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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 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 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 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...
Dec 8, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Bonanza”
Dec. 8, 1963 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” when Frank Dayton (Wayde Preston) is thrown from his horse and killed, his wife Laura (Kathie...
Dec 8, 2023
Child Star Kurt Russell Has Baseball Ambitions
Dec. 8, 1963 - For the time being, 12-year-old Kurt Russell (pictured with Dan O’Herlihy) has no objection to an acting career in...
Dec 7, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”
Dec. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” fast-talking killer Charlie Hacker (Gene Evans) escapes from Matt in Texas. Matt (James Arness,...
Dec 6, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Dec. 6, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” three Army National Guard soldiers on maneuvers near the Little Big Horn battle site on...
Dec 3, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Fugitive”
Dec. 3, 1963 - Tonight on “The Fugitive,” Dr. Kimble (David Janssen) witnesses his boss, Martin Rowland (Leslie Nielsen), punching out a...
Dec 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Dec. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Barney’s landlady (Enid Markey, right) evicts him in favor of a new boarder. But when...
Dec 2, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Outer Limits”
Dec. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “The Outer Limits,” a stranded team of soldiers are captured by demonic-looking aliens and are forced to...
Nov 29, 2023
TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”
Nov. 29, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Colonel Cook (Richard Basehart), stranded on another planet with no hope for rescue,...
Nov 28, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Rawhide”
Nov. 28, 1963 - Tonight on “Rawhide,” a con artist (Dick York) and his beautiful assistant (Barbara Eden, right) steal ownership papers...
Nov 27, 2023
TV: “The Reporter” on CBS
Nov. 27, 1963 - Arnold Perl, former executive producer of “East Side/West Side,” has been named producer of “The Reporter,” a new...
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