October 28th

October 28th in TV History


Births

Elsa Lanchester (1902, Lewisham, London, England, UK)
Douglas Seale (1913, London, England, UK)
Jack Soo (1917, Oakland, CA) - Barney Miller
Dennis Franz (1944, Maywood, IL) - Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue
Telma Hopkins (1948, Louisville, KY) - Family Matters
Annie Potts (1952, Nashville, TN) - Designing Women, Ghostbusters

Deaths

James MacArthur (2010 in Jacksonville, FL) - Hawaii Five-O

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Campers" (1955)
The Rifleman "The Brother-in-Law" (1958)
The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko Joins the Navy" (1958)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Who Needs Girls" (1959)
The Twilight Zone "A Thing About Machines" (1960)
77 Sunset Strip "The Laurel Canyon Caper" (1960)
Gunsmoke "All That" (1961)
The Andy Griffith Show "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee" (1963)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Jed the Heartbreaker" (1964)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Pennies" (1964)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "Romances, Roses, and Rye Bread" (1964)
Gilligan's Island "Quick Before It Sinks" (1965)
Bewitched "Trick or Treat" (1965)
The Munsters "Operation Herman" (1965)
Hogan's Heroes "Hogan Springs" (1966)
12 O'Clock High "The All-American" (1966)
Get Smart (1965) "Supersonic Boom" (1967)
Hogan's Heroes "Nights in Shining Armor" (1967)
The Avengers "You Have Just Been Murdered" (1967)
Doctor Who "The Abominable Snowmen, Part Five" (1967)
The Big Valley "Deathtown" (1968)
Gunsmoke "O'Quillian" (1968)
I Dream of Jeannie "The Blood of a Jeannie" (1969)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Just Around the Corner" (1972)
All In The Family "The Bunkers and the Swingers" (1972)
Happy Days "Howard's 45th Fiasco" (1975)
Dallas "Runaway" (1978)
Mork & Mindy "A Morkyville Horror" (1979)
Three's Company "Upstairs Downstairs Downstairs" (1980)
Cheers "Coach's Daughter" (1982)
Taxi "Scenskees from a Marriage (2)" (1982)
The Dukes of Hazzard "Boss Behind Bars" (1983)
Dallas "The Quality of Mercy" (1983)
Punky Brewster "Parents Night" (1984)
Murder, She Wrote "Hooray for Homicide" (1984)
Moonlighting "Yours, Very Deadly" (1986)
Dallas "Carousel" (1988)
227 "How the West Was Fun (1)" (1989)
Murder, She Wrote "Hannigan's Wake" (1990)
Murphy Brown "The Smiths Go to Washington" (1991)
L.A. Law "Foreign Co-Respondent" (1993)
Murphy Brown "That's the Way the Corky Crumbles" (1996)
3rd Rock From the Sun "What's Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick?" (1998)