October 16th

October 16th in TV History


Births

Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928, Minneapolis, MN) - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Suzanne Somers (1946, San Bruno, CA) - Three's Company

Deaths

Audra Lindley (1997 in Los Angeles, CA) - Mrs. Roper on Three's Company

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David's Pipe" (1953)
The Phil Silvers Show "The Face on the Recruiting Poster" (1956)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Treasurer's Report" (1957)
The Twilight Zone "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" (1959)
77 Sunset Strip "Six Superior Skirts" (1959)
The Andy Griffith Show "Andy and the Woman Speeder" (1961)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Elly Starts to School" (1963)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Getting Wally in Shape" (1963)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice" (1963)
The Addams Family (1964) "The Addams Family Tree" (1964)
12 O'Clock High "The Sound of Distant Thunder" (1964)
Get Smart (1965) "Now You See Him... Now You Don't" (1965)
I Dream of Jeannie "G.I. Jeannie" (1965)
The Avengers "The Cybernauts" (1965)
Gunsmoke "Taps for Old Jeb" (1965)
Doctor Who "Temple of Secrets (The Myth Makers, Part One)" (1965)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Terrible Toys" (1966)
The Big Valley "Ladykiller" (1967)
I Spy (US) "The Honorable Assassins" (1967)
The Andy Griffith Show "Howard's Main Event" (1967)
Gunsmoke "A Hat" (1967)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Coming Through the Rye" (1968)
The Avengers "You'll Catch Your Death" (1968)
Bewitched "...And Something Makes Four" (1969)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend" (1971)
All in the Family "Flashback: Mike Meets Archie" (1971)
Gunsmoke "Sarah" (1972)
Cannon "The Deadly Trail" (1974)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "What's Wrong with Swimming?" (1976)
Kojak (1973) "Laid Off" (1977)
The Six Million Dollar Man "Killer Wind" (1977)
All In The Family "Edith's 50th Birthday (1)" (1977)
All In The Family "Edith's 50th Birthday (2)" (1977)
Lou Grant "Hooker" (1978)
Taxi "Wherefore Art Thou, Bobby?" (1979)
The Dukes of Hazzard "Double Dukes" (1981)
Dallas "Gone, But Not Forgotten" (1981)
The A-Team "Timber!" (1984)
Cheers "Abnormal Psychology" (1986)
Night Court "Author, Author" (1986)
The Cosby Show "Man Talk" (1986)
Family Ties "My Back Pages" (1986)
Dallas "The Lady Vanishes" (1987)
Murphy Brown "TV or Not TV" (1989)
ALF "Mind Games" (1989)
Night Court "Pop Goes the Question" (1991)
Gilligan's Island "Marooned" (1992)
Murder, She Wrote "Death in Hawaii" (1994)
Murphy Brown "Sex or Death" (1995)