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January 13th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Robert Stack | 1919 in Los Angeles, CA | - The Untouchables, Unsolved Mysteries |
| Frances Sternhagen | 1930 in Washington, D.C. | |
| Charles Nelson Reilly | 1931 in Bronx, NY | |
| Ian Hendry | 1931 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK | |
| Ingrid Hafner | 1936 in London, England, UK | |
| Richard Moll | 1943 in Pasadena, CA | - Bull on Night Court |
 | Brandon Tartikoff | 1949 in Freeport, NY | - TV executive, Former President of NBC |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | 1961 in New York, NY | - Seinfeld |
Deaths
| Jean Porter | 2018 in Canoga Park, CA | |
TV Shows Ended
12 O'Clock High (1967)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Art Studies" | 1956 |
| The Rifleman | "The Sheridan Story" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Back There" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Man in the Mirror" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "Lacey" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy and Opie's Pal" | 1964 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Movie Starlet" | 1965 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Dave, the Fraternity Advisor" | 1965 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Impractical Joke" | 1965 |
| Batman | "Smack in the Middle (2)" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "You've Been Disconnected" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "And Then There Were Three" | 1966 |
| The Munsters | "Just Another Pretty Face" | 1966 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Hunters and the Killers" | 1966 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Great Brinksmeyer Robbery" | 1967 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "The Groovy Guru" | 1968 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Hogan, Go Home" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "The Enemy of the World, Part Four" | 1968 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Case of My Vanishing Master (2)" | 1969 |
| Gunsmoke | "Time of the Jackals" | 1969 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "One of Our Hotels Is Growing" | 1970 |
| Night Gallery | "Pamela's Voice" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "Lone Survivor" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "The Doll" | 1971 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "My Brother's Keeper" | 1973 |
| Doctor Who | "The Three Doctors, Part Three" | 1973 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Hiders" | 1975 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie the Salesman" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Gang at Don's Drive-In" | 1978 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Road to Burbank" | 1981 |
| Three's Company | "The Not-So-Great Imposter" | 1981 |
| Happy Days | "The Sixth Sense" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "License to Kill (1)" | 1982 |
| Cheers | "Let Me Count the Ways" | 1983 |
| Dallas | "Offshore Crude" | 1984 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Broadway Malady" | 1985 |
| Moonlighting | "Poltergeist III--- Dipesto Nothing" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "Counter Attack" | 1989 |
| 227 | "Play Christy for Me" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon" | 1992 |
| Murphy Brown | "Who Do You Truss?" | 1997 |
