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February 20th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Gale Gordon | 1906 in New York City, NY | |
| Amanda Blake | 1929 in Buffalo, NY | - Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke |
| French Stewart | 1964 in Albuquerque, NM | - Harry on 3rd Rock From the Sun |
TV Show Debuts
Columbo (1968)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Traffic Signal" | 1953 |
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Goes to Scotland" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Reading Room" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Lovely Alibi" | 1959 |
| Gunsmoke | "Kitty's Killing" | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy Saves Barney's Morale" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Duke Steals a Wife" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Don't Trip Over That Mountain" | 1963 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Big Man on Little Stick" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Winner Take All" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "The Zarbi (The Web Planet, Part Two)" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Death Ship" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Brother Love" | 1967 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Splashdown" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Statue" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "My Master, the Ghostbreaker" | 1968 |
| Columbo | "Prescription: Murder" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Marriage, Witches' Style" | 1969 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "And Only Two Ninety-Nine" | 1970 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Standing Room Only" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "A Friend in Deed" | 1971 |
| Doctor Who | "The Mind of Evil, Part Four" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "The Cure That Kills" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Eighteen Hours of Fear" | 1974 |
| The Rockford Files | "Where's Houston?" | 1976 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "U-509" | 1977 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Date With Danger (1)" | 1978 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Fire Show" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "The Harder They Fall" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie's Funeral (1)" | 1979 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Harrigan's Angel" | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "By-Line, Daisy Duke" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "Lover, Come Back" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "Spring Break" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Dark Imaginings" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "The Mugger" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "A Touch of Wonder" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "Art Lover" | 1986 |
| Airwolf | "Windows" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "A Death in the Family" | 1987 |
| 227 | "The New Neighbors" | 1988 |
| Murphy Brown | "Soul Man" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Standing in the Shadows of Love" | 1989 |
| Columbo | "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" | 1991 |
| Cheers | "Rich Man, Wood Man" | 1992 |
| The Cosby Show | "Clair's Reunion" | 1992 |
| L.A. Law | "Steal It Again, Sam" | 1992 |
| Murphy Brown | "It's Miller Time" | 1995 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Lonely Dick" | 1996 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "My Mother, My Dick" | 2001 |
