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January 1st in TV History
TV History Events
01/01/1944 : The first feature-length foreign movie "African Journey" is aired on TV in NYC.
Birthdays
 | Charles Bickford | 1891 in Cambridge, MA | |
| Dana Andrews | 1909 in Collins, MS | - The Twilight Zone, Bright Promise |
| Russ Bender | 1910 in New York City, NY | - The Twilight Zone |
| Barbara Baxley | 1923 in Porterville, CA | |
| Matthew Beard, Jr. | 1925 in Los Angeles, CA | - Stymie in Our Gang |
 | Ty Hardin | 1930 in New York City, NY | - Bronco, Riptide |
 | Frank Langella | 1938 in Bayonne, NJ | |
 | Don Novello | 1943 in Lorain, OH | - Saturday Night Live |
| Stanley Kamel | 1943 in New Brunswick, NJ | |
 | Rick Hurst | 1946 in Houston, TX | - The Dukes of Hazzard |
| Dedee Pfeiffer | 1964 in Midway City, CA | |
Deaths
| Barton MacLane | 1969 in Santa Monica, CA | - Outlaws, I Dream of Jeannie |
| Jane Morgan | 1972 in North Hollywood, CA | |
 | Victor Buono | 1982 in Apple Valley, CA | - Batman |
 | Marcel Hillaire | 1988 in Los Angeles, CA | - Lost In Space, The Twilight Zone, Adventures in Paradise |
 | Cesar Romero | 1994 in Santa Monica, CA | - Batman |
| Ray Walston | 2001 in Beverly Hills, CA | - My Favorite Martian |
 | Donna Douglas | 2015 in Zachary, LA | - The Beverly Hillbillies |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Hunter" | 1954 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Trophy" | 1958 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko and the Colonel's Secretary" | 1958 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Bopster" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Four of Us are Dying" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Created He Them" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "Skull" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Farmer Takes a Wife" | 1962 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "A Man for Elly" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Third One from the Left" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik" | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Those Who Are About to Die" | 1965 |
| The Avengers | "Silent Dust" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "Volcano (The Daleks' Master Plan, Part Eight)" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "The Good Thieves" | 1968 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Mayberry Chef" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Victim" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Drysdale and Friend" | 1969 |
| The Avengers | "The Interrogators" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Better Halves" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Five-Minute Dress" | 1972 |
| All in the Family | "The Elevator Story" | 1972 |
| Doctor Who | "Day of the Daleks, Part One" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "Arizona Midnight" | 1973 |
| Cannon | "The Conspirators" | 1975 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Walk a Deadly Wing" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Denial" | 1979 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork's New Look" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Dukescam Scam" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "Barbecue Two" | 1982 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Prediction: Murder" | 1989 |
| Family Ties | "Basic Training" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" | 1990 |
