For the American network television schedule, please see 1994-95 American network television schedule.
Events
- February 4 - The Days of Our Lives nighttime special Winter Heat airs on NBC.
- March 27 - Actress Lynne Perrie makes her last appearance as Ivy Tilsley on the soap opera Coronation Street, after 23 years of being affiliated with the programme.
- March 31 - Madonna appears on The Late Show with David Letterman and makes headlines for her foul-mouthed, profanity-laced interview. Robin Williams later describes the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
- May 24 - The Next Generation concludes its seven-year run with the series finale, All Good Things.... The two-hour finale was aired at 6 PM on most affiliates, rather than as part of the prime time lineup.
- June 11 - WWE Superstar Terry Bollea Signed a deal with WCW On a live broadcast of WCW Saturday Night.
- June 17 - NFL star OJ Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase, which unfolds live on US television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood, California, where he then surrenders to police.
- August 12 - The soap opera All My Children airs a memorial episode for original cast member Frances Heflin, who died in June. The memorial is in the form of a funeral service for Heflin's character, Mona Kane Tyler.
- October 19 - The Goodnight Kiwi airs in New Zealand for the last time as TV2 moves to 24-hour television 7 days a week.
- DirecTV launches the first high powered DBS service in the world.
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Deaths
- January 1 - Cesar Romero, actor
- January 8 - Pat Buttram, actor (Mr. Haney on Green Acres)
- January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor (Theo Kojak on Kojak)
- January 28 - Hal Smith, actor (Otis on The Andy Griffith Show)
- February 11 - William Conrad, actor.
- February 11 - Sorrell Booke, actor (Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard).
- February 24 - Dinah Shore, singer and talk show hostess.
- March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor.
- March 21 - Dack Rambo, actor, from AIDS.
- March 22 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.
- April 2 - Betty Furness, consumer advocate and spokesperson.
- April 18 - Don Fedderson, producer.
- May 8 - George Peppard, actor.
- May 22 - Jane Dulo, character actress.
- June 1 - Frances Heflin, soap opera actress.
- June 7 - Dennis Potter, playwright.
- June 8 - Rudolph Cartier, director.
- June 14 - Henry Mancini, composer
- July 8 - Dick Sargent, actor (Darren Stephens #2 on Bewitched)
- July 26 - Terry Scott, actor
- August 21 - Danitra Vance, comedian, the first African-American woman regular on Saturday Night Live, from breast cancer.
- September 3 - James T. Aubrey, former head of programming at CBS.
- October 2 - Harriet Nelson, singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)
- October 25 - Mildred Natwick, actress
- November 8 - Michael O'Donoghue, comedy writer (Saturday Night Live)
- November 9 - Priscilla Morrill, character actress.
- November 11 - Pedro Zamora, HIV-positive participant of The Real World
1994 | Years in television
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