- Sep 1 Gunsmoke goes off the air
Telethon
Sep 1 Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- Sep 6 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
Fawlty Towers
Sep 19 "Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK
- Sep 29 American television game show "Three for the Money" hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV; cancelled after 8 weeks
- Sep 29 Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan
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