Ike To Return to Normandy for CBS Special with Walter Cronkite
July 21, 1963 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will return to Normandy next month for the filming of a CBS-TV program...
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Mar 30, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
TV: Tonight on “Lassie”
Mar. 24, 1963 - Tonight on “Lassie,” learning that traditional bluebird nesting sites are declining, Timmy (Jon Provost) builds...
Mar 23, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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...
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