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May 1, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Virginian”

May 1, 1963 - On tonight’s season finale of “The Virginian,” Garth (Lee J. Cobb) allows a controversial coal mine to be opened with...

May 1, 2023

TV: Art Carney To Appear on “Du Pont Show of the Week”

May 1, 1963 - Art Carney (pictured in 1959) will star in “The Last Comedian,” an original teleplay to be staged by “Du Pont Show of the...

May 1, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Beverly Hillbillies”

May 1, 1963 - Tonight on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” when a couple who ran into the Clampett's car discover they're rich, they fake...

Apr 30, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Untouchables”

Apr. 30, 1963 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” when a police captain's son is arrested in a drug sweep, Ness (Robert Stack) decides to...

Apr 29, 2023

TV: George C. Scott in “East Side, West Side”

Apr. 29, 1963 - The last thing anyone would accuse George C. Scott (right with Gene Hackman) of being is a TV huckster. His career as an...

Apr 29, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

Apr. 29, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the Darlings ask Andy to help them deal with wild mountain man Ernest T. Bass...

Apr 28, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”

Apr. 28, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Hoss (Dan Blocker) tries to help Whizzer McGee (George Brenlin). Whizzer is a man with a short...

Apr 27, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”

Apr. 27, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” a woman newly widowed (Mary LaRoche) is powerfully attracted to Quint (Burt Reynolds, pictured),...

Apr 25, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Dr. Kildare”

Apr. 25, 1963 - Tonight on “Dr. Kildare,” young woman is bitter toward her seriously ill father until he lapses into an irreversible...

Apr 24, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Naked City”

Apr. 24, 1963 - Tonight on “Naked City,” Lorraine Kershwood (Sandy Dennis, pictured) is the carrier of a deadly infectious disease. She...

Apr 24, 2023

Burnett, Stevenson, Cronkite Win Peabody Awards

Apr. 24, 1963 - Carol Burnett (pictured), Adlai Stevenson, and Walter Cronkite were among the winners of George Foster Peabody Awards...

Apr 23, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Combat!”

Apr. 23, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” the squad discovers an orphaned baby in a barn. The men must bring the infant with them as they...

Apr 22, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

Apr. 22, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” it's pandemonium when eleven stray dogs invade the courthouse. Andy and Barney must...

Apr 21, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”

Apr. 21, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” a stagecoach accident in a windstorm leaves Little Joe and four others stranded. Even worse, when a...

Apr 20, 2023

TV: Series Finale of “Have Gun - Will Travel”

Apr. 20, 1963 - On tonight’s series finale of “Have Gun - Will Travel,” a bank hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to collect $10,000 from a...

Apr 19, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Apr. 19, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a beautiful 17-year-old British girl (Katherine Crawford, pictured) is...

Apr 18, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Apr. 18, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” toymaker Horace Ford (Pat Hingle, left) is increasingly preoccupied with memories of his...

Apr 17, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”

Apr. 17, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” a college sophomore (Robert Walker Jr., right with Jena Engstrom) who feels he is not...

Apr 16, 2023

Apr. 16, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” the squad enters a French village recently vacated by the Germa

Apr. 16, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” the squad enters a French village recently vacated by the Germans, and the men take 48 hours for...

Apr 16, 2023

TV: Bellamy to Replace Wendell Corey on NBC’s “The Eleventh Hour”

Apr. 16, 1963 - Ralph Bellamy (pictured) will replace Wendell Corey in the lead role of a psychiatrist on NBC-TV’s “The Eleventh Hour.” A...