April 1st

April 1st in TV History


Births

Grace Lee Whitney (1930, Ann Arbor, MI) - Star Trek
Gordon Jump (1932, Dayton, OH) - WKRP in Cincinnati

Deaths

John Forsythe (2010 in Santa Ynez, CA) - Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Bachelor Father
Steven Bochco (2018 in Pacific Palisades, CA) - writer for Hill Street Blues
Joe Flaherty (2024 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - SCTV

TV Shows Ended

The Flintstones (1966)
The Andy Griffith Show (1968)
The Bob Newhart Show (1978)
She's the Sheriff (1989)

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Pajama Game" (1955)
I Love Lucy "Housewarming" (1957)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Togetherness" (1959)
The Twilight Zone "Execution" (1960)
77 Sunset Strip "Publicity Brat" (1960)
The Avengers "Please Don't Feed the Animals" (1961)
Gunsmoke "Little Girl" (1961)
The Rifleman "Which Way'd They Go?" (1963)
The Andy Griffith Show "Barney's First Car" (1963)
The Beverly Hillbillies "Another Neighbor" (1964)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "A Letter About Harriet" (1964)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "The Return of Edwin Carp" (1964)
Bewitched "There's No Witch Like an Old Witch" (1965)
The Munsters "Movie Star Munster" (1965)
The Addams Family (1964) "Lurch's Grand Romance" (1966)
Hogan's Heroes "I Look Better in Basic Black" (1966)
Get Smart (1965) "Pussycats Galore" (1967)
The Avengers "Epic" (1967)
Doctor Who "The Macra Terror, Part Four" (1967)
I Spy (US) "The Spy Business" (1968)
The Andy Griffith Show "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968)
Bewitched "Sam's Psychic Slip" (1971)
Adam-12 "Log 88 -- Reason to Run" (1971)
Doctor Who "The Sea Devils, Part Six" (1972)
Gunsmoke "The Disciple" (1974)
Adam-12 "Gus Corbin" (1975)
The Rockford Files "Dirty Money, Black Light" (1977)
Battlestar Galactica "Take the Celestra" (1979)
Battlestar Galactica "Take the Celestra" (1979)
Laverne & Shirley "Antonio, the Amazing" (1980)
Dallas "Tangled Web" (1983)
Moonlighting "Sleep Talkin' Guy" (1986)
The Tortellis "The Good Life" (1987)
Night Court "Jung and the Restless" (1988)
Dallas "Never Say Never" (1988)
227 "Trial and Error" (1989)
Cheers "Look Before You Sleep" (1993)
L.A. Law "F.O.B." (1993)
3rd Rock From the Sun "My Daddy's Little Girl" (1998)