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October 15th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Fritz Feld | 1900 in Berlin, Germany | - Zumdish on Lost In Space (Pop!) |
| Penny Marshall | 1943 in Bronx, NY | - Laverne & Shirley |
| Tanya Roberts | 1949 in Manhattan, New York City, NY | - Charlie's Angels |
TV Show Debuts
I Love Lucy (1951)
I Married Joan (1952)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub" | 1951 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Too Many Ties" | 1954 |
| Gunsmoke | "Obie Tater" | 1955 |
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Meets Orson Welles" | 1956 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Big Man Hunt" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Surprise for Clara" | 1958 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko the Potato Sack King" | 1958 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Peace Officer" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "Lou Mallory" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy and the New Mayor" | 1962 |
| The Fugitive | "Never Wave Goodbye (2)" | 1963 |
| Bewitched | "Help, Help, Don't Save Me" | 1964 |
| The Munsters | "Rock-a-Bye Munster" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Gomez, the People's Choice" | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Flight of the Valkyrie" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Maxwell Smart, Alias Jimmy Ballantine" | 1966 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Good People" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "The Tenth Planet, Part Two" | 1966 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Journey with Fear" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jane Finds Elly a Man" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Hot Bed Warmer (2)" | 1970 |
| Columbo | "The Greenhouse Jungle" | 1972 |
| Columbo | "Negative Reaction" | 1974 |
| Cannon | "The Man Who Died Twice" | 1975 |
| The Rockford Files | "Feeding Frenzy" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Rodeo" | 1977 |
| Battlestar Galactica | "The Long Patrol" | 1978 |
| All In The Family | "What'll We Do with Stephanie?" | 1978 |
| Dallas | "Black Market Baby" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Charlatan" | 1979 |
| 240-Robert | "Out of Sight" | 1979 |
| Mork & Mindy | "The Wedding (2)" | 1981 |
| Taxi | "Vienna Waits" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Coy Meets Girl" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "Billion Dollar Question" | 1982 |
| Moonlighting | "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Little Carla, Happy at Last (1)" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "Death of a Bailiff" | 1987 |
| The Cosby Show | "Cliff's Mistake" | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | "The Lung Goodbye" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Error of Her Ways" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "Strike Two" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "Ectomy, Schmectomy" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick-In-Law" | 1997 |
