May 1st in TV History
Births
Louis Nye (1913, Hartford, CT)Sharon Spelman (1942, Los Angeles, CA)
Joanna Lumley (1946, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India) - Absolutely Fabulous
Douglas Barr (1949, Cedar Rapids, IA) - The Fall Guy
Deaths
Grace Lee Whitney (2015 in Coarsegold, CA) - Star TrekTV 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) |
