November 17th

November 17th in TV History

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Births

Byron Keith (1917, El Paso, IL) - 77 Sunset Strip
Danny DeVito (1944, Asbury Park, NJ) - Taxi, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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TV Episode Debuts

Gunsmoke "Legal Revenge" (1956)

The Rifleman "Ordeal" (1959)

The Twilight Zone "The Midnight Sun" (1961)

77 Sunset Strip "The Missing Daddy Caper" (1961)

The Avengers "Death of a Great Dane" (1962)

Gunsmoke "The Hunger" (1962)

The Fugitive "Escape Into Black" (1964)

Lost in Space "The Sky is Falling" (1965)

The Big Valley "The Murdered Party" (1965)

I Spy (US) "Tatia" (1965)

The Beverly Hillbillies "The Poor Farmer" (1965)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Flying Down to Lunch" (1965)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "Go Tell the Birds and Bees" (1965)

Batman "The Joker's Provokers (2)" (1966)

Bewitched "I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight" (1966)

Star Trek "The Menagerie Part I" (1966)

Star Trek "Journey to Babel" (1967)

Gunsmoke "A Matter of Honor" (1969)

The Beverly Hillbillies "The Frog Family" (1970)

Columbo "Suitable for Framing" (1971)

Bewitched "Hansel and Gretel in Samanthaland" (1971)

Night Gallery "House - with Ghost" (1971)

Night Gallery "A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank" (1971)

Night Gallery "Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator" (1971)

Night Gallery "Hell's Bells" (1971)

Adam-12 "Anniversary" (1971)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "The Dinner Party" (1973)

All In The Family "Archie in the Cellar" (1973)

Kojak (1973) "A Killing in the Second House" (1974)

All In The Family "Gloria Suspects Mike" (1975)

The Rockford Files "A Good Clean Bust With Sequel Rights" (1978)

Lou Grant "Sting" (1980)

Laverne & Shirley "The Defiant One" (1981)

Three's Company "Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1981)

Happy Days "Fonzie, the Substitute" (1981)

The Fall Guy "Mighty Myron" (1982)

Family Ties "Big Brother is Watching" (1982)

Cheers "Old Flames" (1983)

Airwolf "Flight #093 is Missing" (1984)

Punky Brewster "Love Thy Neighbor" (1985)

Amazing Stories "Mr. Magic" (1985)

ALF "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?" (1986)

Family Ties "The Big Fix" (1986)

Punky Brewster "The Anniversary" (1987)

Moonlighting "Cool Hand Dave (1)" (1987)

Cheers "One Happy Chappy in a Sappy Serape (2)" (1988)

The Cosby Show "Cyranoise de Bergington" (1988)

L.A. Law "Romancing the Drone" (1988)

Dallas "Daddy Dearest" (1989)

Night Court "The System Works" (1991)

Murder, She Wrote "Terminal Connection" (1991)

3rd Rock From the Sun "My Mother the Alien" (1996)