January 2nd

January 2nd in TV History

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Births

Jason Evers (1922, New York City, NY)
Wendy Phillips (1952, Brooklyn, NY) - Falcon Crest
Cynthia Sikes (1954, Coffeyville, KS)
Gabrielle Carteris (1961, Scottsdale, AZ) - Beverly Hills, 90210
Tia Carrere (1967, Honolulu, HI)

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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

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TV Show Debuts

The Bob Cummings Show (1955) (1955)

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TV Shows Ended

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (1971)

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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)