October 27th

October 27th in TV History


Births

Nanette Fabray (1920, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
Ned Wertimer (1923, Buffalo, NY) - Ralph, the doorman on The Jeffersons
John Cleese (1938, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK) - Monty Python's Flying Circus
Ted Wass (1952, Lakewood, OH)
Robert Picardo (1953, Philadelphia, PA) - Star Trek: Voyager

Deaths

Morey Amsterdam (1996 in Los Angeles, CA) - The Dick Van Dyke Show

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "Vacation from Marriage" (1952)
Gunsmoke "Indian White" (1956)
The Rifleman "Tension" (1959)
The Twilight Zone "The Grave" (1961)
77 Sunset Strip "The Unremembered" (1961)
The Avengers "Mission to Montreal" (1962)
Gunsmoke "The Ditch" (1962)
The Fugitive "Tug of War" (1964)
Lost in Space "My Friend, Mr. Nobody" (1965)
The Big Valley "Winner Lose All" (1965)
I Spy (US) "Danny Was a Million Laughs" (1965)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Clampetts Play the Rams" (1965)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Secret Passage" (1965)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Great Petrie Fortune" (1965)
Batman "The Dead Ringers (2)" (1966)
Bewitched "Twitch or Treat" (1966)
Star Trek "Miri" (1966)
Star Trek "Catspaw" (1967)
Gunsmoke "A Man Called Smith" (1969)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Doctor, Cure My Frog" (1970)
Columbo "Dead Weight" (1971)
Bewitched "The Ghost Who Made a Spectre of Himself" (1971)
Night Gallery "A Question of Fear" (1971)
Night Gallery "The Devil Is Not Mocked" (1971)
Adam-12 "The Ferret" (1971)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Son of "But Seriously Folks"" (1973)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Son of "But Seriously Folks"" (1973)
All In The Family "Archie and the Computer" (1973)
Columbo "By Dawn's Early Light" (1974)
Kojak (1973) "You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler" (1974)
All In The Family "Mike Faces Life" (1975)
Charlie's Angels "Target: Angels" (1976)
The Bionic Woman "Kill Oscar (1)" (1976)
All In The Family "Archie's Operation (2)" (1976)
The Rockford Files "Kill the Messenger" (1978)
Lou Grant "Pack" (1980)
Laverne & Shirley "It Only Hurts When I Breathe" (1981)
Three's Company "Professor Jack" (1981)
Happy Days "Another Night at Antoine's" (1981)
The Fall Guy "Bail and Bond" (1982)
Family Ties "Summer of '82" (1982)
Cheers "Homicidal Ham" (1983)
Airwolf "Sins of the Past" (1984)
Punky Brewster "Just Say No" (1985)
Murder, She Wrote "Sing a Song of Murder" (1985)
Amazing Stories "Mummy, Daddy" (1985)
Cheers "How to Recede in Business" (1988)
The Cosby Show "Move It (a.k.a. The Baby Game)" (1988)
3rd Rock From the Sun "Dick the Vote" (1996)