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Feb 26, 2022

TV: "Red Skelton Show" Expanding to an Hour

Feb. 26, 1962 - The “Red Skelton Show” will be expanded to an hour next fall and televised by CBS on Tuesdays from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. The...

Feb 25, 2022

Jackie Gleason Returning to CBS-TV

Feb. 25, 1962 - Jackie Gleason will return to television next fall in a series of hour-long Saturday variety shows on CBS. The network...

Feb 24, 2022

TV: Tonight on "Perry Mason"

Feb. 24, 1962 - Tonight on “Perry Mason,” naïve secretary Susan Fisher (Kathie Browne, pictured), working overtime, tries to help her...

Feb 23, 2022

TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"

Feb. 23, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a young man (James Best) wakes up at his own funeral and would like to know what exactly...

Feb 23, 2022

Colonel Glenn Appeared on 1957 Quiz Show

Feb. 23, 1962 - It would have been hard to convince anyone in a television quiz-show audience in New York a little more than four years...

Feb 19, 2022

TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"

Feb. 19, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the choir director (Olan Soule) invites Barney to join the choir. Then he realizes...

Feb 18, 2022

Red Barber to Host "Sports-a-Rama" on CBS Radio

Feb. 18, 1962 - Red Barber (pictured left with USC football coach Jeff Cravath in 1947) will be the host of “Sports-a-rama,” a series of...

Feb 18, 2022

TV: Tonight on "Bonanza"

Feb. 18, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts, pictured) stops to aid injured rancher Matt Grant (John Archer)....

Feb 17, 2022

TV: Tonight on "Gunsmoke"

Feb. 17, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” man named Lute (John Kerr right) has been hired to kill Matt, but when he falls in love with a...

Feb 17, 2022

TV: NBC Plans Show on Female Beauty

Feb. 17, 1962 - Beautiful women and admirers of beautiful women will participate in an NBC-TV show devoted to that theme Sunday, April 1....

Feb 17, 2022

TV: Popularity of "Kildare" and "Ben Casey" Brings "Medic" Out of Retirement

Feb. 17, 1962 - The popularity of “Dr. Kildare” and “Ben Casey” has brought Dr. Konrad Styner out of semi-retirement. As the central...

Feb 16, 2022

TV: Barry Morse to Guest Star Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"

Feb. 16, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Fitzgerald Fortune (Barry Morse), a sadistic and hated theater critic, buys a player...

Feb 15, 2022

TV: Charles Bronson Guest Stars Tonight on "The Untouchables"

Feb. 15, 1962 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” in the Gypsy quarter of Chicago, drunkenness is taking its toll in fights and killings....

Feb 15, 2022

First Lady's White House Tour Seen by 46,550,000

Feb. 15, 1962 - Mrs. Kennedy’s televised tour of the White House Wednesday night was watched by 46,550,000 persons, according to survey...

Feb 15, 2022

Richard Boone of "Have Gun - Will Travel" is Broadway Bound

Feb. 15, 1962 - Richard Boone, star of the television series “Have Gun - Will Travel,” is planning to return to Broadway at the end of...

Feb 14, 2022

TV: Tonight on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"

Feb. 14, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” while his wife is away, Buddy (Morey Amsterdam, pictured) moves in with the Petries...

Feb 13, 2022

TV: Tonight on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"

Feb. 13, 1962 - Tonight on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” a man who has been pretending to be paralyzed for the insurance money tries to...

Feb 13, 2022

TV: Carol Burnett Leaving Garry Moore's Variety Show

Feb. 13, 1962 - Carol Burnett (left) will vacate her permanent niche on Garry Moore’s variety show on CBS-TV at the end of the season....

Feb 13, 2022

TV: "The Real McCoys" Switching from ABC to CBS

Feb. 13, 1962 - “The Real McCoys” will pull up stakes on ABC-TV and switch to CBS in the fall. The long-running series, which started on...

Feb 12, 2022

TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"

Feb. 12, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Opie signs up for a race to win a medal but learns a lesson in good sportsmanship...