January 7th in TV History
Births
Alan Napier (1903, Birmingham, England, UK) - BatmanVincent 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 CarRod 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) |
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