December 16th in TV History
Births
Terry Carter (1928, Brooklyn, NY)Steven Bochco (1943, New York City, NY) - writer for Hill Street Blues
Deborah Pratt (1951, Chicago, IL)
TV Show Debuts
Dragnet (1951) (1951)One Day at a Time (1975)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "The Eclipse" (1955) |
| The Rifleman "Young Englishman" (1958) |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Rick Gets Even" (1959) |
| The Twilight Zone "A Most Unusual Camera" (1960) |
| 77 Sunset Strip "The Valley Caper" (1960) |
| The Avengers "The Deadly Air" (1961) |
| Gunsmoke "Nina's Revenge" (1961) |
| The Andy Griffith Show "Citizen's Arrest" (1963) |
| The Beverly Hillbillies "The Boarder Stays" (1964) |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Chess Set" (1964) |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show "My Two Show-Offs and Me" (1964) |
| Gilligan's Island "Gilligan Gets Bugged" (1965) |
| Bewitched "Speak the Truth" (1965) |
| Hogan's Heroes "Klink's Rocket" (1966) |
| 12 O'Clock High "Six Feet Under" (1966) |
| Hogan's Heroes "The Hostage" (1967) |
| Doctor Who "The Ice Warriors, Part Six" (1967) |
| The Big Valley "The Prize" (1968) |
| I Dream of Jeannie "Dr. Bellows Goes Sane" (1968) |
| Gunsmoke "Lobo" (1968) |
| I Dream of Jeannie "Jeannie, the Matchmaker" (1969) |
| Night Gallery "The Dead Man" (1970) |
| Night Gallery "The Housekeeper" (1970) |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Rhoda Morgenstern: Minneapolis to New York" (1972) |
| All In The Family "Archie and the Bowling Team" (1972) |
| Columbo "Double Exposure" (1973) |
| Gunsmoke "The Colonel" (1974) |
| Happy Days "Tell It to the Marines" (1975) |
| The Rockford Files "The Queen of Peru" (1977) |
| Mork & Mindy "Exidor's Wedding" (1979) |
| Laverne & Shirley "Candy is Dandy" (1980) |
| Three's Company "Chrissy's Cousin" (1980) |
| Happy Days "White Christmas" (1980) |
| The Fall Guy "Japanese Connection" (1982) |
| Cheers "The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One" (1982) |
| Taxi "Get Me Through the Holidays" (1982) |
| Dallas "Barbecue Four" (1983) |
| Punky Brewster "Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus (1)" (1984) |
| Punky Brewster "Yes, Punky, There Is a Santa Claus (2)" (1984) |
| Murder, She Wrote "Death Takes a Curtain Call" (1984) |
| Moonlighting "It's a Wonderful Job" (1986) |
| Family Ties "Anniversary Waltz" (1987) |
| Dallas "Showdown at the Ewing Corral" (1988) |
| 227 "Guess Who's Not Coming to Christmas" (1989) |
| Murder, She Wrote "Murder in F Sharp" (1990) |
| Murphy Brown "Love is Blonde" (1991) |
| L.A. Law "Rhyme and Punishment" (1993) |
| Murphy Brown "Montezuma's Retreat" (1996) |
