January 8th in TV History
Births
William Hartnell (1908, St. Pancras, London, England, UK) – Doctor Who (the first doctor)
Larry Storch (1923, New York City, NY) – F-Troop, The Ghost Busters
Soupy Sales (1926, Franklinton, NC) – The Soupy Sales Show
Bob Eubanks (1938, Flint, MI) – The Newlywed Game
Deaths
Reta Shaw (1982 in Encino, CA) – The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Pat Buttram (1994 in Los Angeles, CA) – Green Acres, The Gene Autry Show
Yvonne De Carlo (2007 in Woodland Hills, CA) – The Munsters
Weddings
Burgess Meredith marries Kaja Sundsten (1951)
Michael Caine marries Shakira Baksh (1973)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Twilight Zone “Third From the Sun” (1960) |
| The Rifleman “The Princess” (1962) |
| The Andy Griffith Show “Keeper of the Flame” (1962) |
| The Addams Family (1964) “The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man” (1965) |
| Doctor Who “Golden Death” (1966) |
| Get Smart (1965) “Double Agent” (1966) |
| Gunsmoke “Death Watch” (1966) |
| I Dream of Jeannie “Get Me to Mecca on Time” (1966) |
| The Avengers “Room Without a View” (1966) |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea “Death from the Past” (1967) |
| The Big Valley “Days of Wrath” (1968) |
| Gunsmoke “Deadman’s Law” (1968) |
| I Spy (US) “Home to Judgement” (1968) |
| The Andy Griffith Show “Emmett’s Brother-In-Law” (1968) |
| The Avengers “The Rotters” (1969) |
| Bewitched “Samantha’s Lost Weekend” (1970) |
| Doctor Who “Day of the Daleks, Episode Two” (1972) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show “Feeb” (1972) |
| Doctor Who “The Face of Evil, Part Two” (1977) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show “The Critic” (1977) |
| The Six Million Dollar Man “Just a Matter of Time” (1978) |
| Lou Grant “Fire” (1979) |
| Happy Days “Ah, Wilderness” (1980) |
| Three’s Company “Larry Loves Janet” (1980) |
| Taxi “Tony and Brian” (1980) |
| Mork & Mindy “Alas, Poor Mork, We Knew Him Well” (1981) |
| The Dukes of Hazzard “The Sound of Music – Hazzard Style” (1982) |
| Cheers “Chambers vs Malone” (1987) |
| Night Court “Murder” (1987) |
| The Cosby Show “Monster Man Huxtable” (1987) |
| Family Ties “O’Brother (1)” (1987) |
| L.A. Law “Prince Kuzak in a Can” (1987) |
| Murder, She Wrote “Something Borrowed, Someone Blue” (1989) |
| Family Ties “Deja Vu” (1989) |
| ALF “Make ’em Laugh” (1990) |
| Murphy Brown “Subpoena Envy” (1990) |
| Night Court “Shave and a Haircut” (1992) |
| Murder, She Wrote “The Scent of Murder” (1995) |
| Murphy Brown “All in the Family” (1996) |