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October 11th in TV History
TV Show Debuts
McHale's Navy (1962)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Mertz and Kurtz" | 1954 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Horse" | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | "Letter of the Law" | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | "Seven" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Apartment" | 1962 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" | 1963 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "5: Part 4" | 1963 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Big Brother" | 1965 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Bazaar" | 1965 |
| The Fugitive | "Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver" | 1966 |
| Lost in Space | "Space Destructors" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Greetings from the President" | 1967 |
| Star Trek | "And the Children Shall Lead" | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 23 -- Pig Is a Three Letter Word" | 1969 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Lady Chitterly's Lover (1)" | 1970 |
| Gunsmoke | "New Doctor in Town" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "Stakeout" | 1972 |
| The Rockford Files | "Tall Woman in Red Wagon" | 1974 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Ted's Moment of Glory" | 1975 |
| Lou Grant | "Henhouse" | 1977 |
| Three's Company | "Chrissy's Date" | 1977 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Angels in Springtime" | 1978 |
| The A-Team | "The Only Church in Town" | 1983 |
| The Cosby Show | "Is That My Boy?" | 1984 |
| Family Ties | "Love Thy Neighbor" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "Resurrection" | 1985 |
| 227 | "Mary Nightingale" | 1986 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Old Habits Die Hard" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "If I Were a Rich Man" | 1989 |
| Cheers | "Where Nobody Knows Your Name" | 1990 |
| The Cosby Show | "Period of Adjustment" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "Political Correctness" | 1993 |
