September 18th

September 18th in TV History

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Births

Harry Townes (1914, Huntsville, AL)
Fred Willard (1933, Shaker Heights, OH) - Fernwood 2 Night, sketch comedy, Christopher Guest mockumentaries

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TV Show Debuts

The Patty Duke Show (1963)
12 O'Clock High (1964)
The Addams Family (1964)
Get Smart (1965)
I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979)
Hardcastle & McCormick (1983)
The Equalizer (1985)
The Royal Family (1991)
Picket Fences (1992)

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TV Shows Ended

Peter Gunn (1961)
Three's Company (1984)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The New Chairs" (1953)

The Phil Silvers Show "Platoon in the Movies" (1956)

The Rifleman "The Pitchman" (1960)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Torn Dress" (1963)

The Addams Family (1964) "The Addams Family Goes to School" (1964)

12 O'Clock High "Golden Boy Had Nine Black Sheep" (1964)

Get Smart (1965) "Mr. Big" (1965)

I Dream of Jeannie "The Lady in the Bottle" (1965)

Gunsmoke "Seven Hours to Dawn" (1965)

Doctor Who "Trap of Steel (Galaxy 4, Part Two)" (1965)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Monster from the Inferno" (1966)

The Big Valley "Ambush" (1967)

I Spy (US) "The Beautiful Children" (1967)

The Andy Griffith Show "Howard the Bowler" (1967)

Gunsmoke "Cattle Barons" (1967)

Bewitched "Samantha and the Beanstalk" (1969)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "The Birds ... and ... um ... Bees" (1971)

All in the Family "The Saga of Cousin Oscar" (1971)

Gunsmoke "The River (2)" (1972)

Cannon "The Hit Man" (1974)

The Six Million Dollar Man "Sharks (2)" (1977)

Three's Company "Love Thy Neighbor" (1979)

Taxi "Honor Thy Father" (1979)

Happy Days "Chachi Sells His Soul" (1979)

Angie "The First Separation" (1979)

Three's Company "Friends and Lovers (1)" (1984)

Three's Company "Friends and Lovers (2)" (1984)

The A-Team "Bullets and Bikinis" (1984)

Murphy Brown "The Brothers Silverberg" (1989)

ALF "Baby, Come Back" (1989)

Night Court "A Guy Named Phantom (1)" (1991)

Murphy Brown "Altered States" (1995)