TV: Tonight on “Petticoat Junction”
Nov. 12, 1963 - Tonight on “Petticoat Junction,” when Kate talks Bobbie Jo into going on a double date with Billie Jo (Jeannine Riley,...
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Nov 11, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Nov. 11, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” on a military base in the frozen vastness of Greenland, an army psychiatrist (Gary...
Nov 10, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Nov. 10, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Ben finds an old journal in which he wrote about his trek West with Hoss’s mother Inger (Inga...
Nov 9, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”
Nov. 9, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” Quint (Burt Reynolds) is hired to escort a family on the first leg of their journey to Oregon. On...
Nov 8, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Nov. 8, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” in a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival depends on the advice...
Nov 8, 2023
Movies: “Where Love Has Gone”
Nov. 8, 1963 - Bette Davis (left) has been signed to co-star with Susan Hayward (right) and Mike Connors (center) in “Where Love Has...
Nov 8, 2023
NBC Cancels Blue-Gray Football over Negro Eligibility
Nov. 8, 1963 - NBC said today it had canceled a telecast of the Blue-Gray football game in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 28 after being...
Nov 7, 2023
Movies: “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”
Nov. 7, 1963 - Opening today is “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” a comedy produced and directed by Stanley Kramer with a story and...
Nov 6, 2023
Demonstrators Protest Wallace TV Appearance in New York
Nov. 6, 1963 - A hundred civil rights pickets clashed with the police in New York City early today outside a television studio where...
Nov 6, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Patty Duke Show”
Nov. 6, 1963 - Tonight on “The Patty Duke Show,” Cathy (Patty Duke) helps Brooklyn Heights High School's best basketball player (Larry...
Nov 5, 2023
Movies: “Take Her, She’s Mine”
Nov. 5, 1963 - James Stewart and Sandra Dee are receiving a real “Texas style” welcome this week as they attend a series of premieres of...
Nov 5, 2023
TV: Blacklist Is the Topic on Upcoming “Defenders” Episode
Nov. 5, 1963 - A drama about a blacklisted actor who finds he is unemployable because of anti-Communist pressures will be televised on...
Nov 5, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Fugitive”
Nov. 5, 1963 - Tonight on “The Fugitive,” Kimble (David Janssen) and a young woman (Brenda Vaccaro) are kidnapped by vicious thieves (Lou...
Nov 5, 2023
Movies: “The Prize”
Nov. 5, 1963 - “The Prize,” MGM’s adaptation of the novel by Irving Wallace, has been booked as the first film to be shown in 1964 at the...
Nov 4, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Nov. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” after Gomer (Jim Nabors, pictured) gets fired from the filling station and loses his...
Nov 4, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Nov. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” at the top-secret Cypress Hills Research Center, scientists are kept under constant watch...
Nov 3, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Nov. 3, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” trouble with a capital “T” comes to Virginia City when Little Joe (Michael Landon) brings young...
Nov 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Lieutenant”
Nov. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lieutenant,” Lieutenant Rice (Gary Lockwood, left) is sent on anti-insurgency exercises with Captain...
Nov 1, 2023
Vincent Edwards of “Dr. Casey” in Nightclub Fistfight
Nov. 1, 1963 - Vincent Edwards, television’s “Dr. Ben Casey,” exchanged blows with a San Francisco nightclub patron who was pestering...
Nov 1, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Nov. 1, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a frustrated father (Telly Savalas) does battle with his stepdaughter's talking doll,...
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