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Mar 11, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

Mar. 11, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Andy must protect Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) from a charming but dishonest traveling...

Mar 10, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”

Mar. 10, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Adam (Pernell Roberts, right) helps a beautiful woman (Aneta Corsaut, left) and her father (Ludwig...

Mar 9, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”

Mar. 9, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” Carl Soddenberg (Crahan Denton) committed a heinous, murderous act, but a doctor...

Mar 8, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Mar. 8, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a mother of three (Gena Rowlands, pictured) notices that her baby son fascinates...

Mar 7, 2023

Dwayne Hickman, TV’s “Dobie Gillis,” Marries Ahead of Schedule

Mar. 7, 1963 - Actor Dwayne Hickman, television’s Dobie Gillis, married starlet Carol Christiansen 10 days ahead of schedule today....

Mar 7, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Dr. Kildare”

Mar. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “Dr. Kildare,” after several unexplained violent outbursts, including one in which he smashes his own lab, a...

Mar 7, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Mar. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a scientist (Dana Andrews, pictured with Patricia Breslin) attempts to use a time machine...

Mar 6, 2023

Golden Globe Awards Handed Out in Hollywood

Mar. 6, 1963 - Golden Globes were handed out by the dozens by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Tuesday night, and those who didn’t...

Mar 6, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Naked City”

Mar. 6, 1963 - Tonight on “Naked City,” a corporate man (Jon Voight, left) who accidentally killed a man in a fight over a parking space...

Mar 5, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Combat!”

Mar. 5, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” while on a night patrol to bring in a prisoner, Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow, left) and his squad...

Mar 4, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Lucy Show”

Mar. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lucy Show,” Lucy's daughter Chris takes a job as a waitress at an ice cream parlor. When Chris can't make...

Mar 4, 2023

Bonanza Star Builds Ponderosa Replica

Mar. 4, 1963 - “When I first walked onto the Ponderosa set four years ago,” said actor Lorne Greene, “I swore to myself that someday I’d...

Mar 3, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”

Mar. 3, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” bushwhacked and suffering from amnesia, Hoss (Dan Blocker, pictured) is found wandering down the...

Mar 3, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Jetsons”

Mar. 3, 1963 - On tonight’s series finale of “The Jetsons,” Elroy becomes involved with a gang of mobsters. 7:30 p.m. on ABC. Color. #tv...

Mar 2, 2023

Desi Arnaz Remarries in Las Vegas

Mar. 2, 1963 - Desi Arnaz and Edith Mack Hirsch were married today at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in a ceremony witnessed by a few close...

Mar 2, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”

Mar. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” two good-for-nothings come to town and cook up a plot to frame half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper...

Mar 2, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”

Mar. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” a letter from a friend brings Paladin (Richard Boone) to a bar where he is drugged....

Feb 28, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Feb. 28, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a man (Burgess Meredith. left with Robert Sterling) sells his soul to the Devil to save...

Feb 27, 2023

TV: Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour”

Feb. 27, 1963 - Tonight on “The Eleventh Hour,” Charles Thatcher (Walter Matthau, pictured) cold-bloodedly kills the pusher who was...

Feb 26, 2023

TV: Singer Andy Williams to Host 12 Specials on NBC

Feb. 26, 1963 - Andy Williams (pictured with Ernest Borgnine and Jane Wyman), whose Thursday night musicales on NBC have been an audience...