In 1963, MGM scored a big hit...

In 1963, MGM scored a big hit with the movie “Flipper,” about a boy and his dolphin. The next year saw the release of “Flipper’s Big Adventure.” And in the fall of 1964, Flipper got his own series on NBC. Nickelodeon is airing the pilot of the series (Monday at 3 p.m.). Brian Kelly, Luke Haplin and Tommy Norden are the human stars.

The great trumpet player and bandleader Harry James visits The Donna Reed Show (Monday at 2 a.m. on Nickelodeon) in an episode in which Donna discovers Jeff has perfect pitch.

“Monty Python” great Michael Palin guests on The Best of Saturday Night (Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Nickelodeon) and plays Miles Cowperthwaite in the hysterical “Family Classics” spoof “The Raging Queen.”

Dean Stockwell of “Quantum Leap” guests on Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Wednesday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon) as a young man who checks into a really bizarre boarding house.

Yes, that’s really a young Kurt Russell playing a a loin-clothed jungle boy on Gilligan’s Island (Friday at 5:05 a.m. o TBS).

Mickey Rooney plays a comic-turned-bookmaker who gets Kimble involved in one of his schemes on The Fugitive (Friday at 7 a.m. on A & E).

Esther Williams stops swimming long enough to guest on The Donna Reed Show (Friday at 2 a.m. on Nickelodeon) as Donna’s friend, a successful career woman who visits the Stones to see if she would like to try her luck at marriage and domestic life.

Eleanor Parker, Donald O’Connor, former child star Margaret O’Brien and Liberace visit Hotel (Saturday at 3 p.m. on Lifetime).

Bub wins money in a raffle and decides to take the Douglases to Ireland to visit his relative on My Three Sons (Saturday at 5:30 a.m. on Nickelodeon).