* 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor

* 1975 – Hal Gill, American hockey player

* 1975 – Damon Pampolina, American musician and actor ( The Party )

* 1975 – Joel West, American actor and model

* 1912 – Hound Dog Taylor, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon.

* 1975 – Elliott Sadler, American race car driver

* 1975 – Tomi Joutsen, Finnish metal vocalist ( Amorphis )

* 1975 – Michael Chaturantabut, Thai-American actor

* 1975 – Johnny Galecki, American actor

* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.

* 1975 – Blake Adams, American golfer

* 1975 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish guitarist and songwriter ( In Flames and All Ends )

* 1975 – Jonny Moseley, American skier

* 1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer

* 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier

* 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player

* 1975 – Mahesh Babu, Indian Telugu Actor

* 1975 – Mike Lamb, American baseball player

* 1975 – Robbie Middleby, Australian footballer

* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer

* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor

* 1975 – Joe Perry, English snooker player

Wheel of Fortune debuted on NBC in 1975.

* Monitor ( NBC Radio ), an NBC Radio program which aired from 1955 to 1975

Charlie Jones served as the event's host, field reporter and would cover the trophy presentation ( prior to the 1975 NFL season, NBC did not have a pregame show ).

The most famous of these is Saturday Night Live, a skit show that has aired on NBC nearly every week since 1975.

In 1975, Buck temporarily left his Cardinals baseball duties in order to host the NBC pregame show, GrandStand, alongside Bryant Gumbel.

* Archer, a 1975 NBC television series starring Brian Keith

Coppola created The Godfather Saga expressly for American television in a 1975 release that combined The Godfather and The Godfather Part II with unused footage from those two films in a chronological telling that, because it toned down the violent, sexual, and profane material, received a rating of TV-14 for its NBC debut on November 18, 1977.

* The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty ( 1975 NBC )

* Joshua Gomez ( born 1975 ), stars in the NBC series Chuck as Morgan Grimes.

SCTV was offered a slot on early Sunday evenings by NBC, but because they would have had to alter the show's content to appeal to " family " audiences ( per a 1975 amendment to the Prime Time Access Rule ) as well as face CBS ' dominant 60 Minutes, the producers declined.

( 1974 – 1975 ), a game show, premiered earlier in the day on NBC.

* November 30 – McCoy on NBC ( 1975 – 76 )

* September 21 – Adam-12 premieres on NBC ( 1968 – 1975 ).

* September 14-Ironside premieres on NBC ( 1967 – 1975 ).

debuts on NBC daytime TV ( 1964 – 1975, 1978 – 1979 1984 – present ).

Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the 1966 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the lead role in the 1975 film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze.

By the 1974 – 1975 season, Sanford and Sons high lead-in helped the entire NBC Friday night lineup to place in the coveted bracket of Top 20 shows ( Chico and the Man, following Sanford, placed in the Top 10, while the police dramas The Rockford Files and Police Woman aired later in the evening and ranked in the lower reaches of the Top 20 ).

In addition to complete operas and gala concerts, television programs produced at the Met have included: an episode of Omnibus with Leonard Bernstein ( NBC, 1958 ); " Danny Kaye's Look-In at the Metropolitan Opera " ( CBS, 1975 ); " Sills and Burnett at the Met " ( CBS, 1976 ); and the MTV Video Music Awards ( 1999 and 2001 ).

Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975.

In addition, he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series The Loner ( which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966 ; Bridges pulled out in disagreement over the violent content of the show ), and in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport ( 1970 / 71 ) and a Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester ( 1975 – 76 ).

A year later, Trebek hosted the popular Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley game show, High Rollers, which had two incarnations on NBC ( 1974 – 76 and 1978 – 80 ) and an accompanying syndicated season ( 1975 – 76 ).

Trebek also appeared as a celebrity teammate on the NBC game show The Magnificent Marble Machine in 1975, as well as the Tom Kennedy-hosted NBC word game To Say the Least in 1978.