1963-10-28, WNBC, 52 min.
January 27, 1961-April 21, 1961; September 28, 1961-September 21, 1964. Home viewers were able to participate in this hour-long musical series, as the lyrics to the songs were superimposed at the bottom of their screens; viewers were invited to "follow the bouncing ball" as it moved from one lyric to the next. Goateed composer-arranger Mitch Miller led the Sing-Along Gang, and on-stage aggregation of about two dozen. Among the featured vocalists were Leslie Uggams, Diana Trask, Barbara McNair, and Gloria Lambert. "Sing Along with Mitch" was introduced on "Ford Startime" in 1960 and had a limited run in the spring of 1961, alternating with "The Bell Telephone Hour," before going weekly in the fall of that year. Reruns were exhumed in the spring of 1966 to replace the faltering "Sammy Davis Jr. Show." Bill Hobin produced and directed the series.
1963-10-28, WNBC, 22 min.
The careers of Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional comments from Muriel Davidson and Hollis Alpert.
1963-10-28, WNBC, 23 min.
Joseph Cotten narrates the career of one of the great entertainers of all time, Al Jolson.
1963-10-28, WOR, min.
Live wrestling matches from Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, NY.
Host: Lonny Starr.
1963-10-28, , min.
The latest news with Kenneth Banghart.
1963-10-29, NBC, 30 min.
Live coverage of the day's news with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley reporting.
1963-10-29, WOR, min.
World Today is a radio news program broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System and hosted by Tony Marvin.
Host: Tony Marvin.
1963-10-29, CBS, min.
Actor Adolphe Menjou dies at age 73.
Walter Cronkite reports.
1963-10-30, WNBC, 20 min.
The careers of Susan Hayward and Jennifer Jones are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Ted Nathan and Jill Sherry Zimmer.
1963-10-30, WOR, 47 min.
The life and legend of James Dean is described in this special broadcast. Many family members and friends give personal anecdotes. Dean can be heard on a two minute candid self-recorded audio tape talking to family members about his performance as the character Cal, in the film "East of Eden." Martin Gabel narrates.
1963-10-30, CBS, min.
President Kennedy is in Philadelphia to speak at a fund raising event.
Host: Walter Cronkite.
1963-10-31, CBS, 54 min.
A look at the merits of off-track betting, which includes the consequences of illegal gambling and a police raid on a bookie joint. Harry Reasoner narrates the one hour program.
1963-10-31, NBC, min.
Joe Garagiola interviews Yogi Berra, the new manager of the New York Yankees.
1963-10-31, WNBC, 19 min.
The careers of John Barrymore and Diana Barrymore are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Hollis Alpert and Muriel Davidson.
1963-11-01, WNBC, 19 min.
The careers of Edward G. Robinson and Richard Widmark are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Jill Sherry Zimmer and Bill Davidson.
1963-11-01, CBS, min.
Coup in Saigon, President Kennedy in Philadelphia, comment from President Kennedy, Barry Goldwater comments, JFK comments he would like Lyndon Johnson to be his vice-presidential running mate again in 1964, President Kennedy comments on the space race.
Includes commercials.
1963-11-01, WNBC, 51 min.
A coup in Saigon against the Government of Ngo Dinh Diem. Ray Scherer reports for NBC radio news.
1963-11-01, NBC, 5 min.
October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992.
Joined at 11:30pm. Johnny Carson monologue. Johnny introduces his guests which include Andy Williams. He discuses with Ed McMahon the rain deluge New York City is currently experiencing. Other topics include last night's program that featured an audience member bobbing for apples, his head submerged in water. Because the last two minutes of the program was preempted for an NBC News Bulletin, viewers at home thought the man drowned.
Johnny cuts away for a cigarette commercial.
Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.
Host: Johnny Carson.
1963-11-02, ABC, 58 min.
September 21, 1963 - December 21, 1963. Jerry Lewis hosted an unprecedented two-hour live variety - talk show, signing a five-year deal for 35 million dollars in 1963 with ABC Television. A two-hour live variety show proved to be more than even Jerry Lewis could handle. The series proved to be an enormous failure. In three months the show was off the air.
Jerry's guests are Ethel Merman, Jonathan Winters, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar who does a comic routine, and Peter Falk, a few of the cast members of Stanley Kramer's blockbuster comedy motion picture, "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, World" which premieres in two weeks at the new Cinerama theater in Hollywood.
There are many reminisces and anecdotes expressed about Jerry related to prior relationships with him when he was starting out in show business, and about his father Danny Lewis.
A brylcreem hair commercials is included.
1963-11-02, CBS, min.
The latest news. Mike Wallace reports.
1963-11-02, , min.
President John F. Kennedy learns of the deaths of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu in the coup led by General Duong Van Minh. Kennedy was doubtful of CIA accounts that the two leaders had committed suicide while in custody.
1963-11-03, WNBC, 54 min.
Presented on "NBC CHILDREN'S THEATER." Delightful fantasy, based on the 1944 James Thurber story about a terrible giant named Hunder.
1963-11-03, WNBC, 54 min.
November 3, 1963-March 17, 1973. A ten-year series of specials designed for children, broadcast at different intervals. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.
1963-11-04, WNBC, 52 min.
January 27, 1961-April 21, 1961; September 28, 1961-September 21, 1964. Home viewers were able to participate in this hour-long musical series, as the lyrics to the songs were superimposed at the bottom of their screens; viewers were invited to "follow the bouncing ball" as it moved from one lyric to the next. Goateed composer-arranger Mitch Miller led the Sing-Along Gang, and on-stage aggregation of about two dozen. Among the featured vocalists were Leslie Uggams, Diana Trask, Barbara McNair, and Gloria Lambert. "Sing Along with Mitch" was introduced on "Ford Startime" in 1960 and had a limited run in the spring of 1961, alternating with "The Bell Telephone Hour," before going weekly in the fall of that year. Reruns were exhumed in the spring of 1966 to replace the faltering "Sammy Davis Jr. Show." Bill Hobin produced and directed the series.
1963-11-04, WNBC, 19 min.
The careers of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Bill Davidson and Muriel Davidson.
1963-11-04, , min.
President Kennedy records his concerns concerning a military coup in South Vietnam that ousted President Diem. It was a precursor to the US-Vietnam war.
1963-11-04, , 45 min.
Documentary nominated for an Academy Award, about the American involvement in World War 1. Produced by David Wolper.
Narrated by Richard Basehart.
1963-11-04, WNBC, 25 min.
Joseph Cotten narrates.
1963-11-05, WNBC, 52 min.
January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semiregularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra.
1963-11-06, WNBC, 44 min.
January 14, 1952-Present. First early-morning network program and longest-running daytime series. Created by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Telecast Monday thru Friday, 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM, the broadcasts have maintained a format including a News Summary, segments related to Sports, Weather, Interviews, and Features. Throughout its long run, hosts of "The Today Show" have included Dave Garroway (1952-1961), John Chancellor (1961-1962), Hugh Downs (1962-1971), Frank McGee (1971-1974), Jim Hartz (1974-1976), Tom Brokaw (1976-1981), Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Chris Wallace, Katie Couric, and others.
Hugh Downs, Jack Lescoulie, and Pat Fontaine celebrate the 60th anniversary of the movie western and look back at "Cowboy Movies" with special guest Ken Maynard. Bronco Billy Anderson, the first movie cowboy, is interviewed in Hollywood.
1963-11-06, WNBC, 19 min.
The careers of Robert Montgomery and Robert Young are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Tad Donlevsky and Muriel Davidson.
1963-11-07, WABC, 27 min.
September 26, 1963-March 19, 1964. This half-hour variety series was hosted by singer-comedienne Edie Adams. Don Chastain was also featured on the show.
1963-11-07, WCBS, 52 min.
Bing Crosby in the first of his four 1963-1964 specials.
1963-11-07, ABC, 00 min.
September 26, 1963-March 19, 1964. This half-hour variety series was hosted by singer-comedienne Edie Adams. Don Chastain was also featured on the show.
Dupe Of 3015.
1963-11-07, WNBC, 20 min.
The careers of Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Muriel Davidson and Bill Davidson.
1963-11-07, WABC, 57 min.
Buddy Ebsen, Andre Previn, Caterina Valente, and the Young Americans join Bing Crosby for the first of his four 1963-64 specials.
1963-11-07, CBS, 57 min.
Buddy Ebsen, Andre Previn, Caterina Valente, and the Young Americans join Bing Crosby for the first of his four 1963-64 specials.
Bing and Caterina get together for a medley of International hits ("Never On Sunday", "Quando, Quando, Quando", "Language Of Love") and join Buddy to recall songs from his career ("Davy Crockett " "Easy To Love", "Broadway Rhythm"). Pianist Andre Previn, who doubles as musical director, plays "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah."
Highlights:
"Doodlin Song" "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"- Bing
Folk Medley- Young Americans
"In The Summertime"- Bing, Buddy
"Never, Never Will I Marry"- Caterina
"Shenandoah"- Bing, Young Americans
"Yankee Doodle"- Young Americans
"Danke Schoen"- All
Duplicate of 934.
1963-11-08, WNBC, 21 min.
January 14, 1952-Present. First early-morning network program and longest-running daytime series. Created by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Telecast Monday thru Friday, 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM, the broadcasts have maintained a format including a News Summary, segments related to Sports, Weather, Interviews, and Features. Throughout its long run, hosts of "The Today Show" have included Dave Garroway (1952-1961), John Chancellor (1961-1962), Hugh Downs (1962-1971), Frank McGee (1971-1974), Jim Hartz (1974-1976), Tom Brokaw (1976-1981), Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Chris Wallace, Katie Couric, and others.
Horror Films are discussed by Hugh Downs and Jack Lescoulie and Pat Fontaine. Special guest is Fay Wray. A brief retrospective about Lon Chaney Sr. and Peter Lorre precede Wray's interview.
1963-11-08, WNBC, 50 min.
Jack Paar welcomes Jonathan Winters, Phil Harris, Alice Faye, and French pickpocket Dominique.
1963-11-08, WOR, min.
Fulton Lewis Jr was a prominent conservative American broadcaster from the 1930s to the 1960s. His commentaries were broadcast nationally by the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Fulton Lewis Jr. radio commentary.
1963-11-09, WCBS, 27 min.
Jackie Gleason does a "Mother Fletcher" sales pitch routine and there is a "Joe the Bartender" sketch with Gleason and Frank Fontaine as "Crazy Guggenheim," who talks to Joe about "Belly Laugh Bailey" and sings "When I Grow Too Old To Dream."
1963-11-10, NBC, 60 min.
January 10th, 1964-May 4th, 1965 (NBC)
Based on a British series created by Ned Sherrin. A half-hour of satirized current events. Among the regulars were David Frost (who went on to host his own syndicated American weeknight talk show), Elliott Reid, Phyllis Newman, Henry Morgan, Alan Alda, Buck Henry, Pat Englund, Nancy Ames, and Doro Merande. Also featured were Burr Tillstrom's puppets. Skitch Henderson conducted the orchestra. First introduced as a special in November 1963, it went on to become a weekly series in January 1964.
This was the pilot program for the regular series which began on January 10th, 1964.
Host for this pilot episode is Henry Fonda and is a complete 60 minute program.
1963-11-11, WNBC, 20 min.
The careers of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional comments from Ella Winters and Conrad Nagel.
1963-11-11, NBC, 25 min.
October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.
Johnny Carson's guests are James Stewart and Ed Wynn. Ed McMahon is co-host.
1963-11-11, WNBC, 52 min.
January 27, 1961-April 21, 1961; September 28, 1961-September 21, 1964. Home viewers were able to participate in this hour-long musical series, as the lyrics to the songs were superimposed at the bottom of their screens; viewers were invited to "follow the bouncing ball" as it moved from one lyric to the next. Goateed composer-arranger Mitch Miller led the Sing-Along Gang, and on-stage aggregation of about two dozen. Among the featured vocalists were Leslie Uggams, Diana Trask, Barbara McNair, and Gloria Lambert. "Sing Along with Mitch" was introduced on "Ford Startime" in 1960 and had a limited run in the spring of 1961, alternating with "The Bell Telephone Hour," before going weekly in the fall of that year. Reruns were exhumed in the spring of 1966 to replace the faltering "Sammy Davis Jr. Show." Bill Hobin produced and directed the series.
1963-11-12, WNBC, 00 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1963-11-12, WCBS, 80 min.
Carol Burnett in the title role of this television adaptation from the 1953 film starring Doris Day. A stagecoach driver (Burnett) falls in love with Wild Bill Hickok.
No open. Carol Burnett first played Calamity Jane
in summer stock during 1961. Produced by Carol's
husband Joe Hamilton.
1963-11-12, WCBS, 29 min.
Guest Jack E. Leonard joins Red Skelton in a sketch entitled "It's So Nice To Have A Louse Around The House."
1963-11-14, KTLA, 00 min.
Classical Guitarist Andres Sergovia in concert.
1963-11-14, WNBC, 22 min.
The careers of George Jessel and Al Jolson are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Al Lewis, the producer and director of the original play "The Jazz Singer," and from Pearl Seaman who reflects on the career of Al Jolson.
Note: This is the only known extant broadcast (video / audio) of producer Albert Lewis reflecting on how he first met George Jessel who starred in his produced Broadway Play THE JAZZ SINGER in 1925.
Lewis reminisces, uninterrupted, for four minutes.
He remembers how he first met Jessel as a young Vaudevillian doing a monologue routine about how to eat frankfurters only with mustard...what attracted a young George Jessel to him who was very lively and so original..."an obvious immerging great talent."
Al Lewis reminds us of his partnership producing team Lewis and Gordon, producing one act plays and always looking for new talent which they found in George Jessel, who became a protégé of Lewis, rising to stardom in the theater.
Al Lewis reflects how tedious and difficult Samson Raphaelson's first play, THE JAZZ SINGER, was to fashion into a one-act stage play, a critical failure at first but managed to thrill audiences for 14 months on Broadway and turned a profit.
Lewis mentions his regrets that Jessel was not able to come to terms with Warner Brothers who were not in a financial position to meet his terms which created a profound missed opportunity for George Jessel to become movie star.