TV: "Empire" to Debut on NBC Next Season
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...
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Mar 18, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Bonanza"
Mar. 18, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwrights encourage young genius Albert Michelson (Douglas Lambert) to pursue his scientific...
Mar 15, 2022
TV: "The Beverly Hillbillies" to Premiere This Fall
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Bonanza"
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Rifleman"
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Bonanza"
Mar. 4, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwright boys help cowhand Hank Myers (Vaughn Monroe) romance reluctant teacher Abigail Jones...
Feb 18, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Bonanza"
Feb. 18, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts, pictured) stops to aid injured rancher Matt Grant (John Archer)....
Feb 17, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Gunsmoke"
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, 2022
TV: Charles Bronson Guest Stars Tonight on "The Untouchables"
Feb. 15, 1962 - Tonight on “The Untouchables,” in the Gypsy quarter of Chicago, drunkenness is taking its toll in fights and killings....
Feb 15, 2022
Richard Boone of "Have Gun - Will Travel" is Broadway Bound
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
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, 2022
TV: NBC-TV To Producer First 90-Minute Western Series, "The Virginian"
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Gunsmoke"
Feb. 10, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” Chester is getting home-cooked meals from, and giving guitar lessons to, a spirited young woman...
Feb 9, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Rawhide"
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, 2022
TV: Will "The Untouchables" Continue?
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, 2022
TV: Charles Bronson Guest Star on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
Feb. 6, 1962 - Tonight on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” when a woman (Lola Albright) is forced by a murderer (Charles Bronson, pictured)...
Feb 4, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Bonanza"
Feb. 4, 1962 - Tonight on “Bonanza,” the Cartwrights pretend the Ponderosa belongs to the town drunk when his aging mother arrives from...
Feb 1, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Untouchables"
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Naked City" with Richard Conte
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, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Joey Bishop Show"
Jan. 31, 1962 - Tonight on “The Joey Bishop Show,” Joey receives an audit notice for his 1959 tax return, and discovers that his mother...
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