May 11th

May 11th in TV History


Births

Phil Silvers (1911, Brooklyn, NY) - The Phil Silvers Show
Bernard Fox (1927, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK) - Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes

Deaths

Lester Flatt (1979 in Nashville, TN)
Timothy Carey (1994 in Los Angeles, CA)
Jerry Stiller (2020) - Seinfeld, King of Queens

TV Shows Ended

Quincy, M.E. (1983)
Dynasty (1989)

TV Episode Debuts

I Love Lucy "Lucy's Last Birthday" (1953)
Gunsmoke "Moon" (1957)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Big Plans for Summer" (1960)
The Twilight Zone "Young Man's Fancy" (1962)
77 Sunset Strip "The Gemmologist Caper" (1962)
Gunsmoke "Daddy Went Away" (1963)
The Andy Griffith Show "Back to Nature" (1964)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "Long Night's Journey Into Day" (1966)
Doctor Who "The Wheel in Space, Part Three" (1968)
Laverne & Shirley "From Suds to Stardom" (1976)
The Dukes of Hazzard "Double Sting" (1979)
Laverne & Shirley "Perfidy in Blue" (1982)
Three's Company "Mate for Each Other" (1982)
Dallas "Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie" (1984)
Amazing Stories "One for the Books" (1986)
ALF "Come Fly with Me" (1987)
Punky Brewster "Aunt Larnese Is Coming to Town" (1988)
The Cosby Show "57 Varieties" (1989)
L.A. Law "Urine Trouble Now" (1989)
227 "Jackee" (1989)
Dallas "Three, Three, Three (2)" (1990)
Murphy Brown "A Chance of Showers" (1992)
3rd Rock From the Sun "Fifteen Minutes of Dick" (1997)
3rd Rock From the Sun "Dick and the Single Girl" (1997)
3rd Rock From the Sun "Dick vs. Strudwick" (1999)