1965 in television

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Events

• February 22 - A new, videotaped production of the 1957 special Cinderella, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs with young Lesley Ann Warren in the title role. The production also starred Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, and Celeste Holm.
• March 24 - Live TV pictures from the US unmanned moon probe "Ranger 9" transmitted prior to impact.
• April 21 - The Beach Boys appear on Shindig! performing their most recent hit, "Do You Wanna Dance?".
• August 1 - Cigarette adverts are banned from UK television. Pipe tobacco and cigar adverts continue until 1991.
• September 12 - The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing songs from their new album Help!.
• September - CBS switches to the color standard, with a new color ident and jingle, informing the viewers that "CBS presents this program in color".
• December 9 - A Charlie Brown Christmas airs on CBS for the first time.
• First television broadcasts in Paraguay.
• The War Game, a drama-documentary by director Peter Watkins depicting the events of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom, is controversially pulled from its planned transmission in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand. The BBC has been pressured into this move by the government, who do not wish much of the play's content to be made public. It is eventually released to cinemas, and wins the 1966 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The BBC finally screens the play in 1985.