February 17th

February 17th in TV History

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Births

Richard Karn (1956, Seattle, WA) - Home Improvement
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981, Los Angeles, CA)

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TV Show Debuts

McCloud (1970)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Phil Silvers Show "The Colonel's Reunion" (1958)

The Rifleman "The Indian" (1959)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Uninvited Guests" (1960)

77 Sunset Strip "Strange Bedfellows" (1961)

Gunsmoke "Half Straight" (1962)

The Andy Griffith Show "Hot Rod Otis" (1964)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Granny's Romance" (1965)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Rick's Raise" (1965)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Case of the Pillow" (1965)

Batman "When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play (2)" (1966)

Gilligan's Island "Forward March" (1966)

Bewitched "Double Tate" (1966)

The Munsters "Zombo" (1966)

Hogan's Heroes "Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law" (1967)

Get Smart (1965) "99 Loses CONTROL" (1968)

Hogan's Heroes "What Time Does the Balloon Go Up?" (1968)

Doctor Who "The Web of Fear, Part Three" (1968)

The Big Valley "Lightfoot" (1969)

I Dream of Jeannie "Is There a Doctor in the House?" (1969)

Gunsmoke "The Long Night" (1969)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Remembrance of Things Past" (1973)

All In The Family "Hot Watch" (1973)

Doctor Who "Carnival of Monsters, Part Four" (1973)

Happy Days "Bringing Up Spike" (1976)

The Rockford Files "The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall" (1978)

The Rockford Files "The Return of the Black Shadow" (1979)

Laverne & Shirley "To Tell the Truth" (1981)

Three's Company "Furley Versus Furley" (1981)

Happy Days "Bride & Gloom" (1981)

The Fall Guy "Ready, Aim ... Die" (1982)

Cheers "No Contest" (1983)

The Dukes of Hazzard "How to Succeed in Hazzard" (1984)

Dallas "When the Bough Breaks" (1984)

Punky Brewster "I Love You, Brandon" (1985)

Murder, She Wrote "Paint Me A Murder" (1985)

Dallas "Comings and Goings" (1989)

227 "You Gotta Have Art" (1990)

Murder, She Wrote "The Taxman Cometh" (1991)

L.A. Law "Cold Cuts" (1994)

Murphy Brown "Desperate Times" (1997)