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January 24th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Ernest Borgnine | 1917 in Hamden, CT | - McHale's Navy, Airwolf |
| Jerry Maren | 1920 in Roxbury, MA | - Wizard of Oz Munchkin |
| Benny Hill | 1924 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK | - The Benny Hill Show |
| Sharon Tate | 1943 in Dallas, TX | |
 | John Belushi | 1949 in Chicago, IL | - Saturday Night Live |
Deaths
| Larry Fine | 1975 in Los Angeles, CA | - The Three Stooges |
| James Farentino | 2012 in Los Angeles, CA | |
| Bruce Kirby | 2021 in Los Angeles, CA | |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Tennessee Bound" | 1955 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Revolutionary War" | 1956 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Cousin" | 1958 |
| Gunsmoke | "Love of a Good Woman" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "The Actress" | 1961 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Who Owes Who What?" | 1962 |
| The Twilight Zone | "He's Alive" | 1963 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You" | 1964 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Target" | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Which Way the Wind Blows" | 1966 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Lost and Found" | 1966 |
| The Fugitive | "Concrete Evidence" | 1967 |
| Lost in Space | "The Promised Planet" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Great Snow" | 1968 |
| Star Trek | "That Which Survives" | 1969 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 14 -- S.W.A.T." | 1970 |
| Doctor Who | "Spearhead from Space, Part Four" | 1970 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "That's No Lady, That's My Spy" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "One for the Road" | 1972 |
| Adam-12 | "Citizen's Arrest - 484" | 1973 |
| The Rockford Files | "Counter Gambit" | 1975 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Menage-a-Lou" | 1976 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Slow Child" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Home Movies" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "Marion's Misgivings" | 1978 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Counterfeit Angels" | 1979 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork's Vacation" | 1980 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Moonshinin' Angels" | 1981 |
| Doctor Who | "Warriors' Gate, Part Four" | 1981 |
| Three's Company | "Look What I Found" | 1984 |
| Happy Days | "Like Mother, Like Daughter" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "King of the Hill" | 1985 |
| Night Court | "An Old Flame" | 1985 |
| Family Ties | "Birth of a Keaton (1)" | 1985 |
| The Fall Guy | "Trial By Fire" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Blame It on Bogota" | 1986 |
| 227 | "Got a Job" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Harbinger of Death" | 1988 |
| Family Ties | "The Blues Brother" | 1988 |
| Night Court | "Futureman" | 1990 |
| Cheers | "The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)" | 1991 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Anchorman" | 1994 |
