Category Archives: Television 1960s

‘Hogan’s Heroes’ television sitcom series debuts on CBS 60 years ago this hour (Sep 17 1965)

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(Friday, September 17, 1965, 8:30-9:00 p.m. EDT)Hogan’s Heroes, a sitcom television series set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II, starring Bob Crane as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, premiered tonight on CBS-TV.

‘The Wild Wild West’ Western television series debuts on CBS 60 years ago this hour (Sep 17 1965)

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(Friday, September 17, 1965, 7:30-8:30 p.m. EDT)The Wild Wild West, a television series conceived as “James Bond on horseback” about Secret Service agents James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin), premiered tonight on CBS-TV.

‘The Dean Martin Show’ TV variety-comedy series debuts on NBC 60 years ago this hour (Sep 16 1965)


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(Thursday, September 16, 1965, 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT)The Dean Martin Show, a TV variety-comedy series hosted by entertainer Dean Martin, premiered tonight on NBC-TV.

‘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)


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(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.