Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday February 17, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Lancer [Reg]: The Experiment
Season 2, episode 18 W: Herbert Purdum D: Virgil Vogel With Scott Marlowe (Billy Kells), Scott Brady (Bowman), Dick Peabody (Ox Howard), Charles Dierkop (Walters), Stanley Adams (Dan Oliver), John McLiam (Nathan Benedict), Alice Backes (Mrs. Stafford), Martin Huston (Richie), Paul Sorenson (Jordan), Ed Bakey (Leach). Former lawman Murdoch Lancer agrees to take over management of a prison farm near the ranch for an ailing friend, then begins to doubt that his disciplinary methods are strong enough.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Mother Of Sorrow
Season 2, episode 20 W: Rita Lakin, William Wood D: Gene Nelson With Harry Basch (Dr. Berger), Lee Grant (Mrs. Bell), Richard Dreyfuss (Curtis Bell), Sherry Miles (Evelyn). The strained relationship between a mother and son sets the scene for tragedy when the girl friend of the young man, an old friend of Pete's, is found dead.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Man Hunters [special]
Man's search for his own beginnings serves as the topic for the documentary special based on "Early Man" from Time-Life books. The "man hunters" -- paleoanthropologists and related scientists -- are attempting to answer some of the questions surrounding the mystery of modern man. In addition to segments filmed at major archeological sites in Europe and Africa, animated and impressionistic film sequences dramatize what life may have been like when prehistoric man roamed the earth. E.G. Marshall narrates.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: People Who Like People Are Cannibals
Season 19, episode 21 W: Seaman Jacobs, Arthur Phillips, Mort Greene, Robert Orben, Fred S. Fox With The Lettermen, Barbara Feldon. Miss Feldon plays a government scientist trying to solve the world food shortage with the help of "guinea pig" Clem Kadiddlehopper; Barbara joins the Lettermen in singing "Sweet Georgia Brown"; Skelton pantomimes a bumbling husband left alone with the housework in the Silent Spot.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Journey Of Robert F. Kennedy
W: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ABC presents a film documentary on the late Robert F. Kennedy. Rare photographs, home movies and newsfilm, interviews and reminiscences recall the public and private image of the man whose life ended with an assassin's bullet on June 6, 1968. Luminaries taking part in the study include former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, civil rights leader Charles Evers, humorist Art Buchwald and press secretary Frank Mankiewicz. Produced by David Seltzer for David Wolper Productions with narration by John Huston.
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| [NBC 8:30] Julia [Reg]: Call Me By My Rightful Number
Season 2, episode 21 W: Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson D: Don Ameche With Janet Waldo (Mrs. Appleton), Larry Renda (Randy Appleton), Don Ameche (Dr. Foster Preswick). Corey and Earl's accidental long-distance phone call involves everyone with a little New Jersey boy suffering from an illness doctors have failed to diagnose.
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| [NBC 9:00] McCloud [Reg]: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.?
Season 0, episode 1 W: Richard Levinson, William Link D: Richard Colla With Peter Mark Richman (Peter B. Clifford), Craig Stevens (Whitman), Julie Newmar (Adrienne Redman), Raul Julia (Father Nieves), Gregory Sierra (First Deputy), Bill Baldwin (Reporter), Shelly Novack (James Waldron). A western deputy marshal transports a prisoner to New York to be a witness in a murder trial, only to have the man kidnapped. Rebuffed as a "hick lawman" by the big-city police, McCloud sets out to complete his assignment. Pilot movie for the series.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Governor & J.J. [Reg]: Bye, George
Season 1, episode 20 W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin With Joanna Moore (Cynthia Lockwood), Jack DeLeon (Al Burns), Don Ross (Nick Fleming), Joanne Dru (Karen Bradshaw). Convinced that George will pursue an offer to join the President's press staff, the governor hires a replacement -- George's current girl friend.
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| [CBS 10:00] 60 Minutes
Sex appeal in advertising; report on a censored film about gun control; a study of avalanches.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Nobody Wants A Fat Jockey
Season 1, episode 20 W: Ken Trevey D: John Erman With Joanna Cameron (Anne MacAndrews), Rafael Campos (Felix Azevedo), Jennifer Gan (Raylene Kohl), Arch Johnson, Strother Martin (Terry Riggs), Michael Burns (Dinty Gallagher). Desperate to lose weight for an important race, a young jockey refuses to give up his regimen of diet pills and steam baths -- even after his physical collapse.
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