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May 6th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Raymond Bailey | 1904 in San Francisco, CA | |
| Frank Nelson | 1911 in Colorado Springs, CO | - "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss?" |
| Orson Welles | 1915 in Kenosha, WI | |
Deaths
| George Lindsey | 2012 in Nashville, TN | - The Andy Griffith Show |
TV Shows Ended
I Love Lucy (1957)
227 (1990)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Thorny's Piano" | 1955 |
| I Love Lucy | "The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue" | 1957 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Bilko's TV Pilot" | 1958 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Full House" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "A Stop at Willoughby" | 1960 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Fraternity of Fear" | 1960 |
| Gunsmoke | "Hard Virtue" | 1961 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Big House" | 1963 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Continental Touch" | 1964 |
| Bewitched | "Illegal Separation" | 1965 |
| The Munsters | "Lily Munster, Girl Model" | 1965 |
| The Avengers | "Who's Who???" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Faceless Ones, Part Five" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Mutants, Part Five" | 1972 |
| Happy Days | "Goin' to Chicago" | 1975 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Rancho Outcast" | 1978 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Diner" | 1980 |
| Three's Company | "Jack's Graduation" | 1980 |
| Taxi | "Fantasy Borough (1)" | 1980 |
| Happy Days | "Ralph's Family Problem" | 1980 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Gotta Run (1)" | 1982 |
| Taxi | "The Road Not Taken (2)" | 1982 |
| Dallas | "Ewing Inferno" | 1983 |
| The A-Team | "A Little Town With an Accent" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "Her Honor (2)" | 1987 |
| Punky Brewster | "Cosmetic Scam" | 1988 |
| Dallas | "Things Ain't Goin' So Good at Southfork, Again" | 1988 |
| 227 | "House Number" | 1989 |
| 227 | "No Place Like Home" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Usual Suspects" | 1991 |
| Cheers | "Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (1)" | 1993 |
| Cheers | "Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses (2)" | 1993 |
| L.A. Law | "Testing, Testing, 1...2...3...4" | 1993 |
| Murphy Brown | "Casa Nova" | 1996 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Sally and Don's First Kiss" | 1998 |
