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May 4th in TV History
Deaths
 | Dom DeLuise | 2009 in Santa Monica, CA | |
| Chuck Hicks | 2021 in Las Vegas, NV | |
TV Shows Ended
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1976)
Galactica 1980 (1980)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The Indian Show" | 1953 |
| Gunsmoke | "Cheap Labor" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Dave and the Schoolteacher" | 1960 |
| The Twilight Zone | "The Dummy" | 1962 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Lovely American" | 1962 |
| Gunsmoke | "Old York" | 1963 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Barney and Thelma Lou, Phfftt" | 1964 |
| Batman | "Fine Finny Fiends (1)" | 1966 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Love Thy Other Neighbor" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "There's Gold in Them Thar Pills" | 1967 |
| Doctor Who | "The Wheel in Space, Part Two" | 1968 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "How Do You Say 'Are You Dead' in German?" | 1976 |
| Charlie's Angels | "The Blue Angels" | 1977 |
| The Bionic Woman | "Once A Thief" | 1977 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Route 7-11" | 1979 |
| Lou Grant | "Stroke" | 1981 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Crime Isn't Pretty" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Up in the Air" | 1982 |
| The Fall Guy | "Just a Small Circle of Friends" | 1983 |
| Dallas | "Love Stories" | 1984 |
| Amazing Stories | "The Doll" | 1986 |
| ALF | "La Cuckaracha" | 1987 |
| Punky Brewster | "Passed Away at Punky's Place" | 1988 |
| Cheers | "The Visiting Lecher" | 1989 |
| The Cosby Show | "Day of the Locusts" | 1989 |
| L.A. Law | "America the Beautiful" | 1989 |
| Dallas | "Three, Three, Three (1)" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "On the Rocks" | 1992 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Will Work for Dick" | 1997 |
| Murphy Brown | "Dial and Substance" | 1998 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Alien Hunter" | 1999 |
