TV: “Rawhide”
Sept. 28, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Rawhide,” a man looking for a job is recognized by Rowdy (Clint Eastwood) and Clay...
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Sep 27, 2022
TV: “Dr. Kildare”
Sept. 27, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “Dr. Kildare,” while Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) deals with a pregnant woman (Patricia...
Sep 27, 2022
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...
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 27, 2022
Dick Powell Suffering from Cancer
Sept. 27, 1962 - Dick Powell (pictured), a highly successful singer and actor before becoming one of television’s major producers, is...
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 22, 2022
Color Comes to ABC-TV
Sept. 22, 1962 - Color will make its debut over ABC at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow on a program called “The Jetsons,” a new animated cartoon...
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”...
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