WGBH Television first airs.

The station broadcasts initially from a studio at 84 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. The first program, at 5:30 p.m., is Come and See, a sing-along show for children hosted by Tony Saletan, followed at 6 p.m. by Louis Lyons reading the news. WGBH becomes one of the one of the most successful educational television stations in the U.S., producing such programs as American Experience, French Chef, Frontline, Masterpiece Theatre, This Old House, and Victory Garden. After a fire on October 14, 1961, the station moves into temporary quarters, then to a new building (first) on Western Avenue in 1964.* It moves to its current studio (second) on Guest Street in 2009.*