October 2nd

October 2nd in TV History

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Births

Avery Brooks (1948, Evansville, IN)

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Deaths

Harriet Nelson (1994 in Laguna Beach, CA) - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

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TV Show Debuts

The Twilight Zone (1959)
Combat! (1962)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Boys' Paper Route" (1953)

The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko Goes to College" (1956)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Fixing Up the Fraternity House" (1957)

The Twilight Zone "Where is Everybody?" (1959)

77 Sunset Strip "Only Zeroes Count" (1959)

The Rifleman "The Vaqueros" (1961)

The Andy Griffith Show "Opie and the Bully" (1961)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Hair-Raising Holiday" (1963)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Ozzie, Joe, and the Fashion Models" (1963)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Masterpiece" (1963)

The Addams Family (1964) "Fester's Punctured Romance" (1964)

12 O'Clock High "The Men and the Boys" (1964)

Get Smart (1965) "School Days" (1965)

I Dream of Jeannie "Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon?" (1965)

The Avengers "The Town of No Return" (1965)

Gunsmoke "Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood" (1965)

Doctor Who "The Exploding Planet (Galaxy 4, Part Four)" (1965)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Day the World Ended" (1966)

The Big Valley "The Time after Midnight" (1967)

I Spy (US) "The Medarra Block" (1967)

The Andy Griffith Show "Andy's Trip to Raleigh" (1967)

Gunsmoke "Vengeance (1)" (1967)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Something for the Queen" (1968)

The Avengers "Game" (1968)

Bewitched "Samantha's Caesar Salad" (1969)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "He's No Heavy ... He's My Brother" (1971)

All in the Family "Archie and the Lock-Up" (1971)

Gunsmoke "The Judgement" (1972)

Cannon "Lady in Red" (1974)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Mary the Writer" (1976)

Kojak (1973) "The Queen of Hearts is Wild" (1977)

The Six Million Dollar Man "Deadly Countdown (2)" (1977)

All In The Family "Archie Gets the Business (1)" (1977)

All In The Family "Archie Gets the Business (2)" (1977)

Lou Grant "Prisoner" (1978)

Three's Company "Snow Job" (1979)

Taxi "Nardo Loses Her Marbles" (1979)

Happy Days "Marion Goes to Jail" (1979)

Angie "Marie's Crush" (1979)

Angie "Angie and Joyce Go to Jail" (1980)

The A-Team "Fire" (1984)

Cheers "The Cape Cad" (1986)

Night Court "The Next Voice You Hear..." (1986)

The Cosby Show "Food for Thought" (1986)

Family Ties "Starting Over" (1986)

Dallas "The Son Also Rises" (1987)

Murphy Brown "The Memo that Got Away" (1989)

ALF "Wanted: Dead or Alive" (1989)

Night Court "My Life As a Dog Lawyer" (1991)

Murder, She Wrote "Amsterdam Kill" (1994)

Murphy Brown "Fearless Frank" (1995)