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December 4th in TV History
Birthdays
 | Donnelly Rhodes | 1937 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | |
| Max Baer, Jr. | 1937 in 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 |
