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Sep 30, 2023
TV: Season Premiere of “The Andy Griffith Show”
Sept. 30, 1963 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Andy Griffith Show,” after Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his new...
Sep 28, 2023
George C. Scott Speaks Out
Sept. 28, 1963 - There are any number of actors who indulge in idealistic talk but fail to live up to their rhetoric. George C. Scott...
Sep 27, 2023
TV: Season Premiere of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
Sept. 27, 1963 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a patient at a mental hospital (Ray Milland) kills the head...
Sep 27, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Sept. 27, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a world-weary bookie (Jack Klugman) who learns that his grown soldier son Pip is dying...
Sep 26, 2023
TV: Season Premiere of “Dr. Kildare”
Sept. 26, 1963 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Dr. Kildare,” Kildare, on his first day as a resident, struggles with the question of...
Sep 24, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Fugitive”
Sept. 24, 1963 - Tonight on “The Fugitive,” a habitually lying girl (Gina Gillespie, right) falsely accuses fugitive Richard Kimble...
Sep 24, 2023
TV: Series Premiere of “Petticoat Junction”
Sept. 24, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “Petticoat Junction,” a half-hour situation comedy airing at 9:30 p.m. on CBS. The...
Sep 24, 2023
TV: Series Premiere of “Mr. Novak”
Sept. 24, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “Mr. Novak,” a dramatic series on NBC starring James Franciscus in the title role...
Sep 23, 2023
TV: Series Premiere of “East Side/West Side”
Sept. 23, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “East Side/West Side,” a drama starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, and...
Sep 23, 2023
Actor Richard Boone Recovers from Car Crash
Sept. 23, 1963 - “I guess you might call me an early American version of Jimmy Durante,” TV actor Richard Boone quipped today as he was...
Sep 23, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Sept. 23, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” during a U.S. presidential campaign, candidate William Lyons Selby (Sidney Blackmer,...
Sep 22, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Sept. 22, 1963 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Bonanza,” Hoss (Dan Blocker, right) falls under the spell of a beautiful shady lady...
Sep 20, 2023
Actor Richard Boone in Serious Car Crash
Sept. 20, 1963 - Television actor Richard Boone, 46, suffered severe face and chest injuries early today when he smashed his powerful...
Sep 17, 2023
TV: “The Combat” with Special Guest Lee Marvin
Sept. 17, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” a bitter demolition sergeant (Lee Marvin) escorted by Sergeant Saunders (Vic Morrow) to blow up a...
Sep 17, 2023
TV: “The Fugitive”
Sept. 17, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “The Fugitive,” an hour-long crime drama created by Roy Huggins. David Janssen...
Sep 16, 2023
TV: “The Outer Limits”
Sept. 16, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “The Outer Limits,” an hour-long science fiction series on ABC-TV. Tonight’s...
Sep 15, 2023
TV: “Arrest and Trial”
Sept. 15, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “Arrest and Trial,” a crime drama airing from 8:30 to 10 p.m. on ABC. Each episode...
Sep 14, 2023
TV: “The Lieutenant”
Sept. 14, 1963 - Tonight marks the series premiere of “The Lieutenant,” an hourlong Marine Corps-oriented series starring Gary Lockwood...
Sep 13, 2023
TV: “Lee Marvin Presents Lawbreakers”
Sept. 13, 1963 - Tonight marks the television premiere of “Lee Marvin Presents Lawbreakers,” a 30-minute docudrama crime anthology...
Sep 12, 2023
Joan Crawford To Make Small-Screen Debut on CBS’s “Route 66”
Sept. 12, 1963 - Joan Crawford will make her debut in filmed television in Herbert B. Leonard’s “Route 66,” guest-starring in an episode...
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