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May 15th

May 15th in TV History


Deaths

ImageAndrew Duggan1988 in Westwood, CA - 12 O'Clock High
ImageRoyal Dano1994 in Los Angeles, CA
ImageFred Willard2020 in Los Angeles, CA - Fernwood 2 Night, sketch comedy, Christopher Guest mockumentaries

TV Shows Ended

Get Smart (1970)
Starsky & Hutch (1979)
The Ropers (1980)

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"Boxing Matches"1953
The Phil Silvers Show"Bilko on Wall St"1956
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"The Night Watchman"1957
77 Sunset Strip"Canine Caper"1959
The Phil Silvers Show"Doberman Missing Heir"1959
The Andy Griffith Show"The Guitar Player Returns"1961
The Beverly Hillbillies"The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted"1963
The Twilight Zone"The Brain Center at Whipple's"1964
Gilligan's Island"It's Magic"1965
Gunsmoke"Honey Pot"1965
Doctor Who"The Final Phase (The Space Museum, Part Four)"1965
Get Smart (1965)"I Am Curiously Yellow"1970
Doctor Who"Colony in Space, Part Six"1971
The Six Million Dollar Man"The Ghostly Teletype"1977
Laverne & Shirley"Shirley and the Older Man"1979
Three's Company"Triangle Troubles"1979
Taxi"Substitute Father"1979
Happy Days"Potsie Quits School"1979
The A-Team"Curtain Call"1984
Cheers"Strange Bedfellows (3)"1986
The Cosby Show"Denise's Decision"1986
Airwolf"The Key"1987
Dallas"Fall of the House of Ewing"1987
Murphy Brown"The Bickners"1989
Murder, She Wrote"A Murderous Muse"1994
Murphy Brown"Make Room For Daddy"1995
Columbo"A Trace of Murder"1997
3rd Rock From the Sun"Mary Loves Scoochie: Part 2"2001
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