Prime-time network TV listings for Monday February 16, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Kiowa
Season 15, episode 21 W: Ron Bishop D: Bernard McEveety With Victor French (Ed Vail), Dub Taylor (Reverend Cox), Jean Allison (Martha Vail), Joyce Ames (Melissa Vail), John Beck (Albert Vail), Lucas White (Russ Vail), Richard Lapp (Tomani), Angela Carrol (Indian Woman), Richard Angarola (Quichero). Matt Dillon and a country preacher join a vengeful rancher and his two sons on the mysteriously-visible trail of a band of Indians who have kidnapped the man's daughter.
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| [ABC 7:30] It Takes A Thief [Reg]: The Great Casino Caper
Season 3, episode 4 W: Glen A. Larson D: Jack Arnold With Edward Binns (Wally), Adolfo Celi (Eric Redman), Francesco Mule (Funello), Gerard Herter (Plummit), John Siegfried (Tour Guide), Carol Jean Larson (Girl in Casino), Francoise Prevost (Marquessa), Fred Astaire (Alistair Mundy). Alistair Mundy, retired thief and father of Alexander, returns to business to help his son loot a Venetian casino at the order of the SIA. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1969)
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| [NBC 7:30] My World And Welcome To It [Reg]: The Mea Culpa Bit
Season 1, episode 23 W: Bill Manhoff D: John Rich With Stuart Margolin (Arthur Charles), Milton Selzer (Dr. Gray). It seems everybody wants to take the blame when John Monroe chases daughter Lydia out of the study and she breaks her arm.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #62
Season 3, episode 22 W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Coslough Johnson, Jeremy Lloyd, et al D: Mark Warren With Perry Como, Flip Wilson, Tom Smothers, Dan Blocker. Highlights: Blocker portrays Little John to Arte Johnson's Robin Hood, Rip Van Winkle to Lily Tomlin's Mrs. Van Winkle, and a newly married Eskimo with Pamela Rogers as his little woman. Laugh-In peeks at our "weird, weird world" and the entire cast looks back at the "Founding Farkels' First Feast".
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| [CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Wayne Newton
Season 2, episode 22 W: Ray Singer, Milt Josefsberg D: Danny Dayton With Wayne Newton (Himself), Jerry Newton (Jerry), Tommy Amato (Tommy). Lucy loses all the family's money in Las Vegas and tries to make it up by getting them jobs on Newton's nearby ranch.
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: Desire Under The Elms (1958)
W: Irwin Shaw D: Delbert Mann With Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts, Rebecca Welles, Jean Willes, Anne Seymour. Film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's story of a greedy New England farmer, his new young wife and bitter son.
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| [CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The Mayberry Road
Season 2, episode 20 W: Bob Mosher D: Hal Cooper With Hope Summers (Clara), Maudie Prickett (Myrtle), Hal Baylor (Foreman), Raymond Kark (Wickes), Mary Lou Taylor (Elise), Ned Wertimer (Osborne). Aunt Bee and her garden club ladies take a stand on conservationism, then embroil Sam in their project.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Special [special]
Hope is host of a comedy-variety special taped at a $1,000-a-person dinner at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Jan. 27, a benefit for the Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, Calif. Joining Hope on the bill are Ray Bolger, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby, Raquel Welch, The West Point Glee Club, an Oleg Cassini fashion show and Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Buck's Portrait
Season 2, episode 19 W: Douglas Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With Mabel Albertson (Amanda Merriwether), Bob Jellison (Smokey), Woodrow Parfrey (Barton Durston), Hal Smith (Merle), Charles Wagenheim (Edgar), Issa Arnal (Receptionist), Pat Cranshaw (Farmer). Buck's hesitation over having his portrait on the cover of Doris' magazine dissolves when he realizes how "important" it will make him.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]: Family Show
Season 3, episode 19 Non-guest edition spotlights show regulars in comedy and song. Miss Burnett and Harvey Korman play shy school teachers reviewing the material for a sex-education class; Carol teaches Lyle Waggoner to sing.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Return Of The Smothers Brothers [special]
W: David Steinberg, Tom Smothers, Bob Einstein D: Tim Kiley With Glen Campbell, David Frye, Peter Fonda, David Steinberg, Bob Einstein, Alex Dreier, Fredd Wayne, Pat Paulsen. Tom and Dick Smothers star in a musical-comedy special which looks at human rights -- past, present and possible future. Steinberg plays a crazy psychiatrist with Tom as his patient, and the program also comments on censorship, the Chicago trials, and makes a subtle yet devastating attack on the Nixon administration's attitude toward satirical criticism.
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