January 21st

January 21st in TV History


Births

Telly Savalas (1922, Garden City, Long Island, NY) - Kojak

Deaths

Jack Lord (1998 in Honolulu, HI) - Hawaii Five-O
Connie Sawyer (2018 in Woodland Hills, CA)

TV Show Debuts

Your Show Time (1949)
Macgruder & Loud (1985)

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "Lucy Plays Cupid" (1952)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Missing Sandwiches" (1955)
Gunsmoke "No Handcuffs" (1956)
I Love Lucy "Little Ricky Gets a Dog" (1957)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Rick's Dinner Guest" (1959)
The Avengers "Square Root of Evil" (1961)
Gunsmoke "Tall Trapper" (1961)
The Rifleman "The Sidewinder" (1963)
The Andy Griffith Show "High Noon in Mayberry" (1963)
The Fugitive "Come Watch Me Die" (1964)
Bewitched "The Cat's Meow" (1965)
The Munsters "If a Martian Answers, Hang Up" (1965)
The Addams Family (1964) "The Great Treasure Hunt" (1966)
Hogan's Heroes "Hello, Zolle" (1966)
Get Smart (1965) "Cutback at CONTROL" (1967)
The Avengers "The Fear Merchants" (1967)
Gunsmoke "Muley" (1967)
Doctor Who "The Underwater Menace, Part Two" (1967)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Lobster Man" (1968)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Marry Me, Shorty" (1970)
Bewitched "Mary the Good Fairy" (1971)
Adam-12 "Log 155 -- I.A.D." (1971)
Columbo "Requiem for a Falling Star" (1973)
Gunsmoke "Like Old Times" (1974)
Happy Days "The Cunningham Caper" (1975)
Adam-12 "Grand Theft Auto" (1975)
Cannon "Revenge" (1976)
The Bionic Woman "Welcome Home, Jaime (2)" (1976)
The Rockford Files "The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers (1)" (1977)
Kojak (1973) "Mouse" (1978)
The Bionic Woman "The Antidote" (1978)
Battlestar Galactica "War of the Gods: Part 2" (1979)
All In The Family "The Appendectomy" (1979)
Lou Grant "Cover-Up" (1980)
Laverne & Shirley "The Beatnik Show" (1980)
Angie "Beauty Parlor" (1980)
Taxi "The Call of the Mild" (1981)
Mork & Mindy "Metamorphosis- the TV Show" (1982)
Taxi "Nina Loves Alex" (1982)
The Dukes of Hazzard "Ding, Dong, the Boss is Dead" (1983)
Moonlighting "North by North Dipesto" (1986)
The A-Team "The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming" (1986)
Cheers "Tale of Two Cuties" (1988)
Night Court "I'm OK, You're Catatonic/Schizophrenic" (1988)
The Cosby Show "The Visit" (1988)
L.A. Law "Hand Roll Express" (1988)
Murphy's Law (US) "Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing" (1989)
Murder, She Wrote "If the Shoe Fits" (1990)
Murphy Brown "Contractions" (1991)
Cheers "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Bar" (1993)
L.A. Law "Bare Witness" (1993)
Murphy Brown "Wee Small Hours" (1998)
3rd Rock From the Sun "The Great Dickdater" (1998)