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October 28th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Elsa Lanchester | 1902 in Lewisham, London, England, UK | |
| Douglas Seale | 1913 in London, England, UK | |
| Jack Soo | 1917 in Oakland, CA | - Barney Miller |
| Dennis Franz | 1944 in Maywood, IL | - Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue |
| Telma Hopkins | 1948 in Louisville, KY | - Family Matters |
| Annie Potts | 1952 in Nashville, TN | - Designing Women, Ghostbusters |
Deaths
| James MacArthur | 2010 in Jacksonville, FL | - Hawaii Five-O |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Campers" | 1955 |
| The Rifleman | "The Brother-in-Law" | 1958 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko Joins the Navy" | 1958 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Who Needs Girls" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "A Thing About Machines" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Laurel Canyon Caper" | 1960 |
| Gunsmoke | "All That" | 1961 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee" | 1963 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jed the Heartbreaker" | 1964 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Pennies" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Romances, Roses, and Rye Bread" | 1964 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Quick Before It Sinks" | 1965 |
| Bewitched | "Trick or Treat" | 1965 |
| The Munsters | "Operation Herman" | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Hogan Springs" | 1966 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The All-American" | 1966 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Supersonic Boom" | 1967 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Nights in Shining Armor" | 1967 |
| The Avengers | "You Have Just Been Murdered" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Abominable Snowmen, Part Five" | 1967 |
| The Big Valley | "Deathtown" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "O'Quillian" | 1968 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Blood of a Jeannie" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Just Around the Corner" | 1972 |
| All In The Family | "The Bunkers and the Swingers" | 1972 |
| Happy Days | "Howard's 45th Fiasco" | 1975 |
| Dallas | "Runaway" | 1978 |
| Mork & Mindy | "A Morkyville Horror" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "Upstairs Downstairs Downstairs" | 1980 |
| Cheers | "Coach's Daughter" | 1982 |
| Taxi | "Scenskees from a Marriage (2)" | 1982 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Boss Behind Bars" | 1983 |
| Dallas | "The Quality of Mercy" | 1983 |
| Punky Brewster | "Parents Night" | 1984 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Hooray for Homicide" | 1984 |
| Moonlighting | "Yours, Very Deadly" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Carousel" | 1988 |
| 227 | "How the West Was Fun (1)" | 1989 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Hannigan's Wake" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Smiths Go to Washington" | 1991 |
| L.A. Law | "Foreign Co-Respondent" | 1993 |
| Murphy Brown | "That's the Way the Corky Crumbles" | 1996 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "What's Love Got to Do, Got to Do with Dick?" | 1998 |
