September 18th in TV History
Births
Harry Townes (1914, Huntsville, AL)Fred Williard (1933, Shaker Heights, OH) - Fernwood 2 Night, sketch comedy, Christopher Guest mockumentaries
TV Show Debuts
The Patty Duke Show (1963)12 O'Clock High (1964)
The Addams Family (1964)
Get Smart (1965)
I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
WKRP in Cincinnati (1978)
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979)
Hardcastle & McCormick (1983)
The Equalizer (1985)
The Royal Family (1991)
Picket Fences (1992)
TV Shows Ended
Peter Gunn (1961)Three's Company (1984)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The New Chairs" (1953) |
| The Phil Silvers Show "Platoon in the Movies" (1956) |
| The Rifleman "The Pitchman" (1960) |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Torn Dress" (1963) |
| The Addams Family (1964) "The Addams Family Goes to School" (1964) |
| 12 O'Clock High "Golden Boy Had Nine Black Sheep" (1964) |
| Get Smart (1965) "Mr. Big" (1965) |
| I Dream of Jeannie "The Lady in the Bottle" (1965) |
| Gunsmoke "Seven Hours to Dawn" (1965) |
| Doctor Who "Trap of Steel (Galaxy 4, Part Two)" (1965) |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Monster from the Inferno" (1966) |
| The Big Valley "Ambush" (1967) |
| I Spy (US) "The Beautiful Children" (1967) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "Howard the Bowler" (1967) |
| Gunsmoke "Cattle Barons" (1967) |
| Bewitched "Samantha and the Beanstalk" (1969) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "The Birds ... and ... um ... Bees" (1971) |
| All in the Family "The Saga of Cousin Oscar" (1971) |
| Gunsmoke "The River (2)" (1972) |
| Cannon "The Hit Man" (1974) |
| The Six Million Dollar Man "Sharks (2)" (1977) |
| Three's Company "Love Thy Neighbor" (1979) |
| Taxi "Honor Thy Father" (1979) |
| Happy Days "Chachi Sells His Soul" (1979) |
| Angie "The First Separation" (1979) |
| Three's Company "Friends and Lovers (1)" (1984) |
| Three's Company "Friends and Lovers (2)" (1984) |
| The A-Team "Bullets and Bikinis" (1984) |
| Murphy Brown "The Brothers Silverberg" (1989) |
| ALF "Baby, Come Back" (1989) |
| Night Court "A Guy Named Phantom (1)" (1991) |
| Murphy Brown "Altered States" (1995) |
