March 20th

March 20th in TV History

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Births

Ozzie Nelson (1906, Jersey City, NJ) - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Carl Reiner (1922, Bronx, NY) - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Paul Junger Witt (1943, New York, NY) - Film and TV Producer

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TV Show Debuts

Police Story (1973)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Brother Beesley's Philosophy" (1953)

The Phil Silvers Show "The Big Uranium Strike" (1956)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Ozzie and Harriet Go to Washington" (1957)

77 Sunset Strip "Hong Kong Caper" (1959)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Jed Cuts the Family Tree" (1963)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Square Triangle" (1963)

The Twilight Zone "The Masks" (1964)

Gilligan's Island "The Matchmaker" (1965)

Gunsmoke "Bank Baby" (1965)

Doctor Who "The Centre (The Web Planet, Part Six)" (1965)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Return of the Phantom" (1966)

The Big Valley "Turn of a Card" (1967)

Gilligan's Island "Slave Girl" (1967)

I Dream of Jeannie "A Secretary Is Not a Toy" (1967)

The Andy Griffith Show "Howard the Comedian" (1967)

The Beverly Hillbillies "The Crystal Gazers" (1968)

Bewitched "Samantha's Power Failure" (1969)

Hogan's Heroes "Crittendon's Commandos" (1970)

Doctor Who "The Claws of Axos, Part Two" (1971)

Cannon "The Stalker" (1974)

Kojak (1973) "Down a Long and Lonely River" (1974)

Lou Grant "Physical" (1978)

Mork & Mindy "Invasion of the Mork Snatchers" (1980)

Cheers "Diane Chambers Day" (1986)

The Cosby Show "An Early Spring" (1986)

Family Ties ""D" is for Date" (1987)

Airwolf "Stavograd: Part 1" (1987)

Amazing Stories "Such Interesting Neighbors" (1987)

Dallas "Some Good, Some Bad" (1987)

Family Ties "Return of the Native" (1988)

Murphy Brown "My Dinner with Einstein" (1989)

ALF "Funeral for a Friend" (1989)

Night Court "Mac Takes a Vocation" (1991)

Murphy Brown "FYI of the Hurricane" (1995)