January 24th in TV History
Births
Ernest Borgnine (1917, Hamden, CT) - McHale's Navy, AirwolfJerry Maren (1920, Roxbury, MA) - Wizard of Oz Munchkin
Benny Hill (1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK) - The Benny Hill Show
Sharon Tate (1943, Dallas, TX)
John Belushi (1949, Chicago, IL) - Saturday Night Live
Deaths
Larry Fine (1975 in Los Angeles, CA) - The Three StoogesJames Farentino (2012 in Los Angeles, CA)
Bruce Kirby (2021 in Los Angeles, CA)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy "Tennessee Bound" (1955) |
| The Phil Silvers Show "The Revolutionary War" (1956) |
| The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko's Cousin" (1958) |
| Gunsmoke "Love of a Good Woman" (1959) |
| The Rifleman "The Actress" (1961) |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show "Who Owes Who What?" (1962) |
| The Twilight Zone "He's Alive" (1963) |
| The Twilight Zone "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" (1964) |
| 77 Sunset Strip "The Target" (1964) |
| 12 O'Clock High "Which Way the Wind Blows" (1966) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "Lost and Found" (1966) |
| The Fugitive "Concrete Evidence" (1967) |
| Lost in Space "The Promised Planet" (1968) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "The Great Snow" (1968) |
| Star Trek "That Which Survives" (1969) |
| Adam-12 "Log 14 -- S.W.A.T." (1970) |
| Doctor Who "Spearhead from Space, Part Four" (1970) |
| Hogan's Heroes "That's No Lady, That's My Spy" (1971) |
| Gunsmoke "One for the Road" (1972) |
| Adam-12 "Citizen's Arrest - 484" (1973) |
| The Rockford Files "Counter Gambit" (1975) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Menage-a-Lou" (1976) |
| Laverne & Shirley "The Slow Child" (1978) |
| Three's Company "Home Movies" (1978) |
| Happy Days "Marion's Misgivings" (1978) |
| Charlie's Angels "Counterfeit Angels" (1979) |
| Mork & Mindy "Mork's Vacation" (1980) |
| Charlie's Angels "Moonshinin' Angels" (1981) |
| Doctor Who "Warriors' Gate, Part Four" (1981) |
| Three's Company "Look What I Found" (1984) |
| Happy Days "Like Mother, Like Daughter" (1984) |
| Cheers "King of the Hill" (1985) |
| Night Court "An Old Flame" (1985) |
| Family Ties "Birth of a Keaton (1)" (1985) |
| The Fall Guy "Trial By Fire" (1986) |
| Dallas "Blame It on Bogota" (1986) |
| 227 "Got a Job" (1987) |
| Murder, She Wrote "Harbinger of Death" (1988) |
| Family Ties "The Blues Brother" (1988) |
| Night Court "Futureman" (1990) |
| Cheers "The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)" (1991) |
| Murphy Brown "The Anchorman" (1994) |
