Flipper
Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19th, 1964, until April 15th, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young […]
12 O’Clock High
12 O’Clock High (also known as Twelve O’Clock High) is an American drama series set in World War II. This TV series originally broadcast on ABC for two-and-one-half seasons from September 18th, 1964, through January 13th, 1967 and was based on the motion picture Twelve O’Clock High (1949). The series was a co-production of 20th […]
Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a 1964 ABC sitcom that aired from September 18th, 1964 until April 30th, 1965. The series starred Tony Franciosa as Valentine Farrow, a swinging Manhattan publishing executive, and Jack Soo, later of Barney Miller as Rocky Sin, Farrow’s poker-playing con-artist valet. The show was created by Hal Kanter and lasted only one […]
The Addams Family
The Addams Family is an American television series based on the characters in Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons on ABC from September 18th, 1964, to April 8th, 1966, for a total of 64 episodes. It is often compared to its CBS rival, The […]
Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest debuted on ABC at 7:30PM EDT on Friday, September 18th, 1964. This prime time animated TV series is an American science fiction adventure television series about a boy who accompanies his scientist father on extraordinary adventures. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and created and designed by comic book artist […]
Bewitched
Bewitched is an American TV situation comedy fantasy that was originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972. It was created by Sol Saks under executive director Harry Ackerman, and starred actress Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964–1969), Dick Sargent (1969–1972), Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who […]
Mickey
Mickey is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 1964 to January 1965. Mickey Grady (Mickey Rooney), a retired businessman, inherits the luxury Newport Arms Hotel in Newport Beach, California, and decides to run it. Created and produced by Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx, the series stars Mickey Rooney, and was filmed […]
Shindig!
Shindig! is an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16th, 1964 to January 8th, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O’Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time, who also created the show, along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz. Shindig! was conceived as […]
Peyton Place
Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15th, 1964 to June 2nd, 1969. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in black-and-white from 1964 […]
The Tycoon
The Tycoon is a 32-episode American situation comedy television series broadcast by ABC. It starred Walter Brennan as the fictitious businessman Walter Andrews, similar to his birth name of Walter Andrew Brennan. The series aired with new episodes at 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday from September 15th, 1964, until April 27th, 1965. It continued in […]
The Bing Crosby Show
The Bing Crosby Show is a 28-episode situation comedy television program starring crooner, film star, iconic phenomenon, and businessman Bing Crosby and actress Beverly Garland as a middle-aged couple, Bing and Ellie Collins, rearing two teenaged daughters during the early 1960s. In this format, Crosby portrayed a former entertainer turned architectural designer with a penchant […]
Wendy And Me
Wendy and Me is an American sitcom that aired on ABC during the 1964–1965 television season, primarily sponsored by Consolidated Cigar’s “El Producto.” Principally starring George Burns and Connie Stevens, the series was Burns’ first major work following the death of his wife and professional partner, Gracie Allen, who had died of a heart attack […]
No Time For Sergeants
No Time for Sergeants came to the small screen in the fall of 1964. It starred Sammy Jackson who had had one line in the film version. When Jackson read that Warner Brothers was going to produce a television sitcom version of No Time for Sergeants for ABC he wrote directly to Jack Warner saying […]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin Allen’s four science fiction television series, as well as the longest running. It […]
The Rogues
The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13th, 1964, to April 18th, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former con-men who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the […]
The Loretta Young Show
Letter to Loretta (also known as The Loretta Young Show) is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season’s sponsor was Warner-Lambert’s Listerine. The program […]
Car 54 Where are you?
Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, and was about two New York City police officers based at the fictional 53rd precinct in The Bronx. Car 54 was their patrol car. The show was filmed only in black-and-white. Episodes had different directors, the most recognized […]
Mister Ed
Willlllburrrrrr!! Mister Ed is an American television situation comedy produced by Filmways that first aired in syndication from January 5th to July 2nd, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1st, 1961, to February 6th, 1966. The show’s title character is a fictional talking horse, originally appearing in short stories by Walter R. Brooks. Mister Ed is one of the few series to […]
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3rd, 1960 and April 1st, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt […]
The Flintstones
The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom cartoon that was broadcast from September 30th, 1960, to April 1st, 1966, on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones was about a working-class Stone Age man’s life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. Battery Operated Fred Flintstone’s Bedrock Band, Alps Co., Japan, 1962 Winston! Smoke a Winston! Yabba […]
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