January 28th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Alan Alda | 1936 in Manhattan, New York City, NY | - M*A*S*H |
Deaths
 | Hal Smith | 1994 in Woodland Hills, CA | - The Andy Griffith Show |
| Lisa Loring | 2023 in Burbank, CA | - The Addams Family |
TV Show Debuts
The New Mike Hammer (1984) (1984)TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Fakes Illness" | 1952 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Individuality" | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | "Reward for Matt" | 1956 |
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Wants to Move to the Country" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie and the Space Age" | 1959 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Grand Hotel" | 1959 |
| The Avengers | "Nightmare" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "Love Thy Neighbor" | 1961 |
| The Rifleman | "The Sixteenth Cousin" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Loaded Goat" | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | "Where the Action Is" | 1964 |
| Bewitched | "A Nice Little Dinner Party" | 1965 |
| The Munsters | "Eddie's Nickname" | 1965 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Ophelia Finds Romance" | 1966 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "It Takes a Thief... Sometimes" | 1966 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "The Mummy" | 1967 |
| The Avengers | "Escape in Time" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "Mail Drop" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Underwater Menace, Part Three" | 1967 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Nightmare" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Shorty Spits the Hook" | 1970 |
| Bewitched | "The Good Fairy Strikes Again" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 66 -- The Vandals" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Town Tamers" | 1974 |
| Happy Days | "The Not Making of the President" | 1975 |
| Adam-12 | "Victim of the Crime" | 1975 |
| Cannon | "Cry Wolf" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Angel of Mercy" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers (2)" | 1977 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Chain of Custody" | 1978 |
| The Bionic Woman | "The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming" | 1978 |
| Battlestar Galactica | "The Man with Nine Lives" | 1979 |
| All In The Family | "Stephanie and the Crime Wave" | 1979 |
| Lou Grant | "Inheritance" | 1980 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Right to Light" | 1980 |
| Taxi | "Tony's Lady" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "A Ewing is a Ewing" | 1983 |
| Airwolf | "Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n" | 1984 |
| The A-Team | "Members Only" | 1986 |
| The Tortellis | "An Affair To Remember" | 1987 |
| Murphy's Law (US) | "Two Wrongs are Only the Beginning" | 1989 |
| 227 | "A Class Act" | 1989 |
| L.A. Law | "Parent Trap" | 1993 |
| Murphy Brown | "Then and Now" | 1998 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Pickles and Ice Cream" | 1998 |