December 4th

December 4th in TV History


Births

Donnelly Rhodes (1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Max Baer, Jr. (1937, Oakland, CA) - The Beverly Hillbillies

Deaths

Robert Loggia (2015 in Los Angeles, CA) - Mancuso, F.B.I.
David L. Lander (2020 in Los Angeles, CA) - Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley

TV Shows Ended

Land of the Lost (1976)

TV Episode Debuts

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Parental Guidance" (1953)
The Phil Silvers Show "Bilko's Tax Trouble" (1956)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Fourteen Mile Hike" (1957)
The Twilight Zone "Judgment Night" (1959)
77 Sunset Strip "Secret Island" (1959)
The Rifleman "The Shattered Idol" (1961)
The Andy Griffith Show "Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter" (1961)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Garden Party" (1963)
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet "Ozzie's Hidden Trophy" (1963)
The Dick Van Dyke Show "Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors" (1963)
The Addams Family (1964) "Morticia, the Matchmaker" (1964)
12 O'Clock High "Here’s to Courageous Cowards" (1964)
Get Smart (1965) "My Nephew the Spy" (1965)
I Dream of Jeannie "Where'd You Go Go?" (1965)
The Avengers "Dial a Deadly Number" (1965)
Gunsmoke "The Hostage" (1965)
Doctor Who "The Traitors (The Daleks' Master Plan, Part Four)" (1965)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Plant Man" (1966)
The Big Valley "Four Days to Furnace Hill" (1967)
The Andy Griffith Show "Aunt Bee's Cousin" (1967)
Gunsmoke "Rope Fever" (1967)
The Beverly Hillbillies "The Courtship of Homer Noodleman" (1968)
The Avengers "Look- (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers..." (1968)
Bewitched "Sam's Double Mother Trouble" (1969)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "... Is a Friend in Need" (1971)
All in the Family "The Man in the Street" (1971)
Cannon "The Sounds of Silence" (1974)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Mary's Insomnia" (1976)
All In The Family "Archie's Secret Passion" (1976)
Kojak (1973) "The Summer of '69 (1)" (1977)
All In The Family "Archie and the KKK (2)" (1977)
Lou Grant "Singles" (1978)
Three's Company "Ralph's Rival" (1979)
Taxi "Elaine's Secret Admirer" (1979)
Happy Days "The Mechanic" (1979)
Angie "Mary, Mary Marries" (1979)
Mork & Mindy "Mork the Prankster" (1980)
The Dukes of Hazzard "Goodbye, General Lee" (1981)
Dallas "Five Dollars a Barrel" (1981)
The A-Team "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1984)
Cheers "Everyone Imitates Art" (1986)
Night Court "Earthquake" (1986)
The Cosby Show "A Girl and Her Dog" (1986)
Family Ties "High School Confidential" (1986)
L.A. Law "Fry Me to the Moon" (1986)
Punky Brewster "Remember When" (1987)
Dallas "Brothers and Sons" (1987)
Family Ties "Heartstrings (1)" (1988)
ALF "Fever" (1989)
Murder, She Wrote "Murder of the Month Club" (1994)