Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 22, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: Mr. Osaki's Tree
Season 4, episode 17 W: Blanche Hanalis D: Charles T. Barton With Teru Shimada (Mr. Osaki). An aging Japanese diplomat who has befriended Jody gives the lad his Bonsai tree, about which he has mystical feelings. But the tree begins to die when Mr. Osaki leaves New York to return home.
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| [ABC 7:30] Pat Paulsen's Half A Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 W: Steve Martin, Michael Elias, Larry Markes, Bob Arbogast, Frank Shaw et al D: Mark Goode With Hubert Humphrey, Debbie Reynolds, Daffy Duck. The dour-faced comic, who came into prominence through appearances with the Smothers Brothers, debuts in his own series. The comedy format will feature skits and interviews. Pat shows how to make a color TV set and parodies a popular TV show; Miss Reynolds plays a prison inmate who resists the kindly overtures of warden Paulsen.
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| [NBC 7:30] Daniel Boone [Reg]: The Sunshine Patriots
Season 6, episode 15 W: Rick Husky, Jack Guss D: William Wiard With Laurie Main (Sir Samuel Peacham), Jack Bannon (Lieutenant Poole), Gail Kobe (Letitia), Ian Ireland (Colonel Percy), Isabel Sanford (Maybelle), Raoul Franck (Rochambeau), Michael Keep (Magwa), Dick Winslow (Sir Samuel Tawney), Nels Nelson (General Partridge), Harold Ayer (Butler). Josh and Gabe are sent by Boone on a mission to aid the revolutionary cause and become involved in a series of misadventures when they kidnap the wrong Britisher.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 17 With Rock Hudson. Nabors opens with the Tony Mordente dancers in a production number, "These Are Not My People". Nabors learns to be a member of a rock group. Hudson and Nabors compare small-town childhoods and sing "Don't It Make You Want to Go Home". Hudson also portrays a racing driver who has the bad luck to stop at a gas station where Nabors is the overly-conscientious attendant.
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| [ABC 8:00] That Girl [Reg]: That Meter Maid
Season 4, episode 17 W: Jerry Ross, William Lynn D: Ted Bessell With Judson Pratt (Sergeant Melvin), Dennis Weaver (Lewis Franks), Tol Avery (Mayor), Dennis Turner (Harvey Murchison), Claudia Bryar (Mona), Fritzi Burr (Laura), Billy Beck (Diggs), Diana Hale (Millie). Ann relives her days as a meter maid when she meets Don's new boss, formerly the town's newspaper publisher.
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| [ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Samantha's Secret Is Discovered
Season 6, episode 18 W: Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn D: William Asher With Bernie Kopell (Dr. Rhinestone), Mabel Albertson (Phyllis), Roy Roberts (Frank), Nydia Westman (Mrs. Quigley). Mrs. Stephens walks in just as Samanatha and her mother, Endora, are arguing about the decor of the living room. Endora zaps in Louis XIV furniture and Samantha zaps back the old furniture, while the unnoticed mother-in-law watches and decides she is losing her mind.
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| [NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: Beware The Wiles Of A Stranger
Season 3, episode 15 W: Robert Earll D: Don Weis With John Ericson (Fred), Stacy Harris (Gordon), William Boyett (Cop), Harry Harvey (Day Clerk), Byron Mabe (Night Clerk), Dan Kemp (Police Lieutenant), Tina Louise (Candy). After giving a lift to a girl hitchhiker, Mark unintentionally joins forces with a trio of gunmen who have held up a private poker club.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Never Too Late (1965)
W: Sumner Arthur Long D: Bud Yorkin With Paul Ford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Connie Stevens, Jim Hutton, Jane Wyatt, Henry Jones, Lloyd Nolan. A middle-aged couple leading the tranquil, routine married life are shocked to discover they are once again to become parents.
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| [ABC 9:00] This Is Tom Jones [Reg]
Season 2, episode 17 With Don Ho, Ace Trucking Company, Dusty Springfield, Lonnie Donegan. Hawaii's popular Don Ho sings "Sweet Caroline" and "Honey Come Back"; Dusty Springfield offers "A Brand New Me" and joins Tom for "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me". Skiffle king Lonnie Donegan solos "My Mystery Juanita" and duets with Jones on "Ain't Gonna Study War No More".
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| [NBC 9:30] Dragnet [Reg]: Burglary - Helpful Woman
Season 4, episode 14 W: Michael Donovan D: Jack Webb With Dick Whittinghill, Ann Morgan Guilbert (Bessie McDermott), Nydia Westman (Martha Anderson), Ralph Moody (Chester Anderson), Julie Bennett (Evelyn Gentry), Art Balinger (Capt. Green), Don Ross (Carl Freeman). Friday and Gannon search for a woman who picks on elderly people as her victims in a rare theft scheme. While the officers ask help of the news media to publicize the suspect's method of operation, they receive a call from the 17th victim within two weeks.
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| [ABC 10:00] Paris 7000 [Reg]: Beyond Reproach
Season 1, episode 1 D: Marc Daniels With Anne Baxter (Estelle), E.G. Marshall (Judge Banderman), Robert Ellenstein (Pierre), Pamela McMyler (Danielle). Debut of an action-drama series played against the background of the American Embassy in Paris. Jack Brennan's assignment is to aid U.S. citizens caught in crisis situations. In the first episode, he assists a newly appointed Supreme Court justice after they receive a disturbing anonymous note.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 17 With Orson Welles, Verna Lisi, Lou Rawls, Rocky Graziano, Don Rice. Miss Lisi sings "No Boom Boom" and dances with three "light-footed" partners - Martin, Welles and Graziano. She also teams with Martin for a musical spoof of language problems. Welles sets out to explain ballet to an unreceptive Martin, and both sing "Give Me the Simple Life". Welles also presents a dramatic reading as Capt. Ahab from "Moby Dick".
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