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January 20th in TV History
Birthdays
 | George Burns | 1896 in New York City, NY | - comedy act with wife Gracie Allen |
| DeForest Kelley | 1920 in Toccoa, GA | - Dr. McCoy on Star Trek |
 | Lorenzo Lamas | 1958 in Santa Monica, CA | - Falcon Crest, Renegade |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Volunteer Firemen" | 1956 |
| The Rifleman | "The Retired Gun" | 1959 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "David's Car Payments" | 1960 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Whole Truth" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The College Caper" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "Cody's Code" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Aunt Bee the Crusader" | 1964 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Elly in the Movies" | 1965 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Rick Grows a Beard" | 1965 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Stacey Petrie (1)" | 1965 |
| Batman | "The Penguin's a Jinx (2)" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "The Postman Cometh" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "My Baby the Tycoon" | 1966 |
| The Munsters | "Big Heap Herman" | 1966 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Praise the Führer and Pass the Ammunition" | 1967 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Sticky Wicket Newkirk" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "The Enemy of the World, Part Five" | 1968 |
| The Big Valley | "Joshua Watson" | 1969 |
| Gunsmoke | "Mannon" | 1969 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Solid Gold Jeannie" | 1970 |
| Night Gallery | "The Last Laurel" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" | 1971 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Georgette Story" | 1973 |
| All In The Family | "Oh Say Can You See" | 1973 |
| Doctor Who | "The Three Doctors, Part Four" | 1973 |
| Gunsmoke | "Larkin" | 1975 |
| Happy Days | "Football Frolics" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Paper Palace" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Jack's Other Mother" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "License to Kill (2)" | 1982 |
| Cheers | "Father Knows Last" | 1983 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Dead and Alive" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "Some Do... Some Don't" | 1984 |
| Punky Brewster | "Play It Again, Punky" | 1985 |
| Dallas | "The Sting" | 1989 |
| Columbo | "Columbo Cries Wolf" | 1990 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Suspicion of Murder" | 1991 |
| Murphy Brown | "Lovesick" | 1992 |
| Murphy Brown | "You Don't Know Jackal" | 1997 |
