January 12th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Ron Harper | 1936 in Turtle Creek, PA | |
| Billy Ray Latham | 1938 in Wild Cat Corner, AR | - The Andy Griffith Show |
 | Kirstie Alley | 1951 in Wichita, KS | - Cheers |
| Oliver Platt | 1960 in 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 |