TV: “Leave It to Beaver”
Sept. 27, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Leave It to Beaver,” Wally (Tony Dow, left) gets more than a little help from his Dad...
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Sep 27, 2022
TV: “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
Sept. 27, 1962 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” someone is brutally attacking women in a small college town, and a number of...
Sep 26, 2022
TV: “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
Sept. 26, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Ritchie (Larry Mathews) becomes very attached to two baby...
Sep 26, 2022
TV: “The Beverly Hillbillies”
Sept. 26, 1962 - On tonight’s series premiere of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a rural Ozark family relocates to a mansion in Beverly Hills...
Sep 26, 2022
TV: “The Untouchables”
Sept. 26, 1962 - There will be some changes on ABC-TV’s “The Untouchables” this season. On the show, Robert Stack (pictured) plays Eliot...
Sep 23, 2022
TV: “Bonanza”
Sept. 23, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Bonanza,” Clay Stafford (Barry Coe, right) has only just arrived in Virginia City but...
Sep 23, 2022
TV: “The Jetsons”
Sept. 23, 1962 - On tonight’s series premiere of “The Jetsons,” the Jetsons hire a robot maid named Rosey. 7:30 on #ABC. #tv #classictv...
Sep 21, 2022
TV: “Route 66”
Sept. 21, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Route 66,” Tod and Buz, in Oregon, are working as crewmen on a fishing boat owned by a...
Sep 20, 2022
TV: “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
Sept. 20, 1962 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” Duke Marsden (Gig Young) is a compulsive gambler and about to lose his wife...
Sep 19, 2022
TV: “The Virginian”
Sept. 19, 1962 - On tonight’s series premiere of “The Virginian,” despite some doubts about his guilt, a man is hanged as a murderer in...
Sep 19, 2022
TV: “Naked City”
Sept. 19, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Naked City,” the detectives investigate the murder of an alcoholic Greenwich Village...
Sep 15, 2022
TV: “Gunsmoke”
Sept. 15, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Gunsmoke,” after stable hand Cale (Carl Reindel) is thrown by his horse, his legs are...
Sep 15, 2022
TV: “The Defenders”
Sept. 15, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Defenders,” Martha Harrow (Ruth Roman, left) has killed her husband — a sadistic...
Sep 15, 2022
TV: “The Joey Bishop Show”
Sept. 15, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Joey Bishop Show,” Joey gets married and promises his bride (Abby Dalton, left)...
Sep 14, 2022
TV: “The Flintstones”
Sept. 14, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Flintstones,” a crush on a lady dinosaurus who is the star of her own T.V. show may...
Sep 4, 2022
Two More T.V. Soaps Down the Drain
Sept. 4, 1962 - Two more T.V. soap operas will go down the drain Sept. 28. They are “The Brighter Day” on CBS and “Our Five Daughters”...
Aug 28, 2022
Burnett Signs Long-Term Contract with CBS
Aug. 28, 1962 - Carol Burnett (pictured with Rod Serling) has signed a long-term, exclusive TV contract with CBS. Hubbell Robinson,...
Aug 26, 2022
Burnett Declines Offer of Hour-Long Weekly Program
Aug. 26, 1962 - Carol Burnett (pictured with Richard Chamberlain), the comedienne who resigned from the Garry Moore show last season,...
Aug 26, 2022
TV: ABC’s “Combat!”
Aug. 26, 1962 - The coming season promises to be one in which TV, as never before, devotes attention to military life. ABC’s “Combat!”...
Aug 24, 2022
NBC Signs Negro Performer Ena Hartman to Long-Term Talent Contract
Aug. 24, 1962 - Ena Hartman has been signed to what is believed to be the first long-term talent development contract for a Negro...
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