February 20th

February 20th in TV History

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Births

Gale Gordon (1906, New York City, NY)
Amanda Blake (1929, Buffalo, NY) - Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke
French Stewart (1964, Albuquerque, NM) - Harry on 3rd Rock From the Sun

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TV Show Debuts

Columbo (1968)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Traffic Signal" (1953)

I Love Lucy "Lucy Goes to Scotland" (1956)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Reading Room" (1957)

77 Sunset Strip "Lovely Alibi" (1959)

Gunsmoke "Kitty's Killing" (1960)

The Andy Griffith Show "Andy Saves Barney's Morale" (1961)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Duke Steals a Wife" (1963)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "Don't Trip Over That Mountain" (1963)

Gilligan's Island "Big Man on Little Stick" (1965)

Gunsmoke "Winner Take All" (1965)

Doctor Who "The Zarbi (The Web Planet, Part Two)" (1965)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Death Ship" (1966)

The Big Valley "Brother Love" (1967)

Gilligan's Island "Splashdown" (1967)

I Dream of Jeannie "There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had" (1967)

The Andy Griffith Show "The Statue" (1967)

I Dream of Jeannie "My Master, the Ghostbreaker" (1968)

Columbo "Prescription: Murder" (1968)

Bewitched "Marriage, Witches' Style" (1969)

Get Smart (1965) "And Only Two Ninety-Nine" (1970)

Hogan's Heroes "Standing Room Only" (1970)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "A Friend in Deed" (1971)

Doctor Who "The Mind of Evil, Part Four" (1971)

Cannon "The Cure That Kills" (1974)

Kojak (1973) "Eighteen Hours of Fear" (1974)

The Rockford Files "Where's Houston?" (1976)

The Six Million Dollar Man "U-509" (1977)

The Six Million Dollar Man "Date With Danger (1)" (1978)

Laverne & Shirley "Fire Show" (1979)

Three's Company "The Harder They Fall" (1979)

Happy Days "Fonzie's Funeral (1)" (1979)

Charlie's Angels "Harrigan's Angel" (1980)

The Dukes of Hazzard "By-Line, Daisy Duke" (1981)

Dallas "Lover, Come Back" (1981)

The Fall Guy "Spring Break" (1985)

Cheers "Dark Imaginings" (1986)

Night Court "The Mugger" (1986)

The Cosby Show "A Touch of Wonder" (1986)

Family Ties "Art Lover" (1986)

Airwolf "Windows" (1987)

Dallas "A Death in the Family" (1987)

227 "The New Neighbors" (1988)

Murphy Brown "Soul Man" (1989)

ALF "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (1989)

Columbo "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" (1991)

Cheers "Rich Man, Wood Man" (1992)

The Cosby Show "Clair's Reunion" (1992)

L.A. Law "Steal It Again, Sam" (1992)

Murphy Brown "It's Miller Time" (1995)

3rd Rock From the Sun "Lonely Dick" (1996)

3rd Rock From the Sun "My Mother, My Dick" (2001)