September 16th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Morgan Woodward | 1925 in Fort Worth, TX | - The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Star Trek, Cool Hand Luke |
| Peter Falk | 1927 in New York City, NY | - Columbo |
 | Anne Francis | 1930 in Ossining, NY | - Honey West |
Deaths
| Jack Dodson | 1994 in Los Angeles, CA | - The Andy Griffith Show |
TV Show Debuts
The Outer Limits (1963) (1963)Mannix (1967)
The Bob Newhart Show (1972)
The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Webster (1983)
E/R (1984)
Miami Vice (1984)
Punky Brewster (1984)
Frasier (1993)
TV Episode Debuts
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Attic" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "Sheer Terror" | 1961 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Rick and the Girl Across the Hall" | 1964 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Gilligan's Mother-in-Law" | 1965 |
| Bewitched | "Alias Darrin Stephens" | 1965 |
| The Munsters | "Herman's Child Psychology" | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Hogan Gives a Birthday Party" | 1966 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Massacre" | 1966 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Viva Smart" | 1967 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Some of Their Planes are Missing" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Tomb of the Cybermen, Part Three" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "U-F-Oh Jeannie" | 1968 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Jeannie at the Piano" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Good-Time News" | 1972 |
| All In The Family | "Archie and the Editorial" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "A Town in Chains" | 1974 |
| Happy Days | "Motorcycle" | 1975 |
| The Rockford Files | "Beamer's Last Case" | 1977 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork in Wonderland (1)" | 1979 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork in Wonderland (2)" | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Carnival of Thrills (1)" | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Carnival of Thrills (2)" | 1980 |
| Punky Brewster | "Punky Finds a Home (1)" | 1984 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Trials & Tribulations" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "Uh-Oh (2)" | 1991 |
| Murphy Brown | "Uh-Oh (3)" | 1991 |
| Murphy Brown | "Executive Decision" | 1996 |