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October 12th in TV History
Deaths
 | Conchata Ferrell | 2020 in Sherman Oaks, CA | - Two and a Half Men |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The Girls Go Into Business" | 1953 |
| Gunsmoke | "Potato Road" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie, the Boatkeeper" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Newlyweds Get Settled" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Reluctant Spy" | 1962 |
| The Avengers | "Man with Two Shadows" | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | "Legends Don't Sleep" | 1963 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Price of Doom" | 1964 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Education of Ernest T. Bass" | 1964 |
| The Fugitive | "Conspiracy of Silence" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "Space Circus" | 1966 |
| Batman | "The Clock King's Crazy Crimes (1)" | 1966 |
| I Spy (US) | "A Gift from Alexander" | 1966 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Badgers Return" | 1966 |
| Batman | "A Horse of Another Color (2)" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "No Zip in My Zap" | 1967 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "The Secret of Sam Vittorio" | 1968 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "How to Catch a Papa Bear" | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 131: Reed, The Dicks Have Their Job And We Have Ours" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "The Mind Robber, Part Five" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "Gentry's Law" | 1970 |
| Cannon | "Scream of Silence" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Training Wheels" | 1972 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Outsider" | 1974 |
| All In The Family | "Lionel the Live-In" | 1974 |
| Columbo | "A Case of Immunity" | 1975 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Silent Snow, Deadly Snow" | 1975 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Wolf Boy" | 1975 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork's Seduction" | 1978 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "The Meeting" | 1979 |
| The Rockford Files | "Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1)" | 1979 |
| The Rockford Files | "Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2)" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "Secrets" | 1979 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Window on Main Street" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Jack Goes to the Dentist" | 1982 |
| Happy Days | "Letting Go" | 1982 |
| Family Ties | "The Homecoming" | 1983 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Robot P. Coltrane" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "If at First You Don't Succeed" | 1984 |
| Airwolf | "And a Child Shall Lead" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Unfinished Business" | 1986 |
| ALF | "Wedding Bell Blues" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "A Bar is Born" | 1989 |
| The Cosby Show | "Denise Kendall: Navy Wife" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "When Harry Met Margaret" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "I Never Sang for My Husband" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Big Easy Murder" | 1995 |
