January 17th in TV History
Births
Betty White (1922, Oak Park, IL) - Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden GirlsShari Lewis (1933, New York City, NY) - Ventriloquist known for her puppet Lamb Chop.
Andy Kaufman (1949, New York City, NY) - Taxi, Saturday Night Live
Deaths
Allan Melvin (2008 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA) - Archie Bunker's Place, The Brady BunchTV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy "First Stop" (1955) |
| The Phil Silvers Show "Kids in the Trailer" (1956) |
| The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko Presents Kay Kendall" (1958) |
| Gunsmoke "Passive Resistance" (1959) |
| The Rifleman "Long Trek" (1961) |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show "Punch Thy Neighbor" (1962) |
| The Twilight Zone "Valley of the Shadow" (1963) |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Girl at the Ski Lodge" (1963) |
| The Twilight Zone "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" (1964) |
| 77 Sunset Strip "Not Such a Simple Knot" (1964) |
| 12 O'Clock High "Underground" (1966) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "The Legend of Barney Fife" (1966) |
| The Fugitive "The One That Got Away" (1967) |
| Lost in Space "The Time Merchant" (1968) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "Topless Anyone?" (1968) |
| Star Trek "The Mark of Gideon" (1969) |
| Doctor Who "Spearhead from Space, Part Three" (1970) |
| Hogan's Heroes "The Meister Spy" (1971) |
| Gunsmoke "Tara" (1972) |
| Cannon "Death of a Stone Seahorse" (1973) |
| Adam-12 "Clear with a Civilian (2)" (1973) |
| The Rockford Files "Sleight of Hand" (1975) |
| The Six Million Dollar Man "Lost Love" (1975) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Once I Had a Secret Love" (1976) |
| Lou Grant "Hero" (1978) |
| Laverne & Shirley "The Horse Show" (1978) |
| Three's Company "The Baby Sitters" (1978) |
| Happy Days "Joanie's First Kiss" (1978) |
| Mork & Mindy "Mork Learns to See" (1980) |
| Doctor Who "Warriors' Gate, Part Three" (1981) |
| Three's Company "Baby, It's Cold Inside" (1984) |
| The A-Team "Say It With Bullets" (1984) |
| Happy Days "The People vs. The Fonz" (1984) |
| Night Court "Nuts About Harry" (1985) |
| The Cosby Show "Physician of the Year" (1985) |
| Family Ties "Philadelphia Story" (1985) |
| The Fall Guy "Reunion" (1986) |
| Dallas "The Deadly Game" (1986) |
| 227 "A Matter of Choice" (1987) |
| Family Ties "The Spirit of Columbus" (1988) |
| Moonlighting "Shirts and Skins" (1989) |
| Night Court "Razing Bull" (1990) |
| Murder, She Wrote "Double Jeopardy" (1993) |
| Murphy Brown "The Deal of the Art" (1994) |
