995
March 15	All-American Girl	1994
March 25	The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
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
	The Cosby Mysteries	1994
	Double Rush	1995
	The George Wendt Show
April 23	House of Buggin'
April 29	Empty Nest	1988
May 7	Matlock	1986
May 11	Muscle	1995
May 12	VR.5
May 15	Pig Sty
May 16	Marker	1995
	In the Heat of the Night	1988
May 20	Star Search	1983
May 21	Sirens	1993
May 22	Blossom	1991
	Taz-Mania
	The Critic	1994
May 23	Full House	1987
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	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
August 17	Yo! MTV Raps	1988
August 27	WWF Wrestling Challenge	1986
September 2	Name Your Adventure	1992
September 8	Family Feud (returned in 1999)	1976
	Women of the House	1995
September 15	Batman: The Animated Series	1992
October 13	Quicksilver	1994
October 19	Charlie Grace	1995
	The Monroes
October 28	The Preston Episodes
November 9	Dweebs
November 9	The Moxy Show	1993
November 10	Loving	1983
November 15	Courthouse	1995
November 24	Legends of the Hidden Temple	1993
November 25	Aladdin	1994
December 3	Space Strikers	1995
December 8	Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills	1994
December 9	The Baby Huey Show
	Bump in the Night
December 17	Cleghorne!	1995
	First Time Out
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	Source
America's Funniest Home Videos	6	Yes	[16]
America's Most Wanted	7	Yes	[17]
Beyond Reality	2	No	[18]
Blossom	5	No	[19]
Dinosaurs	4	No	[19]
The Hitchhiker	6	No	[18]
Home Improvement	4	Yes	[20]
Melrose Place	4	Yes	[citation needed]
Seinfeld	6	Yes	[21]
Step by Step	4	Yes	[22]
Tales from the Crypt	6	Yes	[23]

Programs changing networks in 1995[]

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Animaniacs	Fox Kids	Kids' WB
The Busy World of Richard Scarry	Showtime	Nick Jr.
G-Force: Guardians of Space	TBS	Cartoon Network
Madeline	The Family Channel	ABC
TV Nation	NBC	Fox
The Critic	ABC
Sister, Sister		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	[citation needed]

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries[]

Premiere date	Title	Channel
April 3	Danielle Steel's Vanished	NBC
May 14	The Langoliers	ABC
September 17	Danielle Steel's Zoya	NBC
October 29	Degree of Guilt

Television stations[]

Station launches[]

Date	City of license/Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation
January 2	Grundy, Virginia	WLFG	68	Religious Independent
January 15	Ashland, Wisconsin (Duluth, Minnesota)	W25CA	25	America One
January 29	Tice/Fort Myers, Florida	WRXY-TV	49	CTN
January 30	Baltimore, Maryland	W61BT	61	The WB
March 1	Macon, Georgia	WPGA-TV	58	Fox
March 7	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	K19EA	19	The Box
April 1	Ketchikan, Alaska	KUBD	4	TBN
April 3	Boston, Massachusetts	W32AY	32	Telemundo
	Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut	WTVU	59	The WB
April 5	Hot Springs/Little Rock, Arkansas	KVTH	26	Victory Television Network
May 1	Sitka, Alaska	K05KH	5	Fox
June	Reno, Nevada	K47CO	47	Univision
June 1	New Orleans, Louisiana	WUPL	54	UPN
June 2	Houston, Texas	KZJK	61	Shop at Home Network
June 5	Littleton, New Hampshire	WMUR-LP	29	Fox
June 10	Omaha, Nebraska	KXVO	15	The WB
June 13	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	KCSD-TV	23	PBS (part of South Dakota Public Broadcasting)
June 14	Phoenix, Arizona	K69HJ	69	ACN
June 21	Austin, Texas		9	Independent Texas Student Media
	Fort Myers, Florida	W59CY	59	Daystar
June 28	Joplin, Missouri	K44ER	44	unknown
July 10	Laredo, Texas	K39EL	39	TBN Enlace USA
July 11	Abilene, Texas	K40BM	40	Telemundo
	Kalispell, Montana	K52EQ	52	ABC (LPTV translator of KTMF)
July 13	Manhattan, Kansas	K21ER	21	Independent
August	North Platte, Nebraska	K11TW	11	UPN
August 7	Wake Forest, North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina)	WRAY-TV	30	Independent
August 12	Bluefield-Beckley, West Virginia	WVGV-TV	59	The WB
August 13	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	KFXA	28	Fox
August 28	Bangor, Maine	WBGR-LP	33	The WB
September 1	Concord, New Hampshire	WNBU	21	Independent
September 3	Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico Laredo, Texas, United States)	XHFTX	57	Fox
September 8	Raleigh, North Carolina	WRAZ	50	The WB
September 22	Phoenix, Arizona	KASW	61
September 27	Albuquerque, New Mexico	K45DL	45	Religious independent
October 6	Albuquerque/Santa Fe, New Mexico	KASY-TV	50	UPN/The WB
October 7	Tamuning, Guam	K26HK	26	Independent
October 18	South Bend, Indiana	W58BT	58	ABC
November 20	Hagatna, Guam	KUAM-LP	20	CBS
November 29	Nashville, Tennessee	WNAB	58	The WB

Stations changing network affiliation[]

City of license/Market	Date	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation
Atlanta, Georgia	January 11	WATL	36	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WVEU	69		UPN
Austin, Texas	January 11	KNVA	54	Independent	The WB
	July 1	KTBC	7	CBS	Fox
		KBVO-TV	42	Fox	CBS
Baltimore, Maryland	January 2	WMAR-TV	2	NBC	ABC
		WBAL-TV	11	CBS	NBC
		WJZ-TV	13	ABC	CBS
	January 16	WNUV	54	Independent	UPN
Burlington, Vermont (Plattsburgh, New York)	January 11	W39AS	39	Independent	The WB
	January 16	W27BI	27		UPN
Boston, Massachusetts	January 2	WBZ-TV	4	NBC	CBS
		WHDH	7	CBS	NBC
	January 11	WLVI	56	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WSBK-TV	38		UPN
Charlotte, North Carolina (Rock Hill, South Carolina)	January 11	WFVT-TV	55	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WJZY	46		UPN
Chicago, Illinois (Gary, Indiana)	January 1	WGBO-TV	66	Independent	Univision
	January 11	WGN-TV	9		The WB
	January 16	WPWR-TV	50		UPN
Cincinnati, Ohio	January 11	W25AI	25	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WSTR-TV	64		UPN
Cleveland, Ohio	January 16	WUAB	43	Independent	UPN/The WB
Columbus, Ohio	January 11	WWHO	53	Independent	The WB
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas	January 11	KXTX-TV	39	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KTXA	21		UPN
	July 1	KDFW	4	CBS	Fox
		KTVT	11	Independent	CBS
		KDAF	33	Fox	The WB
		KXTX-TV	39	The WB	Independent
Dayton, Ohio	January 11	W51CJ	51	Independent	The WB
Denver, Colorado	January 11	KWGN-TV	2	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KTVD	20		UPN
	September 10	KCNC-TV	4	NBC	CBS
		KMGH-TV	7	CBS	ABC
		KUSA	9	ABC	NBC
Detroit, Michigan	January 11	WXON	20	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WKBD-TV	50		UPN
Dubuque, Iowa	August 13	KFXB-TV	40	ABC	Fox
Elmira, New York	January 16	WYDC	48	Independent	UPN
Eugene-Roseburg, Oregon	January 11	KROZ	36	Independent	The WB
	January 16	K25AS	25		UPN
Evansville, Indiana	January 16	W52AZ	52	Independent	UPN
	December 2	WTVW	7	ABC	Fox
		WEHT	25	CBS	ABC
		WEVV-TV	44	Fox	CBS
Flint-Saginaw, Michigan	January 16	WNEM-TV	5	NBC	CBS
		WEYI-TV	25	CBS	NBC
Green Bay/Appleton, Wisconsin	January 16	WXGZ-TV	32	Independent	UPN
	August 28	WLUK-TV	11	NBC	Fox
		WGBA-TV	26	Fox	NBC
Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina	September 3	WGHP	8	ABC	Fox
		WXLV-TV WGGT-TV	45 48	Fox	ABC
Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina	September 3	WFBC-TV	40	ABC	Independent
Hagatna, Guam	November 20	KUAM-TV	8	NBC (primary) CBS (secondary)	NBC (exclusive)
Hagerstown, Maryland (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)	January 11	WJAL	68	Independent	The WB
Harrisburg-Lancaster, Pennsylvania	December 16	WLYH-TV	15	CBS	UPN
Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut	April 3	WTXX	20	Independent	UPN
Houston, Texas	January 11	KHTV	39	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KTXH	20		UPN
Indianapolis-Kokomo, Indiana	January 11	WNDY-TV	23	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WTTV/WTTK	4/29		UPN
Jackson, Tennessee	December 1	WMTU	16	Fox	UPN
Jacksonville, Florida	January 11	WBSG-TV	21	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WNFT	47		UPN
Jasper, Indiana		WJTS-LP	27	Independent	UPN
Kansas City, Missouri	January 16	KSMO-TV	62	Independent	UPN
Los Angeles, California	January 11	KTLA	5	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KCOP-TV	13		UPN
Louisville, Kentucky (Salem, Indiana)	January 11	WBNA	21	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WFTE	58		UPN
Macon, Georgia	January 16	WGNM	45	Independent	UPN
Memphis, Tennessee	January 16	WLMT	30	Independent	UPN
	December 1	WHBQ-TV	13	ABC	Fox
		WPTY-TV	24	Fox	ABC
Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida	January 11	WDZL	39	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WBFS-TV	33		UPN
	September 10	WCIX	4	NBC	CBS
		WTVJ	6	CBS	NBC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin	January 16	WCGV-TV	24	Independent	UPN
Nashville, Tennessee	January 11	WKZX	28	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WXMT	30		UPN
New Orleans, Louisiana	January 11	WGNO	26	Independent	The WB
New York City (Secaucus, New Jersey)	January 11	WPIX	11	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WWOR-TV	9		UPN
Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Virginia	January 11	WVBT	43	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WGNT	27		UPN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	January 11	WPHL-TV	17	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WGBS-TV	57		UPN
	September 10	KYW-TV	3	NBC	CBS
		WCAU	10	CBS	NBC
Phoenix, Arizona	January 9	KTVK	3	ABC	Independent
		KNXV-TV	15	Independent	ABC
	January 11	KTVK	3		The WB
	January 16	KUTP	45		UPN
	September 22	KTVK	3	The WB	Independent
Portland, Oregon	January 11	KEBN	32	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KPTV	12		UPN
Presque Isle, Maine	January 16	WAGM-TV	8	CBS (primary) ABC/NBC/Fox (secondary)	CBS (primary) ABC/NBC/Fox/UPN (secondary)
Providence, Rhode Island (New Bedford, Massachusetts)	August 7	WLNE-TV	6	CBS	ABC
		WPRI-TV	12	ABC	CBS
Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina (Goldsboro, North Carolina)	January 11	WNCN	17	Independent	The WB
	September 7			The WB	NBC
		WRDC	28	NBC	UPN
Richmond, Virginia	January 11	WAWB	65	Independent	The WB
Rockford, Illinois	August 14	WREX	13	ABC	NBC
		WTVO	17	NBC	ABC
Sacramento/Stockton, California	January 11	KPWB-TV	31	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KSCH-TV	58		UPN
	March 6	KXTV	10	CBS	ABC
		KOVR	13	ABC	CBS
St. Louis, Missouri	January 11	KPLR-TV	11	Independent	The WB
	August 7	KTVI	2	ABC	Fox
		KDNL-TV	30	Fox	ABC
Salt Lake City, Utah	January 11	KOOG-TV	30	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KJZZ-TV	14		UPN
	September 10	KUTV	2	NBC	CBS
		KSL-TV	5	CBS	NBC
San Antonio, Texas	January 16	KABB	29	Independent	Fox
		KRRT	35	Fox	UPN
San Diego, California	January 11	KSWB-TV	69	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KUSI-TV	51		UPN
San Francisco, California	January 11	KOFY-TV	20	Independent	The WB
	January 16	KBHK-TV	44		UPN
Seattle-Tacoma, Washington	January 11	KTZZ-TV	22	Independent	The WB
	March 13	KIRO-TV	7	CBS	UPN
		KSTW	11	Independent	CBS
South Bend, Indiana	October 18	WSJV	28	ABC	Fox
Shreveport, Louisiana	August 28	KSHV	45	Independent	UPN
Terre Haute, Indiana	January 31	WBAK-TV	38	ABC	Fox
Toledo, Ohio	January 11	WT05	5 (cable-only)	Independent	The WB
	January 16	W48AP	48		UPN
	October 28	WTVG	13	NBC	ABC
		WNWO-TV	24	ABC	NBC
Washington, D.C.	January 11	WFTY	50	Independent	The WB
	January 16	WDCA	20		UPN
West Palm Beach, Florida	January 16	WTVX	34	Independent	UPN
West Point, Mississippi	October 10	WLOV-TV	27	ABC	Fox
Wilmington, North Carolina	January 16	WSSN-LP	10	Independent	UPN
Yakima, Washington	January 11	K60EB	60	Independent	The WB

Births[]

Date	Name(s)	Notability
January 4	Maddie Hasson	Actress (The Finder, Twisted)
January 9	Nicola Peltz	Actress (Bates Motel)
January 13	Natalia Dyer	Actress (Stranger Things)
	Qaasim Middleton	Actor (The Naked Brothers Band)
January 24	Dylan Everett	Canadian actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
January 30	Danielle Campbell	Actress (The Originals)
February 8	Jordan Todosey	Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
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 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)
April 23	Gigi Hadid	Actress (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills)
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)
	Luke Benward	Actor (Ravenswood)
	Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten	Actors (Everybody Loves Raymond)
June 2	Sterling Beaumon	Actor (Lost, The Killing)
June 20	Serayah	Actress (Empire)
	Aidan Drummond	Canadian actor (The Collector)
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 18	Parker McKenna Posey	Actress (My Wife and Kids)
August 20	Lulu Antariksa	Actress (How to Rock)
August 26	Gracie Dzienny	Actress (Supah Ninjas)
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 18	Megan Lee	Actress (Make It Pop)
September 19	Natalia Wójcik	Voice actress (Annie on Little Einsteins)
	Sammi Hanratty	Actress
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 29	Ross Lynch	Actor (Austin & Ally, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and singer (R5)
	Nick Merico	Actor (Every Witch Way)

Deaths[]

Date	Name	Age	Notability
February 5	Doug McClure	59	Actor (The Virginian)
February 22	Ed Flanders	60	Actor (St. Elsewhere)
March 26	Eazy-E	31	Rapper
March 28	Hugh O'Connor	32	Actor (Lonnie Jamison on In the Heat of the Night)
March 31	Selena	23	Singer
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)

See also[]

• 1995 in the United States
• List of American films of 1995

References[]