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A lot of people think that A Charlie Brown Christmas , which originally aired in 1965, was the first time that Charles Schulz's belo...

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When NBC's popular cop series Adam-12 ended in 1975, the final episode left the fates of officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed dangling ...

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