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December 29th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Mary Tyler Moore | 1936 in Brooklyn, NY | - The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
 | Ted Danson | 1947 in San Diego, CA | |
Deaths
| William Boyett | 2004 in Mission Hills, CA | - Adam-12, Emergency! |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Lucy Hires an English Tutor" | 1952 |
| Gunsmoke | "Cholera" | 1956 |
| The Rifleman | "Surveyors" | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | "A Quality of Mercy" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Chrome Coffin" | 1961 |
| The Avengers | "Dead on Course" | 1962 |
| Gunsmoke | "Old Comrade" | 1962 |
| The Fugitive | "Ballad for a Ghost" | 1964 |
| Lost in Space | "Return from Outer Space" | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | "The Invaders" | 1965 |
| I Spy (US) | "Affair in T'Sien Cha" | 1965 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Common Cold" | 1965 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work" | 1965 |
| Batman | "The Catwoman Goeth (2)" | 1966 |
| Bewitched | "Soapbox Derby" | 1966 |
| Star Trek | "Shore Leave" | 1966 |
| Star Trek | "The Trouble with Tribbles" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Sisters" | 1969 |
| Bewitched | "Adam, Warlock or Washout?" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "The Different Ones" | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "Tell David..." | 1971 |
| Night Gallery | "Logoda's Heads" | 1971 |
| Adam-12 | "Pick-Up" | 1971 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Murder Digs Deep" | 1985 |
| Amazing Stories | "Vanessa in the Garden" | 1985 |
| Amazing Stories | "The Eternal Mind" | 1986 |
