April 19th

April 19th in TV History

TV History Events

04/19/1948 : The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) started broadcasting. Their first program was "On the Corner" with Henry Morgan.

Births

Hugh O'Brian (1925, Rochester, NY)

Deaths

Hugh Brannum (1987 in East Stroudsburg, PA)

TV Show Debuts

Wings (1990)

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "The Black Wig" (1954)
Gunsmoke "Hanging Man" (1958)
The Rifleman "Sins of the Father" (1960)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Selling Rick's Drums" (1961)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Little Handprints in the Sidewalk" (1962)
77 Sunset Strip "Walk Among Tigers" (1963)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Traitor" (1965)
The Andy Griffith Show "Opie Flunks Arithmetic" (1965)
The Fugitive "In a Plain Paper Wrapper" (1966)
F Troop "A Fort's Best Friend is Not a Mother" (1966)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Dahlia Feud" (1967)
Doctor Who "The War Games, Part One" (1969)
The Six Million Dollar Man "The Coward" (1974)
Angie "Joyce's Job" (1979)
Angie "February Fever" (1980)
Lou Grant "Fireworks" (1982)
The A-Team "Till Death Do Us Part" (1983)
Dallas "The Ewing Connection" (1985)
Murder, She Wrote "The Days Dwindle Down" (1987)
Cheers "Mr. Otis Regrets" (1990)
The Cosby Show "The Moves" (1990)
Dallas "Some Leave, Some Get Carried Out" (1991)