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October 16th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Ann Morgan Guilbert | 1928 in Minneapolis, MN | - The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| Suzanne Somers | 1946 in San Bruno, CA | - Three's Company |
Deaths
 | Audra Lindley | 1997 in Los Angeles, CA | - Mrs. Roper on Three's Company |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "David's Pipe" | 1953 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Face on the Recruiting Poster" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Treasurer's Report" | 1957 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" | 1959 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Six Superior Skirts" | 1959 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy and the Woman Speeder" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Elly Starts to School" | 1963 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Getting Wally in Shape" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice" | 1963 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "The Addams Family Tree" | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Sound of Distant Thunder" | 1964 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Now You See Him... Now You Don't" | 1965 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "G.I. Jeannie" | 1965 |
| The Avengers | "The Cybernauts" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Taps for Old Jeb" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "Temple of Secrets (The Myth Makers, Part One)" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Terrible Toys" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Ladykiller" | 1967 |
| I Spy (US) | "The Honorable Assassins" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Howard's Main Event" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "A Hat" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Coming Through the Rye" | 1968 |
| The Avengers | "You'll Catch Your Death" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "...And Something Makes Four" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend" | 1971 |
| All in the Family | "Flashback: Mike Meets Archie" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "Sarah" | 1972 |
| Cannon | "The Deadly Trail" | 1974 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "What's Wrong with Swimming?" | 1976 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Laid Off" | 1977 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Killer Wind" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Edith's 50th Birthday (1)" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Edith's 50th Birthday (2)" | 1977 |
| Lou Grant | "Hooker" | 1978 |
| Taxi | "Wherefore Art Thou, Bobby?" | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Double Dukes" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "Gone, But Not Forgotten" | 1981 |
| The A-Team | "Timber!" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "Abnormal Psychology" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "Author, Author" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Man Talk" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "My Back Pages" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "The Lady Vanishes" | 1987 |
| Murphy Brown | "TV or Not TV" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Mind Games" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "Pop Goes the Question" | 1991 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Marooned" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Death in Hawaii" | 1994 |
| Murphy Brown | "Sex or Death" | 1995 |
