The 1965-66 season is at hand, with all the new series (TIME, July 23) kicking off in a single week. The premieres—plus a few worthy public-affairs programs:
Wednesday, September 15
LOT IN SPACE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Guy Williams and June Lockhart head a family marooned on an unknown planet.
GIDGET (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Sally Field in a teen-age situation comedy.
GREEN ACRES (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). City Lawyer Eddie Albert and Wife Eva Gabor move to the sticks.
THE BIG VALLEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck as an Old West matriarch.
I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Comic adventure with a pair of U.S. agents.
AMOS BURKE, SECRET AGENT (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Former Millionaire Cop Gene Barry becomes a millionaire spy.
Thursday, September 16
O.K. CRACKERBY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Burl Ives as a cracker-barrel billionaire.
LAREDO (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Adventure with the Texas Rangers.
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). CBS's first plunge into prime-time feature films, beginning with The Manchurian Candidate (1962), starring Frank Sinatra (see below).
MONA McCLUSKEY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Juliet Prowse in a situation comedy about a movie star with an Air Force husband.
THE LONG HOT SUMMER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A dramatic series based on Faulkner's stories, with Edmond O'Brien.
THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Variety. Opening-night guests include Diahann Carroll, Bob Newhart and Frank Sinatra (who will thus be competing with the Manchurian Candidate version of himself).
Friday, September 17
CAMP RUNAMUCK (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Situation comedy at a summer camp.
THE WILD, WILD WEST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Robert Conrad as a Civil War hero turned Government agent.
HANK (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A comedy about an unregistered college student.
TAMMY (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A backwoods girl becomes a secretary.
CONVOY (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A World War II drama series.
HOGAN'S HEROES (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Adventure comedy in a Wold War II P.O.W. camp.
HONEY WEST (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Anne Francis as a private eyelash.
THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS SHOW (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Folk songs and comedy.
MR. ROBERTS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A situation comedy based on the hit play and movie.
Saturday, September 18
I DREAM OF JEANNIE (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). An astronaut and a girl genie.
GET SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Don Adams as a spoof-spy.
THE TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A new lawyer series with Peter Falk.
THE LONER (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lloyd Bridges in a post-bellum Western dramatic series.
Sunday, September 19
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). An interview with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson via Early Bird satellite.
THE FBI (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as a G-Man.
THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Comedy-adventure on a two-masted schooner during World War II.
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "K.K.K. —The Invisible Empire," a filmed-from-the-inside report on the Ku Klux Klan.
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