February 17th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Richard Karn | 1956 in Seattle, WA | - Home Improvement |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | 1981 in Los Angeles, CA |
TV Show Debuts
McCloud (1970)TV Episode Debuts
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Colonel's Reunion" | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | "The Indian" | 1959 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Uninvited Guests" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Strange Bedfellows" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "Half Straight" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Hot Rod Otis" | 1964 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Granny's Romance" | 1965 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Rick's Raise" | 1965 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Case of the Pillow" | 1965 |
| Batman | "When the Rat's Away the Mice Will Play (2)" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Forward March" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "Double Tate" | 1966 |
| The Munsters | "Zombo" | 1966 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Everyone Has a Brother-in-Law" | 1967 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "99 Loses CONTROL" | 1968 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "What Time Does the Balloon Go Up?" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "The Web of Fear, Part Three" | 1968 |
| The Big Valley | "Lightfoot" | 1969 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Is There a Doctor in the House?" | 1969 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Long Night" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Remembrance of Things Past" | 1973 |
| All In The Family | "Hot Watch" | 1973 |
| Doctor Who | "Carnival of Monsters, Part Four" | 1973 |
| Happy Days | "Bringing Up Spike" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall" | 1978 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Return of the Black Shadow" | 1979 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "To Tell the Truth" | 1981 |
| Three's Company | "Furley Versus Furley" | 1981 |
| Happy Days | "Bride & Gloom" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "Ready, Aim ... Die" | 1982 |
| Cheers | "No Contest" | 1983 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "How to Succeed in Hazzard" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "When the Bough Breaks" | 1984 |
| Punky Brewster | "I Love You, Brandon" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Paint Me A Murder" | 1985 |
| Dallas | "Comings and Goings" | 1989 |
| 227 | "You Gotta Have Art" | 1990 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Taxman Cometh" | 1991 |
| L.A. Law | "Cold Cuts" | 1994 |
| Murphy Brown | "Desperate Times" | 1997 |