October 1st

October 1st in TV History

TV History Events

10/01/1962 : In 1962, Johnny Carson began hosting The Tonight Show.

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Births

James Whitmore, Sr. (1921, White Plains, NY) - The Law and Mr. Jones, My Friend Tony, The New Temperatures Rising Show
Tom Bosley (1927, Chicago, IL) - Happy Days
George Peppard (1928, Detroit, MI) - Banacek, The A-Team
Stella Stevens (1938, Yazoo City, MS) - Ben Casey, Flamingo Road, The Love Boat
Shaaron Claridge (1938, Los Angeles, CA) - Adam-12
Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros (1939, Budapest, Hungary) - ALF
Stephen Collins (1948, Des Moines, IA) - Tales of the Gold Monkey, Tattinger’s, 7th Heaven
Randy Quaid (1950, Houston, TX) - Saturday Night Live

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Deaths

Joe Devlin (1973 in Burbank, CA) - Dick Tracy

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TV Show Debuts

This Is Your Life (1952)
Death Valley Days (1952)
The Honeymooners (1955)
Johnny Ringo (1959)
The Lucy Show (1962)
Centennial (1978) *miniseries
Remington Steele (1982)

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TV Shows Ended

Kraft Television Theatre (1958)

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TV Episode Debuts

Gunsmoke "Word of Honor" (1955)

I Love Lucy "Lucy and Bob Hope" (1956)

The Phil Silvers Show "Hillbilly Whiz" (1957)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David Loses His Poise" (1958)

The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko's Vampire" (1958)

Gunsmoke "Say Uncle" (1960)

The Rifleman "Waste (1)" (1962)

The Andy Griffith Show "Mr. McBeevee" (1962)

The Fugitive "The Other Side of the Mountain" (1963)

Bewitched "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog" (1964)

The Munsters "My Fair Munster" (1964)

The Addams Family (1964) "Morticia's Romance (2)" (1965)

Hogan's Heroes "Kommandant of the Year" (1965)

Get Smart (1965) "A Spy for a Spy" (1966)

Gunsmoke "The Jailer" (1966)

Doctor Who "The Smugglers, Part Four" (1966)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Deadly Dolls" (1967)

The Beverly Hillbillies "The Hills of Home" (1969)

Bewitched "Salem, Here We Come (2)" (1970)

Night Gallery "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" (1972)

Gunsmoke "The Boy and the Sinner" (1973)

Happy Days "You Go to My Head" (1974)

Adam-12 "Camp (2)" (1974)

Cannon "The Iceman" (1975)

The Rockford Files "The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit" (1976)

The Bionic Woman "Fembots in Las Vegas (2)" (1977)

Battlestar Galactica "Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2" (1978)

All In The Family "End in Sight" (1978)

Lou Grant "Slammer" (1979)

240-Robert "Bank Job" (1979)

The Dukes of Hazzard "Dukes Strike it Rich" (1982)

Dallas "Changing of the Guard" (1982)

Moonlighting "The Lady in the Iron Mask" (1985)

The A-Team "Where is the Monster When You Need Him?" (1985)

Cheers "'I' on Sports" (1987)

The Cosby Show "Theogate" (1987)

Murder, She Wrote "Seal of the Confessional" (1989)

Murphy Brown "Loco Hero" (1990)

Cheers "The Beer is Always Greener" (1992)

Murphy Brown "Murphy Redux" (1997)