TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Apr. 9, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Barney interferes with Andy's new romance with county nurse Mary Simpson (Sue Ane...
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Apr 7, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Gunsmoke"
Apr. 7, 1962 - Tonight on “Gunsmoke,” a group of women are going by wagon train to Colorado, lured by the promise of marrying rich...
Apr 6, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Apr. 6, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” an obsessed man (Theodore Bikel, pictured) wants to expose evil in the world. So, he...
Apr 2, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Apr. 2, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Clara (Hope Summers, second from left) convinces Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier, left) that...
Mar 23, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Mar. 23, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” David Gurney (Richard Long, pictured) wakes up to another ordinary day. But something is...
Mar 21, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
Mar. 21, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Rob's brother Stacey (Jerry Van Dyke) has a two-week furlough and sends Rob a...
Mar 19, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Mar. 19, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” when local farmer Rafe Hollister refuses to take his tetanus shot, Andy and Barney...
Mar 16, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Mar. 16, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a father (Robert Sampson) who is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of his...
Mar 14, 2022
Cronkite to Replace Douglas Edwards on CBS Early Evening News
Mar. 14, 1962 - Walter Cronkite, television news correspondent, will replace Douglas Edwards on CBS’s early evening news program starting...
Mar 12, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Mar. 12, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” with the jail full of angry moonshiners, Otis (Hal Smith, center)) serves his latest...
Mar 9, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Mar. 9, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Jenny and the other kids don't realize that the kindly yet magical old man (J. Pat...
Mar 7, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
Mar. 7, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Rob gets called for jury duty. Unbeknownst to him, Laura attends the trial. The...
Mar 2, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Mar. 2, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” an alien race called the Kanamit comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A...
Feb 24, 2022
TV: Tonight on "Perry Mason"
Feb. 24, 1962 - Tonight on “Perry Mason,” naïve secretary Susan Fisher (Kathie Browne, pictured), working overtime, tries to help her...
Feb 23, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Feb. 23, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” a young man (James Best) wakes up at his own funeral and would like to know what exactly...
Feb 19, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Andy Griffith Show"
Feb. 19, 1962 - Tonight on “The Andy Griffith Show,” the choir director (Olan Soule) invites Barney to join the choir. Then he realizes...
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 16, 2022
TV: Barry Morse to Guest Star Tonight on "The Twilight Zone"
Feb. 16, 1962 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” Fitzgerald Fortune (Barry Morse), a sadistic and hated theater critic, buys a player...
Feb 15, 2022
CBS to Present NCAA Football for Next Two Years
Feb. 15, 1962 - CBS today won TV rights to college football for the next two seasons. The network will pay a record sum of $10,200,000...
Feb 14, 2022
TV: Tonight on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
Feb. 14, 1962 - Tonight on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” while his wife is away, Buddy (Morey Amsterdam, pictured) moves in with the Petries...
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