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December 12th in TV History
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Harriet's Hairdo" | 1952 |
| I Love Lucy | "Ricky's European Booking" | 1955 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "A Doctor in the House" | 1956 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Vicious Circle" | 1958 |
| Gunsmoke | "False Witness" | 1959 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Ellie for Council" | 1960 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Empress Carlotta's Necklace" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "The Great Feud" | 1962 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Gesundheit, Darling" | 1962 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Angel on the Island" | 1964 |
| Doctor Who | "The End of Tomorrow (The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Part Four)" | 1964 |
| Gunsmoke | "Innocence" | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Machines Strike Back" | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | "A Day of Terror" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "All About Eva" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "The World's Greatest Lover" | 1966 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Otis the Deputy" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "My Son, the Genie" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "I Don't Want to Be a Toad, I Want to Be a Butterfly" | 1968 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Is This Trip Necessary?" | 1969 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Antique" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "He's All Yours" | 1970 |
| Cannon | "A Well Remembered Terror" | 1973 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Dark Sunday" | 1973 |
| Adam-12 | "If the Shoe Fits" | 1973 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Where Do You Go When You Have Nowhere To Go?" | 1976 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "A Bionic Christmas Carol" | 1976 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "It's a Dog's Life" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "Eleanor's Return" | 1978 |
| Taxi | "A Full House for Christmas" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "Richie Gets Framed" | 1978 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Cruising Angels" | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane" | 1980 |
| Dallas | "The Fourth Son" | 1980 |
| Cheers | "Don Juan is Hell" | 1985 |
| Night Court | "The Wheels of Justice (2)" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "Denise's Friend" | 1985 |
| Family Ties | "How Do You Sleep?" | 1985 |
| The A-Team | "The Spy Who Mugged Me" | 1986 |
| Dallas | "Bar-B-Cued" | 1986 |
| 227 | "The Facade" | 1987 |
| Murphy Brown | "Baby Love" | 1988 |
| ALF | "Do You Believe in Magic?" | 1988 |
| Cheers | "Go Mate" | 1991 |
| L.A. Law | "Lose the Boss" | 1991 |
| Murphy Brown | "Brown in Toyland" | 1994 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "B.D.O.C." | 2000 |
