January 2nd in TV History
Births
Jason Evers (1922, New York City, NY)Wendy Phillips (1952, Brooklyn, NY) - Falcon Crest
Cynthia Sikes (1954, Coffeyville, KS)
Gabrielle Carteris (1961, Scottsdale, AZ) - Beverly Hills, 90210
Tia Carrere (1967, Honolulu, HI)
Deaths
Dick Powell (1963 in West Los Angeles, CA)Alan Hale, Jr. (1990 in Los Angeles, CA) - Gilligan's Island
Shepard Menken (1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA)
Anne Francis (2011 in Santa Barbara, CA) - Honey West
Ned Wertimer (2013 in Valley Village, Los Angeles, CA) - Ralph, the doorman on The Jeffersons
Frank Buxton (2018 in Bainbridge Island, WA) - writer for The Odd Couple, Happy Days, and Mork & Mindy
Bob Einstein (2019 in Indian Wells, CA) - Super Dave Osborne
TV Show Debuts
The Bob Cummings Show (1955) (1955)TV Shows Ended
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (1971)TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Newspaper Write-Up" (1953) |
| I Love Lucy "Staten Island Ferry" (1956) |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Ozzie's Double" (1957) |
| 77 Sunset Strip "Hit and Run" (1959) |
| Gunsmoke "Groat's Grudge" (1960) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "Mayberry Goes Hollywood" (1961) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "Jed Rescues Pearl" (1963) |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Cat Burglar" (1963) |
| Gilligan's Island "Water, Water Everywhere" (1965) |
| Doctor Who "The Powerful Enemy (The Rescue, Part One)" (1965) |
| Gunsmoke "Double Entry" (1965) |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Killers of the Deep" (1966) |
| The Big Valley "Wagonload of Dreams" (1967) |
| Gilligan's Island "Take a Dare" (1967) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "Don't Miss a Good Bet" (1967) |
| I Dream of Jeannie "The Battle of Waikiki" (1968) |
| Bewitched "Samantha's Super Maid" (1969) |
| Get Smart (1965) "Moonlighting Becomes You" (1970) |
| Hogan's Heroes "How's the Weather?" (1970) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Howard's Girl" (1971) |
| Adam-12 "Log 175 -- Con Artists" (1971) |
| Doctor Who "Terror of the Autons, Part One" (1971) |
| Cannon "Photo Finish" (1974) |
| Kojak (1973) "Cop in a Cage" (1974) |
| The Six Million Dollar Man "The Ultimate Imposter" (1977) |
| Charlie's Angels "Of Ghosts and Angels" (1980) |
| The Dukes of Hazzard "Good Neighbors Duke" (1981) |
| Dallas "The Prodigal Mother" (1981) |
| The Fall Guy "Semi-Catastrophe" (1985) |
| The Cosby Show "Mrs. Westlake" (1986) |
| Family Ties "Nothing But a Man" (1986) |
| Dallas "So Shall Ye Reap" (1987) |
| 227 "The Talk Show" (1988) |
| Murphy Brown "And So He Goes" (1989) |
| Cheers "Don't Shoot... I'm Only the Psychiatrist" (1992) |
| The Cosby Show "Theo's Future" (1992) |
| Murder, She Wrote "Northern Explosion" (1994) |
| Murphy Brown "The Best and Not-So-Brightest" (1995) |
