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February 5th in TV History
Birthdays
 | John Carradine | 1906 in New York City, NY | |
| Red Buttons | 1919 in New York City, NY | |
Deaths
| Franklin Cover | 2006 in Englewood, NJ | |
 | Peggy Rea | 2011 in Toluca Lake, CA | |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Too Many Children" | 1954 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko Enters Politics" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Safe" | 1958 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Last Flight" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Who Killed Cock Robin?" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "A Young Man's Fancy" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Jailbreak" | 1962 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Race for Queen" | 1964 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Wife in the Office" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Happy Birthday and Too Many More" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Cousin Itt Visits the Addams Family" | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "To Heinie, with Love" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "All in the Mind" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "My Master, the Doctor" | 1966 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Hong Kong Suit" | 1966 |
| The Avengers | "Quick-Quick Slow Death" | 1966 |
| Gunsmoke | "Killer at Large" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "War of God (The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, Part One)" | 1966 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Mummy" | 1967 |
| The Big Valley | "Fall of a Hero" | 1968 |
| I Spy (US) | "This Guy Smith" | 1968 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Goober Goes to an Auto Show" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Gunrunners" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jed Clampett Enterprises" | 1969 |
| The Avengers | "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "Super Arthur" | 1970 |
| Bewitched | "Serena's Youth Pill" | 1972 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Care and Feeding of Parents" | 1972 |
| All in the Family | "Archie and Edith Alone" | 1972 |
| Doctor Who | "The Curse of Peladon, Part Two" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "Whelan's Men" | 1973 |
| Happy Days | "Guess Who's Coming to Visit" | 1974 |
| Adam-12 | "Krash" | 1974 |
| Cannon | "Missing at FL307" | 1975 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Hail the Conquering Gordy" | 1977 |
| Happy Days | "The Third Anniversary Show" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "The Joys of Sex" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Love Comes to the Butcher" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Sweep" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "And Baby Makes Two" | 1980 |
| Taxi | "Shut It Down (2)" | 1980 |
| Happy Days | "The Hucksters" | 1980 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Twelve Angry Appliances" | 1981 |
| Taxi | "Latka's Cookies" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Nothin' But the Truth" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "My Father, My Son" | 1982 |
| Taxi | "Sugar Ray Nardo" | 1983 |
| The A-Team | "Road Games" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Never Love a Goalie (2)" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "A Day in the Life" | 1987 |
| The Cosby Show | "Denise Gets an Opinion" | 1987 |
| Family Ties | "A Tale of Two Cities (1)" | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | "Beef Jerky" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "Brotherly Love" | 1988 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Search for Peter Kerry" | 1989 |
| Family Ties | "The Job Not Taken" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "Frankly Speaking" | 1990 |
| ALF | "Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" | 1990 |
| Night Court | "Poker? I Hardly Know Her" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Murder in High-C" | 1995 |
| Murphy Brown | "Old Flames" | 1996 |
