January 28th

January 28th in TV History


Births

Alan Alda (1936, 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)