October 18th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Bobby Troup | 1918 in Harrisburg, PA | |
| Dawn Wells | 1938 in Reno, NV | - Gilligan's Island |
TV Show Debuts
Roseanne (1988)TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Cries Wolf" | 1954 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "AWOL" | 1955 |
| The Rifleman | "The Safe Guard" | 1958 |
| Gunsmoke | "Thoroughbreds" | 1958 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Rick and the Sculptress" | 1962 |
| The Twilight Zone | "A Kind of a Stopwatch" | 1963 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "5: Part 5" | 1963 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Hotshot" | 1965 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "A Warning from Warren" | 1965 |
| The Fugitive | "Joshua's Kingdom" | 1966 |
| Lost in Space | "The Haunted Lighthouse" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Army Game" | 1967 |
| Star Trek | "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 83 -- A Different Thing" | 1969 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Lady Chitterly's Lover (2)" | 1970 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Legend" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "The Predators" | 1972 |
| The Rockford Files | "This Case is Closed (2)" | 1974 |
| The Rockford Files | "This Case is Closed (1)" | 1974 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary's Aunt" | 1975 |
| Lou Grant | "Nazi" | 1977 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Winning is For Losers" | 1978 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "The Money Machine" | 1983 |
| The A-Team | "Bad Time On The Border" | 1983 |
| Happy Days | "Where the Guys Are" | 1983 |
| Cheers | "I Call Your Name" | 1984 |
| Night Court | "Billie and the Cat" | 1984 |
| The Cosby Show | "A Shirt Story" | 1984 |
| Family Ties | "Keaton 'N Son" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "Saving Grace" | 1985 |
| Family Ties | "Super Mom" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "The Cop and the Lady" | 1989 |
| Cheers | "Ma Always Liked You Best" | 1990 |
| The Cosby Show | "It's All in the Game" | 1990 |
| L.A. Law | "The Bitch Is Back" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Young & the Rest of Us" | 1993 |