May 8th

May 8th in TV History

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Births

Don Rickles (1926, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, NY)
Ricky Nelson (1940, Teaneck, NJ) - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

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Deaths

George Peppard (1994 in Los Angeles, CA) - Banacek, The A-Team
William Schallert (2016 in Pacific Palisades, CA) - The Patty Duke Show, Star Trek

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TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Traders" (1953)

The Phil Silvers Show "War Games" (1956)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Ricky's Surprise Party" (1957)

77 Sunset Strip "Downbeat" (1959)

The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko's Small Car" (1959)

The Andy Griffith Show "Barney Gets His Man" (1961)

The Beverly Hillbillies "The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed" (1963)

The Dick Van Dyke Show "When a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen" (1963)

The Twilight Zone "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" (1964)

Gilligan's Island "Physical Fatness" (1965)

Gunsmoke "Two Tall Men" (1965)

Doctor Who "The Search (The Space Museum, Part Three)" (1965)

Get Smart (1965) "Do I Hear a Vaults?" (1970)

Doctor Who "Colony in Space, Part Five" (1971)

Kojak (1973) "The Only Way Out" (1974)

Laverne & Shirley "Spy in My Beer" (1979)

Three's Company "Jack Moves Out" (1979)

Taxi "Hollywood Calling" (1979)

Happy Days "Chachi's Incredo-Wax" (1979)

The A-Team "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" (1984)

Happy Days "Passages (1)" (1984)

Happy Days "Passages (2)" (1984)

Cheers "Strange Bedfellows (2)" (1986)

Night Court "Hurricane (2)" (1986)

The Cosby Show "Off to the Races" (1986)

Family Ties "Paper Chase (a.k.a. Mallory's Graduation)" (1986)

Airwolf "Flowers of the Mountain" (1987)

Dallas "Two-Fifty" (1987)

Murder, She Wrote "The Body Politic" (1988)

Murphy Brown "The Summer of '77" (1989)

ALF "Having My Baby" (1989)

Night Court "Where There's a Will, There's a Tony (2)" (1991)

Columbo "Strange Bedfellows" (1995)

Murphy Brown "Model Relationships" (1995)

3rd Rock From the Sun "Mary Loves Scoochie: Part 1" (2001)