December 18

What happened today on December 18 back in...

1950s

1954

• "Touché, Pussy Cat!," the eighty-ninth short of Tom and Jerry, premiered in theaters.

1960s

1964

• "Dragons of Ashida," the fourteenth episode of Jonny Quest, premiered on ABC.

1965

• "The Big Gimmick," the twelfth episode of Atom Ant, premiered on NBC.
• "Test in the West," the twelfth episode of Precious Pupp, premiered on NBC.
• "Bricker Brats," the twelfth episode of The Hillbilly Bears, premiered on NBC.
• "Catty Cornered," the twelfth episode of Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole, premiered on NBC.
• "Clowning Around," the twelfth episode of Squiddly Diddly (segments), premiered on NBC.
• "Welcome Wagging," the twelfth episode of Winsome Witch, premiered on NBC.
• "Sea Going Penguin / Sinbad Jr. & the Mighty Magnet / Frozen Fracas," the fifteenth episodes of Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt, premiered in syndication.
• "Beau Jest," the thirtieth episode of Magilla Gorilla, premiered in syndication.

1970s

1971

• "The Diet Caper," the fifteenth episode of Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!, premiered on CBS.
• "They Went That Away," the fifteenth episode of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, premiered on CBS.
• "The Hairy Scary Houndman," the fifteenth episode of The Funky Phantom, premiered on ABC.

1976

• "Hyde and Seek," the sixteenth and final episode of The Mumbly Cartoon Show, premiered on ABC.
• "There's No Heel Like El Eel," the sixteenth and final episode of Jabberjaw, premiered on ABC.
• "The Spirits of '76," the sixteenth episode of The Scooby-Doo Show, premiered on ABC.
• "The Prophet Profits," the sixteenth episode of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, premiered on ABC.

1980s

1982

• "Hoedown Showdown," "Bride and Gloom," and "Snow Job Too Small," the forty-third and final episodes of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, premiered on ABC.
• "Nighty Nightmares" / "The Pac-Mummy," the thirteenth episodes of Pac-Man, premiered on ABC.

1990s

1993

• A Flintstone Family Christmas premiered on ABC.

1996

• "Cyberswitch," the thirty-second episode of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, premiered on Cartoon Network.
• "Space Cases" / "Ratman" / "Dexter's Debt," the eleventh episode of Dexter's Laboratory, premiered on Cartoon Network.
• "Art Show," the thirty-second episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, premiered on Cartoon Network.