User:Roman Spinner/List of TV shows with elaborately titled episodes

The list is in two parts: an alphabetical listing of show titles, accompanied by dates of first and last episodes, and a chronological arrangement, in order of the first episode's broadcast date. The titles of individual episodes appear only in the chronological list, organized, within each show, in order of broadcast.

• Behind Closed Doors (NBC) October 2, 1958–April 9, 1959
• Ben Casey (ABC) October 2, 1961–March 21, 1966
• Breaking Point (ABC) September 16, 1963–September 7, 1964
• Amos Burke—Secret Agent (ABC) September 15, 1965–January 12, 1966
• Checkmate (CBS) September 17, 1960–September 19, 1962
• City Detective (Syndicated) January 1, 1953–May 10, 1955
• COronado 9 (Syndicated) September 6, 1960 – May 31, 1961
• The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) September 17, 1961–September 6, 1964
• East Side/West Side (CBS) September 23, 1963–September 14, 1964
• 87th Precinct (NBC) September 25, 1961–April 30, 1962
• The Eleventh Hour (NBC) October 3, 1962–September 9, 1964
• Empire (NBC) September 25, 1962–May 14, 1963)
• Follow the Sun (ABC) September 17, 1961–September 9, 1962
• For the People (CBS) January 31, 1965–May 9, 1965
• Going My Way (ABC October 3, 1962–April 24, 1963
• The Greatest Show on Earth (ABC) September 17, 1963–September 8, 1964
• I Spy (NBC) September 15, 1965–September 2, 1968
• It's a Man's World (NBC) September 17, 1962–January 28, 1963
• Laredo (NBC) September 16, 1965–April 7, 1967
• The Lloyd Bridges Show (CBS) September 11, 1962–September 3, 1963
• Mr. Broadway starring Craig Stevens (CBS) September 26 –December 26, 1964
• Mr. Novak (NBC) September 24, 1963–August 31, 1965
• Naked City (ABC) September 30, 1958–September 29, 1959 and October 12, 1960–September 11, 1963
• The Nurses (CBS) September 27, 1962–September 7, 1965
• The Road West (NBC) September 12, 1966–May 1, 1967
• Route 66 (CBS) October 7, 1960–September 18, 1964
• Saints and Sinners (NBC) September 17, 1962–January 28, 1963
• 77 Sunset Strip (ABC) October 10, 1958—February 7, 1964
• Slattery's People (CBS) September 21, 1964—November 26, 1965
• State Trooper (Syndicated) September 25, 1956—June 25, 1959

• Naked City (ABC) September 30, 1958–September 29, 1959 and October 12, 1960–September 11, 1963
  • "The Man Who Bit the Diamond in Half" (December 14, 1960)
  • "Murder Is a Face I Know" (January 11, 1961)
  • "Landscape with Dead Figures" (January 18, 1961)
  • "The Well-Dressed Termites" (February 8, 1961)
  • "The Day It Rained Mink" (February 15, 1961)
  • "The Fault in Our Stars" (March 22, 1961)
  • "To Dream Without Sleep" (May 24, 1961)
  • "A Kettle of Precious Fish" (May 31, 1961)
  • "Sweet Prince of Delancey Street" (June 7, 1961)
  • "Take Off Your Hat When a Funeral Passes By" (September 27, 1961)
  • "A Corpse Ran Down Mulberry Street" (October 11, 1961)
  • "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (November 22, 1961)
  • "Requiem for a Sunday Afternoon" (December 6, 1961)
  • "The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos" (January 17, 1962)
  • "One of the Most Important Men in The Whole World" (January 31, 1962)
  • "Let Me Die Before I Wake" (February 14, 1962)
  • "Today the Man Who Kills the Ants Is Coming" (March 7, 1962)
  • "The One Marked Hot Gives Cold" (March 21, 1962)
  • "The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth" (April 25, 1962)
  • "And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them" (May 9, 1962)
  • "The King of Venus Will Take Care of You" (May 30, 1962)
  • "Goodbye Mama, Hello Auntie Maud" (June 20, 1962)
  • "Daughter, Am I in My Father's House?" (June 27, 1962)
  • "And by the Sweat of Thy Brow" (October 10, 1962)
  • "Kill Me While I'm Young So I Can Die Happy" (October 17, 1962)
  • "Five Cranks for Winter... Ten Cranks for Spring" (October 24, 1962)
  • "Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long" (November 7, 1962)
  • "Make It Fifty Dollars and Add Love to Nona" (November 14, 1962)
  • "A Horse Has a Big Head—Let Him Worry" (November 21, 1962)
  • "King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable" (December 12, 1962)
  • "Robin Hood and Clarence Darrow, They Went Out with Bow and Arrow" (January 9, 1963)
  • "The Apple Falls Not Far from the Tree" (January 23, 1963)
  • "Beyond This Place There Be Dragons" (January 30, 1963)
  • "Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant" (March 6, 1963)
  • "Stop the Parade! A Baby Is Crying" (March 20), 1963
  • "On the Battlefront, Every Minute Is Important" (March 27, 1963)
  • "No Naked Ladies in Front of Giovanni's House!" (April 17, 1963)
  • "Color Schemes Like Never Before" (May 1, 1963)
  • "The S.S. American Dream" (May 8, 1961)
  • "One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski" (May 15, 1963)
• Checkmate (CBS) September 17, 1960–September 19, 1962
  • "Hot Wind in a Cold Town" (June 10, 1961)
  • "A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Game" (January 3, 1962)
  • "Remembrance of Crimes Past" (February 28, 1962)
• Route 66 (CBS) October 7, 1960–September 18, 1964
  • "A Fury Slinging Flame" (December 30, 1960)
  • "Most Vanquished, Most Victorious" (April 14, 1961)
  • "Good Night, Sweet Blues" (October 6, 1961)
  • "Once to Every Man" (October 27, 1961)
  • "Some of the People, Some of the Time" (December 1, 1961)
  • "And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon" (December 15, 1961)
  • "To Walk with the Serpent" (January 5, 1962)
  • "How Much a Pound Is Albatross?" (February 9, 1962)
  • "Aren't You Surprised to See Me?" (February 16, 1962)
  • "You Never Had It So Good" (February 23, 1962)
  • "Shoulder the Sky, My Lad" (March 2, 1962)
  • "Even Stones Have Eyes" (March 30, 1962)
  • "Kiss the Maiden, All Forlorn" (April 13, 1962)
  • "There I Am—There I Always Am" (May 4, 1962)
  • "Hell Is Empty, All the Devils Are Here" (May 25, 1962)
  • "From an Enchantress Fleeing" (June 1, 1962)
  • "Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?" (October 12, 1962)
  • "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing" (October 26, 1962)
  • "Across Walnuts and Wine" (November 2, 1962)
  • "Every Father's Daughter Must Weave Her Own" (November 16, 1962)
  • "Poor Little Kangaroo Rat" (November 23, 1962)
  • "Hey Moth, Come Eat the Flame" (November 30, 1962)
  • "Where Is Chick Lorimer? Where Has She Gone?" (December 14, 1962)
  • "Give the Old Cat a Tender Mouse" (December 21, 1962)
  • "A Bunch of Lovely Pagliaccis" (January 4, 1963)
  • "You Can't Pick Cotton in Tahiti" (January 11, 1963)
  • "Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain" (February 8, 1963)
  • "Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow" (February 15, 1963)
  • "Shall Forfeit His Dog and Ten Shillings to the King" (February 22, 1963)
  • "Narcissus on an Old Red Fire Engine" (March 29, 1963)
  • "Peace, Pity, Pardon" (April 12, 1963)
  • "What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant" (April 26, 1963)
  • "But What Do You Do in March" (May 3, 1963)
  • "Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride?" (May 10, 1963)
  • "Soda Pop and Paper Flags" (May 31, 1963)
  • "Two Strangers and an Old Enemy" (September 27, 1963)
  • "Same Picture, Different Frame" (October 4, 1963)
  • "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" (October 11, 1963)
  • "Where Are the Sounds of Celli Brahms?" (October 18), 1963
  • "Build Your Own House with Their Back to the Sea" (October 25, 1963)
  • "And Make Thunder His Tribute" (November 1, 1963)
  • "I Wouldn't Start from Here" (November 15, 1963)
  • "I'm Here to Kill a King" (November 29, 1963)
  • "A Long Way from St. Louis" (December 6, 1963)
  • "Come Home, Greta Inger Gruenschaffen" (December 13, 1963)
  • "Is It True There Are Poxies at the Bottom of Landfair Lake?" (January 10, 1964)
  • "Like This It Means Father—Like This–Bitter—Like This–Tiger" (January 17, 1964)
  • "Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep" (January 24, 1964)
  • "Cries of a Person Close to One" (January 31, 1964)
  • "Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl" (February 7, 1964)
  • "This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You" (February 14, 1964)
  • "Follow the White Dove with the Broken Wing" (February 21, 1964)
  • "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" (March 6-13, 1964)
• Follow the Sun (ABC) September 17, 1961–September 9, 1962
  • "The Longest Crap Game in History" (November 5, 1961)
  • "Mele Kalikimaka to You" (December 24, 1961)
• The Dupont Show of the Week (NBC) September 17, 1961–September 6, 1964
  • "The Triumph of Gerald Q. Wert" (June 9, 1963)
  • "Jeremy Rabbitt—Secret Avenger" (April 5, 1964)
  • "The Missing Bank of Rupert X. Humperdink" (June 21, 1964)
• Ben Casey (ABC) October 2, 1961–March 21, 1966
  • "A Certain Time, a Certain Darkness" (December 11, 1961)
  • "Give My Hands an Epitaph" (February 5, 1962)
  • "Victory Wears a Cruel Smile" (February 12, 1962)
  • "Odyssey of a Proud Suitcase" (February 19, 1962)
  • "Behold a Pale Horse" (February 26, 1962) This Biblical phrase (Revelation 6:8) was later used as the title of a plotwise unrelated Columbia feature (released August 14, 1964) directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif
  • "For the Ladybug, One Dozen Roses" (March 5, 1962)
  • "And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears" (April 23, 1962)
  • "So Oft It Chances in Particular Men" (May 21, 1962)
  • "In the Name of Love, a Small Corruption" (October 15, 1962)
  • "Go Not Gently into the Night" (October 29, 1962)
  • "Behold! They Walk an Ancient Road" (November 5, 1962)
  • "Of All Save Pain Bereft" (November 12, 1962)
  • "And Even Death Shall Die" (November 19, 1962)
  • "Between Summer and Winter, the Glorious Season" (December 3, 1962)
  • "Pack Up All My Cares and Woes" (December 17, 1962)
  • "Saturday, Surgery and Stanley Schultz" (December 31, 1962)
  • "Use Neon for My Epitaph" (January 28, 1963)
  • "He Thought He Saw an Albatross" (February 4, 1963)
  • "For I Will Plait Thy Hair with Gold" (March 25, 1963)
  • "Rage Against the Dying Light" (April 15, 1963)
  • "My Enemy Is a Bright Green Sparrow" (April 29, 1963)
  • "Hang No Hats on Dreams" (May 13, 1963)
  • "For This Relief, Much Thanks" (September 9, 1963)
  • "Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand" (October 30, 1963)
  • "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" (November 13, 1963)
  • "Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne" (November 27, 1963)
  • "It Is Getting Dark... and We Are Lost" (December 18, 1963)
  • "The Last Splintered Spoke on the Old Burlesque Wheel" (December 25, 1963)
  • "The Light That Loses... the Night That Wins" (January 1, 1964)
  • "I'll Get on My Icefloe and Wave Goodbye" (January 8, 1964)
  • "There Was Once a Man in the Land of Uz" (January 22, 1964)
  • "Onions and Mustard Seed Will Make Her Weep" (March 25, 1964)
  • "Heap Logs and Let the Blaze Laugh Out" (April 8, 1964)
  • "For a Just Man Falleth Seven Times" (April 15, 1964)
  • "Money, a Horse and a Knowledge of Latin" (November 16, 1964)
  • "A Disease of the Heart Called Love" (November 23, 1964)
  • "A Rambling Discourse on Egyptian Water Clocks" (February 1, 1965)
  • "When I Am Grown to Man's Estate" (February 8, 1965)
  • "A Dipperful of Water from a Poisoned Well" (March 1, 1965)
  • "Journeys End in Lovers Meeting" (April 19, 1965)
  • "Did Your Mother Come from Ireland?" (May 3, 1965)
  • "A Horse Named Stravinsky" (May 17, 1965)
  • "Because of the Needle, the Haystack Was Lost" (October 11, 1965)
  • "No More, Cried the Rooster—There Will Be Truth" (November 8, 1965)
  • "If You Play Your Cards Right, You Too Can Be a Loser" (December 27, 1965)
  • "For San Diego, You Need a Different Bus" (January 17, 1966)
  • "Pull the Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes the Cold Wind of Truth" (March 14, 1966)
• Saints and Sinners (NBC) September 17, 1962–January 28, 1963
  • "The Year Joan Crawford Won the Oscar" (January 21, 1963)
• The Nurses (CBS) September 27, 1962–September 7, 1965
  • "Show Just Cause Why You Should Weep" (October 3, 1963)
• The Eleventh Hour (NBC) October 3, 1962–September 9, 1964
  • "I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House" (October 24, 1962)
  • "Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things" (November 7, 1962)
  • "Hooray, Hooray, the Circus Is Coming to Town" (November 21, 1962)
  • "Where Have You Been, Lord Randall, My Son" (January 9, 1963)
  • "My Name Is Judith, I'm Lost, You See" (January 16, 1963)
  • "Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night" (January 23, 1963)
  • "Beauty Playing a Mandolin Underneath a Willow Tree" (February 20, 1963)
  • "A Tumble from a High White Horse" (February 27, 1963)
  • "There Should Be an Outfit Called Families Anonymous" (December 11, 1963)
  • "You're so Smart, Why Can't You Be Good" (January 22, 1964)
  • "The Only Remaining Copy Is in the British Museum" (February 12, 1964)
  • "Who Is to Say How the Battle Is to Be Fought" (March 11, 1964)
• Breaking Point (ABC) September 16, 1963–September 7, 1964
  • "And James Was a Very Small Snail" (November 11, 1963)
  • "The Gnu, Now Almost Extinct" (December 16, 1963)
  • "Heart of Marble, Body of Stone" (December 23, 1963)
  • "So Many Pretty Girls, So Little Time" (February 17, 1964)
  • "Shadows of a Starless Night" (March 9, 1964)
  • "Glass Flowers Never Drop Petals" (March 23, 1964)
  • "Never Trouble Trouble Till Trouble Troubles You" (March 30, 1964)
  • "Confounding Her Astronomers" (April 6, 1964)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (ABC) September 17, 1963–September 8, 1964
  • "Silent Love, Secret Love" (September 24, 1963)
  • "Don't Look Down, Don't Look Back" (October 8, 1963)
  • "The Night the Monkey Died" (March 10, 1964)
  • "Of Blood, Sawdust and a Bucket of Tears" (March 17, 1964)
  • "The Glorious Days of Used to Be" (March 31, 1964)
  • "This Train Don't Stop Till It Gets There" (April 14, 1964)
  • "There Are No Problems, Only Opportunities" (April 21, 1964)
• East Side/West Side (CBS) September 23, 1963–September 14, 1964
  • "My Child on Monday Morning" (December 16, 1963)
  • "If Your Grandmother Had Wheels" (March 2, 1964)
  • "The Passion of the Nickel Player" (March 9, 1964)
• Mr. Novak (NBC) September 24, 1963–August 31, 1965
  • "Fear Is a Handful of Dust" (February 25, 1964)
  • "How Does Your Garden Grow?" (March 3, 1964)
  • "With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" (September 29, 1964)
  • "Let's Dig a Little Grammar" (November 10, 1964)
  • "The People Doll: You Wind It Up and It Makes Mistakes" (November 17, 1964)
  • "Born of Kings and Angels" (December 1, 1964)
  • "Johnny Ride the Pony—One, Two, Three" (December 15, 1964)
  • "From the Brow of Zeus" (January 5, 1965)
  • "An Elephant Is Like a Tree" (January 12, 1965)
  • "Beat the Plowshare: Edge the Sword" (January 26, 1965)
  • "Where Is There to Go, Billie, But Up" (March 9, 1965)
  • "There's a Penguin in My Garden" (April 6, 1965)
• Slattery's People (CBS) September 21, 1964—November 26, 1965
  • "Question: Why the Lonely... Why the Misbegotten?" (September 28, 1964)
  • "Question: What Is Honor... What Is Death?" (November 23, 1964)
  • "Question: Do the Ignorant Sleep in Pure White Beds?" (November 30, 1964)
  • "Question: How Long Is the Shadow of a Man?" (January 1, 1965)
  • "Question: What Is a Requiem for a Loser?" (January 8, 1965)
  • "Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" (March 5, 1965)
  • "Question: Bill Bailey, Why Did You Come Home?" (April 2, 1965)
  • "Question: What's a Swan Song for a Sparrow?" (April 16, 1965)
  • "How Impregnable Is a Magic Tower?" (October 1, 1965)
  • "What Can You Do with a Wounded Tiger?" (October 22, 1965)
  • "Of Damon, Pythias and Sleeping Dogs" (November 12, 1965)
• For the People (CBS) January 31, 1965–May 9, 1965
  • "...guilt shall not escape nor innocence suffer..." (February 14, 1965)
  • "Dangerous to the Public Peace and Safety" (March 21, 1965)
  • "Secure Any Special Privilege or Advantage" (March 28, 1965)
• Amos Burke—Secret Agent (ABC) September 15, 1965–January 12, 1966
  • "Whatever Happened to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?" (December 1, 1965)
  • "A Very Important Russian Is Missing" (December 29, 1965)
• I Spy (NBC) September 15, 1965–September 2, 1968
  • "Anyplace I Hang Myself Is Home" (January 15, 1968)
  • "A Few Miles West of Nowhere" (January 29, 1968)
• Laredo
  • "Lazyfoot, Where Are You?" (September 16, 1965)
  • "I See by Your Outfit" (September 23, 1965)
  • "That's Noway, Thataway" (January 20, 1966)
  • "Limit of the Law Larkin" (January 27, 1966)
  • "Meanwhile Back at the Reservation" (February 10, 1966)
  • "No Bugles, One Drum" (February 24, 1966)
  • "It's the End of the Road, Stanley" (March 10, 1966)
  • "The Would-Be Gentleman of Laredo" (April 15, 1966)
  • "The Dance of the Laughing Death" (September 23, 1966)
  • "The Last of the Caesars: Absolutely" (December 2, 1966)
  • "The Bitter Yen of General Ti" (February 3, 1967)
  • "Hey Diddle Diddle" (February 24, 1967)
  • "The Small Chance Ghost" (March 3, 1967)