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November 20th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Franklin Cover | 1928 in Cleveland, OH | |
| Richard Dawson | 1932 in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK | - Hogan's Heroes, Match Game, Family Feud |
| Bob Einstein | 1942 in Los Angeles, CA | - Super Dave Osborne |
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Suggestion Box" | 1953 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "Doberman's Sister" | 1956 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ozzie's Triple Banana Surprise" | 1957 |
| The Twilight Zone | "Time Enough at Last" | 1959 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Out of the Past" | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | "Honest Abe" | 1961 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Crime-Free Mayberry" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Clampetts Go Hollywood" | 1963 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Money Watchers" | 1963 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Big Max Calvada" | 1963 |
| The Addams Family (1964) | "Wednesday Leaves Home" | 1964 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Appointment at Liege" | 1964 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Our Man in Leotards" | 1965 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Djinn and Water" | 1965 |
| The Avengers | "A Surfeit of H2O" | 1965 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Pretender" | 1965 |
| Doctor Who | "Day of Armageddon (The Daleks' Master Plan, Part Two)" | 1965 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Deadly Invasion" | 1966 |
| The Big Valley | "Explosion (1)" | 1967 |
| I Spy (US) | "Apollo" | 1967 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Andy's Investment" | 1967 |
| Gunsmoke | "Stranger in Town" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Bonnie, Flatt, and Scruggs" | 1968 |
| The Avengers | "Legacy of Death" | 1968 |
| Bewitched | "Daddy Comes for a Visit (1)" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Don't Break the Chain" | 1971 |
| All in the Family | "Mike's Problem" | 1971 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Sodbusters" | 1972 |
| Cannon | "The Man Who Couldn't Forget" | 1974 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Lou Proposes" | 1976 |
| All In The Family | "Mike and Gloria's Will" | 1976 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Tears for All Who Loved Her" | 1977 |
| Lou Grant | "Schools" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "The Loan Shark" | 1979 |
| Taxi | "Alex's Romance" | 1979 |
| Happy Days | "King Richard's Big Night" | 1979 |
| Angie | "Family Feud" | 1979 |
| Mork & Mindy | "Mork in Never Never Land" | 1980 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "10 Million Dollar Sheriff (1)" | 1981 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "10 Million Dollar Sheriff (2)" | 1981 |
| Dallas | "Blocked" | 1981 |
| The A-Team | "Showdown!" | 1984 |
| Cheers | "Knights of the Scimitar" | 1986 |
| Night Court | "The New Judge" | 1986 |
| The Cosby Show | "Denise Gets a D" | 1986 |
| Family Ties | "My Brother's Keeper" | 1986 |
| Punky Brewster | "Tangled Web" | 1987 |
| Dallas | "Bedtime Stories" | 1987 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Coal Miner's Slaughter" | 1988 |
| Murphy Brown | "Roasted" | 1989 |
| ALF | "Break Up to Make Up" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "Get Me to the Roof on Time" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Crimson Harvest" | 1994 |
| Murphy Brown | "The Humboldt Doldt" | 1995 |
