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May 11th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Phil Silvers | 1911 in Brooklyn, NY | - The Phil Silvers Show |
| Bernard Fox | 1927 in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK | - Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes |
Deaths
| Lester Flatt | 1979 in Nashville, TN | |
 | Timothy Carey | 1994 in Los Angeles, CA | |
 | Jerry Stiller | 2020 | - Seinfeld, King of Queens |
TV Shows Ended
Quincy, M.E. (1983)
Dynasty (1989)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy's Last Birthday" | 1953 |
| Gunsmoke | "Moon" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Big Plans for Summer" | 1960 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Young Man's Fancy" | 1962 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Gemmologist Caper" | 1962 |
| Gunsmoke | "Daddy Went Away" | 1963 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Back to Nature" | 1964 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Long Night's Journey Into Day" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "The Wheel in Space, Part Three" | 1968 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "From Suds to Stardom" | 1976 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Double Sting" | 1979 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Perfidy in Blue" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Mate for Each Other" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie" | 1984 |
| Amazing Stories | "One for the Books" | 1986 |
| ALF | "Come Fly with Me" | 1987 |
| Punky Brewster | "Aunt Larnese Is Coming to Town" | 1988 |
| The Cosby Show | "57 Varieties" | 1989 |
| L.A. Law | "Urine Trouble Now" | 1989 |
| 227 | "Jackee" | 1989 |
| Dallas | "Three, Three, Three (2)" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "A Chance of Showers" | 1992 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Fifteen Minutes of Dick" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick and the Single Girl" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick vs. Strudwick" | 1999 |
