January 16th in TV History
Births
Ethel Merman (1908, Astoria, Queens, New York City, NY)Debbie Allen (1950, 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) |
