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January 2nd in TV History
Birthdays
 | Jason Evers | 1922 in New York City, NY | |
 | Wendy Phillips | 1952 in Brooklyn, NY | - Falcon Crest |
| Cynthia Sikes | 1954 in Coffeyville, KS | |
 | Gabrielle Carteris | 1961 in Scottsdale, AZ | - Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| Tia Carrere | 1967 in Honolulu, HI | |
Deaths
| Dick Powell | 1963 in West Los Angeles, CA | |
 | Alan Hale, Jr. | 1990 in Los Angeles, CA | - Gilligan's Island |
| Shepard Menken | 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA | |
 | Anne Francis | 2011 in Santa Barbara, CA | - Honey West |
| Ned Wertimer | 2013 in Valley Village, Los Angeles, CA | - Ralph, the doorman on The Jeffersons |
| Frank Buxton | 2018 in Bainbridge Island, WA | - writer for The Odd Couple, Happy Days, and Mork & Mindy |
| Bob Einstein | 2019 in Indian Wells, CA | - Super Dave Osborne |
TV Show Debuts
The Bob Cummings Show (1955) (1955)
TV Shows Ended
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (1971)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Newspaper Write-Up" | 1953 |
| I Love Lucy | "Staten Island Ferry" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie's Double" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Hit and Run" | 1959 |
| Gunsmoke | "Groat's Grudge" | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Mayberry Goes Hollywood" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jed Rescues Pearl" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Cat Burglar" | 1963 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Water, Water Everywhere" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "The Powerful Enemy (The Rescue, Part One)" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Double Entry" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Killers of the Deep" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Wagonload of Dreams" | 1967 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Take a Dare" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Don't Miss a Good Bet" | 1967 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Battle of Waikiki" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Super Maid" | 1969 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Moonlighting Becomes You" | 1970 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "How's the Weather?" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Howard's Girl" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 175 -- Con Artists" | 1971 |
| Doctor Who | "Terror of the Autons, Part One" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "Photo Finish" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Cop in a Cage" | 1974 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Ultimate Imposter" | 1977 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Of Ghosts and Angels" | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Good Neighbors Duke" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "The Prodigal Mother" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "Semi-Catastrophe" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "Mrs. Westlake" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "Nothing But a Man" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "So Shall Ye Reap" | 1987 |
| 227 | "The Talk Show" | 1988 |
| Murphy Brown | "And So He Goes" | 1989 |
| Cheers | "Don't Shoot... I'm Only the Psychiatrist" | 1992 |
| The Cosby Show | "Theo's Future" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Northern Explosion" | 1994 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Best and Not-So-Brightest" | 1995 |
