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May 9th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Al Rosen | 1910 in Maryland | |
 | Kevin Peter Hall | 1955 in Pittsburgh, PA | |
TV Shows Ended
The Golden Girls (1992)
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy and Harpo Marx" | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Choice" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "Death Trap" | 1961 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Passage on the Lady Anne" | 1963 |
| Doctor Who | "Sentence of Death (The Keys of Marinus, Part Five)" | 1964 |
| Gunsmoke | "Scot Free" | 1964 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 173 -- Shoplift" | 1970 |
| Doctor Who | "Inferno, Part One" | 1970 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "The Debutante Ball" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Bird Song" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "Do You Want to Dance?" | 1978 |
| Cheers | "Rescue Me" | 1985 |
| Night Court | "Walk, Don't Wheel" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "Cliff's Birthday" | 1985 |
| Dallas | "Hello, Goodbye, Hello" | 1986 |
| ALF | "Varsity Drag" | 1988 |
| Punky Brewster | "See You in Court" | 1988 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Szechuan Dragon" | 1990 |
| L.A. Law | "On the Toad Again" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Survivor" | 1993 |
| Murphy Brown | "My Movie With Louis" | 1994 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Frankie Goes to Rutherford" | 2000 |