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Jill St. John as The Riddler's new assistant in the very first Batman TV series episode - Hey Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Riddle

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Hi Diddle Riddle / Smack in the Middle – Batman season 1

Hi Diddle Riddle – January 11 1966

The very first live action Batman episodes are Hi Diddle Diddle and Smack in the Middle is. With Frank Gorshin playing the Riddler with absolute glee!

Jill St. John as The Riddler's new assistant in the very first Batman TV series episode - Hey Diddle Diddle
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The Carol Burnett Show, season 1, episode 2

The Carol Burnett Show – Sid Caesar and Liza Minelli

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The Carol Burnett Show – season 1, episode 2 – guest stars Sid Caesar and Liza Minelli, originally aired September 18, 1967

In the Carol Burnett Show – Sid Caesar and Liza Minelli, comedy legend Sid Caesar guests as a nervous, expectant father. Also, “V.I.P.” interviews Lucy Brains, and “Carol & Sis” finds Chris’ college interview complicated by sleeping pills.

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Forgotten Lady - Columbo, season 5, with Peter Falk, Janet Leigh, Maurice Evans, John Payne

Forgotten Lady [Columbo]

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Forgotten Lady – Columbo, season 5, with Peter Falk, Janet Leigh, Maurice Evans, John Payne

As usual, in Forgotten Lady, Lt. Columbo is tasked with solving a murder. The audience sees how the murder was done, and Columbo has to solved a locked door mystery. But there’s more going on …. And the title has a double meaning.

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The Addams Family season 1 - the classic television series about the loving, macabre, family. Starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan

The Addams Family season 1

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The Addams Family season 1 – the classic television series about the loving, macabre, family. Starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan

Based on cartoon characters created by Charles Addams for “The New Yorker” magazine, this series introduces us to “The Addams Family,” with father Gomez, mother Morticia, their children Pugsley and Wednesday, and an extended macabre family that includes zany Uncle Fester, witchy Grandmama, hairy Cousin It, their creepy butler Lurch, and a disembodied hand named “Thing.”

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The Ski Lodge - Carol Burnett and Jim Nabors in The Carol Burnett Show, season 1, episode 1

The Carol Burnett Show – season 1, episode 1 – Jim Nabors

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The Carol Burnett Show – season 1, episode 1 – guest star Jim Nabors, originally aired September 11, 1967

In this very first episode of The Carol Burnett Show, Jim Nabors is the very first guest star. Going forward, Carol Burnett considered him to be “lucky”, and had him as the guest of the first episode of every season.

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John Wayne in "Swing Out Sweet Land"

Swing Out Sweet Land

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Swing Out Sweet Land (1970) starring John Wayne and a host of celebrities

Swing Out Sweet Land is John Wayne’s tribute to the United States of America. It’s a star-studded tribute to America starring John Wayne, Lorne Greene, William Shatner, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Ann-Margret, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Hugh O’Brian, Roscoe Lee Browne, Glen Campbell, Greg Morris, Ross Martin, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Bing Crosby, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Celeste Holm, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Tom Smothers, Red Skelton, Leslie Uggams, Dennis Weaver, Ed McMahon and more.

It was the highest rated show of the week it aired.

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