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January 8th in TV History
Birthdays
 | William Hartnell | 1908 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK | - Doctor Who (the first doctor) |
| Larry Storch | 1923 in New York City, NY | - F-Troop, The Ghost Busters |
| Soupy Sales | 1926 in Franklinton, NC | - The Soupy Sales Show |
| Bob Eubanks | 1938 in Flint, MI | - The Newlywed Game |
| John LaMotta | 1939 in Brooklyn, NY | - ALF |
Deaths
| Matthew Beard, Jr. | 1981 in Los Angeles, CA | - Stymie in Our Gang |
| Reta Shaw | 1982 in Encino, CA | - The Ghost & Mrs. Muir |
| Pat Buttram | 1994 in Los Angeles, CA | - Green Acres, The Gene Autry Show |
| Yvonne De Carlo | 2007 in Woodland Hills, CA | - The Munsters |
| Donnelly Rhodes | 2018 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada | |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie's Night Out" | 1954 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Blue Blood of the Bilkos" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Road Race" | 1958 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Third From the Sun" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Collector's Item" | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | "The Princess" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Keeper of the Flame" | 1962 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Giant Jackrabbit" | 1964 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Swami" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "My Husband is the Best One" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "The Addams Family Meets the Undercover Man" | 1965 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "In Search of My Enemy" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Double Agent" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Get Me to Mecca on Time" | 1966 |
| The Avengers | "Room Without a View" | 1966 |
| Gunsmoke | "Death Watch" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "Golden Death (The Daleks' Master Plan, Part Nine)" | 1966 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Death from the Past" | 1967 |
| The Big Valley | "Days of Wrath" | 1968 |
| I Spy (US) | "Home to Judgement" | 1968 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Emmett's Brother-in-Law" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "Deadman's Law" | 1968 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Problem Bear" | 1969 |
| The Avengers | "The Rotters" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Lost Weekend" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Feeb" | 1972 |
| All in the Family | "Edith's Problem" | 1972 |
| Doctor Who | "Day of the Daleks, Part Two" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "Homecoming" | 1973 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "The Critic" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "The Boarder Patrol" | 1977 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Just a Matter of Time" | 1978 |
| All In The Family | "The Commercial" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Fire" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "Larry Loves Janet" | 1980 |
| Taxi | "Tony and Brian" | 1980 |
| Happy Days | "Ah, Wilderness" | 1980 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Alas, Poor Mork, We Knew Him Well" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "The Sound of Music - Hazzard Style" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "The Search" | 1982 |
| The A-Team | "Cup A' Joe" | 1985 |
| Cheers | "Chambers vs Malone" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "Murder" | 1987 |
| The Cosby Show | "Monster Man Huxtable" | 1987 |
| Family Ties | "O'Brother (1)" | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | "Prince Kuzak in a Can" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "It's Me Again" | 1988 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue" | 1989 |
| Family Ties | "Deja Vu" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "Subpoena Envy" | 1990 |
| ALF | "Make 'em Laugh" | 1990 |
| Night Court | "Shave and a Haircut" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Scent of Murder" | 1995 |
| Murphy Brown | "All in the Family" | 1996 |
