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April 5th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Gordon Jones | 1911 in Alden, IA | |
| Mary Costa | 1930 in Knoxville, TN | |
| Frank Gorshin | 1933 in Pittsburgh, PA | - The Riddler on Batman, Star Trek |
Deaths
| Debralee Scott | 2005 in Amelia Island, FL | - Angie, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
| Tim O'Connor | 2018 in Nevada City, CA | - Buck Rogers, Peyton Place |
 | Honor Blackman | 2020 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK | - The Avengers, the James Bond movie "Goldfinger" |
TV Shows Ended
My Mother the Car (1966)
Hawaii Five-O (1980)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Writes a Novel" | 1954 |
| Gunsmoke | "Texas Cowboys" | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | "Smoke Screen" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Question of Suits and Ties" | 1961 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Student Nurse" | 1962 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Target Island" | 1963 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Secret of the Loch" | 1965 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Arrest of the Fun Girls" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "The Mechanical Men" | 1967 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 022: So This Little Guy Goes Into This Bar" | 1969 |
| Doctor Who | "The Space Pirates, Part Five" | 1969 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 125 -- Safe Job" | 1971 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Last of the Fourth of Julys" | 1974 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Citizen Crane" | 1977 |
| Lou Grant | "Blacklist" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" | 1983 |
| The A-Team | "West Coast Turnaround" | 1983 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Cemetery Vote" | 1987 |
| The Cosby Show | "Off to See the Wretched" | 1990 |
| L.A. Law | "Watts a Matter?" | 1990 |
| Dallas | "Those Darned Ewings" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Programmed for Murder" | 1992 |
