October 17th in TV History
Births
Irene Ryan (1902, El Paso, TX) - The Beverly HillbilliesJack Wagner (1925, Los Angeles, CA) - Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt
George Wendt (1948, Chicago, IL) - Cheers
Deaths
Tennessee Ernie Ford (1991 in Reston, VA)Joey Bishop (2007 in Newport Beach, CA) - member of the Rat Pack, The Joey Bishop Show
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Pills" (1952) |
| I Love Lucy "Lucy and the Dummy" (1955) |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Hidden Panel" (1956) |
| 77 Sunset Strip "Lovely Lady, Pity Me" (1958) |
| Gunsmoke "Annie Oakley" (1959) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "The Guitar Player" (1960) |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show "Sally and the Lab Technician" (1961) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale" (1962) |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show "Bank Book 6565696" (1962) |
| Gilligan's Island "Goodnight Sweet Skipper" (1964) |
| Gunsmoke "The Violators" (1964) |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Cyborg" (1965) |
| The Big Valley "The Martyr" (1966) |
| Gilligan's Island "Where There's a Will" (1966) |
| I Dream of Jeannie "What's New, Poodle Dog?" (1966) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "The Darling Fortune" (1966) |
| I Dream of Jeannie "Jeannie, the Hip Hippie" (1967) |
| Bewitched "Darrin, Gone and Forgotten" (1968) |
| Get Smart (1965) "Widow Often Annie" (1969) |
| Hogan's Heroes "The Gasoline War" (1969) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Keep Your Guard Up" (1970) |
| Adam-12 "Log 65 -- Cigarettes, Cars and Wild, Wild Women" (1970) |
| Cannon "Night Flight to Murder" (1973) |
| The Rockford Files "The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company" (1975) |
| Kojak (1973) "Out of the Shadows" (1976) |
| The Six Million Dollar Man "The Most Dangerous Enemy" (1976) |
| Laverne & Shirley "Laverne and Shirley Go to Night School" (1978) |
| Three's Company "My Sister's Keeper" (1978) |
| Taxi "The Great Line" (1978) |
| Happy Days "Sweet Sixteen" (1978) |
| The Fall Guy "Terror U." (1984) |
| The Fall Guy "A Fistful of Lire" (1985) |
| Cheers "Someday My Prince Will Come" (1985) |
| Night Court "Dad's First Date" (1985) |
| The Cosby Show "Cliff in Love" (1985) |
| Family Ties "Mr. Wrong" (1985) |
| L.A. Law "The Princess and the Wiener King" (1986) |
| The A-Team "Quarterback Sneak" (1986) |
| Dallas "Enigma" (1986) |
| 227 "There Goes the Building" (1987) |
| ALF "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" (1988) |
| Cheers "Ma's Little Maggie" (1991) |
| The Cosby Show "Warning: A Double-Lit Candle Can Cause a Meltdown" (1991) |
| L.A. Law "TV or Not TV" (1991) |
| Murphy Brown "Burger, She Wrote" (1994) |
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