April 6th

April 6th in TV History

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Births

Roy Thinnes (1938, Chicago, IL) - The Invaders, Falcon Crest
John Ratzenberger (1947, Bridgeport, CT) - Cheers

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Deaths

James Best (2015 in Hickory, NC) - Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard
Don Rickles (2017 in Los Angeles, CA)

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TV Show Debuts

Private Benjamin (1981)

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TV Shows Ended

F Troop (1967)

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TV Episode Debuts

Gunsmoke "The Photographer" (1957)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The T-Shirts" (1960)

The Twilight Zone "Four O'Clock" (1962)

77 Sunset Strip "The Pet Shop Caper" (1962)

Gunsmoke "The Far Places" (1963)

The Andy Griffith Show "A Deal is a Deal" (1964)

The Fugitive "A.P.B." (1965)

Lost in Space "All That Glitters" (1966)

Batman "The Joker Trumps an Ace (1)" (1966)

The Big Valley "The River Monarch" (1966)

I Spy (US) "There Was a Little Girl" (1966)

The Beverly Hillbillies "Jethro's Pad" (1966)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "A Day in the Life of Alan Brady" (1966)

Bewitched "How to Fail in Business With All Kinds of Help" (1967)

Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967)

Get Smart (1965) "The Reluctant Redhead" (1968)

Doctor Who "Fury from the Deep, Part Four" (1968)

All in the Family "The First and Last Supper" (1971)

Laverne & Shirley "It's the Water" (1976)

The Dukes of Hazzard "Limo One is Missing" (1979)

Dallas "John Ewing III (2)" (1979)

Lou Grant "Violence" (1981)

Three's Company "Janet Wigs Out" (1982)

The Fall Guy "The Chameleon" (1983)

Taxi "Louie and the Blind Girl" (1983)

Dallas "Blow Up" (1984)

Airwolf "Eruption" (1985)

Murder, She Wrote "Menace, Anyone?" (1986)

Amazing Stories "Secret Cinema" (1986)

ALF "The Gambler" (1987)

Cheers "The Gift of the Woody" (1989)

L.A. Law "The Unbearable Lightness of Boring" (1989)

Dallas "Jessica Redux" (1990)

Murphy Brown "Opus One" (1998)

3rd Rock From the Sun "Dick the Mouth Solomon" (1999)