1960s Timeline

Feb. 28, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Sally (Rose Marie) drags the entire gang to a bowling alley when she discovers a new...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feb. 11, 1962 - A color television series based on Owen Wister’s “The Virginian,” the novel about cowboy life in Wyoming, will be...