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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Sidney Sheldon

Theme music by Richard Wess

• 001. The Lady in the Bottle – 9/18/1965
  • Astronaut Captain Anthony “Tony” Nelson (Larry Hagman) is on a space mission in his one-man capsule Stardust One, when it crash lands on a remote island in the South Pacific. There he encounters a bottle and frees the beautiful blonde 2000-year old genie named Jeannie (Barbara Eden) from it. She immediately kisses him and professes her loyalty to him, her new master, and grants his wish of being rescued by helicopter. He refuses to take her, knowing it would complicate his relationship with his fiancee Melissa (Karen Sharpe), the daughter of his commanding officer General Wingard Stone (Philip Ober). Jeannie however enters her bottle and rolls it into his bag. Upon his return, Tony is debriefed by NASA psychologist Alfred Bellows (Hayden Rourke), and Tony admits that he saw the genie, which Bellows chalks up to hallucination. Tony brings Melissa back to his house in Cocoa Beach, Florida, only to encounter Jeannie in his shower, causing Melissa to storm out. Stone, Bellows, and fellow astronauts Captain Roger Heely (Bill Daily), and Lieutenant Pete Conway (Don Dubbins) pay Tony a visit, and he hides Jeannie and her bottle in the garbage, which nearly gets smashed in a garbage truck. In order to save Jeannie, he appears insane to his colleagues, and finally ‘admits’ that he was only playing a joke on them. Jeannie causes further havoc by transforming his living room into a sultan’s den, mimicking Melissa when she confronts Tony, and planting yet another passionate kiss on him. Tony tells her that she needs to be gone by the morning, but Jeannie only smiles at the TV audience. Byanes Barron is the commander. Joe Higgins and Richard Reeves are the garbage men. Warren Kemmerling and Patricia Scott are the barbecuing husband and wife. 6/28/16 

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Robert Getchell, this series is based on the 1974 film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

Theme song: “There’s a New Girl in Town” sung by Linda Lavin, music by David Shire, lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

• 001. Pilot – 8/31/1976
  • Widow Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) is a former country-western singer from Kansas City who has relocated to Phoenix with her 12-year old son Tommy (Alfred Lutter III) and is working at Mel’s Diner, run by crotchety owner Mel Sharples (Vic Tayback) along with fellow waitresses the sassy Flo Castleberry (Polly Holliday) and the clumsy Vera Louise Gorman (Beth Howland). Customer Joel Snedeger (Dennis Dugan) continually asks Alice out on a date, but she refuses… until she finds out she’s a Hollywood agent. Flo borrows a piano and brings it to Mel’s so that Alice can sing for Joel when he comes to pick up Alice for her date. She sings It Had to Be You beautifully but Joel rushes her out for their date. While on their date, it starts to become obvious that Joel knows very little about music and tries to avoid the subject. Pretty soon he is forced to admit that he is actually a hosiery salesman. Arthur Space is the horny old man Stuff Johnson. 6/27/16

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Bill Persky and Sam Denoff

Theme music “That Girl Theme Song” by Earle Hagen and Sam Denoff

• 000. What’s in a Name? – UNAIRED 1965
  • Ann Marie is an aspiring actress living in New York City, and working at a fancy restaurant, where her mind is on waiting for a phone call from her agent and romantic interest Don Blue Sky to see whether she got a part in a TV series. She bounces between her customers (Douglas McCairn, Rance Howard, Owen Bush, Mary Foran) and the chef Charlie (Cliff Norton) and busboy Jimmy (Michael Hoffer) and winds up missing the call. However, she gets world from Jimmy that Don wants to see her, and he has good news: she got the part. He is concerned about her real name though, since everyone always expects that Marie is her middle name, rather than her last, and asks her to change it. She knows her father Lew (Harold Gould) will be devastated. but discusses it with her friends Charlotte (Shirley Bonne), Linda (Anne Whitfield), and Sharon (Jackie Joseph) until they land on Marie Brewster, her new last name inspired by her hometown. She thinks that her father might like this name, but when she calls home and runs it by her mother Helen (Penny Santon), she has no such luck. In fact, he comes to visit her and tells her that if she changes her name, he will no longer speak to her. Don offers to go home with her and help explain, but neither parent will listen to any reason. She films the scene which has her starring as a bank teller falling victim to an armed robber but loses her restaurant job in the process. On the night of the show’s premiere, she receives flowers from her father, which signify a truce, but not forgiveness, as the card is not addressed to any name. She decides to go home and watch her big premiere with her parents. She still gets a mostly cold shoulder from her father, but when the credits roll and she gets billing as “Ann Marie,” he lights up. She tells him that she only wanted to advance her career and not hurt him, but when she saw how it was eating him up, she decided to go back to her real name. Don is able to get her job back at the restaurant, but she has already accepted a job at Macy’s. Walter Sande is the desk clerk at her apartment Max Cochran. Joseph Azar is the actor in the TV show. Jerry Paris, the director of the episode, appears uncredited as the director of the show. 6/28/21

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Based on the radio series “Gunsmoke” which broadcast from 1952-1961, which was created by Norman Macdonnell and John Meston. The 30-minute episodes of the first six season was retitled “Marshal Dillon” in syndication

TV series developed by Charles Marquis Warren

Theme music: “Old Trails” (aka “Boothill”) written by Rex Koury, arranged by William Lava. TV version conducted by Lud Gluskin. Lyrics were written by Glenn Spencer, and performed by Tex Ritter, but were not used in the show itself. 

• 001. Matt Gets It – 9/10/1955
  • Western actor John Wayne (himself) introduces the program. Matt Dillon (James Arness) is the United States Marshal in Dodge City, Kansas during the latter third of the 19th century, and he is assisted by his friend Chester Goode (Dennis Weaver), who walks with a limp and acts as a deputy even if he isn’t one officially. In Amarillo, a gunfighter named Don Grat (Paul Richards) has just killed another man after a crooked card game, but when he is told by his friend Bird (Malcolm Atterbury) that the man was unarmed, he decides to leave town in shame and head for Dodge City. Amarillo Sheriff Jim Hill (Robert Anderson) comes to Dodge to meet him there and arrest him, and announces himself to Matt. While visiting the Long Branch Saloon and his friend Miss Kitty Russell (Amanda Blake), Matt runs into Grat, who warns Dillon that he likes to be left alone and that he’s good with his gun. Dillon tells him he can do whatever he wants except for break the law… which includes resisting arrest. Hill meets Grat outside and attempt to take him in, but Grat shoots and kill him when Hill approaches. Matt witnesses the murder and confronts Grat, but he is shot in the chest as well. Kitty and Chester take him to Dr. Galen “Doc” Adams (Milburn Stone), who can’t immediately diagnose his condition. Chester vows that he will kill Grat if Matt dies. Fortunately, Matt makes a full recovery and starts to move around town, but makes sure that he is unarmed, so Grat won’t do anything other than taunt him. Once he recovers, he goes to see Grat at the Dodge House where he’s staying and is told by the manager Mr. Uzzel (Howard Culver) which room he’s in. Grat tries to get Matt to come close to him to arrest him, but Matt keeps his distance, surmising that Grat may be the fastest gunslinger he’s ever seen, but seems to always want his victim close because he has no aim. Grat attempts to fire on him and misses, giving Matt the chance to shoot and kill Grat. 6/24/21

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Michael Jacobs and Danielle Alexandra

Theme song: “You Can Count on Me” written by Greg Evigan, Lenny Macaluso, and Michael Jacobs, and performed by Greg Evigan

• 001. Pilot (aka My Two Dads) – 9/20/1987
  • New York City financial advisor Michael Taylor (Paul Reiser) is called to appear before Judge Margaret W. Wilbur (Florence Stanley) for the reading of the will of a former love interested named Marcy Bradford. He comes accompanied by his attorney and potential love interest Kathryn (Amanda Horan Kennedy). Also attending the reading is artist Joey Harris (Greg Evigan), who also had a fling with Marcy, which caused the falling out between him and Michael when they competed for her on a trip to Key West thirteen years earlier. They are both awarded custody of her Marcy’s daughter Nicole (Staci Keanan), with the hopes that they can live together as a family. Michael is unsure, and realizes that this would be life-changing, while Joey is more impulsive and takes her home with him. However, Joey’s lifestyle is messy, and he quickly has to cancel out on taking her ice skating to attend a meeting about getting his artwork in a gallery. Nicole takes the subway to see Michael, who returns with her, irate that Michael is unfit to take care of her. This causes a huge fight between the dads, and Nicole declares that she doesn’t want to live with either one of them since they don’t seem to really want to make room in their lives for her. After she goes to bed, Michael and Joey discuss it over champagne and decide to try and cooperate to raise her. Judge Wilbur comes to check up on them, but the guys find that Nicole has left. They are about to admit this to the judge, when Nicole comes home with breakfast. The guys acknowledge that they are very different, but they agree that having a daughter is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Max Perlich is the pizza delivery boy. NOTE: Theme song in the pilot: You’re a Friend of Mine by Jackson Browne and Clarence Clemons. 6/26/21

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