May 15th

May 15th in TV History


Deaths

Andrew Duggan (1988 in Westwood, CA) - 12 O'Clock High
Royal Dano (1994 in Los Angeles, CA)
Fred Williard (2020 in Los Angeles, CA) - Fernwood 2 Night, sketch comedy, Christopher Guest mockumentaries

TV Shows Ended

Get Smart (1970)
Starsky & Hutch (1979)
The Ropers (1980)

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Boxing Matches" (1953)
The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko on Wall St" (1956)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Night Watchman" (1957)
77 Sunset Strip "Canine Caper" (1959)
The Phil Silvers Show "Doberman Missing Heir" (1959)
The Andy Griffith Show "The Guitar Player Returns" (1961)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted" (1963)
The Twilight Zone "The Brain Center at Whipple's" (1964)
Gilligan's Island "It's Magic" (1965)
Gunsmoke "Honey Pot" (1965)
Doctor Who "The Final Phase (The Space Museum, Part Four)" (1965)
Get Smart (1965) "I Am Curiously Yellow" (1970)
Doctor Who "Colony in Space, Part Six" (1971)
The Six Million Dollar Man "The Ghostly Teletype" (1977)
Laverne & Shirley "Shirley and the Older Man" (1979)
Three's Company "Triangle Troubles" (1979)
Taxi "Substitute Father" (1979)
Happy Days "Potsie Quits School" (1979)
The A-Team "Curtain Call" (1984)
Cheers "Strange Bedfellows (3)" (1986)
The Cosby Show "Denise's Decision" (1986)
Airwolf "The Key" (1987)
Dallas "Fall of the House of Ewing" (1987)
Murphy Brown "The Bickners" (1989)
Murder, She Wrote "A Murderous Muse" (1994)
Murphy Brown "Make Room For Daddy" (1995)
Columbo "A Trace of Murder" (1997)
3rd Rock From the Sun "Mary Loves Scoochie: Part 2" (2001)