September 23rd

September 23rd in TV History

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Births

Paul Petersen (1945, Glendale, CA) - The Donna Reed Show
Maren Jensen (1956, Arcadia, CA) - Battlestar Galactica
Jason Alexander (1959, Newark, NJ) - George Costanza on Seinfeld

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TV Show Debuts

Mayberry R.F.D. (1968)
Dan August (1970)
Sledge Hammer (1986)
The Slap Maxwell Story (1987)
Mad About You (1992)

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TV Shows Ended

Sea Hunt (1961)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David's Engagement" (1955)

The Phil Silvers Show "Gold Fever" (1958)

77 Sunset Strip "The Fanatics" (1960)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul" (1964)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Rick's Old Printing Press" (1964)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "My Mother Can Beat Up My Father" (1964)

Gilligan's Island "Beauty is as Beauty Does" (1965)

Bewitched "A Very Special Delivery" (1965)

The Munsters "Herman, the Master Spy" (1965)

Hogan's Heroes "The Schultz Brigade" (1966)

12 O'Clock High "Face of a Shadow" (1966)

Get Smart (1965) "Witness for the Persecution" (1967)

Hogan's Heroes "D-Day at Stalag 13" (1967)

Doctor Who "The Tomb of the Cybermen, Part Four" (1967)

The Big Valley "In Silent Battle" (1968)

I Dream of Jeannie "Jeannie and the Wild Pipchicks" (1968)

Gunsmoke "Lyle's Kid" (1968)

I Dream of Jeannie "Djinn, Djinn, the Pied Piper" (1969)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "What is Mary Richards Really Like?" (1972)

All In The Family "Archie's Fraud" (1972)

Columbo "Lovely but Lethal" (1973)

Gunsmoke "The Guns of Cibola Blanca (1)" (1974)

Happy Days "Fearless Fonzarelli (1)" (1975)

The Rockford Files "Trouble in Chapter 17" (1977)

Dallas "Reunion (1)" (1978)

Mork & Mindy "Stark Raving Mork" (1979)

The Dukes of Hazzard "Lulu's Gone Away" (1983)

Punky Brewster "Punky Finds a Home (2)" (1984)

Moonlighting "The Son Also Rises" (1986)

227 "Take My Diva . . . Please!" (1989)

Murder, She Wrote "Deadly Misunderstanding" (1990)

Murphy Brown "I'm As Much of a Man as I Ever Was" (1991)

Murphy Brown "Power Play" (1996)

3rd Rock From the Sun "Dr. Solomon's Traveling Alien Show: Part 2" (1998)