September 26th in TV History
Birthdays
| Donna Douglas | 1932 in Pride, LA | - The Beverly Hillbillies | |
| Kent McChord | 1942 in Los Angeles, CA | - Adam-12 |
TV Show Debuts
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)Gilligan's Island (1964)
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Knight Rider (1982)
Matt Houston (1982)
J. J. Starbuck (1987)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
TV Episode Debuts
| Gunsmoke | "Horse Deal" | 1959 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts Strike Oil" | 1962 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Never Name a Duck" | 1962 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Two on a Raft" | 1964 |
| Gunsmoke | "Blue Heaven" | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Time Bomb" | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | "Legend of a General (2)" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Pass the Vegetables, Please" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "My Master, the Rich Tycoon" | 1966 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Barbershop Quartet" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Second Greatest Con Artist in the World" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Wedding Present" | 1968 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Pheasant Under Glass" | 1969 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Hogan Goes Hollywood" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Today I Am a Ma'am" | 1970 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 35 -- Easy Bare Rider" | 1970 |
| Cannon | "Hounds of Hell" | 1973 |
| Adam-12 | "Foothill Division" | 1973 |
| The Rockford Files | "Gearjammers (1)" | 1975 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Birthday Party" | 1976 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Nightmare in the Sky" | 1976 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Robbery" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "The Love Diary" | 1978 |
| Taxi | "Blind Date" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie's Blindness" | 1978 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Avenging Angel" | 1979 |
| The Fall Guy | "Stranger Than Fiction" | 1984 |
| The Fall Guy | "Dead Ringer" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" | 1985 |
| Night Court | "Hello, Goodbye" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "First Day of School" | 1985 |
| Family Ties | "The Real Thing (1)" | 1985 |
| The A-Team | "Dishpan Man" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Return to Camelot (1)" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Return to Camelot (2)" | 1986 |
| 227 | "Men's Club" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "Get Your Kicks on Route 666" | 1991 |
| The Cosby Show | "There's No Place Like This Home" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "For Whom the Ball Tolls" | 1993 |
| Murphy Brown | "Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?" | 1994 |