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.Births
Charles Bickford (1891, Cambridge, MA)Dana Andrews (1909, Collins, MS) - The Twilight Zone, Bright Promise
Russ Bender (1910, New York City, NY) - The Twilight Zone
Barbara Baxley (1923, Porterville, CA)
Matthew Beard, Jr. (1925, Los Angeles, CA) - Stymie in Our Gang
Ty Hardin (1930, New York City, NY) - Bronco, Riptide
Frank Langella (1938, Bayonne, NJ)
Don Novello (1943, Lorain, OH) - Saturday Night Live
Stanley Kamel (1943, New Brunswick, NJ)
Rick Hurst (1946, Houston, TX) - The Dukes of Hazzard
Dedee Pfeiffer (1964, Midway City, CA)
Deaths
Barton MacLane (1969 in Santa Monica, CA) - Outlaws, I Dream of JeannieJane 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
Weddings
Leonard Nimoy marries Susan Bay (1989)Valerie Bertinelli marries Tom Vitale (2011)
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) |
