December 16th

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)