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February 11th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Leslie Nielsen | 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
 | Tina Louise | 1934 in New York City, NY | |
 | Burt Reynolds | 1936 in Lansing, MI | - Gunsmoke, Evening Shade, B.L. Stryker, Dan August, Smokey & The Bandit |
 | Jennifer Aniston | 1969 in Sherman Oaks, CA | - Friends |
Deaths
 | Sorrell Booke | 1994 in Sherman Oaks, CA | - The Dukes of Hazzard |
 | Don Porter | 1997 in Beverly Hills, CA | - Gidget |
 | Vic Damone | 2018 in Miami Beach, FL | |
TV Episode Debuts
I Love Lucy | "Breaking the Lease" | 1952 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Matter of Principle" | 1955 |
I Love Lucy | "Lucy Misses the Mertzes" | 1957 |
The Phil Silvers Show | "Cyrano De Bilko" | 1958 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Composite Girl" | 1959 |
The Phil Silvers Show | "Viva Bilko" | 1959 |
The Avengers | "Girl on the Trapeze" | 1961 |
Gunsmoke | "Kitty Shot" | 1961 |
The Rifleman | "And the Devil Makes Five" | 1963 |
The Andy Griffith Show | "Rafe Hollister Sings" | 1963 |
The Fugitive | "Bloodline" | 1964 |
Bewitched | "Ling Ling" | 1965 |
The Munsters | "Don't Bank on Herman" | 1965 |
The Addams Family (1964) | "Happy Birthday, Grandma Frump" | 1966 |
Hogan's Heroes | "The Pizza Parlor" | 1966 |
Get Smart (1965) | "The Man from YENTA" | 1967 |
The Avengers | "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" | 1967 |
Gunsmoke | "Fandango" | 1967 |
Doctor Who | "The Moonbase, Part One" | 1967 |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Secret of the Deep" | 1968 |
The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Wedding" | 1970 |
Bewitched | "The House That Uncle Arthur Built" | 1971 |
Adam-12 | "Log 165 -- Once a Cop" | 1971 |
Columbo | "A Stitch in Crime" | 1973 |
Gunsmoke | "The Foundling" | 1974 |
Happy Days | "Cruisin'" | 1975 |
Cannon | "Snapshot" | 1976 |
The Rockford Files | "The Becker Connection" | 1977 |
Kojak (1973) | "No License to Kill" | 1978 |
The Bionic Woman | "Sanctuary Earth" | 1978 |
All In The Family | "The Return of Archie's Brother" | 1979 |
Lou Grant | "Lou" | 1980 |
Laverne & Shirley | "The Collector" | 1980 |
Angie | "Marie Moves Out" | 1980 |
Mork & Mindy | "I Don't Remember Mama" | 1982 |
Taxi | "Jim and the Kid" | 1982 |
The Dukes of Hazzard | "Comrade Duke" | 1983 |
Dallas | "Requiem" | 1983 |
Airwolf | "Proof Through the Night" | 1984 |
Moonlighting | "In God We Strongly Suspect" | 1986 |
The A-Team | "Cowboy George" | 1986 |
The Tortellis | "Svengali" | 1987 |
Cheers | "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" | 1988 |
Night Court | "Chrizzi's Honor" | 1988 |
The Cosby Show | "Waterworks" | 1988 |
L.A. Law | "Beauty and Obese" | 1988 |
Murphy's Law (US) | "Where's There's a Will, There's a Won't" | 1989 |
227 | "Babes in the Woods" | 1989 |
Murder, She Wrote | "The Fixer-upper" | 1990 |
Murphy Brown | "The Novel" | 1991 |
Cheers | "Is There a Doctor in the Howe? (1)" | 1993 |
