1960s Timeline

Mar. 20, 1962 - “Empire,” a one-hour Western television series set on a 500,000-acre ranch in New Mexico, is planned for the NBC schedule...

Mar. 18, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwrights encourage young genius Albert Michelson (Douglas Lambert) to pursue his scientific...

Mar. 15, 1962 - “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a comedy series starring Buddy Ebsen and Irene Ryan, has been added to the CBS-TV schedule for...

Mar. 11, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwrights may have to take the law into their own hands when Virginia City's temporary...

Mar. 5, 1962 - Tonight on “The Rifleman,” when Mark and Lucas meet Micah on the trail while transporting a prisoner for execution, Mark...

Mar. 4, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank Myers (Vaughn Monroe) romance reluctant teacher Abigail Jones...

Feb. 18, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts, pictured) stops to aid injured rancher Matt Grant (John Archer)....

Feb. 17, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” man named Lute (John Kerr right) has been hired to kill Matt, but when he falls in love with a...

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

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

Feb. 4, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town drunk when his aging mother arrives from...

Feb. 1, 1962 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” when a top gangster is killed by Federal Agents, a mysterious man known only as “The...

Jan. 31, 1962 - Tonight on “Naked City,” a widowed gangster (Richard Conte, pictured) is being challenged for custody of his son by his...

Jan. 31, 1962 - Tonight on “The Joey Bishop Show,” Joey receives an audit notice for his 1959 tax return, and discovers that his mother...