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December 5th in TV History
Deaths
 | Robert Karvelas | 1991 in Los Angeles County, CA | - Get Smart |
TV Shows Ended
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1974)
TV Episode Debuts
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Thorny's Gift" | 1952 |
| I Love Lucy | "Nursery School" | 1955 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "Ricky's Car" | 1956 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | "Iron Curtain Caper" | 1958 |
| Gunsmoke | "Box o' Rocks" | 1959 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "A Feud is a Feud" | 1960 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "Forty-Four Tickets" | 1961 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | "Elly Races Jethrine" | 1962 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | "A Bird in the Head Hurts" | 1962 |
| Gilligan's Island | "Waiting For Watubi" | 1964 |
| Doctor Who | "Day of Reckoning (The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Part Three)" | 1964 |
| Gunsmoke | "Chicken" | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The X Factor" | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | "Last Stage to Salt Flats" | 1966 |
| Gilligan's Island | "And Then There Were None" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "My Master, the Great Caruso" | 1966 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | "Only a Rose" | 1966 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | "Jeannie and the Great Bank Robbery" | 1967 |
| Bewitched | "Samantha Loses Her Voice" | 1968 |
| Get Smart (1965) | "Age Before Duty" | 1969 |
| Hogan's Heroes | "The Empty Parachute" | 1969 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | "Anchorman Overboard" | 1970 |
| Adam-12 | "Log 135 -- Arson" | 1970 |
| Cannon | "Valley of the Damned" | 1973 |
| Kojak (1973) | "The Corrupter" | 1973 |
| Adam-12 | "Northeast Division" | 1973 |
| The Rockford Files | "The Reincarnation of Angie" | 1975 |
| Kojak (1973) | "Black Thorn" | 1976 |
| Laverne & Shirley | "Dinner For Four" | 1978 |
| Three's Company | "The Party's Over" | 1978 |
| Happy Days | "The Magic Show" | 1978 |
| Charlie's Angels | "Angel Hunt" | 1979 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | "Baa, Baa, White Sheep" | 1980 |
| Dallas | "The Venezuelan Connection" | 1980 |
| Cheers | "The Barstoolie" | 1985 |
| Night Court | "The Wheels of Justice (1)" | 1985 |
| The Cosby Show | "Clair's Toe" | 1985 |
| Family Ties | "Just One Look" | 1985 |
| Dallas | "Something Old, Something New" | 1986 |
| 227 | "Rapture" | 1987 |
| Murphy Brown | "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" | 1988 |
| ALF | "Alone Again, Naturally" | 1988 |
| Cheers | "I'm Okay, You're Defective" | 1991 |
| The Cosby Show | "Two Is a Crowd" | 1991 |
| Murder, She Wrote | "Murder at a Discount" | 1993 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | "Why Dickie Can't Teach" | 2000 |
