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October 19th in TV History
Birthdays
 | David Lewis | 1916 in Pittsburgh, PA | - Batman, General Hospital |
| John Lithgow | 1945 in | |
Deaths
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TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress" | 1953 |
| Gunsmoke | "Jesse" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "His Brother's Girl" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Fraternity Rents Out a Room" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Leap, My Lovely" | 1962 |
| The Avengers | "The Nutshell" | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | "Tobe" | 1963 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Sky is Falling" | 1964 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Aunt Bee's Romance" | 1964 |
| The Fugitive | "Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "The Prisoners of Space" | 1966 |
| Batman | "An Egg Grows in Gotham (1)" | 1966 |
| I Spy (US) | "Trial by Treehouse" | 1966 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Gorilla" | 1966 |
| Batman | "The Unkindest Tut of All" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "Birdies, Bogies, and Baxter" | 1967 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Diamonds Are a Spy's Best Friend" | 1968 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Hogan's Trucking Service ... We Deliver the Factory to You" | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 091: You're Not The First Guy's Had The Problem" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "Snow Train (1)" | 1970 |
| Cannon | "Fool's Gold" | 1971 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "I Love a Piano" | 1974 |
| All In The Family | "Archie's Helping Hand" | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Deadly Test" | 1975 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Bachelor Mothers" | 1976 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie the Father" | 1976 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Circus of Terror" | 1977 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork Goes Public" | 1978 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Road Pirates" | 1979 |
| The Rockford Files | "Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (1)" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "The Kristin Affair" | 1979 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Note" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Diamond Jack" | 1982 |
| Happy Days | "Empty Nest" | 1982 |
| The Fall Guy | "Baker's Dozen" | 1983 |
| Family Ties | "The Harder They Fall" | 1983 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "No More Mr. Nice Guy" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "Jamie" | 1984 |
| 227 | "Do You Love Me?" | 1985 |
| Airwolf | "Fortune Teller" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "One White Rose for Death" | 1986 |
| ALF | "Prime Time" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "How to Marry a Mailman" | 1989 |
| The Cosby Show | "Theo's Gift" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "Can't Buy Me Love" | 1990 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Home Care" | 1995 |
