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April 9th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Ward Bond | 1903 in Benkelman, NE | - Wagon Train |
| Avery Schreiber | 1935 in Chicago, IL | - My Mother the Car |
Deaths
| Barry Cahill | 2012 in Ventura, CA | - 12 O'Clock High |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Overprotection" | 1954 |
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy" | 1956 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Mess Hall Mess" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Record Trout" | 1958 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Honeymoon" | 1958 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Ex-Urbanites" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "Day of Reckoning" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Three's a Crowd" | 1962 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "My Son, the Chimp" | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Cry of Fallen Birds" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Ship of Spies (2)" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "This Is Murder" | 1966 |
| Gunsmoke | "By Line" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "The Hall of Dolls (The Celestial Toymaker, Part Two)" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "Turn on the Old Charm" | 1970 |
| Happy Days | "In the Name of Love" | 1974 |
| Dallas | "Lessons" | 1978 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork and the Family Reunion" | 1981 |
| Taxi | "Bobby's Roomate" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "Goodbye, Cliff Barnes" | 1982 |
| The A-Team | "Beverly Hills Assault" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "Bald and Beautiful" | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | "Pigmalion" | 1987 |
| 227 | "My Aching Back" | 1988 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Sins of Castle Cove" | 1989 |
| Moonlighting | "Perfetc" | 1989 |
| Family Ties | "They Can't Take That Away From Me (2)" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "Frank's Appendectomy" | 1990 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "The Dicks They Are A-Changin'" | 1996 |
