December 18th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Roger Smith | 1932 in South Gate, CA | - 77 Sunset Strip, husband/manager of Ann-Margret |
Deaths
| Majel Barrett | 2008 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA | - Star Trek |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Credit Reference" | 1953 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Sergeant Bilko Presents Ed Sullivan" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Christmas Tree Lot" | 1957 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Vacation with Pay" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "The High Country" | 1961 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Pickle Story" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts Get Culture" | 1963 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "David and the Mermaid" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "The Alan Brady Show Presents" | 1963 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Art and the Addams Family" | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "The Suspected" | 1964 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Weekend Vampire" | 1965 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "What House Across the Street?" | 1965 |
| The Avengers | "Two's a Crowd" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Avengers" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "Coronas of the Sun (The Daleks' Master Plan, Part Six)" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Brand of the Beast" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Journey into Violence" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Howard's New Life" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "Wonder" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Week Before Christmas" | 1968 |
| The Avengers | "They Keep Killing Steed" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Ted Over Heels" | 1971 |
| All in the Family | "Christmas Day at the Bunkers'" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "Jubilee" | 1972 |
| Cannon | "Daddy's Little Girl" | 1974 |
| All In The Family | "Gloria's False Alarm" | 1976 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Cheshire Project" | 1977 |
| Lou Grant | "Conflict" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "The Reverend Steps Out" | 1979 |
| Taxi | "Jim Gets a Pet" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "Here Comes the Bride Again" | 1979 |
| Angie | "Coffee Wars" | 1979 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Gunfight at the Mork-Kay Corral" | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Hughie Hogg Strikes Again" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "Waterloo at Southfork" | 1981 |
| The A-Team | "Breakout!" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "Dance, Diane, Dance" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "New Year's Leave" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Cliff in Charge" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "My Mother, My Friend" | 1986 |
| L.A. Law | "Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Daddy's Little Darlin'" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel" | 1988 |
| Family Ties | "Heartstrings (3)" | 1988 |
| Murphy Brown | "Here's to You Mrs. Kinsella" | 1989 |