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February 16th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Hugh Beaumont | 1909 in Lawrence, KS | - Leave It To Beaver |
| Sonny Bono | 1935 in Detroit, MI | |
| Lisa Loring | 1958 in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands | - The Addams Family |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The Club Election" | 1953 |
| Gunsmoke | "Bloody Hands" | 1957 |
| The Rifleman | "The Spoiler" | 1960 |
| The Twilight Zone | "A Piano in the House" | 1962 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Bel Air Hermit" | 1962 |
| The Avengers | "The White Dwarf" | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | "Ash" | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | "Moon Child" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "The Magic Mirror" | 1966 |
| Batman | "A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away (1)" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Barbary Red" | 1966 |
| I Spy (US) | "Bet Me a Dollar" | 1966 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Brewster's Baby" | 1966 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Remember the Alimony" | 1966 |
| Batman | "The Joker's Epitaph (2)" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "I Remember You...Sometimes" | 1967 |
| Star Trek | "Space Seed" | 1967 |
| Star Trek | "Patterns of Force" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "Kiowa" | 1970 |
| All in the Family | "Gloria Has A Belly Full" | 1971 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Lib and Let Lib" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "I'll Never Leave You - Ever" | 1972 |
| Night Gallery | "There Aren't Anymore MacBanes" | 1972 |
| Adam-12 | "Sub-Station" | 1972 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Lou's Second Date" | 1974 |
| All In The Family | "Archie Eats and Runs" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Unwanted Partners" | 1975 |
| All In The Family | "Love by Appointment" | 1976 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Terror on Ward One" | 1977 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Repo Men" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "Sue Ellen's Sister" | 1979 |
| Lou Grant | "Strike" | 1981 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Whatever Happened to the Class of '56?" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "A Friend in Need" | 1982 |
| Happy Days | "Great Expectations" | 1982 |
| The Fall Guy | "Spaced Out" | 1983 |
| Family Ties | "French Lessons" | 1983 |
| Cheers | "Coach Buries a Grudge" | 1984 |
| Family Ties | "Double Date" | 1984 |
| Punky Brewster | "Changes (3)" | 1986 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Murder in the Electric Cathedral" | 1986 |
| Amazing Stories | "Boo!" | 1986 |
| ALF | "Border Song" | 1987 |
| Amazing Stories | "The Family Dog" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "I Kid You Not" | 1989 |
| The Cosby Show | "The Dead End Kids Meet Dr. Lotus" | 1989 |
| L.A. Law | "Izzy Ackerman or Is He Not?" | 1989 |
| Dallas | "The Crucible" | 1990 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick on One Knee" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Paranoid Dick" | 1999 |
