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Dec 25, 2023
Movies: “Love with the Proper Stranger”
Dec. 25, 1963 - Opening today is “Love with the Proper Stranger,” a romantic comedy-drama starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen...
Dec 24, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Fugitive”
Dec. 24, 1963 - Tonight on “The Fugitive,” airline stewardess Ruth Norton (Pamela Tiffin) badly injures Kimble (David Janssen) in a...
Dec 23, 2023
Movies: “The Cardinal”
Dec. 23, 1963 - Opening today is “The Cardinal,” a drama produced independently, directed by Otto Preminger (pictured center), and...
Dec 23, 2023
National Board of Review Names “Tom Jones” Best Film of 1963
Dec. 23, 1963 - “Tom Jones” has been chosen as the best motion picture of 1963 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The...
Dec 23, 2023
TV: Tonight on “East Side/West Side”
Dec. 23, 1963 - Tonight on “East Side/West Side,” social worker Neil Brock (George C. Scott) tries to help a lonely old woman whose house...
Dec 23, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Dec. 23, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” tycoon John Dexter (Ralph Meeker) spears a dolphin-like sea creature in the Caribbean. It...
Dec 21, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Lieutenant”
Dec. 21, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lieutenant,” Lt. Rice (Gary Lockwood) is given a difficult unit to command after the previous commander...
Dec 20, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”
Dec. 20, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” Gerald Swinney (Bob Newhart, left) is a henpecked husband subjected to the...
Dec 20, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Dec. 20, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” an old man (Ed Wynn) believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather clock...
Dec 19, 2023
Movies: “The Victors”
Dec. 19, 1963 - Opening today is “The Victors,” a British-American black-and-white war film written, produced, and directed by Carl...
Dec 17, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Fugitive”
Dec. 17, 1963 - Tonight on “The Fugitive,” Kimble (David Janssen), working at a remote construction site, tries to protect Jamie (Buck...
Dec 16, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Dec. 16, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” after a scientist (Peter Mark Richman, left with Nina Foch) appears to invent a machine...
Dec 16, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Dec. 16, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Gomer (Jim Nabors) makes a citizen's arrest of Barney (Don Knotts) for committing...
Dec 16, 2023
Mrs. Burton Granted Divorce
Dec. 16, 1963 - Mrs. Sybil Burton was granted a divorce today on charges that her husband, the actor Richard Burton, had abandoned his...
Dec 15, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Arrest and Trial”
Dec. 15, 1963 - Tonight on “Arrest and Trial,” when a famous playwright is murdered, Egan (Chuck Connors, pictured) defends the man’s...
Dec 13, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Dec. 13, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Patrick O'Neal stars as Harmon Gordon, an aging man recently married to Flora (Ruta Lee),...
Dec 13, 2023
Movies: “Charade” Highlights Christmas Releases
Dec. 13, 1963 - The annual avalanche of holiday films has begun to roll into New York’s motion picture theaters. “Charade,” with the...
Dec 13, 2023
Actor Brandon de Wilde To Wed
Dec. 13, 1963 - As a child of seven, Brandon de Wilde was a child star in Broadway’s “The Member of the Wedding.” Next Thursday, the...
Dec 10, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Mr. Novak”
Dec. 10, 1963 - Tonight on “Mr. Novak,” Novak (James Franciscus, left) and Principal Vane (Dean Jagger) prepare a hero's welcome for a...
Dec 9, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Dec. 9, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” a dustball caught in a vacuum cleaner gives birth to a mindless energy creature. A research...
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