1937 in television

The year 1937 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1937.

Events

January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas from its London station, the first play written for television.
February 6 – The BBC Television service discontinues the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system.
March 9 – Experimental broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow.
May – Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly magazine article, the "Errors of Television".
May 12 – The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of George VI. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television – filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8 mm cine camera. A brief section of this footage is used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
May 14 – The BBC broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known instance of a Shakespeare play televised. Among the cast are Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
May 15 – RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention.
June 21 – Wimbledon Championships first televised by the BBC.
July 10 – High definition television with 455 lines is first shown in France at the International Exposition, Paris.
September – High definition television broadcasts are sent from a new 30 kW transmitter below the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
November 9 – Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits television signal of 800 kHz bandwidth on a coaxial cable laid between New York and Philadelphia.
November 11 – BBC Television devotes the evening to a broadcast of Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. Reginald Tate plays the lead, Stanhope, a rôle he has performed extensively in the theatre.
November 27 – NBC in the United States broadcasts the first of six live teleplays of The Three Garridebs, the first known television pilot, in which Louis Hector becomes the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes on television.
December 31 – By this time, 2,121 television sets have been sold in England.
CBS announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts.

Debuts

April 17 – The Disorderly Room premieres on the BBC Television Service .
April 24 – For The Children, the BBC's first programme for children, debuts.
April 30 – Sports Review, the first regular sports programme, debuts on the BBC.

Births

January 1 - Matt Robinson, American actor and screenwriter, Sesame Street
January 3 - Glen A. Larson, American musician and screenwriter,
January 11 - Felix Silla, Italian-born actor, The Addams Family
January 25 - Gregory Sierra, actor, Sanford and Son, Barney Miller
February 1 – Garrett Morris, actor and comedian, Saturday Night Live
February 2 - Tom Smothers, comedian, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
February 25 - Bob Schieffer, American television journalist
February 27 - Barbara Babcock, actress, Hill Street Blues
March 3 - Bobby Driscoll, actor
March 6 - Norman Coburn, actor
March 10 - Joe Viterelli, actor
March 22 - Angelo Badalamenti, composer
March 23 - Tony Burton, actor
March 30 - Warren Beatty, actor
April 1 - Jordan Charney, actor
April 6 - Billy Dee Williams, actor
April 11 - Jill Gascoine, actress
April 13 - Stan Stasiak, professional wrestler
April 14 - Paul Kangas, anchor
April 15 - Frank Vincent, actor
April 19 - Elinor Donahue, actress, Father Knows Best
April 20 - George Takei, actor, Star Trek
April 22 – Jack Nicholson, actor
May 2 - Lorenzo Music, voice actor, Garfield and Friends
May 12 - George Carlin, actor
May 13 - Beverly Owen, actress, The Munsters
May 16 - Yvonne Craig, actress
May 28 - Freddie Roman, comedian
May 30 - Deanna Lund, actress, Land of the Giants
June 1 – Morgan Freeman, actor, The Electric Company
June 2 – Sally Kellerman, actress
June 3 – Edward Winter, American actor and director
June 4 – Gorilla Monsoon, WWF wrestler and commentator
June 10 – Luciana Paluzzi, actress
June 11 – Chad Everett, actor, Medical Center
June 19 – Pamela Lincoln, actor
July 2 - Polly Holliday, actress, Alice, Flo
July 5 - Brooke Hayward, actress
July 6 - Ned Beatty, actor
July 7 - Carol Nugent, actress
July 12 – Bill Cosby, actor and comedian, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Cosby Show
July 19 – Richard Jordan, American actor
July 27 – Don Galloway, American actor
July 28 – Walter Jacobson, news personality
August 2 – Billy Cannon, football player
August 3 – Steven Berkoff, actor
August 7 – Barbara Windsor, actress
August 8 – Dustin Hoffman, actor
September 6
*Jo Anne Worley, actress
*Sergio Aragonés, cartoonist
September 7 – John Phillip Law, actor
September 13 – Fred Silverman, producer
September 14 – Carol Christensen, actress
September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, voice actor
September 28 – Rod Roddy, voice actor
October 2 - Johnnie Cochran, lawyer
October 5 - Linda Lavin, actress, Alice
October 11 - Ron Leibman, actor, Archer
October 16 - Tony Anthony, actor
October 21 - Irán Eory, Iranian-Mexican actress
November 4 - Loretta Swit, actress, M*A*S*H
November 10 - Albert Hall, actor
November 21
*Ingrid Pitt, actress
*Marlo Thomas, actress, That Girl
November 30 - Ridley Scott, director
December 4
*Max Baer Jr., actor, The Beverly Hillbillies
*Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor, Soap
December 7 – Larry Hankin, actor
December 21 – Jane Fonda, actress
December 29 – Barbara Steele, actress
December 31 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor, ''Westworld''