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May 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
May 2, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” the first human space colonists are about to be rescued from the forsaken planet they've...
May 1, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Virginian”
May 1, 1963 - On tonight’s season finale of “The Virginian,” Garth (Lee J. Cobb) allows a controversial coal mine to be opened with...
May 1, 2023
TV: Art Carney To Appear on “Du Pont Show of the Week”
May 1, 1963 - Art Carney (pictured in 1959) will star in “The Last Comedian,” an original teleplay to be staged by “Du Pont Show of the...
May 1, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Beverly Hillbillies”
May 1, 1963 - Tonight on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” when a couple who ran into the Clampett's car discover they're rich, they fake...
Apr 30, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Untouchables”
Apr. 30, 1963 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” when a police captain's son is arrested in a drug sweep, Ness (Robert Stack) decides to...
Apr 29, 2023
TV: George C. Scott in “East Side, West Side”
Apr. 29, 1963 - The last thing anyone would accuse George C. Scott (right with Gene Hackman) of being is a TV huckster. His career as an...
Apr 29, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Apr. 29, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the Darlings ask Andy to help them deal with wild mountain man Ernest T. Bass...
Apr 29, 2023
Movies: “Twilight of Honor”
Apr. 29, 1963 - Richard Chamberlain (right), star of NBC’s “Dr. Kildare,” will spend his vacation away from the series by starring in his...
Apr 28, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Apr. 28, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Hoss (Dan Blocker) tries to help Whizzer McGee (George Brenlin). Whizzer is a man with a short...
Apr 27, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”
Apr. 27, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” a woman newly widowed (Mary LaRoche) is powerfully attracted to Quint (Burt Reynolds, pictured),...
Apr 25, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Dr. Kildare”
Apr. 25, 1963 - Tonight on “Dr. Kildare,” young woman is bitter toward her seriously ill father until he lapses into an irreversible...
Apr 24, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Naked City”
Apr. 24, 1963 - Tonight on “Naked City,” Lorraine Kershwood (Sandy Dennis, pictured) is the carrier of a deadly infectious disease. She...
Apr 24, 2023
Burnett, Stevenson, Cronkite Win Peabody Awards
Apr. 24, 1963 - Carol Burnett (pictured), Adlai Stevenson, and Walter Cronkite were among the winners of George Foster Peabody Awards...
Apr 23, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Combat!”
Apr. 23, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” the squad discovers an orphaned baby in a barn. The men must bring the infant with them as they...
Apr 22, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Apr. 22, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” it's pandemonium when eleven stray dogs invade the courthouse. Andy and Barney must...
Apr 21, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Apr. 21, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” a stagecoach accident in a windstorm leaves Little Joe and four others stranded. Even worse, when a...
Apr 20, 2023
TV: Series Finale of “Have Gun - Will Travel”
Apr. 20, 1963 - On tonight’s series finale of “Have Gun - Will Travel,” a bank hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to collect $10,000 from a...
Apr 19, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
Apr. 19, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a beautiful 17-year-old British girl (Katherine Crawford, pictured) is...
Apr 18, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Apr. 18, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” toymaker Horace Ford (Pat Hingle, left) is increasingly preoccupied with memories of his...
Apr 17, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”
Apr. 17, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” a college sophomore (Robert Walker Jr., right with Jena Engstrom) who feels he is not...
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