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April 19th in TV History
TV History Events
04/19/1948 : The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) started broadcasting. Their first program was "On the Corner" with Henry Morgan.
Birthdays
 | Hugh O'Brian | 1925 in Rochester, NY | |
Deaths
| Hugh Brannum | 1987 in East Stroudsburg, PA | |
TV Show Debuts
Wings (1990)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The Black Wig" | 1954 |
| Gunsmoke | "Hanging Man" | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | "Sins of the Father" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Selling Rick's Drums" | 1961 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Little Handprints in the Sidewalk" | 1962 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Walk Among Tigers" | 1963 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Traitor" | 1965 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Opie Flunks Arithmetic" | 1965 |
| The Fugitive | "In a Plain Paper Wrapper" | 1966 |
| F Troop | "A Fort's Best Friend is Not a Mother" | 1966 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Dahlia Feud" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The War Games, Part One" | 1969 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Coward" | 1974 |
| Angie | "Joyce's Job" | 1979 |
| Angie | "February Fever" | 1980 |
| Lou Grant | "Fireworks" | 1982 |
| The A-Team | "Till Death Do Us Part" | 1983 |
| Dallas | "The Ewing Connection" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Days Dwindle Down" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "Mr. Otis Regrets" | 1990 |
| The Cosby Show | "The Moves" | 1990 |
| Dallas | "Some Leave, Some Get Carried Out" | 1991 |
