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Mar 9, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”
Mar. 9, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” Carl Soddenberg (Crahan Denton) committed a heinous, murderous act, but a doctor...
Mar 8, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
Mar. 8, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a mother of three (Gena Rowlands, pictured) notices that her baby son fascinates...
Mar 7, 2023
Dwayne Hickman, TV’s “Dobie Gillis,” Marries Ahead of Schedule
Mar. 7, 1963 - Actor Dwayne Hickman, television’s Dobie Gillis, married starlet Carol Christiansen 10 days ahead of schedule today....
Mar 7, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Dr. Kildare”
Mar. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “Dr. Kildare,” after several unexplained violent outbursts, including one in which he smashes his own lab, a...
Mar 7, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Mar. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a scientist (Dana Andrews, pictured with Patricia Breslin) attempts to use a time machine...
Mar 6, 2023
Golden Globe Awards Handed Out in Hollywood
Mar. 6, 1963 - Golden Globes were handed out by the dozens by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Tuesday night, and those who didn’t...
Mar 6, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Naked City”
Mar. 6, 1963 - Tonight on “Naked City,” a corporate man (Jon Voight, left) who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space...
Mar 5, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Combat!”
Mar. 5, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” while on a night patrol to bring in a prisoner, Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow, left) and his squad...
Mar 4, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Lucy Show”
Mar. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lucy Show,” Lucy's daughter Chris takes a job as a waitress at an ice cream parlor. When Chris can't make...
Mar 4, 2023
Bonanza Star Builds Ponderosa Replica
Mar. 4, 1963 - “When I first walked onto the Ponderosa set four years ago,” said actor Lorne Greene, “I swore to myself that someday I’d...
Mar 3, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Mar. 3, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” bushwhacked and suffering from amnesia, Hoss (Dan Blocker, pictured) is found wandering down the...
Mar 3, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Jetsons”
Mar. 3, 1963 - On tonight’s series finale of “The Jetsons,” Elroy becomes involved with a gang of mobsters. 7:30 p.m. on ABC. Color. #tv...
Mar 2, 2023
Desi Arnaz Remarries in Las Vegas
Mar. 2, 1963 - Desi Arnaz and Edith Mack Hirsch were married today at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in a ceremony witnessed by a few close...
Mar 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”
Mar. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” two good-for-nothings come to town and cook up a plot to frame half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper...
Mar 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”
Mar. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” a letter from a friend brings Paladin (Richard Boone) to a bar where he is drugged....
Feb 28, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Feb. 28, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a man (Burgess Meredith. left with Robert Sterling) sells his soul to the Devil to save...
Feb 27, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”
Feb. 27, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” Charles Thatcher (Walter Matthau, pictured) cold-bloodedly kills the pusher who was...
Feb 26, 2023
TV: Singer Andy Williams to Host 12 Specials on NBC
Feb. 26, 1963 - Andy Williams (pictured with Ernest Borgnine and Jane Wyman), whose Thursday night musicales on NBC have been an audience...
Feb 26, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Combat!”
Feb. 26, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” command gives Lieutenant Hanley (Rick Jason, pictured) three hours to rescue an old man, a pretty...
Feb 25, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Lucy Show”
Feb. 25, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lucy Show,” after being frightened by stories of burglars terrorizing Danfield, Lucy and Viv learn judo...
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