February 12th

February 12th in TV History


Births

Lorne Greene (1915, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica
Forrest Tucker (1919, Plainfield, IN) - F Troop
Michael Ironside (1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Deaths

Sal Mineo (1976 in West Hollywood, CA)
Nicholas Colasanto (1985 in Studio City, LA) - Cheers
Betty Garrett (2011 in Los Angeles, CA) - All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley
Sid Caesar (2014 in Beverly Hills, CA) - Your Show of Shows

TV Shows Ended

Sledge Hammer (1988)

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David's Career" (1954)
The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko's Television Idea" (1957)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "David and the Men's Club" (1958)
The Twilight Zone "The Purple Testament" (1960)
77 Sunset Strip "Condor's Lair" (1960)
The Rifleman "The Man from Salinas" (1962)
The Andy Griffith Show "A Medal for Opie" (1962)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Lafe Returns" (1964)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Dean's Birthday" (1964)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Brave and the Backache" (1964)
The Addams Family (1964) "The Addams Family in Court" (1965)
12 O'Clock High "The Clash" (1965)
Get Smart (1965) "Dear Diary" (1966)
I Dream of Jeannie "Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper" (1966)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Ozzie a Go Go" (1966)
The Avengers "The Danger Makers" (1966)
Gunsmoke "My Father's Guitar" (1966)
Doctor Who "The Sea Beggar (The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, Part Two)" (1966)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Shadowman" (1967)
The Big Valley "The Emperor of Rice" (1968)
The Andy Griffith Show "Aunt Bee's Big Moment" (1968)
Gunsmoke "The Jackals" (1968)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Phantom Fifth Floor" (1969)
The Avengers "Wish You Were Here" (1969)
Bewitched "What Makes Darrin Run?" (1970)
Bewitched "Tabitha's First Day at School" (1972)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda" (1972)
All in the Family "Edith Gets a Mink" (1972)
Doctor Who "The Curse of Peladon, Part Three" (1972)
Gunsmoke "Kimbro" (1973)
Happy Days "Hardware Jungle" (1974)
Adam-12 "Routine Patrol" (1974)
Cannon "The Set Up" (1975)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Mary and the Sexagenarian" (1977)
All In The Family "Mike, the Pacifist" (1977)
All In The Family "Two's a Crowd" (1978)
Lou Grant "Samaritan" (1979)
Three's Company "Jack's Bad Boy" (1980)
Happy Days "Allison" (1980)
Mork & Mindy "There's a New Mork in Town" (1981)
Taxi "Thy Boss's Wife" (1981)
The Dukes of Hazzard "Dear Diary" (1982)
Dallas "Anniversary" (1982)
The A-Team "Moving Targets" (1985)
Cheers "One Last Fling" (1987)
Night Court "Rabid" (1987)
The Cosby Show "Calling Doctor Huxtable" (1987)
Family Ties "A Tale of Two Cities (2)" (1987)
L.A. Law "Becker on the Rox" (1987)
Dallas "The Best Laid Plans" (1988)
Murder, She Wrote "Smooth Operators" (1989)
Family Ties "The Wrecker's Ball" (1989)
Murphy Brown "The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting" (1990)
ALF "When I'm Sixty-Four" (1990)
Night Court "Party Girl (1)" (1992)
Night Court "Party Girl (2)" (1992)
Murder, She Wrote "Twice Dead" (1995)
Murphy Brown "Up in Smoke" (1996)