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April 6th

April 6th in TV History


Birthdays

ImageRoy Thinnes1938 in Chicago, IL - The Invaders, Falcon Crest
ImageJohn Ratzenberger1947 in Bridgeport, CT - Cheers

Deaths

ImageJames Best2015 in Hickory, NC - Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard
ImageDon Rickles2017 in Los Angeles, CA

TV Show Debuts

Private Benjamin (1981)

TV Shows Ended

F Troop (1967)

TV Episode Debuts

Gunsmoke"The Photographer"1957
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"The T-Shirts"1960
The Twilight Zone"Four O'Clock"1962
77 Sunset Strip"The Pet Shop Caper"1962
Gunsmoke"The Far Places"1963
The Andy Griffith Show"A Deal is a Deal"1964
The Fugitive"A.P.B."1965
Lost in Space"All That Glitters"1966
Batman"The Joker Trumps an Ace (1)"1966
The Big Valley"The River Monarch"1966
I Spy (US)"There Was a Little Girl"1966
The Beverly Hillbillies"Jethro's Pad"1966
The Dick Van Dyke Show"A Day in the Life of Alan Brady"1966
Bewitched"How to Fail in Business With All Kinds of Help"1967
Star Trek"The City on the Edge of Forever"1967
Get Smart (1965)"The Reluctant Redhead"1968
Doctor Who"Fury from the Deep, Part Four"1968
All in the Family"The First and Last Supper"1971
Laverne & Shirley"It's the Water"1976
The Dukes of Hazzard"Limo One is Missing"1979
Dallas"John Ewing III (2)"1979
Lou Grant"Violence"1981
Three's Company"Janet Wigs Out"1982
The Fall Guy"The Chameleon"1983
Taxi"Louie and the Blind Girl"1983
Dallas"Blow Up"1984
Airwolf"Eruption"1985
Murder, She Wrote"Menace, Anyone?"1986
Amazing Stories"Secret Cinema"1986
ALF"The Gambler"1987
Cheers"The Gift of the Woody"1989
L.A. Law"The Unbearable Lightness of Boring"1989
Dallas"Jessica Redux"1990
Murphy Brown"Opus One"1998
3rd Rock From the Sun"Dick the Mouth Solomon"1999
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