May 16th

May 16th in TV History


Births

Jack Dodson (1931, Pittsburgh, PA) - The Andy Griffith Show
Yvonne Craig (1937, Taylorville, IL) - Batman, Star Trek
Laurette Spang (1951, 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)