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December 13th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Dick Van Dyke | 1925 in West Plains, MO | - The Dick Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis Murder |
TV Episode Debuts
| I Love Lucy | "Getting Ready" | 1954 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | "The Twitch" | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | "Robber Bridegroom" | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | "The Illustrator" | 1960 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "An Old Friend of June's" | 1962 |
| The Twilight Zone | "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" | 1963 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "The Fumble" | 1963 |
| 12 O'Clock High | "Between the Lines" | 1965 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "The Church Organ" | 1965 |
| Lost in Space | "Two Weeks in Space" | 1967 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Cimarron Drip" | 1967 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 143 -- Cave" | 1969 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Gypsy" | 1970 |
| Gunsmoke | "Gold Train: The Bullet (3)" | 1971 |
| Cannon | "The Endangered Species" | 1972 |
| Adam-12 | "Hot Spell" | 1972 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | "Stranger in Broken Fork" | 1974 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "One Boyfriend Too Many" | 1975 |
| Lou Grant | "Christmas" | 1977 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Take My Plants, Please" | 1977 |
| Three's Company | "Helen's Job" | 1977 |
| Happy Days | "Nose for News" | 1977 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Testing, Testing" | 1979 |
| Three's Company | "Now You See It, Now You Don't" | 1983 |
| The A-Team | "The Maltese Cow" | 1983 |
| Happy Days | "You Get What You Pay For" | 1983 |
| Cheers | "Peterson Crusoe" | 1984 |
| Night Court | "Take My Wife, Please" | 1984 |
| The Cosby Show | "Rudy's Sick" | 1984 |
| Family Ties | "Karen II, Alex 0" | 1984 |
| Dallas | "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" | 1985 |
| 227 | "Author, Author" | 1986 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Doom with a View" | 1987 |
| Family Ties | "The American Family (1)" | 1987 |
| Family Ties | "The American Family (2)" | 1987 |
| Moonlighting | "Between a Yuk and a Hard Place" | 1988 |
| Cheers | "Woody Interruptus" | 1990 |
| The Cosby Show | "It's Your Move" | 1990 |
| L.A. Law | "God Rest Ye Little Gentleman" | 1990 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "A Christmas Secret" | 1992 |
| Murphy Brown | "Sox and the Single Girl" | 1993 |
