January 16th

January 16th in TV History

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Births

Ethel Merman (1908, Astoria, Queens, New York City, NY)
Debbie Allen (1950, Houston, TX) - Fame

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Deaths

Ted Cassidy (1979 in Los Angeles, CA) - The Addams Family,
Russell Johnson (2014 in Bainbridge Island, WA) - Gilligan's Island
Bradford Dillman (2018 in Santa Barbara, CA)

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TV Show Debuts

Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981)

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TV Shows Ended

The Outer Limits (1963) (1965)
Bonanza (1973)

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Stop Worrying" (1953)

I Love Lucy "Bon Voyage" (1956)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Puppy" (1957)

77 Sunset Strip "The Secret of Adam Cain" (1959)

Gunsmoke "Till Death Do Us" (1960)

The Andy Griffith Show "Those Gossipin' Men" (1961)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Jed's Dilemma" (1963)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "Will You Two Be My Wife?" (1963)

Gilligan's Island "Plant You Now, Dig You Later" (1965)

Doctor Who "The Slave Traders (The Romans, Part One)" (1965)

Gunsmoke "Deputy Festus" (1965)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Phantom Strikes" (1966)

The Big Valley "Boy into Man" (1967)

Gilligan's Island "The Hunter" (1967)

I Dream of Jeannie "My Master, the Spy" (1967)

The Andy Griffith Show "A Visit to Barney Fife" (1967)

I Dream of Jeannie "Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie? (1)" (1968)

Bewitched "Serena Strikes Again (2)" (1969)

Get Smart (1965) "House of Wax (2)" (1970)

Hogan's Heroes "Fat Hermann, Go Home" (1970)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Just a Lunch" (1971)

Adam-12 "Log 26 -- LEMRAS (Law Enforcement Manpower Resources Allocation System)" (1971)

Doctor Who "Terror of the Autons, Part Three" (1971)

Cannon "Duel in the Desert" (1974)

Kojak (1973) "Marker to a Dead Bookie" (1974)

The Rockford Files "The No-Cut Contract" (1976)

The Six Million Dollar Man "Death Probe (2)" (1977)

Laverne & Shirley "Who's Papa?" (1979)

Three's Company "The Older Woman" (1979)

Taxi "Sugar Mama" (1979)

Happy Days "Smokin' Ain't Cool" (1979)

Charlie's Angels "One of Our Angels is Missing" (1980)

The Dukes of Hazzard "The Legacy" (1981)

Dallas "End of the Road (1)" (1981)

The Fall Guy "I Love Paris" (1985)

Cheers "Suspicion" (1986)

Night Court "The Night Off" (1986)

The Cosby Show "Vanessa's Bad Grade" (1986)

Family Ties "Where's Poppa?" (1986)

227 "Shall We Dance?" (1988)

Murphy Brown "Kyle" (1989)

ALF "Fight Back" (1989)

Cheers "My Son, the Father" (1992)

The Cosby Show "Bring Me the Lip Gloss of Deirdre Arpelle" (1992)

L.A. Law "Back to the Suture" (1992)

Murder, She Wrote "Portrait of Death" (1994)

Murphy Brown "Requiem For a Crew Guy" (1995)

3rd Rock From the Sun "Post Nasal Dick" (1996)

3rd Rock From the Sun "There's No Business Like Dick Business" (2001)