On November 22 , 1963 , President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas , Texas . Network news coverage of the assassination and the events that followed pre-empted all scheduled programing between the afternoon of the 22nd and the late evening of the 25th . All series , specials and sporting events were delayed , put on hiatus or cancelled . Episodes of competing series on CBS , '' The New Phil Silvers Show '' and Gunsmoke were delayed until January and April 1964 , respectively . The NBC Saturday Night Movie was also delayed until January 1964 . '' The Jerry Lewis Show '' scheduled for the 23rd was suspended and did not return until early December . Its final episode , the thirteenth of the promised forty , aired on December 21 , 1963 . Director and producer Bob Finkel decided to revise '' The Jerry Lewis Show '' nearly four years after the original ABC version ended its run . A revision of the series premiered on NBC on September 12 , 1967 with guest Barbara Eden
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