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February 21st in TV History
Birthdays
 | Gary Lockwood | 1937 in Van Nuys, CA | |
 | Tyne Daly | 1946 in Madison, WI | - Cagney & Lacey, Judging Amy |
| Kelsey Grammer | 1955 in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands | - Cheers, Frasier |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Gets in Pictures" | 1955 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Army Memoirs" | 1956 |
| Gunsmoke | "Doc Quits" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "Closer than a Brother" | 1961 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Father of the Week" | 1962 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Miniature" | 1963 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Spur of the Moment" | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Survivor" | 1966 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Gypsies" | 1966 |
| The Fugitive | "The Ivy Maze" | 1967 |
| Lost in Space | "The Flaming Planet" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jethro Proposes" | 1968 |
| Star Trek | "The Way to Eden" | 1969 |
| Doctor Who | "The Silurians, Part Four" | 1970 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Kamikazes are Coming" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "Blind Man's Buff" | 1972 |
| Cannon | "Prisoners" | 1973 |
| Adam-12 | "Suspended" | 1973 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Four Pound Brick" | 1975 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "A Reliable Source" | 1976 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Driving Test" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Days of Beer and Weeds" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "Our Gang" | 1978 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Chorus Line Angels" | 1981 |
| Three's Company | "Jack Takes Off" | 1984 |
| The A-Team | "Harder Than it Looks" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "Behind Every Great Man" | 1985 |
| Night Court | "Married Alive" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "Clair's Case" | 1985 |
| Family Ties | "Bringing Up Baby" | 1985 |
| The Fall Guy | "Beach Blanket Bounty" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Overture" | 1986 |
| 227 | "The Audit" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Murder Through the Looking Glass" | 1988 |
| Family Ties | "Quitting Time" | 1988 |
| Night Court | "The Talk Show" | 1990 |
| Cheers | "Crash of the Titans" | 1991 |
| The Cosby Show | "The Return of the Clairettes" | 1991 |
| L.A. Law | "The Gods Must Be Lawyers" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Petrified Florist" | 1993 |
