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February 25th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Jim Backus | 1913 in Cleveland, OH | - Gilligan's Island |
 | Jean Bruce Scott | 1956 in Monterey, CA | - St. Elsewhere, Magnum, PI, and Airwolf |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The Young Fans" | 1952 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Girl Who Came to Dinner" | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | "20-20" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Newspaper Interview" | 1959 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Sharpshooter" | 1959 |
| The Avengers | "The Radioactive Man" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "About Chester" | 1961 |
| The Rifleman | "The Bullet" | 1963 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Great Filling Station Robbery" | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | "Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (1)" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Ophelia Visits Morticia" | 1965 |
| Bewitched | "Eye of the Beholder" | 1965 |
| The Munsters | "Follow That Munster" | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The 43rd, a Moving Story" | 1966 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Where-What-How-Who Am I?" | 1967 |
| The Avengers | "The Living Dead" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Lure" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Moonbase, Part Three" | 1967 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Savage Jungle" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Hotel for Women" | 1970 |
| Bewitched | "This Little Piggie" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 164 -- The Poachers" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Schoolmarm" | 1974 |
| Happy Days | "Get a Job" | 1975 |
| Cannon | "Blood Lines" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Claws" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "New Life, Old Dragons" | 1977 |
| Columbo | "Make Me a Perfect Murder" | 1978 |
| Kojak (1973) | "May the Horse Be With You" | 1978 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Which One Is Jaime?" | 1978 |
| Battlestar Galactica | "Greetings from Earth" | 1979 |
| All In The Family | "Edith Gets Fired" | 1979 |
| Angie | "The President's Coming, the President's Coming" | 1980 |
| Taxi | "The Unkindest Cut" | 1982 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Welcome Back Bo 'n' Luke" | 1983 |
| Dallas | "Brothers and Sisters" | 1983 |
| The A-Team | "The Duke of Whispering Pines" | 1986 |
| The Tortellis | "Viva Las Vegas" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "Airport V" | 1988 |
| Night Court | "Heart of Stone" | 1988 |
| The Cosby Show | "Petanque" | 1988 |
| L.A. Law | "The Bald Ones" | 1988 |
| 227 | "Mary's Cookies" | 1989 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Big Show of 1965" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "On Another Plane (1)" | 1991 |
| Murphy Brown | "On Another Plane (2)" | 1991 |
| Cheers | "The Last Picture Show" | 1993 |
| L.A. Law | "Where There's a Will" | 1993 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Track of a Soldier" | 1996 |
| Murphy Brown | "And That's the Way it Was?" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Stuck with Dick" | 1998 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Portrait of Tommy as an Old Man" | 1998 |
