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November 5th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Natalie Schafer | 1900 in New York City, NY | - Gilligan's Island |
 | Chris Robinson | 1938 in West Palm Beach, FL | |
Deaths
 | Ward Bond | 1960 in Dallas, TX | - Wagon Train |
| Stafford Repp | 1974 in Inglewood, CA | - Batman '66 |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her" | 1951 |
| Gunsmoke | "Smoking Out the Nolans" | 1955 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Papa Bilko" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie's Daughters" | 1958 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's Big Woman Hunt" | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | "I Take This Woman" | 1962 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Barney Mends a Broken Heart" | 1962 |
| The Fugitive | "See Hollywood and Die" | 1963 |
| Bewitched | "Witch or Wife?" | 1964 |
| The Munsters | "Tin Can Man" | 1964 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Morticia, the Writer" | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Movies are Your Best Escape" | 1965 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Hoo Done It" | 1966 |
| Doctor Who | "The Power of the Daleks, Part One" | 1966 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Fatal Cargo" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts in New York" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha's Bad Day in Salem" | 1970 |
| Columbo | "The Most Crucial Game" | 1972 |
| Gunsmoke | "A Game of Death...An Act of Love (1)" | 1973 |
| Cannon | "Fall Guy" | 1975 |
| The Rockford Files | "Drought at Indianhead River" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Motorcycle Boogie" | 1977 |
| All In The Family | "Archie's Other Wife" | 1978 |
| Dallas | "Election" | 1978 |
| Lou Grant | "Gambling" | 1979 |
| 240-Robert | "Poison Air" | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Enos Strate to the Top" | 1980 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mama Mork, Papa Mindy" | 1981 |
| Taxi | "Louie's Fling" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Vance's Lady" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "Aftermath" | 1982 |
| The A-Team | "The Heart of Rock N' Roll" | 1985 |
| Amazing Stories | "The Amazing Falsworth" | 1985 |
| Punky Brewster | "Beer & Buffalos Don't Mix" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "Paint Your Office" | 1987 |
| The Cosby Show | "Autumn Gifts" | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | "Brackman Vasektimized" | 1987 |
| 227 | "Double Your Pleasure" | 1988 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Dead Letter" | 1989 |
| Murphy Brown | "Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery" | 1990 |
| Cheers | "Teaching with the Enemy (1)" | 1992 |
| L.A. Law | "Zo Long" | 1992 |
| Murphy Brown | "Waiting to Inhale" | 1997 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Moby Dick" | 1997 |
