"McHale's Navy" Debuts on October 11, 1962

Broadcast on ABC.  Thursday.  9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Military sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine, whose movie career had started to go into eclipse by 1959.  Ran for 4 seasons and was the 22nd most popular show during the 1963-64 season.

Comment found at tv.com  One of the all-time classic tv shows. I joined the Navy because of this show.

Not one of my favorite shows, I'll confess, but one that I watched with regularity on the Nelson family's black-and-white RCA console TV.  Color didn't come to our house until 1967.

"The Gallant Men" Debuts on October 5, 1991

Broadcast on ABC.  Friday. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time.

War drama, with pretty much of a no-name cast.  Ran for 1 season.

Episode list.

"The Eleventh Hour" Debuts on October 3, 1962

Source:  ShareTV

Broadcast on ABC.  Wednesday.  10:00 to 11:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Medical drama starring Wendell Corey in season 1 and Ralph Bellamy in season 2 as psychiatrists.    Ran for  2 seasons.

List of 62 episodes and other information.

"Our Man Higgins" Debuts on October 3, 1962

Broadcast on ABC.  Wednesday.  9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 1 season.  Sitcom about a butler from Scotland (Sterling Holloway, one of the most recognizable voices in the world) who works for a couple in suburbia.

"Going My Way" Debuts on October 3, 1962

Broadcast on ABC.  Wednesday.  8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 1 season.  Not the highlight of Gene Kelly's career.  Based on the 1944 movie starring Bing Crosby.

Two notable co-stars:  Leo G. Carroll and Dick York.

"Combat" Debuts on October 2, 1962

War drama broadcast on ABC.  Tuesday.  7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 5 seasons, same day, same time slot.

#10 most popular show during the 1964-65 season.  Otherwise, it never cracked the top 25.

Combat Fan website.

"Stoney Burke" Debuts on October 1, 1962

Broadcast on ABC.  Monday.  9:00 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 1 year.  Jack Lord stars in the title role as a modern-day professional rodeo rider.   Supporting cast includes Bruce Dern and Warren Oates.

"I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" Debuts on September 28, 1962

Broadcast on ABC.  Friday.  9:00 to 9:30 Eastern time.

Ran for one season.

The show's history.

"The Nurses" Debuts on September 27, 1962

Broadcast on CBS.  Thursday.  9:00 to 10:00 Eastern time.

Ran for 3 seasons.

Whatever happened to Zina Bethune?
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She made occasional guest appearance on TV after "The Nurses".  

She died as the result of a hit-and-run accident in Los Angeles in February 2012.

"The Beverly Hillbillies" Debuts on September 26, 1962

Broadcast on CBS.  Wednesday. 9:00 to 9:30 Eastern time.

Ran for 9 years.  The #1 rated show for the 1962-63 and 1963-64 television seasons.  In the top 20 every year except its final one.

I missed the first episode, but a lot of my friends were buzzing over it at school the next day.  I much preferred the show that preceded the Beverly Hillbillies on CBS's Wednesday schedule.



Even better was the 9:30 offering, but with a morning paper route, Mom made sure I was in bed by 9:30.  (I was never the easiest person to wake up back then.)

"Empire" Debuts on September 25, 1962

Broadcast on NBC.  Tuesday.  8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. (Brought back for a shortened second season by ABC.)

Contemporary Western set on a ranch in New Mexico.   Co-stars include Ryan O'Neal, all of 21 at the time, and Charles Bronson.

"The New Loretta Young Show" Debuts on September 24, 1962

Broadcast on CBS.  Monday.  10:00 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern time.

One season.   Loretta Young plays a continuing role (Christine Massey) in this short-lived series.

"Ensign O'Toole" Debuts on September 23, 1962

Broadcast on NBC.  Sunday.  7:00 to 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Ran for 2 seasons.   The first of two military comedies -- the other being McHale's Navy -- to be introduced to TV audiences in the fall of 1962.

Quite the cast:  Dean Jones, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Albertson, Harvey Lembeck, Beau Bridges.

"The Jetsons" Debuts on September 23, 1962

Broadcast on ABC.  Sunday.  7:30 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.  (The Nelson children watched this show on a black-and-white TV.)

Ran for a single season -- 24 episodes, which were rerun for years on Saturday morning. New episodes were produced in the mid-1980s.

The Jetsons unofficial home.

"The Virginian" Debuts on September 19, 1962

Broadcast on NBC.  Wednesday.  7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern time.

The first, and perhaps only, 90-minute Western on TV.  It ran for 8 seasons, never wavering from its Wednesday evening time slot.  Attracting a substantial audience, it finished in the top 10 -- at #10 -- during the 1966-67 season.

The Official website of James Drury The Virginian.

"The Jack Paar Program" Debuts on September 21, 1962

Broadcast on NBC.

Friday.  10:00 to 11:00 p.m. Eastern time  Ran for 3 seasons.

Jack Paar goes from late night TV (he hosted the Tonight Show from July 29, 1957, to March 30, 1962) to prime time.

"Don't Call Me Charlie" Debuts on September 21, 1962

Broadcast on NBC.

Friday. 9:30 to 10:00 p.m.
September 1962 6o January 1963.

Showing the closing credits is appropriate for this short-lived sitcom.   As summarized in The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, the shows "centered on Judson McKay, a young veterinarian from Iowa, who was drafted by mistake and assigned to a U.S. Army veterinary station in Paris."

"Fair Exchange" Debuts on Friday, September 21, 1962

Broadcast on CBS.

Fridays, September to December 1962 from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, March to September 1963 from 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Two families, one from New York City, the other from London England, decide to switch daughters for a year.  Judy Carne, who gained fame during her stint on Laugh-In, plays the British daughter.

In an unusual move, this situation comedy debuted as an hour-long program.  It was cancelled after three months.  An unexpected outburst of viewer protest resulted in its being brought back as a standard half-hour sitcom but just through the end of the 1962-63 television season.

"Wide County" Debuts on September 20, 1962

NBC.  Thursday.  7;30-8:30 Eastern time.

Forgettable drama about two brothers' adventures in contemporary rodeo life, starring Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine.  Ran for 1 season.

Apparently, every TV show ever produced in available on DVD.

"Saints and Sinners" Debuts on Monday, September 17, 1962

Mondays on NBC.  8:30 to 9:30 Eastern Time.

Action-drama starring Nick Adams (1931-1968) as newspaper reporter for the fictional New York Bulletin.

The volatile Nick Adams, whose career had hit the skids by the mid-1960s, died of a drug overdose, though it was not specifically determined to be a suicide.