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October 27th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Nanette Fabray | 1920 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada | |
| Ned Wertimer | 1923 in Buffalo, NY | - Ralph, the doorman on The Jeffersons |
| John Cleese | 1938 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK | - Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| Ted Wass | 1952 in Lakewood, OH | |
| Robert Picardo | 1953 in Philadelphia, PA | - Star Trek: Voyager |
Deaths
| Morey Amsterdam | 1996 in Los Angeles, CA | - The Dick Van Dyke Show |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Vacation from Marriage" | 1952 |
| Gunsmoke | "Indian White" | 1956 |
| The Rifleman | "Tension" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Grave" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Unremembered" | 1961 |
| The Avengers | "Mission to Montreal" | 1962 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Ditch" | 1962 |
| The Fugitive | "Tug of War" | 1964 |
| Lost in Space | "My Friend, Mr. Nobody" | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | "Winner Lose All" | 1965 |
| I Spy (US) | "Danny Was a Million Laughs" | 1965 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts Play the Rams" | 1965 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Secret Passage" | 1965 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Great Petrie Fortune" | 1965 |
| Batman | "The Dead Ringers (2)" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "Twitch or Treat" | 1966 |
| Star Trek | "Miri" | 1966 |
| Star Trek | "Catspaw" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "A Man Called Smith" | 1969 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Doctor, Cure My Frog" | 1970 |
| Columbo | "Dead Weight" | 1971 |
| Bewitched | "The Ghost Who Made a Spectre of Himself" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "A Question of Fear" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "The Devil Is Not Mocked" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "The Ferret" | 1971 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Son of "But Seriously Folks"" | 1973 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Son of "But Seriously Folks"" | 1973 |
| All In The Family | "Archie and the Computer" | 1973 |
| Columbo | "By Dawn's Early Light" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler" | 1974 |
| All In The Family | "Mike Faces Life" | 1975 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Target: Angels" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Kill Oscar (1)" | 1976 |
| All In The Family | "Archie's Operation (2)" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "Kill the Messenger" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Pack" | 1980 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "It Only Hurts When I Breathe" | 1981 |
| Three's Company | "Professor Jack" | 1981 |
| Happy Days | "Another Night at Antoine's" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "Bail and Bond" | 1982 |
| Family Ties | "Summer of '82" | 1982 |
| Cheers | "Homicidal Ham" | 1983 |
| Airwolf | "Sins of the Past" | 1984 |
| Punky Brewster | "Just Say No" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Sing a Song of Murder" | 1985 |
| Amazing Stories | "Mummy, Daddy" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "How to Recede in Business" | 1988 |
| The Cosby Show | "Move It (a.k.a. The Baby Game)" | 1988 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick the Vote" | 1996 |
