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March 18th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Art Gilmore | 1912 in Tacoma, WA | |
Deaths
 | Joe Santos | 2016 in Santa Monica, CA | - The Rockford Files |
TV Show Debuts
The Avengers (1961)
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
TV Shows Ended
Kojak (1978)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ricky's Blind Date" | 1955 |
| I Love Lucy | "Ragtime Band" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Tent" | 1959 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Ape Man" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Long Live Walter Jameson" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Return to San Dede: The Desert Story" | 1960 |
| The Avengers | "Hunt the Man Down" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "Old Faces" | 1961 |
| The Rifleman | "Old Man Running (aka The Wanted Man)" | 1963 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Darlings Are Coming" | 1963 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "A Bride for Jed" | 1964 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Rick, the Law Clerk" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Plots Thicken" | 1964 |
| Bewitched | "Pleasure O'Riley" | 1965 |
| The Munsters | "Far Out Munsters" | 1965 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Lurch's Little Helper" | 1966 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Prince from the Phone Company" | 1966 |
| The Avengers | "Never, Never Say Die" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "Mistaken Identity" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Macra Terror, Part Two" | 1967 |
| The Big Valley | "The Challenge" | 1968 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Opie and Mike" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Honesty is the Best Policy" | 1970 |
| Bewitched | "Money Happy Returns" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 106 -- Post Time" | 1971 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse" | 1972 |
| Doctor Who | "The Sea Devils, Part Four" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "To Ride a Yeller Horse" | 1974 |
| Happy Days | "Richie's Flip Side" | 1975 |
| Adam-12 | "Suicide" | 1975 |
| The Rockford Files | "To Protect and Serve Part II" | 1977 |
| Kojak (1973) | "In Full Command" | 1978 |
| Battlestar Galactica | "Experiment in Terra" | 1979 |
| Battlestar Galactica | "Experiment in Terra" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "Hell Hath No Fury" | 1983 |
| Night Court | "Paternity" | 1987 |
| The Tortellis | "Coochie-Coochie" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "Dead Reckoning" | 1988 |
| Murphy's Law (US) | "Doing It the Hard Way is Always Easier" | 1989 |
| 227 | "The Class of '89" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "Everytime it Rains... You Get Wet" | 1991 |
| Cheers | "Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey" | 1993 |
