October 26th

October 26th in TV History


Births

Jackie Coogan (1914, Los Angeles, CA) - The Addams Family
Jaclyn Smith (1945, Houston, TX) - Charlie's Angels
Pat Sajak (1946, Chicago, IL) - Wheel of Fortune
Lauren Tewes (1953, Braddock, PA) - The Love Boat

Deaths

Hoyt Axton (1999 in Victor, MT)
Richard Moll (2023 in Big Bear, CA) - Bull on Night Court

TV Show Debuts

St. Elsewhere (1982)

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "Equal Rights" (1953)
Gunsmoke "Mavis McCloud" (1957)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David Gets a Raise" (1960)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David Goes Back to Work" (1961)
77 Sunset Strip "Terror in a Small Town" (1962)
The Avengers "Death of a Batman" (1963)
Gunsmoke "Easy Come" (1963)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Turn Back the Clock" (1964)
The Andy Griffith Show "Barney's Bloodhound" (1964)
The Fugitive "All the Scared Rabbits" (1965)
Lost in Space "The Android Machine" (1966)
Batman "The Devil's Fingers (1)" (1966)
I Spy (US) "Sparrowhawk" (1966)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Come Back, Little Herby" (1966)
Batman "Louie the Lilac" (1967)
Bewitched "A Safe and Sane Halloween" (1967)
Get Smart (1965) "The Worst Best Man" (1968)
Hogan's Heroes "To the Gestapo with Love" (1968)
Adam-12 "Log 161: And You Want Me to Get Married!" (1968)
Gunsmoke "Snow Train (2)" (1970)
Cannon "Girl in the Electric Coffin" (1971)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "A New Sue Ann" (1974)
All In The Family "Gloria's Shock" (1974)
Kojak (1973) "Life, Liberation, and the Pursuit of Death" (1975)
The Six Million Dollar Man "Target in the Sky" (1975)
Laverne & Shirley "Excuse Me, May I Cut In?" (1976)
Happy Days "Fonzie's Hero" (1976)
Charlie's Angels "Angel in Love" (1977)
The Dukes of Hazzard "The Ghost of General Lee" (1979)
The Rockford Files "Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (2)" (1979)
Dallas "The Dove Hunt" (1979)
Laverne & Shirley "Lost in Spacesuits" (1982)
Three's Company "Extra, Extra" (1982)
Happy Days "A Night at the Circus" (1982)
The Fall Guy "The Last Drive" (1983)
Family Ties "This Year's Model" (1983)
Dallas "Family" (1984)
227 "Pilot" (1985)
Airwolf "Crossover" (1985)
ALF "Some Enchanted Evening" (1987)
Night Court "Danny Got His Gun (2)" (1988)
Night Court "Danny Got His Gun (3)" (1988)
Cheers "The Two Faces of Norm" (1989)
The Cosby Show "Denise Kendall: Babysitter" (1989)
Night Court "Death Takes a Halloween" (1990)
Murphy Brown "Night of Living News" (1992)