May 6th

May 6th in TV History


Births

Raymond Bailey (1904, San Francisco, CA)
Frank Nelson (1911, Colorado Springs, CO) - "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss?"
Orson Welles (1915, 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)