Friday, January 16, 2026

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1977):


Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 17.
Episode entitled: The Lambda Factor.
Released January 16, 1977.
Directed by Charles Crichton.
Written by Terrance Dicks.
Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.
Music by Derek Wadsworth.
Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Deborah Fallender, Jess Conrad, Anthony Stamboulieh, Michael Walker, Gregory de Polnay, Lydia Lisle, Lucinda Curtis, Dallas Adams, Glenda Allen, Jenny Cresswell, Harry Fielder, Quentin Pierre, Robert Reeves, Shane Rimmer, Pam Rose.

Born on this day – Pat Colbert:


Pat Colbert


Actress

January 16, 1947 – June 23, 2024

Credits:

A Death in California (1985); Benson (1982); Capitol (1982-1987); Dallas (1983–1991); Eischied (1979); Flamingo Road (1980–1981); Hysterical (1982); If Not for His Grace (2015); Knots Landing (1983); Leonard Part 6 (1987); S.O.B. (1981); Sisters (1991); The Fall Guy (1982); Thom & Dusty Go to Mexico: The Lost Treasure (2014); True Colors (1991).

Born on this day – Michael Pataki:


Michael Pataki


Actor

Producer

Director

January 16, 1938 – April 15, 2010

Credits:

Cans Without Labels (2019); Biography (2011); Trim (2010); Chthonic (2008); Out of Jimmy's Head (2007); Happy Days: 30th Anniversary Reunion (2005); Edge of Nowhere (2003); The Looking Glass (2003); Behind the Mask (2003); Death Man's Bluff (2003); Ren & Stimpy 'Adult Party Cartoon' (2003); My Life with Buk (2002); Tachyon: The Fringe (2000); Tourist Traps (2000); Weekend Pussy Hunt (2000); Boo Boo Runs Wild (1999); The Goddamn George Liquor Program (1997); Dexter's Laboratory (1996–1997); Extreme Ghostbusters (1997); The Making of a Hollywood Madam (1996); What-a-Mess (1995); The Ren & Stimpy Show (1992–1995); 2 Stupid Dogs (1995); Batman: The Animated Series (1992); Hollywood Hot Tubs 2: Educating Crystal (1990); Death House (1988); Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987–1988); Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988); The Highwayman (1988); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988); The Under Achievers (1987); St. Elsewhere (1987); Cagney & Lacey (1983–1987); Private Eye (1987); Airwolf (1987); Heart of the City (1987); Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1985–1986); American Anthem (1986); Rocky IV (1985); Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985); R.S.V.P. (1984); The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984); Lottery! (1984); The Fall Guy (1982–1984); Automan (1983); Cowboy (1983); The Jeffersons (1983); Laverne & Shirley (1983); Sweet Sixteen (1983); Night Shift (1982); Terror at Alcatraz (1982); T.J. Hooker (1982); One Day at a Time (1982); WKRP in Cincinnati (1980–1982); Father Murphy (1982); One More Chance (1981); Dead & Buried (1981); Insight (1967–1981); Nero Wolfe (1981); Graduation Day (1981); Pippin: His Life and Times (1981); High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980); Beyond Westworld (1980); Raise the Titanic (1980); Phyl & Mikhy (1980); Charlie's Angels (1980); B.J. and the Bear (1980); The Farmer's Other Daughter (1979); A Man Called Sloane (1979); Eischied (1979); Disaster on the Coastliner (1979); Marciano (1979); The Last Word (1979); Little House on the Prairie (1977–1979); The Glove (1979); The Onion Field (1979); Survival of Dana (1979); Samurai (1979); Love at First Bite (1979); The White Shadow (1979); The Pirate (1978); Alice (1978); The Amazing Spider-Man (1977–1978); When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978); Ruby and Oswald (1978); Barney Miller (1978); Superdome (1978); Auditions (1978); Cinderella (1977); The Tony Randall Show (1977); Jailbait Babysitter (1977); The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); Dracula's Dog (1977); The Chopped Liver Brothers (1977); Airport '77 (1977); All in the Family (1973–1977); Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover (1977); McCloud (1974–1976); Happy Days (1976); The Call of the Wild (1976); Good Heavens (1976); Baretta (1976); Ellery Queen (1976); Harry O (1976); Mansion of the Doomed (1976); The Invisible Man (1975); Get Christie Love! (1975); A Touch of Sex (1975); Delinquent School Girls (1975); Friends and Lovers (1974–1975); Amy Prentiss (1974); Those Mad, Mad Moviemakers (1974); Kung Fu (1974); The F.B.I. (1974); The Bat People (1974); Indict and Convict (1974); Last Foxtrot in Burbank (1973); Shaft (1973); Heterosexualis (1973); Little Cigars (1973); Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973); Search (1973); The Baby (1973); Cannon (1973); The All American Hustler (1972); The Rookies (1972); The Black Bunch (1972); The Dirt Gang (1972); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); A Man for Hanging (1972); Columbo (1972); Grave of the Vampire (1972); The Sixth Sense (1972); Bonanza (1972); Cade's County (1972); They Call It Murder (1971); Pink Angels (1971); Brute Corps (1971); The Return of Count Yorga (1971); The Cut-Throats (1971); The Andromeda Strain (1971); Dan August (1971); Dream No Evil (1970); The Young Lawyers (1970); The Silent Force (1970); The Flying Nun (1967–1970); Five the Hard Way (1969); Easy Rider (1969); Crazy World, Crazy People (1968); Mannix (1968); Star Trek (1967); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Garrison's Gorillas (1967); Mr. Terrific (1967); Mission: Impossible (1967); Run for Your Life (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Batman (1966); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force (1965); Ben Casey (1963–1965); Broadside (1965); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965); My Favorite Martian (1965); Slattery's People (1965); Espionage Target: You (1964); Rawhide (1964); The Movie Maker (1964); The Lieutenant (1963–1964); Rockabye the Infantry (1963); Combat! (1963); Saints and Sinners (1962); Ripcord (1961); The Twilight Zone (1961); Target: The Corruptors! (1961); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Not for Hire (1960); The Loretta Young Show (1959); M Squad (1958); Ten North Frederick (1958); The Young Lions (1958).

Born on this day – Dian Fossey:


Dian Fossey


Primatologist

Conservationist

Writer

Director

January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985

Credits:

Written work:

A Forest in the Clouds: My Year Among the Mountain Gorillas in the Remote Enclave of Dian Fossey (2018); An amiable giant: Fuertes's gorilla (1982); Gorillas in the Mist (1983); Living with Mountain Gorillas (1972); Mountain gorilla research, 1969–1970 (1978); Mountain gorilla research, 1971–1972 (1980); Mountain gorilla research, 1974 (1982); Observations on the home range of one group of mountain gorillas (1974); The Behaviour of the Mountain Gorilla (1976); Vocalizations of the mountain Gorilla (1972).

Movies and television:

30 Years of National Geographic Specials (1995); A Mother's Love: Rosamond Carr and a Lifetime in Rwanda (2010); All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011); Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist (2017); Einstein (2020); Final Days of an Icon (2006); Fouloscopie (2019); Gorillas in the Mist (1988); Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (1978–2007); National Geographic Specials (1971–2003); Nature (1986); Quest's World of Wonder (2021); Six femmes sur la planète des grands singes (2020); The American Sportsman (1980); The Emotional World of Farm Animals (2004); The Nature of Things (2019); The Real... (1998); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1985); The World About Us (1976 / 1981); Universum (2004).

Born on this day – Micheline Luccioni:


Micheline Luccioni


Actress

January 16, 1930 – December 24, 1992

Credits:

À corps perdu (1970); Allô police (1967); Hello! Juliette (1972); An Idiot in Paris (1967); Au théâtre ce soir (1969–1981); Back to the Wall (1958); Baratin (1956); Belphegor or the Phantom of the Louvre (1965); Cadet Rousselle (1973); Look for the Mistake (1980); Children of Mata Hari (1970); Clarisse Fenigan (1959); Croquemitoufle (1959); Say hello to the lady.. (1977); Distracted (1970); Don Juan Returns from War (1968); Eglantine (1972); She doesn't drink, she doesn't smoke, she doesn't flirt, but... she talks! (1970); Sorrel flower (1967); Gervaise (1956); Guinguette (1959); Hello Beatrice (1984); Hotel des Snows (1958); How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning / Segment: La Fermeture (1965); It Happened All Night (1960); I Will Make You Love Life (1979); Jo (1971); The Brune que voilà (1960); La derelitta / Cinema 16 (1987); The Last Night (1981); Twelfth Night (1957); La petite vertu (1968); The Sleeping Sentinel (1966); The Academy of 9 (1982–1983); The Schoolchildren's Path (1959); The Couch (1982); The Black Flag Flies on the Pot (1971); The Butler (1965); The small Théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1981); The Happiest of the Three (1957); The Well of the Three Vérités (1961); Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville (1961); The Voyage of Monsieur Perrichon (1974); The School for Women (1973); The loves of the years folles (1981); Agatha's Beautiful Eyes (1964); The Last Five Minutes (1959–1978); The Investigations of Inspector Maigret (1973); Great feelings make good gueuletons (1973); The Delivery Men (1961); Les pieds nickelés (1960); The Etiquette (1986); Inspector Leclerc investigates (1962–1963); Lovers of Paris (1957); Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959); Max the Debonair (1967); Maxime (1958); Plural of Monsieur The Jurors (1977); Midi Trente (1973–1974); Number One (1975); We are not Serious When You're 17 (1974); Pachomius... toujours (1971); Poor Eros (1983); Take your rolls and go pointer (1981); Rêves d'amour (1962); Samantha (1981); Evening Courteline / Segment: Gros chagrins (1974); Tête folle (1960); The One Man Band (1970); The Tattoo (1968); A Marriage under Louis XV (1961); A century writers (1999); Long live the social sector! (1983); Vogue la galère (1973); You won't win Not in Paradise (1975); Witness in the City (1959).

Born on this day – Lina Romay:


Lina Romay


Actress

January 16, 1919 – December 17, 2010

Credits:

Adventure (1945); Babes Behind Bars (2013); Bathing Beauty (1944); Cavalcade of Stars (1949–1951); Chesterfield Sound Off Time (1951); Cheyenne Cowboy (1949); Don't Get Around Much Anymore (1943); Embraceable You (1948); Entertaining the Troops (1988); Faces (2019); Flamingo Road (1949); Honeymoon (1947); Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (1949); Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946); Passport to Danger (1956); Public Prosecutor (1948); Señor Droopy (1949); Six-Gun Music (1949); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Star of the Family (1951); Summertime Revue (1951); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1957); The Alan Young Show (1950–1951); The Big Wheel (1949); The Heat's On (1943); The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949); The Laraine Day Show (1951); The Man Behind the Gun (1953); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1949–1952); The Red Skelton Hour (1957); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Steve Allen Show (1951); This Time for Keeps (1947); Two Girls and a Sailor (1944); We, the People (1949); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); You Were Never Lovelier (1942).

Born on this day – Ethel Merman:


Ethel Merman


Actress

Singer

January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984

Credits:

Books:

Merman (1978); Who Could Ask for Anything More? (1955).

Albums:

An Earful of Music (1934); Dearie (1950); Eadie Was a Lady (1933); How Deep Is the Ocean? (1932); I Get a Kick Out of You (1935); I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Prayers) (1950); If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake (1950); Move It Over (1943); Once Upon a Nickel (1951); They Say It's Wonderful (1946); You're Just in Love (1951); You're the Top (1934).

Movies and television:

A Salute to American Imagination (1978); A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); Airplane! (1980); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); All That Jazz (1979); All-Star Family Feud Special (1980); All-Star Inaugural Gala (1981); American Experience (2006–2023); American Masters (1990–2017); AMV Hell (2004); An Evening with Ethel Merman (1965); Annie Get Your Gun (1967); Answer the Call (1953); Anything Goes (1936); Around the World of Mike Todd (1967); Arrested Development (2005); At Long Last Cole (1975); Batman (1967); Batmania from Comics to Screen (1989); Be Like Me (1931); Behind the Music (1998); Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995); Bicentennial Minutes (1976); Biography (1987–2001); Bones (2006); Broadway (1973); Broadway! A Special Salute (1982); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Call Me Madam (1953); Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); Cilla (1973); Cinerama Adventure (2002); Designing Women (1991); Dinah! (1975–1976); Dinner with the President (1953); Discovery (1995); Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999); E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000); Evening at Pops (1976); Follow the Leader (1930); Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (1990); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); General Electric Theater (1956); Good Morning America (1979); Good Morning Britain (2019); Great Broadway Musical Moments from the Ed Sullivan Show (2015); Great Performances (1981–2005); Gypsy (1967); Happy Landing (1938); Hee Haw (1980); Her Future (1930); Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997); Hollywood (2020); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood at War: A Compilation of War Time Shorts (1980); Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990); Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009); Hollywood Talent Scouts (1966); I'm Dying Up Here (2017); In & Out (1997); Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet (1949); Ireno (1932); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023); I've Got a Secret (1965); Joey (2004); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Journey Back to Oz (1972); Kid Millions (1934); Kitty from Kansas City (1932); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1956); Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932); Little Voice (1998); Maggie Brown (1963); Marilyn (1963); Masquerade Party (1956); Match Game (1975–1978); Match Game PM (1976–1978); Max Liebman Spectaculars (1956); Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010); Michael Grade's Stars of the Musical Theatre (2014); Muppet Video: Muppet Treasures (1985); Musical Comedy Tonight (1979); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Of Muppets and Men: The Making of 'The Muppet Show' (1981); Old Man Blues (1931); On Broadway Tonight (1965); Our World (1987); Panama Hattie (1954); Parkinson (1974); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Paul Anka ... Music My Way (1977); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957–1963); Person to Person (1955); Personality (1967–1968); Reboot (2022); Roaming (1931); Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979); RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (2012); 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin (1972); Saturday Night Live (1987); Screen Goddesses (2005); Sha Na Na (1977); Shower of Stars (1955); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002); Six by Sondheim (2013); Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991); Song Shopping (1933); Special Collector's Edition (2010); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Startime (1959–1960); Steve & Eydie: From This Moment On... Cole Porter (1977); Straight Place and Show (1938); Strike Me Pink (1936); Stuart Saves His Family (1995); Super Night at Forest Hills (1977); Tarzan (1967); Telescope (1963); Television (1988); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); Terms of Endearment (1983); Texaco Star Theater: Opening Night (1982); That Girl (1967–1968); That's Life (1968); The 1976 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1976); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 1st TV Academy Hall of Fame (1984); The 23rd Annual Tony Awards (1969); The 26th Annual Tony Awards (1972); The Art of Love (1965); The Arthur Murray Party (1956–1960); The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope (1960); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960–1964); The Best of Broadway (1954); The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1992); The Best of the Royal Variety (2006); The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Bob Hope Show (1962); The Bobby Vinton Show (1976); The Carol Burnett Show (1969); The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (1993); The Cave Club (1930); The Chevy Show (1955); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1953–1954); The David Steinberg Show (1977); The Dean Martin Show (1965–1968); The Delegate (2006); The Devil Sea (1931); The Dick Cavett Show (1973); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1958); The Ed Sullivan Show (1953–1971); The Eddie Fisher Show (1958); The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017); The Factor (2008–2014); The First 100 Years of Recorded Music (1981); The First Annual Comedy Hall of Fame (1993); The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953); The Frank Sinatra Show (1958); The Hollywood Palace (1966–1982); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1975–1976); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963); The Jerry Lewis Show: From This Moment On (1962); The Joey Bishop Show (1967–1968); The Jonathan Winters Show (1969); The Joy of Disco (2012); The Judy Garland Show (1963–1964); The Late Shift (1995); The Les Crane Show (1964); The Love Boat (1979–1982); The Lucy Show (1964); The Match Game (1965–1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1982); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1978); The Milton Berle Show (1949); The Monte Carlo Show (1981); The Muppet Show (1977); The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979); The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986); The Next Best Thing (2000); The People's Command Performance (1978); The Red Skelton Hour (1963); The Royal Variety Performance 1982 (1982); The Secret Disco Revolution (2012); The Sugarcube Critic (2014); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965–1992); The Wonder Years (1989); There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); This Is Show Business (1950); This Is Your Life (1971); Time on My Hands (1932); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (1984); Vacation Playhouse (1963); Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1964); Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001); Welcome to the Basement (2015); We're Not Dressing (1934); What's My Line? (1963–1972); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008); You Try Somebody Else (1932); You're Gonna Love It Here (1977); Zeit.geschichte (2018).