March 1st

March 1st in TV History


Births

Dirk Benedict (1945, Helena, MT) - The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica
Ron Howard (1954, Duncan, OK) - The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days

Deaths

Jackie Coogan (1984 in Santa Monica, CA) - The Addams Family
Bonnie Franklin (2013 in Los Angeles, CA) - One Day at a Time

TV Shows Ended

The Mod Squad (1973)
In Search Of... (1982)
NYPD Blue (2005)

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "Home Movies" (1954)
Gunsmoke "Dirt" (1958)
The Rifleman "The Grasshopper" (1960)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Mr. Kelley's Important Papers" (1961)
77 Sunset Strip "Dial S for Spencer" (1963)
Gunsmoke "Quint's Indian" (1963)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Cradle of the Deep" (1965)
The Andy Griffith Show "TV or Not TV" (1965)
The Fugitive "The Chinese Sunset" (1966)
Lost in Space "Treasure of the Lost Planet" (1967)
Batman "A Piece of the Action (1)" (1967)
I Spy (US) "Get Thee to a Nunnery" (1967)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Gypsy's Warning" (1967)
Star Trek "The Omega Glory" (1968)
Get Smart (1965) "Shock It to Me" (1969)
Hogan's Heroes "The Witness" (1969)
Adam-12 "Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away From It" (1969)
Doctor Who "The Seeds of Death, Part Six" (1969)
Columbo "Ransom For A Dead Man" (1971)
Gunsmoke "Pike (1) (aka: Dirty Sally (1))" (1971)
Night Gallery "The Caterpillar" (1972)
Night Gallery "Little Girl Lost" (1972)
Adam-12 "Who Won?" (1972)
The Six Million Dollar Man "Doomsday, and Counting" (1974)
Gunsmoke "Trail of Bloodshed" (1974)
All In The Family "No Smoking" (1975)
All In The Family "Gloria and Mike's House Guests" (1976)
Laverne & Shirley "Hi, Neighbor Book 2" (1977)
Happy Days "Joanie's Weird Boyfriend" (1977)
Charlie's Angels "The Jade Trap" (1978)
Lou Grant "Hunger" (1982)
Laverne & Shirley "How's Your Sister?" (1983)
Three's Company "Jack's Double Date" (1983)
The A-Team "The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas" (1983)
Happy Days "Babysitting" (1983)
Dallas "Dead Ends" (1985)
Murder, She Wrote "Simon Says, Color Me Dead" (1987)
Moonlighting "Maddie Hayes Got Married" (1988)
Night Court "This Old Man" (1989)
Dallas "Win Some, Lose Some" (1991)
Murder, She Wrote "Tinker, Tailor, Liar, Thief" (1992)
Murphy Brown "To Market, to Market" (1993)