TV: Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
Nov. 14, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” when handsome Ric Vallone (Vic Damone, pictured) is the guest star on the Alan Brady...
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Nov 13, 2022
TV: Tonight on “The Untouchables”
Nov. 13, 1962 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” Eddie O’Gara (Mike Connors, pictured) has been on the lam for three years. When he hears...
Nov 12, 2022
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Nov. 12, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” two intimidating farmers (Orville Sherman and Allan Melvin, pictured) test Barney's...
Nov 11, 2022
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Nov. 11, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Civil War politics and Little Joe's romance with the daughter (Joyce Taylor, left) of an important...
Nov 11, 2022
Willis O’Brien, Special Effects Genius, Dead at 76
Nov. 11, 1962 - Willis H. O’Brien (pictured), a specialist in visual effects for horror films, died in Hollywood Thursday. He was 76...
Nov 8, 2022
Lucille Ball Takes Over Desilu Productions
Nov. 8, 1962 - Lucille Ball replaced her former husband, Desi Arnaz, today as president of Desilu Productions, one of Hollywood’s major...
Nov 7, 2022
TV: Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show”
Nov. 7, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Ritchie finds his birth certificate and demands an explanation as to why his middle...
Nov 6, 2022
TV: “The Beverly Hillbillies” Top-Rated Show
Nov. 6, 1962 - The A.C. Nielsen Company has issued its second national ratings findings, covering the 2 weeks that ended October 21....
Nov 5, 2022
Zsa Zsa Gabor Marries for Fourth Time
Nov. 5, 1962 - Zsa Zsa Gabor was married in a simple civil ceremony today to Herbert L. Hutner of Harrison, N.Y., board chairman of the...
Nov 5, 2022
Movies: “The Pink Panther”
Nov. 5, 1962 - Ava Gardner has been dropped from the cast of “The Pink Panther” because she made “excessive demands,” a spokesman...
Nov 5, 2022
TV: Tonight on “The Lucy Show”
Nov. 5, 1962 - Tonight on “The Lucy Show,” Lucy and Vivian dress in their old military uniforms to go to a NASA lecture and then...
Nov 5, 2022
Movies: “Mutiny on the Bounty”
Nov. 5, 1962 - Marlon Brando and Tarita, the Tahitian girl who plays his romantic interest in “Mutiny on the Bounty,” have arrived in New...
Nov 3, 2022
TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”
Nov. 3, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” a trapper (Strother Martin, right) leaves his friend dying alone in order to save his own life....
Nov 2, 2022
Movies: “Black Like Me”
Nov. 2, 1962 - The problem of Negroes in American society will be dealt with by Carl Lerner, a film editor known for his work on “12...
Nov 2, 2022
Movies: “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Nov. 2, 1962 - Opening today is “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” The film, a psychological horror-thriller, was directed by Robert...
Nov 2, 2022
Orson Welles’ “Moby Dick” Debuts in Toronto
Nov. 2, 1962 - Orson Welles’s theatrical adaptation of the Herman Melville novel “Moby Dick” won an enthusiastic reception tonight from a...
Nov 1, 2022
TV: Tonight on “Leave It to Beaver”
Nov. 1, 1962 - Tonight on “Leave It to Beaver,” a plan hatched by Eddie (Ken Osmond, pictured) to butter up the loading dock foreman at...
Nov 1, 2022
Movies: “How the West Was Won”
Nov. 1, 1962 - Opening today is “How the West Was Won,” an epic Western directed by Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall,...
Aug 17, 2022
(VIDEO) Press Conference on the Death of Marilyn Monroe
Aug. 17, 1962 - Los Angeles county coroner Theodore Curphey, flanked by psychiatrist Robert Litman and psychologist Norman Farberow,...
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