September 17th in TV History
Birthdays
| Paul Benedict | 1938 in Silver City, NM | - The Jeffersons |
TV Show Debuts
The Fugitive (1963)Bewitched (1964)
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Honey West (1965)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Room 222 (1969)
McMillan & Wife (1971)
M*A*S*H (1972)
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Major Dad (1989)
TV Episode Debuts
| Gunsmoke | "Hot Spell" | 1955 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Merry Widow" | 1957 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Blacksmith" | 1960 |
| The Fugitive | "Fear in a Desert City" | 1963 |
| Bewitched | "I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "My Fair Cousin Itt" | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Informer" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Anatomy of a Lover" | 1966 |
| Gunsmoke | "Snap Decision" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "The Smugglers, Part Two" | 1966 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Fires of Death" | 1967 |
| Columbo | "Étude in Black" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "Women for Sale (2)" | 1973 |
| Happy Days | "Richie's Car" | 1974 |
| Cannon | "The Deadly Conspiracy" | 1975 |
| The Bionic Woman | "The Bionic Dog (2)" | 1977 |
| Battlestar Galactica | "Saga of a Star World" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Cop" | 1979 |
| 240-Robert | "Models" | 1979 |
| Night Court | "Her Honor (3)" | 1987 |
| Murphy Brown | "The 390th Broadcast" | 1990 |