May 16th in TV History
Births
Jack Dodson (1931, Pittsburgh, PA) - The Andy Griffith ShowYvonne Craig (1937, Taylorville, IL) - Batman, Star Trek
Laurette Spang (1951, Buffalo, NY)
Deaths
Andy Kaufman (1984 in Los Angeles, CA) - Taxi, Saturday Night LiveMargaret 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) |
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