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November 16th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Burgess Meredith | 1907 in Cleveland, OH | - The Twilight Zone, Batman |
 | Royal Dano | 1922 in New York City, NY | |
| Clu Gulager | 1928 in Holdenville, OK | |
| Tammy Lauren | 1968 in San Diego, CA | |
Deaths
| Edward Woodward | 2009 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK | - The Equalizer |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "The French Revue" | 1953 |
| Gunsmoke | "Never Pester Chester" | 1957 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Friend in Need" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Barking Dog" | 1961 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Catspaw Caper" | 1962 |
| The Avengers | "Second Sight" | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | "Carter Caper" | 1963 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "Submarine Sunk Here" | 1964 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Opie's Fortune" | 1964 |
| The Fugitive | "Landscape with Running Figures (1)" | 1965 |
| F Troop | "She's Only a Build in an Girdled Cage" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "Curse of Cousin Smith" | 1966 |
| Batman | "The Impractical Joker (1)" | 1966 |
| I Spy (US) | "One of Our Bombs is Missing" | 1966 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Jed Joins the Board" | 1966 |
| Batman | "Surf's Up! Joker's Under!" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds" | 1967 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "With Love and Twitches" | 1968 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "Color the Luftwaffe Red" | 1968 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 101: Someone Stole My Lawn" | 1968 |
| Doctor Who | "The Invasion, Part Three" | 1968 |
| Gunsmoke | "The Scavengers" | 1970 |
| Cannon | "A Lonely Place to Die" | 1971 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "What Are Friends For?" | 1974 |
| All In The Family | "The Longest Kiss" | 1974 |
| Kojak (1973) | "The Nicest Guys on the Block" | 1975 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "The Blue Flash" | 1975 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Look Before You Leap" | 1976 |
| Happy Days | "They Shoot Fonzies, Don't They?" | 1976 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Angel Baby" | 1977 |
| Mork & Mindy | "A Mommy For Morky" | 1978 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Witness for the Persecution" | 1979 |
| The Rockford Files | "Nice Guys Finish Dead" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "Mastectomy (1)" | 1979 |
| Dallas | "Mastectomy (2)" | 1979 |
| Lou Grant | "Reckless" | 1981 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Death Row (1)" | 1982 |
| Three's Company | "Opening Night" | 1982 |
| Happy Days | "Who Gives a Hootenanny?" | 1982 |
| The Fall Guy | "Inside, Outside" | 1983 |
| Family Ties | "Sweet Lorraine" | 1983 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Go West, Young Dukes" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "Oil Baron's Ball III" | 1984 |
| 227 | "Pity the Poor Working Girl" | 1985 |
| Airwolf | "Annie Oakley" | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Deadline for Murder" | 1986 |
| ALF | "Night Train" | 1987 |
| Punky Brewster | "My Fair Punky" | 1987 |
| Night Court | "Educating Rhoda" | 1988 |
| Cheers | "For Real Men Only" | 1989 |
| The Cosby Show | "Cliff's Wet Adventure" | 1989 |
| L.A. Law | "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" | 1989 |
| Night Court | "A Night Court at the Opera" | 1990 |
| Dallas | "One Last Kiss" | 1990 |
| Murphy Brown | "Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much" | 1992 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Shooting in Rome" | 1995 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Dick and Tuck" | 1999 |
