January 20th

January 20th in TV History


Births

George Burns (1896, New York City, NY) - comedy act with wife Gracie Allen
DeForest Kelley (1920, Toccoa, GA) - Dr. McCoy on Star Trek
Lorenzo Lamas (1958, 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)