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, November 7th, 1964
7:30 JACKIE GLEASON (CBS)
Reggie Van Gleason, the “World’s Greatest Coutuier,” and Gleason Girl Greta Randall show how to design high fashion from household items. Sketches: a gangster and his moll fear they are trapped, an Italian athlete throws a homemade discus, and TV lecturer Dr. Galbreath Perchcone offers advice. Frank Fontaine tells Joe the Bartender about Sir Francis Drake. (60 min.)
FLIPPER (NBC)
[COLOR] It’s “Countdown for Flipper,” who’s about to be dissected–officials think he’s swallowed a valuable fish.
OUTER LIMITS (ABC)
“Wolf 359.” Prof. Jonathan Meredith reproduces the environment of a distant planet in an effort to watch evolution take place in a speeded-up form. (60 min.)
8:00 MR. MAGOO–Cartoons (NBC)
[COLOR] Magoo’s version of “Don Quixote.” The errant knight and his squire Sancho Panza set off to find something knightly to do.
8:30 GILLIGAN’S ISLAND (CBS)
Gilligan has grown quite fond of Burton, his pet duck. But Burton has attracted the carnivorous eye of some of the hungry castaways.
KENTUCKY JONES–Drama (NBC)
Ike’s worried–two race-track touts Kentucky knows have turned up with a scheme to make a bundle at Santa Anita Race Track. Kentucky: Dennis Weaver. Seldom: Harry Morgan. Ike: Rickey Der.
Guest Cast
Harry Baron …………… Pat Harrington Jr.
Barney Denver …………… Emile Mayer
Dr. Won Sing …………… Allen Jung
Postponed from an earlier date.
LAWRENCE WELK–Music (ABC)
Maestro Welk salutes Veterans Day. Dianne Lennon, substituting for her singing sisters, does “Suddenly There’s a Valley”; Miss Glendale (Jan Daugherty) sings “Que Sera, Sera”; Barbara Boylan and Bobby Burgss dance to “In Acapulco”; and pianist Bob Ralston plays his arrangement of “Bumble Boogie.” (Live; 60 min.)
9:00 MR. BROADWAY–Drama (CBS)
“Don’t Mention My Name in Sheboygan” Mike’s been accused of blackmail by a big man on Wall Street, but he hasn’t the slightest notion why. Script by Robert Russell. Mike: Craig Stevens. Toki: Lani Miyazaki. (60 min.)
Guest Cast
Patricia Kelsey …………… Sandy Dennis
Orin Kelsey …………… Chester Morris
Mrs. Kelsey …………… Joan Bennett
MOVIE (NBC)
[COLOR] Saturday Night at the Movies: “The Jaywalkers.” (1959) A former Mexican War hero escapes from prison after learning of his wife’s death. (Two hours)
9:30 HOLLYWOOD PALACE–Variety (ABC)
The host is “Beverly Hillbilly” Buddy Ebsen, who does a comedy baseball sketch with San Francisco Giants’ center fielder Willie Mays and comedian Jack Carter. Ebsen introduces songstress Jane Morgan; English vocalist Shani Wallis; the Mascotts, German acrobats; the Wiere Brothers, comedy musical trio; and Tony the Wonder Horse. Mitchell Ayres orchestra. (60 min.)
10:00 GUNSMOKE–Western (CBS)
On the trail, Matt stops to fix the Carp family’s broken-down wagon. The Carps are so grateful that they offer him daughter Allie as a bride. (60 min.)
Source:
TV Guide, November 7, 1964 (Volume 12, Number 45, Issue #606) [Western New England Edition]
“Outer Limits” did well in the ratings during it’s first season (when it was on Monday nights).
But ABC moved the show to Saturdays at 7:30 Eastern/Pacific for Season Two, where it had to face “Jackie Gleason” and “Flipper”.
By early 1965, “Outer Limits” would get cancelled.
Had ABC kept the original “Outer Limits” in it’s first-season timeslot, the show likely would have become a long-running hit.
NEED WE REMIND YOU?? outer limits gOt off with a rocky start.. BACK . IN november 1963 with the upsetting episode featuring SIDNEY BLACKMER as embroiled in a presidential kidnapping attempt and its PROXIMITIY TO THE KENNEDYASSASSINATION.. &&&&NO ONE SLEPT WELL THAT ENTIRE AUTUMN!!!