August 8th

August 8th in TV History

Births

Colin Male (1925, Buffalo, NY) - The Andy Griffith Show
Richard Anderson (1926, Long Branch, NJ) - The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Dan August, Perry Mason
Wayne Knight (1955, Cartersville, GA) - Newman on Seinfeld

Deaths

Richard Deacon (1984 in Los Angeles, CA) - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Alan Napier (1988 in Santa Monica, CA) - Batman

TV Shows Ended

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1999)

TV Episode Debuts

Doctor Who "A Land of Fear (The Reign of Terror, Part One)" (1964)