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....
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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
Movies: Peter Sellers To Play Four Roles in “Dr. Strangelove”
Mar. 6, 1963 - Stanley Kubrick (left) is apparently determined to get his money’s worth out of Peter Sellers (right), whom he cast in...
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 3, 2023
Movies: William Wyler to Produce and Direct “The Sound of Music”
Mar. 3, 1963 - William Wyler has been signed to produce and direct the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,”...
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 27, 2023
Movies: “Follow the Boys”
Feb. 27, 1963 - Opening today is “Follow the Boys,” an MGM comedy film starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss (left), Dany Robin...
Feb 27, 2023
Fellini’s Latest Causing Sensation in Rome
Feb. 27, 1963 - Federico Fellini’s latest film, “8 1/2,” is causing a sensation in Rome, where it is drawing an unprecedented 1,500 lire...
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...
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