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May 8th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Don Rickles | 1926 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, NY | |
| Ricky Nelson | 1940 in Teaneck, NJ | - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
Deaths
 | George Peppard | 1994 in Los Angeles, CA | - Banacek, The A-Team |
| William Schallert | 2016 in Pacific Palisades, CA | - The Patty Duke Show, Star Trek |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Traders" | 1953 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "War Games" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ricky's Surprise Party" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Downbeat" | 1959 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Small Car" | 1959 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Barney Gets His Man" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen" | 1963 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" | 1964 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Physical Fatness" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "Two Tall Men" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "The Search (The Space Museum, Part Three)" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Do I Hear a Vaults?" | 1970 |
| Doctor Who | "Colony in Space, Part Five" | 1971 |
| Kojak (1973) | "The Only Way Out" | 1974 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Spy in My Beer" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "Jack Moves Out" | 1979 |
| Taxi | "Hollywood Calling" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "Chachi's Incredo-Wax" | 1979 |
| The A-Team | "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" | 1984 |
| Happy Days | "Passages (1)" | 1984 |
| Happy Days | "Passages (2)" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "Strange Bedfellows (2)" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "Hurricane (2)" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Off to the Races" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "Paper Chase (a.k.a. Mallory's Graduation)" | 1986 |
| Airwolf | "Flowers of the Mountain" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "Two-Fifty" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Body Politic" | 1988 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Summer of '77" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Having My Baby" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (2)" | 1991 |
| Columbo | "Strange Bedfellows" | 1995 |
| Murphy Brown | "Model Relationships" | 1995 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Mary Loves Scoochie: Part 1" | 2001 |
