January 7th

January 7th in TV History



Births

Alan Napier (1903, Birmingham, England, UK) - Batman
Vincent Gardenia (1920, Naples, Campania, Italy) - All in the Family, LA Law
Anne Schedeen (1949, Portland, OR) - ALF, Emergency!
Erin Gray (1950, Honolulu, HI) - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Silver Spoons
David Caruso (1956, Forest Hills, NY) - NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues
Josh Blake (1975, New York City, NY) - ALF

Deaths

Avery Schreiber (2002 in Los Angeles, CA) - My Mother the Car
Rod Taylor (2015 in Beverly Hills, CA)

TV Show Debuts

Mike Hammer (1958) (1958)

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "The Benefit" (1952)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Fruitcake" (1955)
Gunsmoke "Professor Lute Bone" (1956)
I Love Lucy "Lucy and the Loving Cup" (1957)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Runaways" (1959)
The Avengers "Hot Snow" (1961)
Gunsmoke "Bad Sheriff" (1961)
The Rifleman "Incident at Line Shack Six" (1963)
The Andy Griffith Show "Barney and the Governor" (1963)
The Fugitive "Home Is the Hunted" (1964)
Bewitched "It's Magic" (1965)
The Munsters "Grandpa's Call of the Wild" (1965)
The Addams Family (1964) "Morticia and Gomez vs. Fester and Grandmama" (1966)
Hogan's Heroes "Happy Birthday, Adolf" (1966)
Get Smart (1965) "It Takes One to Know One" (1967)
Gunsmoke "Saturday Night" (1967)
Doctor Who "The Highlanders, Part Four" (1967)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Terrible Leprechaun" (1968)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Clampett-Hewes Empire" (1970)
Night Gallery "The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes" (1973)
Happy Days "Open House" (1975)
Cannon "The Reformer" (1976)
The Rockford Files "There's One in Every Port" (1977)
Kojak (1973) "Justice for All" (1978)
The Bionic Woman "All For One" (1978)
All In The Family "A Night at the PTA" (1979)
Dallas "Home Again" (1979)
Lou Grant "Brushfire" (1980)
Laverne & Shirley "Not Quite South of the Border" (1980)
Taxi "The Ten Percent Solution" (1981)
Mork & Mindy "Pajama Game II" (1982)
Taxi "I Wanna Be Around" (1982)
The Dukes of Hazzard "The Return of the Mean Green Machine" (1983)
Dallas "The Ewing Blues" (1983)
Cheers "Woody For Hire, Meets Norman of the Apes" (1988)
Night Court "Dan, the Walking Time Bomb" (1988)
The Cosby Show "Bookworm" (1988)
L.A. Law "Full Marital Jacket" (1988)
227 "The Real Decoys" (1989)
Murder, She Wrote "Goodbye Charlie" (1990)
Murphy Brown "Retreat" (1991)
Cheers "Sunday Dinner" (1993)
L.A. Law "Odor in the Court" (1993)
Murder, She Wrote "Death Goes Double Platinum" (1996)
Murphy Brown "The Last Temptation of Murphy" (1998)
3rd Rock From the Sun "Dick on a Roll" (1998)