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March 3rd in TV History
Birthdays
 | James Doohan | 1920 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | - Scotty on Star Trek |
| David Faustino | 1974 in Los Angeles, CA | - Married With Children |
Deaths
| William Frawley | 1966 in Hollywood, CA | - I Love Lucy |
| Lee Philips | 1999 in Brentwood, CA | |
| David Ogden Stiers | 2018 in Newport, OR | - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III (M*A*S*H) and Cogsworth (Beauty & the Beast) |
TV Shows Ended
Petrocelli (1976)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "New Neighbors" | 1952 |
| Gunsmoke | "Reunion '78" | 1956 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Tiger by the Tail" | 1961 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Gallows" | 1962 |
| The Fugitive | "Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (2)" | 1964 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Double Naught Jethro" | 1965 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Desk Photo" | 1965 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Girls Will Be Boys" | 1965 |
| Batman | "He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul (2)" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Feed the Kitty" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "The Horse's Mouth" | 1966 |
| The Munsters | "The Musician" | 1966 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Reverend Kommandant Klink" | 1967 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Flaming Ice" | 1968 |
| The Big Valley | "The Royal Road" | 1969 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The Case of the Porcelain Puppy" | 1969 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Intruder" | 1969 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Help, Help, a Shark" | 1970 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady" | 1973 |
| All In The Family | "Everybody Tells the Truth" | 1973 |
| Doctor Who | "Frontier in Space, Part Two" | 1973 |
| Columbo | "Swan Song" | 1974 |
| Gunsmoke | "I Have Promises to Keep" | 1975 |
| Cannon | "Mad Man" | 1976 |
| The Bionic Woman | "The Deadly Missiles" | 1976 |
| The Rockford Files | "Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1)" | 1979 |
| The Rockford Files | "Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (2)" | 1979 |
| Lou Grant | "Dogs" | 1980 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "But Seriously, Folks . . ." | 1981 |
| Three's Company | "Teacher's Pet" | 1981 |
| Happy Days | "Fonzie Gets Shot" | 1981 |
| The Fall Guy | "The Snow Job" | 1982 |
| Cheers | "Someone Single, Someone Blue" | 1983 |
| Airwolf | "Echoes from the Past" | 1984 |
| Punky Brewster | "Gals and Dolls" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Sudden Death" | 1985 |
| Moonlighting | "Pilot (1)" | 1985 |
| Moonlighting | "Pilot (2)" | 1985 |
| Moonlighting | "Maddie's Turn to Cry (3)" | 1987 |
| Cheers | "The Sam in the Gray Flannel Suit" | 1988 |
| The Cosby Show | "Trust Me" | 1988 |
| L.A. Law | "Fetus Completus" | 1988 |
| Dallas | "The Way We Were" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Hungry Like a Wolf" | 1990 |
