January 9th in TV History

Birthdays
![]() | Fernando Lamas | 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina | - Run For Your Life |
![]() | Bob Denver | 1935 in New Rochelle, NY | - Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis |
![]() | Kimberly Beck | 1956 in Glendale, CA | - Peyton Place, Dynasty |
Deaths
![]() | Dwayne Hickman | 2022 in Los Angeles, CA | - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis |
![]() | Bob Saget | 2022 in Orlando, FL | - Full House, stand-up comedy |
TV Show Debuts
Rawhide (1959)It Takes A Thief (1968)
3rd Rock From the Sun (1996)
TV Episode Debuts
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Basketball Players" | 1953 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Hairstyle for Harriet" | 1957 |
77 Sunset Strip | "Not an Enemy in the World" | 1959 |
The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Hollywood Romance" | 1959 |
Gunsmoke | "Big Tom" | 1960 |
The Andy Griffith Show | "The Horse Trader" | 1961 |
The Beverly Hillbillies | "Back to Californy" | 1963 |
The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Foul Weather Girl" | 1963 |
Gilligan's Island | "So Sorry, My Island Now" | 1965 |
Doctor Who | "Desperate Measures (The Rescue, Part Two)" | 1965 |
Gunsmoke | "Run, Sheep, Run" | 1965 |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Deadly Creature Below!" | 1966 |
The Big Valley | "Image of Yesterday" | 1967 |
Gilligan's Island | "Court-Martial" | 1967 |
I Dream of Jeannie | "Greatest Invention in the World" | 1967 |
The Andy Griffith Show | "Dinner at Eight" | 1967 |
Bewitched | "Serena Strikes Again (1)" | 1969 |
Get Smart (1965) | "House of Wax (1)" | 1970 |
Hogan's Heroes | "Get Fit or Go Fight" | 1970 |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Party is Such Sweet Sorrow" | 1971 |
Adam-12 | "Log 115 -- Gang War" | 1971 |
Doctor Who | "Terror of the Autons, Part Two" | 1971 |
Adam-12 | "The Sweet Smell..." | 1974 |
The Rockford Files | "The Hammer of C Block" | 1976 |
The Six Million Dollar Man | "Death Probe (1)" | 1977 |
Charlie's Angels | "Angel's Child" | 1980 |
The Dukes of Hazzard | "State of the County" | 1981 |
Dallas | "Executive Wife" | 1981 |
The Fall Guy | "Her Bodyguard" | 1985 |
Cheers | "Take My Shirt, Please" | 1986 |
Night Court | "Dan's Escort" | 1986 |
The Cosby Show | "The Auction" | 1986 |
Family Ties | "The Disciple" | 1986 |
Dallas | "Tick, Tock" | 1987 |
227 | "Snowbound" | 1988 |
Murphy Brown | "I Would Have Danced All Night" | 1989 |
ALF | "Hide Away" | 1989 |
Cheers | "No Rest For the Woody" | 1992 |
The Cosby Show | "The Price Is Wrong" | 1992 |
L.A. Law | "Guess Who's Coming To Murder?" | 1992 |
Murder, She Wrote | "Proof In The Pudding" | 1994 |
Murphy Brown | "Rumble in the Alley" | 1995 |
3rd Rock From the Sun | "Brains and Eggs" | 1996 |
3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick Digs" | 2001 |