April 5th

April 5th in TV History

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Births

Gordon Jones (1911, Alden, IA)
Mary Costa (1930, Knoxville, TN)
Frank Gorshin (1933, Pittsburgh, PA) - The Riddler on Batman, Star Trek

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Deaths

Debralee Scott (2005 in Amelia Island, FL) - Angie, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Tim O'Connor (2018 in Nevada City, CA) - Buck Rogers, Peyton Place
Honor Blackman (2020 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK) - The Avengers, the James Bond movie "Goldfinger"

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TV Shows Ended

My Mother the Car (1966)
Hawaii Five-O (1980)

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TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "Lucy Writes a Novel" (1954)

Gunsmoke "Texas Cowboys" (1958)

The Rifleman "Smoke Screen" (1960)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "A Question of Suits and Ties" (1961)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Student Nurse" (1962)

77 Sunset Strip "Target Island" (1963)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Secret of the Loch" (1965)

The Andy Griffith Show "The Arrest of the Fun Girls" (1965)

Lost in Space "The Mechanical Men" (1967)

Adam-12 "Log 022: So This Little Guy Goes Into This Bar" (1969)

Doctor Who "The Space Pirates, Part Five" (1969)

Adam-12 "Log 125 -- Safe Job" (1971)

The Six Million Dollar Man "The Last of the Fourth of Julys" (1974)

Laverne & Shirley "Citizen Crane" (1977)

Lou Grant "Blacklist" (1982)

Three's Company "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" (1983)

The A-Team "West Coast Turnaround" (1983)

Murder, She Wrote "The Cemetery Vote" (1987)

The Cosby Show "Off to See the Wretched" (1990)

L.A. Law "Watts a Matter?" (1990)

Dallas "Those Darned Ewings" (1991)

Murder, She Wrote "Programmed for Murder" (1992)