May 1st in TV History
Birthdays
 | Louis Nye | 1913 in Hartford, CT | |
| Sharon Spelman | 1942 in Los Angeles, CA | |
| Joanna Lumley | 1946 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India | - Absolutely Fabulous |
| Douglas Barr | 1949 in Cedar Rapids, IA | - The Fall Guy |
Deaths
| Grace Lee Whitney | 2015 in Coarsegold, CA | - Star Trek |
TV Show Debuts
The Flintstones (1960)TV Shows Ended
My Favorite Martian (1966)Harper Valley P.T.A. (1982)
CHiPs (1983)
Magnum, P.I. (1988)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Night School" | 1953 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Con Men" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie, the Treasurer" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Widow Wouldn't Weep" | 1959 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Ritzik Goes Civilian" | 1959 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Quiet Sam" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts in Court" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Jilting the Jilter" | 1963 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Encounter" | 1964 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Bad Lady from Brookline" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "The Dimensions of Time (The Space Museum, Part Two)" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Hello, Columbus - Goodbye, America" | 1970 |
| Doctor Who | "Colony in Space, Part Four" | 1971 |
| Mork & Mindy | "The Way Mork Were" | 1980 |
| Dallas | "Ewing-Gate" | 1981 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie Moves Out" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "Strange Bedfellows (1)" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "Hurricane (1)" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "Once in Love with Elyse (a.k.a. Loan Arranger)" | 1986 |
| Airwolf | "Ground Zero" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "The Dark at the End of the Tunnel" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Deadpan" | 1988 |
| Family Ties | "Father, Can You Spare a Dime?" | 1988 |
| Columbo | "Grand Deceptions" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Shake, Rattle and Roll" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (1)" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Roadkill" | 1994 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick Soup for the Soul" | 2001 |