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- Television show featuring skits by Carol Burnett and her comedy troupe.
- Television show featuring dancing and popular music.
- Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
- Contestants compete in a talent show featuring music and comedy categories.
- During a stakeout, an L.A. cop kills a doctor who presumably pulled a gun but the coroner's inquest finds no gun, forcing the cop to look for it to clear his name.
- A Wild West cow town is starving for entertainment, and it falls upon Calamity Jane, a rowdy, gun-toting, jeans-wearing tomboy, to go to Chicago to bring back a famed stage actress. She brings instead the star's maid, who settles in the town, but Jane's love interest falls for her.
- Unsuspecting people are placed in confusing, impossible, embarrassing, ridiculous, and hilarious positions, while their reactions are recorded on a hidden camera.
- The captain of a crippled jet steers toward tri-state rescue-team experts waiting in Sioux City, Iowa.
- Variety show hosted by Garry Moore with famous guests.
- After being shot while trying to arrange the sale of a rural farm, a real estate agent desperately tries to bring the shooter to justice.
- Inspired by the famous 1897 editorial that has become a holiday staple, Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus tells the story of young Virginia O'Hanlan and the newspaper man who answered her question.
- The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
- The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.
- A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
- Three teenage girls try to help their friend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.
- Anthology series - 39 half-hour episodes - dramatizing stories of kid heroics.
- Country music star Jimmy Dean hosts a comedy-variety show with help from his puppet sidekick, Rowlf the Dog.
- Dinah hosted this hour-long weekly for seven years. It featured Dinah and guest stars in a variety of songs, skits, production numbers. Also featured: her "See the USA in your Chevrolet" song and her warm kiss to all in conclusion.
- After a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
- Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
- A few years after Perry Como left as host, "The Kraft Music Hall" was revived as a regular series from 1967-71. There was no set host during this period, and various guest hosts, usually a singer or comedian, presided on a weekly basis. There were several theme shows during "Music Hall"'s run, among them "A Taste of Funny, " hosted by Groucho Marx, "The Golden Age of TV Comedy, " hosted by Milton Berle, and "The Best of Broadway, " hosted by Henry Fonda. Frequent guest hosts included Berle, Eddy Arnold, John Davidson, and the singing team of Tony Sandler and Ralph Young. The Country Music Association Awards were first run as a special edition of the Music Hall in 1967. A victim of the general decline of weekly variety shows, "The Kraft Music Hall" was cancelled in 1971.
- When a scientist at a research lab is passed over for a promotion, he creates a clone of himself to attempt to seduce the wife of the man who got the job.
- A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.
- Weekly multi-week contest where teams of adults participate in a series of wacky events to win prizes.
- A woman discovers that she's the linchpin of a plot by her mother and her mother's lover to kill his wife.
- The Don Ho Show was a half hour variety show taped at Perry's Smorgasbord on Waikiki Beach. Featuring Don and the performers from his show at the Polynesian Palace, the show had guest acts such as David Copperfield and Tony Bennett.
- In this unsold 1962 pilot for a proposed NBC comedy series, scientist Lester Belstrup invents a machine that forces people to tell the truth.
- Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old Scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogene Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
- Head pathologist Coffee works at a big-city hospital helping police solve peculiar murders with the assistance of able colleagues Hudson and Mookerji and lab boy/handyman Link.
- A wife and mother tries to cope with her husband's emotional problems while trying to balance her new job as an assistant director on a local children's TV show and caring for her family.
- A special Valentine's Day show hosted by Robert Wagner. It features the musical talents of Helen Reddy, Mac Davis, the group Bread, and six non-professional couples.
- A young American woman travels to North Vietnam to search for her husband, an American pilot who was shot down during the war. She is joined by a Canadian reporter, who is looking for a human interest story and sees this as his ticket to the big time.
- Sitcom about a squabbling brother and sister each promised a $75,000 inheritance if they agree to run the family pickle business for five years.
- A Saturday morning kid's version of the popular game and novelty show "Almost Anything Goes". Like their parents on the other program, kids would compete against each other in bizarre competitions in the hopes of qualifying for the regional, and later national, championhsips. Different types of competitions were held each week, but the contests typically involved grease, food, eggs, or anything else that looked unpleasant enough when the contestants got covered in it.
- A pilot for a US version of "Up Pompeii". Just like the original BBC comedy it is a vehicle for Frankie Howerd. This is probably the obscurest of all obscure pilots; it isn't mentioned in handbooks or listings.
- A fabulous collection of sketches and songs. Zero Mostel performs If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof. The program was written by Nat Hiken (Sgt. Bilko, Car 54 Where Are You)
- Syndicated special that salutes Hollywood's contribution to popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s. Each of the seven hosts introduces a different decade.
- This program was a summer replacement for "The Andy Williams Show" hosted by singer John Davidson. It also featured comedian George Carlin, singing duet Jackie and Gayle, singing group The King Cousins, and 60s band The Lively Set.
- The life and career of comic Jack Benny. Included are clips fro his television shows,guest appearances on others' shows, clips from his movies and sound clips from his radio appearances. Friends, fans and colleagues are interviewed, including such stars as Johnny Carson, Ann Margret, , Dinah Shore, his daughter Joan Benny, Carol Burnett, Frederick De Cordova, Irving Fein, and interviews with Benny himself, from various talk shows.
- John Davidson interviews the college students as he walks. George Carlin entertains as a hippie football player. Spanky and Our Gang perform "Making Every Minute Count." Judy Collins joins the rest singing "The Beat Goes On."
- In this program celebrating the Ford Motor Company's 75th anniversary, various expressions of creativity are honored. Arthur Miller introduces a scene from "Death of a Salesman" performed by Edward Asner and Martin Sheen; Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon also introduce scenes from their plays. Other parts of the program feature comedy and musical performances, as well as interviews with prominent figures such as astronaut Neil Armstrong.
- Perry Como celebrates Christmas in Israel with vists to Bethlehem and Jerusalem.