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May 16th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Jack Dodson | 1931 in Pittsburgh, PA | - The Andy Griffith Show |
| Yvonne Craig | 1937 in Taylorville, IL | - Batman, Star Trek |
| Laurette Spang | 1951 in Buffalo, NY | |
Deaths
 | Andy Kaufman | 1984 in Los Angeles, CA | - Taxi, Saturday Night Live |
| Margaret Hamilton | 1985 in Salisbury, CT | - Wizard of Oz |
| Joseph Campanella | 2018 in Sherman Oaks, CA | - Mannix, The Bold and the Beautiful |
TV Shows Ended
Misfits of Science (1986)
Cagney & Lacey (1988)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Ricky Needs an Agent" | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | "There Never Was a Horse" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "The Queue" | 1961 |
| Doctor Who | "The Keys of Marinus (The Keys of Marinus, Part Six)" | 1964 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Warden" | 1964 |
| Bewitched | "Splitsville" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "Inferno, Part Two" | 1970 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "2001: A Comedy Odyssey" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Coffee, Tea or Jack" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "Second Wind" | 1978 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Angels Remembered" | 1979 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Angels Remembered" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "Blast from the Past" | 1986 |
| Punky Brewster | "Ouch" | 1988 |
| L.A. Law | "Since I Fell For You" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Love's Deadly Desire" | 1993 |
| Murphy Brown | "The More Things Stay the Same" | 1994 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick Solomon's Day Off" | 2000 |
