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February 27th in TV History
Deaths
 | George Tobias | 1980 in Los Angeles, CA | - Abner Kravitz on Bewitched |
| Dale Robertson | 2013 in San Diego, CA | |
 | Leonard Nimoy | 2015 in Bel Air, CA | - Spock on Star Trek |
TV Shows Ended
E/R (1985)
The Love Boat (1987)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Dental Receptionist" | 1953 |
| I Love Lucy | "Paris at Last" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Disbelievers" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "In Memoriam" | 1959 |
| Gunsmoke | "Jailbait Janet" | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy and the Gentleman Crook" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jed Buys the Freeway" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Give Me Your Walls!" | 1963 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Diamonds are an Ape's Best Friend" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Eliab's Aim" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "Escape to Danger (The Web Planet, Part Three)" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Monster's Web" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "High Man on the Totem Pole" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Greatest Entertainer in the World" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Helen the Authoress" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Divorce, Jeannie Style" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Going Ape" | 1969 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Smartucus" | 1970 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Six Lessons From Madame LaGrange" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Smokey the Bear Wants You" | 1971 |
| Doctor Who | "The Mind of Evil, Part Five" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "Bobby Loved Me" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Before the Devil Knows" | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Privacy of the Mind" | 1977 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Date With Danger (2)" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Spies" | 1978 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Squiggy in Love" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "The Bake-Off" | 1979 |
| Taxi | "Mama Gravas" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie's Funeral (2)" | 1979 |
| Charlie's Angels | "An Angel's Trail" | 1980 |
| Dallas | "The New Mrs. Ewing" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "Split Image" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Save the Last Dance For Me" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "Could This Be Magic?" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Full House" | 1986 |
| Airwolf | "A Piece of Cake" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "Revenge of the Nerd" | 1987 |
| 227 | "Blues" | 1988 |
| Columbo | "Murder, Smoke and Shadows" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "It's How You Play the Game" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Superstition" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "Hey Harry, F'Crying Out Loud-- It is a Wonderful Life ... Sorta" | 1991 |
| Cheers | "Smotherly Love" | 1992 |
| The Cosby Show | "Rudy's Retreat" | 1992 |
| L.A. Law | "Diet, Diet, My Darling" | 1992 |
| Murphy Brown | "McGovern: Unclothed" | 1995 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Body & Soul & Dick" | 1996 |
