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January 16th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Ethel Merman | 1908 in Astoria, Queens, New York City, NY | |
 | Debbie Allen | 1950 in Houston, TX | - Fame |
Deaths
 | Ted Cassidy | 1979 in Los Angeles, CA | - The Addams Family, |
| Russell Johnson | 2014 in Bainbridge Island, WA | - Gilligan's Island |
| Bradford Dillman | 2018 in Santa Barbara, CA | |
TV Show Debuts
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981)
TV Shows Ended
The Outer Limits (1963) (1965)
Bonanza (1973)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Stop Worrying" | 1953 |
| I Love Lucy | "Bon Voyage" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Puppy" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Secret of Adam Cain" | 1959 |
| Gunsmoke | "Till Death Do Us" | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Those Gossipin' Men" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jed's Dilemma" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Will You Two Be My Wife?" | 1963 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Plant You Now, Dig You Later" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "The Slave Traders (The Romans, Part One)" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Deputy Festus" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Phantom Strikes" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Boy into Man" | 1967 |
| Gilligan's Island | "The Hunter" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "My Master, the Spy" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "A Visit to Barney Fife" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie? (1)" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Serena Strikes Again (2)" | 1969 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "House of Wax (2)" | 1970 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Fat Hermann, Go Home" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Just a Lunch" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 26 -- LEMRAS (Law Enforcement Manpower Resources Allocation System)" | 1971 |
| Doctor Who | "Terror of the Autons, Part Three" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "Duel in the Desert" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Marker to a Dead Bookie" | 1974 |
| The Rockford Files | "The No-Cut Contract" | 1976 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Death Probe (2)" | 1977 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Who's Papa?" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "The Older Woman" | 1979 |
| Taxi | "Sugar Mama" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "Smokin' Ain't Cool" | 1979 |
| Charlie's Angels | "One of Our Angels is Missing" | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "The Legacy" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "End of the Road (1)" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "I Love Paris" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Suspicion" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "The Night Off" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Vanessa's Bad Grade" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "Where's Poppa?" | 1986 |
| 227 | "Shall We Dance?" | 1988 |
| Murphy Brown | "Kyle" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Fight Back" | 1989 |
| Cheers | "My Son, the Father" | 1992 |
| The Cosby Show | "Bring Me the Lip Gloss of Deirdre Arpelle" | 1992 |
| L.A. Law | "Back to the Suture" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Portrait of Death" | 1994 |
| Murphy Brown | "Requiem For a Crew Guy" | 1995 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Post Nasal Dick" | 1996 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "There's No Business Like Dick Business" | 2001 |
