TV Yesteryear is reader-supported. When you purchase through links on our site, we earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Learn more.
March 16th in TV History
TV Episode Debuts
| Gunsmoke | "Bureaucrat" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Magic Dishes" | 1960 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Little Girl Lost" | 1962 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Baker Street Caper" | 1962 |
| The Avengers | "Six Hands Across a Table" | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | "Two of a Kind" | 1963 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy Saves Gomer" | 1964 |
| The Fugitive | "May God Have Mercy" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "His Majesty Smith" | 1966 |
| Batman | "The Purr-Fect Crime (1)" | 1966 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Flatt and Scruggs Return" | 1966 |
| Batman | "Caught in the Spider's Den (2)" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "The Crone of Cawdor" | 1967 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Run, Robot, Run" | 1968 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Ultimate Weapon" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "Fury from the Deep, Part One" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "Hackett" | 1970 |
| All in the Family | "Archie Is Worried About His Job" | 1971 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty" | 1971 |
| All In The Family | "Mike's Graduation" | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Bionic Woman (1)" | 1975 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Once Upon a Rumor" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "The Dijon Caper" | 1977 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Luke's Love Story" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "The Outsiders" | 1979 |
| Lou Grant | "Campesinos" | 1981 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Lightning Man" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Paradise Lost" | 1982 |
| Happy Days | "Tell-Tale Tart" | 1982 |
| The Fall Guy | "P.S. I Love You" | 1983 |
| Family Ties | "Suzanne Takes You Down" | 1983 |
| Doctor Who | "The King's Demons, Part Two" | 1983 |
| Dallas | "The Unexpected" | 1984 |
| Airwolf | "Dambreakers" | 1985 |
| ALF | "Going Out of My Head Over You" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "Hot Rocks" | 1989 |
| The Cosby Show | "Theo's Women" | 1989 |
| Dallas | "Will Power" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "Rage Before Beauty" | 1992 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "I Brake for Dick" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Y2dicK" | 1999 |
