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October 2nd in TV History
Birthdays
 | Avery Brooks | 1948 in Evansville, IN | |
Deaths
| Harriet Nelson | 1994 in Laguna Beach, CA | - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
TV Show Debuts
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Combat! (1962)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Boys' Paper Route" | 1953 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko Goes to College" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Fixing Up the Fraternity House" | 1957 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Where is Everybody?" | 1959 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Only Zeroes Count" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "The Vaqueros" | 1961 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Opie and the Bully" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Hair-Raising Holiday" | 1963 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie, Joe, and the Fashion Models" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Masterpiece" | 1963 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Fester's Punctured Romance" | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Men and the Boys" | 1964 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "School Days" | 1965 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon?" | 1965 |
| The Avengers | "The Town of No Return" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "The Exploding Planet (Galaxy 4, Part Four)" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Day the World Ended" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "The Time after Midnight" | 1967 |
| I Spy (US) | "The Medarra Block" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy's Trip to Raleigh" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "Vengeance (1)" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Something for the Queen" | 1968 |
| The Avengers | "Game" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Caesar Salad" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "He's No Heavy ... He's My Brother" | 1971 |
| All in the Family | "Archie and the Lock-Up" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Judgement" | 1972 |
| Cannon | "Lady in Red" | 1974 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary the Writer" | 1976 |
| Kojak (1973) | "The Queen of Hearts is Wild" | 1977 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Deadly Countdown (2)" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Archie Gets the Business (1)" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Archie Gets the Business (2)" | 1977 |
| Lou Grant | "Prisoner" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Snow Job" | 1979 |
| Taxi | "Nardo Loses Her Marbles" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "Marion Goes to Jail" | 1979 |
| Angie | "Marie's Crush" | 1979 |
| Angie | "Angie and Joyce Go to Jail" | 1980 |
| The A-Team | "Fire" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "The Cape Cad" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "The Next Voice You Hear..." | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Food for Thought" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "Starting Over" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "The Son Also Rises" | 1987 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Memo that Got Away" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Wanted: Dead or Alive" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "My Life As a Dog Lawyer" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Amsterdam Kill" | 1994 |
| Murphy Brown | "Fearless Frank" | 1995 |
