Category Archives: Television 1960s

‘I Spy’ series debuts on NBC-TV 60 years ago this hour (Sep 15 1965)

(Wednesday, September 15, 1965, 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT)I Spy, a secret-agent adventure television series starring Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott, premiered tonight on NBC-TV.

‘Coast to Coast Big Mouth’ episode airs on ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ 60 years ago this hour (Sep 15 1965)

(Wednesday, September 18, 1965, 9:30 p.m. EDT) — A game show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show. Continue reading ‘Coast to Coast Big Mouth’ episode airs on ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ 60 years ago this hour (Sep 15 1965)

‘Lost in Space’ series debuts on CBS-TV 60 years ago this hour (Sep 15 1965)

(Wednesday, September 15, 1965, 7:30-8:30 p.m. EDT)Lost in Space, a science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen that chronicles the travels the Robinson family as they travel through space on a flight toward the Alpha Centauri star system, premiered tonight on CBS-TV.

‘My Mother the Car’ series debuts on NBC-TV 60 years ago this hour (Sep 14 1965)


Video: 'MY MOTHER THE CAR - 1965'

(Tuesday, September 14, 1965, 7:30-8:00 p.m. EDT)My Mother the Car, a fantasy sitcom television series about the spirit of a man’s dead mother (voiced by Ann Sothern) inhabiting an old automobile starring Jerry Van Dyke, premiered tonight on NBC-TV.

The Beatles’ final exclusive performance for ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ airs 60 years ago this hour (Sep 12 1965)


Video: 'THE BEATLES | LIVE: The Ed Sullivan Show (Complete Performance) Aired 9.12.1965'

(Sunday, September 12, 1965, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — The Beatles headlined the 18th season premiere of The Ed Sullivan Show tonight with a six-song set taped Aug. 14, 1965, inside CBS Studio 50 at 1697–1699 Broadway, between 53rd and 54th streets, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York. Continue reading The Beatles’ final exclusive performance for ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ airs 60 years ago this hour (Sep 12 1965)

Screen Gems seeks ‘4 insane boys’ for ‘The Monkees’ TV series 60 years ago today (Sep 8 1965)


Video: 'The Monkees: How Four Outsiders Changed the Sound of the ’60s'

(Wednesday, September 8, 1965) — Screen Gems ran an advertisement today in the trade publications Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter seeking “Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series” that would eventually become The Monkees.

The Beatles tape fourth performance for ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour (Aug 14 1965)


Video: 'THE BEATLES | LIVE: The Ed Sullivan Show (Complete Performance) Aired 9.12.1965'

(Saturday, August 14, 1965, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Beatles performed six songs tonight on tape for the Sep. 12, 1965, (and final black and white) edition of the CBS variety television series The Ed Sullivan Show at CBS Studio 50 in New York City. Continue reading The Beatles tape fourth performance for ‘Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour (Aug 14 1965)