TV Guide 365: Saturday, September 26th, 1964

TV Guide 365: 1964-1965 explores the 1964-1965 television season through listings published in TV Guide. Each day I’ll post listings for the corresponding day from the 1964-1965 season, with complete cast and guest cast details for obscure, short-lived shows.

Saturday, September 26th, 1964

7:30 JACKIE GLEASON (CBS)
[RETURN] This season’s “American Scene Magazine” originates from Miami Beach. In his opening monolog [sic], The Great One discusses his new Florida home, his summer vacation and his New York City boyhood. Barbara Heller, as Christine Clam, introduces three sketches: Rum Dum’s troubles with an air conditioner; the Poor Soul in a test of strength; and Reggie Van Gleason’s death-defying “slide for life.” (60 min.)

FLIPPER (NBC)
[COLOR] “The Red Hot Car.” While swimming in an area littered with old auto bodies, Bud spots one car that’s different: it’s a newer model, with bullet holes.

OUTER LIMITS (ABC)
“Cold Hands, Warm Heart.” Astronaut Jeff Barton completes man’s first successful flight to the scorching planet Venus, and then suffers a peculiar after-effect: He can’t get warm. Script by Dan Ullman and Milton Krims. (60 min.)

8:00 MR. MAGOO–Cartoons (NBC)
[COLOR] Magoo (voice by Jim Backus) plays rascally Long John Silver in “Treasure Island,” a two-part version of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale, to be concluded next week.

8:30 GILLIGAN’S ISLAND (CBS)
[DEBUT] Take one shipwreck, add seven survivors and a desolate island, and you have the format for this half-hour comedy series. Bob Denver, who played “Dobie Gillis’s” beatnik buddy Maynard, is Gilligan, goofy first mate of the ill-fated ship; Alan Hale is the captain. Tonight: After the shipwreck, Gilligan and the skipper set sail from the island on a makeshift raft in hopes of finding help. Other regulars who washed ashore: Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer as the wealthy Thurston Howells; Tina Louise is Ginger Grant, a student of the theater; Russell Johnson is Prof. Hinkley; Dawn Wells is secretary Mary Ann Summers.

KENTUCKY JONES–Drama (NBC)
A weary Kentucky arrives home after an all-night siege with a foaling mare, but Seldom tells him to get a move on: It’s the day to register Ike at school. Kentucky: Dennis Weaver. Ike: Rickey Der. Seldom: Harry Morgan. Miss Anders: Dee J. Thompson. Miss Childs: Jill Andre.

LAWRENCE WELK–Music (ABC)
Quarterback Welk’s musical team gets its signals from a gridiron theme tonight. Musical highlights include “You Gotta Be a Football Hero,” “The Varsity Drag,” “Collegiate,” “September in the Rain,” “Undecided,” “My True Carrie, Love” and “Cumana.” (Live; 60 min.)

9:00 MR. BROADWAY–Drama (CBS)
[DEBUT] Garson Kanin created this series about Mike Bell, a sophisticated New York public-relations man with glamorous clients. Craig “Peter Gunn” Stevens stars as Bell, with Lani Miyazaki as Toki, his girl Friday; Horace McMahon is contact man Hank McClure. Jazz pianist-composer Dave Brubeck is responsible for the background music. Kanin wrote and directed tonight’s episode: Bell tells an old pal that he’ll “Keep an Eye on Emily” when she comes to New York from the Midwest, but his friend’s “naive” daughter turns out to be quite a swinger. (60 min.)
Guest Cast
Emily …………… Tuesday Weld
Buddy …………… Steve Cochran
Miss Harpers …………… Nancy Berg
Oleg Cassini, Leonard Lyons .. Themselves
Girl …………… Lucienne Bridou

MOVIE (NBC)
[COLOR] Saturday Night at the Movies: “The Tall Man.” (1955) Shortly after the Civil War, two Texas gunslingers bent on robbery get talked into joining a cattle drive instead. (Two hours, 30 min.)

9:30 HOLLYWOOD PALACE–Variety (ABC)
Ed Wynn “returns” to the Palace as host and performer (he appeared on the oepning bill of the original Palace on Broadway in 1913). Wynn introduces songstress Eydie Gorme, with the Trio Los Panchos; comedian Jack Carte; singer-dancer Zizi Jeanmaire and her “la Revue Parisienne”; and the Rolling Stones. (60 min.)

10:00 GUNSMOKE–Western (CBS)
“Gunsmoke” shoots into its 10th season tonight as two tough hombres meet on the trail and decide to join forces. One is Kip Gilman, who’s fleeing the law, and the other is young Packy Kerlin, a runaway. (60 min.)

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Source:

TV Guide, September 26, 1964 (Volume 12, Number 39, Issue #600) [Western New England Edition]