Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 10 | The Days of our Lives nighttime special One Stormy Night airs on NBC. |
| February 8 | Lee Grant guest stars on the Empty Nest episode, The Return of Aunt Susan. This marks the first time in television history that she and her daughter Dinah Manoff, one of the show's leading stars, have appeared together. |
| April 30 | The final episode of The Cosby Show was televised on NBC. |
| The Nickelodeon Time Capsule was buried at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida. | |
| May 22 | After 30 years, 66 year old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time. By this time, NBC has announced that Carson's permanent guest host, Jay Leno, will replace him as host. Later, in 1993, David Letterman leaves for CBS. |
| May 25 | Jay Leno debuts as the host of The Tonight Show. |
| June 3 | US Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton appears on The Arsenio Hall Show. Clinton even plays the saxophone with the live band. |
| June 23 | Another World airs its first and only primetime episode, called Summer Desire, right before the Daytime Emmy Awards. |
| June 29 | Family Feud on CBS with Ray Combs becomes the hour-long Family Feud Challenge. |
| August 7 | Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold loses a massive amount of weight due to anorexia nervosa and is placed in hospital care. As a result, she is written out of most of the final episodes. |
| August 12 | Seinfeld begins its infamous one-part premiere fourth season. Which is held by many critics to be one of greatest television seasons. |
| August 15 | Nickelodeon began its regular Saturday night programming block SNICK. |
| September 4 | Scared Silent: Ending and Exposing Child Abuse, a 1-hour live special was telecast on CBS, NBC and PBS. |
| September 8 | Launch of the New York City 24-hour news channel NY1. |
| September 12 | NBC cancels all their Saturday morning cartoons in favor of Saved By The Bell, NBA Inside Stuff, and a weekend version of Today, making it the first to drop children's programming entirely. |
| September 21 | Square One TV returns for its fifth and final season. |
| September 24 | The Sci-Fi Channel is launched with a broadcast of Star Wars. |
| September 27 | Marlon Wayans and Alexandra Wentworth join the cast of In Living Color, Wayans only joins the cast for 13 episodes, Wentworth joins the cast full time this season, and the 1993–94 season, which was the fifth and final year of the series. Keenan Ivory Wayons appears for one of the last times on the show before leaving Mid-Season. |
| September 30 | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's cast member, Janet Hubert-Whitten becomes pregnant, and has conflicts with fellow cast members, salary dispute, as a result, Hubert-Whitten, is replaced by Daphne Maxwell Reid in 1993, Hubert-Whitten only appears in nine episodes of the 1992–93 season, and her last appearance is in the 1993 episode "The Way We Were". |
| October 1 | Cartoon Network launches in the United States. |
| October 3 | Sinéad O'Connor stirs up controversy when she rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live. |
| October 17 | Kristy McNichol's last episode of Empty Nest entitled The Boomerang Affair airs. McNichol would return for the series finale in 1995. |
| November 1 | Texas billionaire Ross Perot buys blocks of U.S. television time for his Presidential campaign. |
| November 18 | NBC's Seinfeld airs its most infamous episode, "The Contest", in which the four friends agree to abstain from all sexually related activity and see who could go without "it" the longest. It is never said who won the contest, however it is assumed to be a tie between Jerry Seinfeld's character, Jerry and Jason Alexander's character, George. |
| November 27 | The Saved by the Bell nighttime special Hawaiian Style airs on NBC. |
| December 1 | The Young and the Restless airs its milestone 5000th episode. |
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