January 1st

January 1st in TV History

TV History Events

01/01/1944 : The first feature-length foreign movie "African Journey" is aired on TV in NYC.

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Births

Charles Bickford (1891, Cambridge, MA)
Dana Andrews (1909, Collins, MS) - The Twilight Zone, Bright Promise
Russ Bender (1910, New York City, NY) - The Twilight Zone
Barbara Baxley (1923, Porterville, CA)
Matthew Beard, Jr. (1925, Los Angeles, CA) - Stymie in Our Gang
Ty Hardin (1930, New York City, NY) - Bronco, Riptide
Frank Langella (1938, Bayonne, NJ)
Don Novello (1943, Lorain, OH) - Saturday Night Live
Stanley Kamel (1943, New Brunswick, NJ)
Rick Hurst (1946, Houston, TX) - The Dukes of Hazzard
Dedee Pfeiffer (1964, Midway City, CA)

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Deaths

Barton MacLane (1969 in Santa Monica, CA) - Outlaws, I Dream of Jeannie
Jane Morgan (1972 in North Hollywood, CA)
Victor Buono (1982 in Apple Valley, CA) - Batman
Marcel Hillaire (1988 in Los Angeles, CA) - Lost In Space, The Twilight Zone, Adventures in Paradise
Cesar Romero (1994 in Santa Monica, CA) - Batman
Ray Walston (2001 in Beverly Hills, CA) - My Favorite Martian
Donna Douglas (2015 in Zachary, LA) - The Beverly Hillbillies

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Hunter" (1954)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Trophy" (1958)

The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko and the Colonel's Secretary" (1958)

The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko's Bopster" (1959)

The Twilight Zone "The Four of Us are Dying" (1960)

77 Sunset Strip "Created He Them" (1960)

The Rifleman "Skull" (1962)

The Andy Griffith Show "The Farmer Takes a Wife" (1962)

The Beverly Hillbillies "A Man for Elly" (1964)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Third One from the Left" (1964)

The Addams Family (1964) "The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik" (1965)

12 O'Clock High "Those Who Are About to Die" (1965)

The Avengers "Silent Dust" (1966)

Doctor Who "Volcano (The Daleks' Master Plan, Part Eight)" (1966)

The Big Valley "The Good Thieves" (1968)

The Andy Griffith Show "The Mayberry Chef" (1968)

Gunsmoke "The Victim" (1968)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Drysdale and Friend" (1969)

The Avengers "The Interrogators" (1969)

Bewitched "Samantha's Better Halves" (1970)

The Mary Tyler Moore Show "The Five-Minute Dress" (1972)

All in the Family "The Elevator Story" (1972)

Doctor Who "Day of the Daleks, Part One" (1972)

Gunsmoke "Arizona Midnight" (1973)

Cannon "The Conspirators" (1975)

The Six Million Dollar Man "Walk a Deadly Wing" (1978)

Lou Grant "Denial" (1979)

Mork & Mindy "Mork's New Look" (1981)

The Dukes of Hazzard "Dukescam Scam" (1982)

Dallas "Barbecue Two" (1982)

Murder, She Wrote "Prediction: Murder" (1989)

Family Ties "Basic Training" (1989)

Murphy Brown "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (1990)