1960s Timeline

Feb. 17, 1962 - Beautiful women and admirers of beautiful women will participate in an NBC-TV show devoted to that theme Sunday, April 1....

Feb. 17, 1962 - The popularity of “Dr. Kildare” and “Ben Casey” has brought Dr. Konrad Styner out of semi-retirement. As the central...

Feb. 16, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Fitzgerald Fortune (Barry Morse), a sadistic and hated theater critic, buys a player...

Feb. 15, 1962 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” in the Gypsy quarter of Chicago, drunkenness is taking its toll in fights and killings....

Feb. 15, 1962 - Richard Boone, star of the television series “Have Gun - Will Travel,” is planning to return to Broadway at the end of...

Feb. 14, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” while his wife is away, Buddy (Morey Amsterdam, pictured) moves in with the Petries...

Feb. 13, 1962 - Tonight on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” a man who has been pretending to be paralyzed for the insurance money tries to...

Feb. 13, 1962 - Carol Burnett (left) will vacate her permanent niche on Garry Moore’s variety show on CBS-TV at the end of the season....

Feb. 13, 1962 - “The Real McCoys” will pull up stakes on ABC-TV and switch to CBS in the fall. The long-running series, which started on...

Feb. 12, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Opie signs up for a race to win a medal but learns a lesson in good sportsmanship...

Feb. 11, 1962 - A color television series based on Owen Wister’s “The Virginian,” the novel about cowboy life in Wyoming, will be...

Feb. 10, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman...

Feb. 9, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Charles Whitley (Ernest Truex) is an elderly resident of Sunnyvale Rest Home. Charles...

Feb. 9, 1962 - Tonight on “Rawhide,” Favor (Eric Fleming) and Nolan (Sheb Wooley), warned not to cross Pawnee lands, ride to a nearby...

Feb. 8, 1962 - Whether “The Untouchables” and Eliot Ness will go on rooting out racketeers for the enjoyment of TV viewers next season is...

Feb. 7, 1962 - Tonight on “Naked City,” two newlyweds from Arkansas are having their honeymoon in New York City. Their happy time is...

Feb. 7, 1962 - Tonight on “The Joey Bishop Show,” Joey claims that his schedule is too full for him to perform as the opening act for Big...

Feb. 7, 1962 - Twelve hour-long filmed shows starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will be repeated this summer by CBS. The programs,...

Feb. 6, 1962 - Tonight on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” when a woman (Lola Albright) is forced by a murderer (Charles Bronson, pictured)...

Feb. 5, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the state police come to town to catch some payroll robbers. They want Andy and...