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Mar 30

TV: Tonight on “The Defenders”

Mar. 30, 1963 - Tonight on “The Defenders,” a small town politician's grandstanding sparks the arrest of a visiting novelist for writing...

Mar 25

TV: Tonight on “The Lucy Show”

Mar. 25, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lucy Show,” Lucy and Vivian's sons’ Boy Scout club make a replica of the White House out of sugar cubes....

Mar 24

TV: Tonight on “Lassie”

Mar. 24, 1963 - Tonight on “Lassie,” learning that traditional bluebird nesting sites are declining, Timmy (Jon Provost) builds...

Mar 23

TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”

Mar. 23, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” an orphaned Indian boy (Edmund Vargas) latches on to a cowboy (Ron Hayes) in need of work. The two...

Mar 22

TV: Tonight on “Rawhide”

Mar. 22, 1963 - Tonight on “Rawhide,” the drovers find two stranded nuns (Virginia Gregg and Nina Shipman) who rescued a Comanchero...

Mar 21

TV: Tonight on “Perry Mason”

Mar. 21, 1963 - Tonight on “Perry Mason,” Eva Belter (Patricia Barry) is caught in a photo leaving an illegal gambling club with a...

Mar 15

TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Mar. 15, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” after killing a woman, a man (Dean Jagger) is chosen to be a juror for the trial...

Mar 14

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Mar. 14, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” astronaut Robert Gaines (Steve Forrest, right) returns from space to a world that is...

Mar 12

James Arness Asks for Custody of Three Children

Mar. 12, 1963 - Exclusive custody of three children was demanded today by television actor James Arness (pictured in 1956) in a suit for...

Mar 11

TV: Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show”

Mar. 11, 1963 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Andy must protect Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) from a charming but dishonest traveling...

Mar 9

TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”

Mar. 9, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” Carl Soddenberg (Crahan Denton) committed a heinous, murderous act, but a doctor...

Mar 8

TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Mar. 8, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” a mother of three (Gena Rowlands, pictured) notices that her baby son fascinates...

Mar 7

TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Mar. 7, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a scientist (Dana Andrews, pictured with Patricia Breslin) attempts to use a time machine...

Mar 4

TV: Tonight on “The Lucy Show”

Mar. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Lucy Show,” Lucy's daughter Chris takes a job as a waitress at an ice cream parlor. When Chris can't make...

Mar 2

TV: Tonight on “Gunsmoke”

Mar. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” two good-for-nothings come to town and cook up a plot to frame half-Comanche blacksmith Quint Asper...

Mar 2

TV: Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel”

Mar. 2, 1963 - Tonight on “Have Gun - Will Travel,” a letter from a friend brings Paladin (Richard Boone) to a bar where he is drugged....

Sep 29, 2022

TV: “Gunsmoke”

Sept. 29, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” a half-Comanche (Burt Reynolds, pictured) has joined his mother's tribe in killing whites to...

Sep 27, 2022

TV: “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Sept. 27, 1962 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” someone is brutally attacking women in a small college town, and a number of...

Sep 26, 2022

TV: “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

Sept. 26, 1962 - On tonight’s season premiere of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Ritchie (Larry Mathews) becomes very attached to two baby...

Sep 26, 2022

TV: “The Beverly Hillbillies”

Sept. 26, 1962 - On tonight’s series premiere of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a rural Ozark family relocates to a mansion in Beverly Hills...