April 5th in TV History
Births
Gordon Jones (1911, Alden, IA)Mary Costa (1930, Knoxville, TN)
Frank Gorshin (1933, Pittsburgh, PA) - The Riddler on Batman, Star Trek
Deaths
Debralee Scott (2005 in Amelia Island, FL) - Angie, Mary Hartman, Mary HartmanTim O'Connor (2018 in Nevada City, CA) - Buck Rogers, Peyton Place
Honor Blackman (2020 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK) - The Avengers, the James Bond movie "Goldfinger"
TV Shows Ended
My Mother the Car (1966)Hawaii Five-O (1980)
TV Episode Debuts
I Love Lucy "Lucy Writes a Novel" (1954) |
Gunsmoke "Texas Cowboys" (1958) |
The Rifleman "Smoke Screen" (1960) |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "A Question of Suits and Ties" (1961) |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Student Nurse" (1962) |
77 Sunset Strip "Target Island" (1963) |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Secret of the Loch" (1965) |
The Andy Griffith Show "The Arrest of the Fun Girls" (1965) |
Lost in Space "The Mechanical Men" (1967) |
Adam-12 "Log 022: So This Little Guy Goes Into This Bar" (1969) |
Doctor Who "The Space Pirates, Part Five" (1969) |
Adam-12 "Log 125 -- Safe Job" (1971) |
The Six Million Dollar Man "The Last of the Fourth of Julys" (1974) |
Laverne & Shirley "Citizen Crane" (1977) |
Lou Grant "Blacklist" (1982) |
Three's Company "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" (1983) |
The A-Team "West Coast Turnaround" (1983) |
Murder, She Wrote "The Cemetery Vote" (1987) |
The Cosby Show "Off to See the Wretched" (1990) |
L.A. Law "Watts a Matter?" (1990) |
Dallas "Those Darned Ewings" (1991) |
Murder, She Wrote "Programmed for Murder" (1992) |