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February 12th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Lorne Greene | 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | - Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica |
| Forrest Tucker | 1919 in Plainfield, IN | - F Troop |
| Michael Ironside | 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |
Deaths
| Sal Mineo | 1976 in West Hollywood, CA | |
 | Nicholas Colasanto | 1985 in Studio City, LA | - Cheers |
| Betty Garrett | 2011 in Los Angeles, CA | - All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley |
| Sid Caesar | 2014 in Beverly Hills, CA | - Your Show of Shows |
TV Shows Ended
Sledge Hammer (1988)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "David's Career" | 1954 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Television Idea" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "David and the Men's Club" | 1958 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Purple Testament" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Condor's Lair" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "The Man from Salinas" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "A Medal for Opie" | 1962 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Lafe Returns" | 1964 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Dean's Birthday" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Brave and the Backache" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "The Addams Family in Court" | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Clash" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Dear Diary" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper" | 1966 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie a Go Go" | 1966 |
| The Avengers | "The Danger Makers" | 1966 |
| Gunsmoke | "My Father's Guitar" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "The Sea Beggar (The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, Part Two)" | 1966 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Shadowman" | 1967 |
| The Big Valley | "The Emperor of Rice" | 1968 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Aunt Bee's Big Moment" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Jackals" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Phantom Fifth Floor" | 1969 |
| The Avengers | "Wish You Were Here" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "What Makes Darrin Run?" | 1970 |
| Bewitched | "Tabitha's First Day at School" | 1972 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda" | 1972 |
| All in the Family | "Edith Gets a Mink" | 1972 |
| Doctor Who | "The Curse of Peladon, Part Three" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "Kimbro" | 1973 |
| Happy Days | "Hardware Jungle" | 1974 |
| Adam-12 | "Routine Patrol" | 1974 |
| Cannon | "The Set Up" | 1975 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary and the Sexagenarian" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Mike, the Pacifist" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Two's a Crowd" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Samaritan" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "Jack's Bad Boy" | 1980 |
| Happy Days | "Allison" | 1980 |
| Mork & Mindy | "There's a New Mork in Town" | 1981 |
| Taxi | "Thy Boss's Wife" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Dear Diary" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "Anniversary" | 1982 |
| The A-Team | "Moving Targets" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "One Last Fling" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "Rabid" | 1987 |
| The Cosby Show | "Calling Doctor Huxtable" | 1987 |
| Family Ties | "A Tale of Two Cities (2)" | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | "Becker on the Rox" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "The Best Laid Plans" | 1988 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Smooth Operators" | 1989 |
| Family Ties | "The Wrecker's Ball" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting" | 1990 |
| ALF | "When I'm Sixty-Four" | 1990 |
| Night Court | "Party Girl (1)" | 1992 |
| Night Court | "Party Girl (2)" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Twice Dead" | 1995 |
| Murphy Brown | "Up in Smoke" | 1996 |
