May 1st

May 1st in TV History

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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

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Deaths

Grace Lee Whitney (2015 in Coarsegold, CA) - Star Trek

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TV Show Debuts

The Flintstones (1960)

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TV Shows Ended

My Favorite Martian (1966)
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1982)
CHiPs (1983)
Magnum, P.I. (1988)

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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)