January 12th in TV History
Births
Ron Harper (1936, Turtle Creek, PA)Billy Ray Latham (1938, Wild Cat Corner, AR) - The Andy Griffith Show
Kirstie Alley (1951, Wichita, KS) - Cheers
Oliver Platt (1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
TV Show Debuts
Batman (1966)Dragnet (1967) (1967)
All in the Family (1971)
Dynasty (1981)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy "Lucy Becomes a Sculptress" (1953) |
| Gunsmoke "The Cover Up" (1957) |
| The Rifleman "Mail Order Groom" (1960) |
| The Twilight Zone "One More Pallbearer" (1962) |
| 77 Sunset Strip "Mr. Bailey's Honeymoon" (1962) |
| The Avengers "Immortal Clay" (1963) |
| Gunsmoke "The Renegades" (1963) |
| The Fugitive "The End Is But the Beginning" (1965) |
| Lost in Space "The Keeper (1)" (1966) |
| Batman "Hi Diddle Riddle (1)" (1966) |
| I Spy (US) "The Barter" (1966) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "The Trotting Horse" (1966) |
| Batman "The Joker's Hard Times (2)" (1967) |
| Bewitched "Ho Ho, the Clown" (1967) |
| Star Trek "The Squire of Gothos" (1967) |
| Star Trek "A Piece of the Action" (1968) |
| Gunsmoke "The Pack Rat" (1970) |
| All in the Family "Meet the Bunkers" (1971) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "The Girls from Grun" (1971) |
| Night Gallery "Lindemann's Catch" (1972) |
| Night Gallery "The Late Mr. Peddington" (1972) |
| Night Gallery "A Feast of Blood" (1972) |
| Adam-12 "The Princess and the Pig" (1972) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Cottage for Sale" (1974) |
| All In The Family "Archie Feels Left Out" (1974) |
| Kojak (1973) "Acts of Desperate Men" (1975) |
| Happy Days "The Happy Days 2nd Anniversary Special" (1976) |
| All In The Family "Archie, the Babysitter" (1976) |
| Charlie's Angels "The Big Tap Out" (1977) |
| The Bionic Woman "Biofeedback" (1977) |
| The Rockford Files "The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar" (1979) |
| Lou Grant "Rape" (1981) |
| Laverne & Shirley "Love Is the Tar Pits" (1982) |
| Three's Company "The Matchbreakers" (1982) |
| Happy Days "Southern Crossing" (1982) |
| The Fall Guy "Happy Trails" (1983) |
| Family Ties "Sherry Baby" (1983) |
| Cheers "No Help Wanted" (1984) |
| Family Ties "Go Tigers" (1984) |
| Airwolf "The American Dream" (1985) |
| Punky Brewster "Girls Will Be Boys" (1986) |
| Murder, She Wrote "Trial by Error" (1986) |
| Amazing Stories "No Day at the Beach" (1986) |
| ALF "Mother and Child Reunion" (1987) |
| Amazing Stories "Lane Change" (1987) |
| Cheers "Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back" (1989) |
| The Cosby Show "Cliff Babysits" (1989) |
| L.A. Law "I'm in the Nude for Love" (1989) |
| Dallas "Judgment Day" (1990) |
| Murder, She Wrote "The Witch's Curse" (1992) |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun "Romeo & Juliet & Dick" (1997) |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun "Dick Solomon of the Indiana Solomons" (1999) |
