April 15th

April 15th in TV History


Births

Hans Conried (1917, Baltimore, MD) - Make Room For Daddy, voice of Snidely Whiplash
Harvey Lembeck (1923, Brooklyn, NY) - The Phil Silvers Show, Ensign O'Toole
Roy Clark (1933, Meherrin, VA) - Hee Haw, country music
Elizabeth Montgomery (1933, Hollywood, CA) - Bewitched

Deaths

Raymond Bailey (1980 in Irvine, CA)
R. Lee Ermey (2018 in Santa Monica, CA)

TV Shows Ended

Flipper (1967)

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Witness" (1955)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Treasurer's Son" (1959)
The Twilight Zone "A Nice Place to Visit" (1960)
77 Sunset Strip "Legend of Crystal Dart" (1960)
The Avengers "Dance with Death" (1961)
Gunsmoke "Minnie" (1961)
The Andy Griffith Show "A Wife for Andy" (1963)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Great Crawdad Hunt" (1964)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "Dear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband is in Jail" (1964)
Bewitched "Abner Kadabra" (1965)
The Munsters "Country Club Munsters" (1965)
Hogan's Heroes "Cupid Comes to Stalag 13" (1966)
Get Smart (1965) "A Man Called Smart (2)" (1967)
The Avengers "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" (1967)
Gunsmoke "Nitro! (2) (Tiger by the Tail)" (1967)
Doctor Who "The Faceless Ones, Part Two" (1967)
I Spy (US) "Pinwheel" (1968)
Bewitched "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" (1971)
Doctor Who "The Mutants, Part Two" (1972)
Columbo "How to Dial a Murder" (1978)
Mork & Mindy "Midas Mork" (1982)
Dallas "Things Ain't Goin' Too Good at Southfork" (1983)
Dallas "Top Gun" (1988)
227 "No, My Darling Daughter" (1989)
L.A. Law "That's Why the Lady Is a Stamp" (1993)
3rd Rock From the Sun "The Physics of Being Dick" (1998)