March 18th

March 18th in TV History


Births

Art Gilmore (1912, 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)