Thursday March 5, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday March 5, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Family Affair: The Old Cowhand The Jim Nabors Hour Movie: The African Queen (1951)
ABC Pat Paulsen's Half A Comedy Hour That Girl: Gone-A-Courtin' Bewitched: The Generation Zap This Is Tom Jones Paris 7000: The Shattered Idol
NBC Daniel Boone: The Landlords Ironside: Warrior's Return Dragnet: Missing Persons - The Body The Dean Martin Show


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[CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: The Old Cowhand
Season 4, episode 23
W: Walter Black   D: Charles T. Barton

With Randy Whipple (Arthur), Bob Steele (Chaps Callahan), Kelly Corcoran (Willie). A client of Uncle Bill's firm, a former movie idol whose old films are seen on TV, visits the Davis home at Bill's request to teach Jody an object lesson.

[ABC 7:30] Pat Paulsen's Half A Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 7

With Tom Smothers. Smothers plays a smart aleck who is sworn in as governor for a day by "Governor Paulsen". In another segment, Tom shows video clips of Pat's first appearance on the Smothers Brothers series and butters up the host nicely. The remainder of the show is devoted to regular features: Paulsen's crime-stopper and comments from the astrology and Hollywood experts Joan Gerber and Jean Byron.

[NBC 7:30] Daniel Boone [Reg]: The Landlords
Season 6, episode 20
W: Melvin Levy   D: William Wiard

With James Wainwright (Cully), William Smith (Amos Martin), Lloyd Bochner (Churchill James), Med Flory (Bingen), Victor French (Ess), Robert Cornthwaite (Sir Ives), Natalie Core (Grace Cowles), Wilbur Plaugher (Carl Cowles), Pete Logan (Hart), Tom Drury (Settler), Walter Reese (Proprieter). A con man hoodwinks two brothers into "buying" Boonesborough, and Boone poses as a notorious river pirate to uncover the deception.

[CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 22

With Kaye Stevens, Bob Newhart. A skit has Newhart as a pre-natal twin getting bored waiting for the "big moment". Miss Stevens sings "L-O-V-E" and "To Give". Nabors solos "He" and "Mary in the Morning". Newhart also appears as an employment agency man attempting to deal with arrogant boss Frank Sutton and client Nabors. Nabors helps brother-in-law Harry install an air conditioning unit in the boarding house sketch.

[ABC 8:00] That Girl [Reg]: Gone-A-Courtin'
Season 4, episode 23
W: Joseph Bonaduce   D: Russ Mayberry

With Sam Denoff (Man #1), Frank Maxwell (Samuels), Alan Oppenheimer (Jerome), Allen Davis (Vernon), William Lally (Judge), Dee Carroll (Lydia), Ellen Clark (Actress), Hal Williams (Court Clerk), Harvey J. Goldenberg (Jones), Lew Gallo (Man #2). Ann Marie auditions for a producer and instead of a Broadway role is hired to act in his real courtroom drama. He hopes that Ann, acting as a lawyer's assistant, will so unnerve the guy suing him with her courtroom act that he will become unglued.

[ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: The Generation Zap
Season 6, episode 24
W: Ed Jurist   D: William Asher

With Melodie Johnson (Dusty), Arch Johnson (Harrison). Darrin is assigned to show a client's daughter how an advertising agency works, a simple chore until Endora has a spell cast on the poor girl.

[NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: Warrior's Return
Season 3, episode 21
W: Irv Pearlberg   D: Don Weis

With Ned Romero (John Walala), Michael Conrad (Frank O'Neill), DeForest Kelley (Fowler), George Keymas (Tomas), Stephen McNally (Amos Leavitt), Neal Nixon (Officer Martin), Lois Red Elk (Barbara Cheppa), Don Wilbanks (Lt. Thayler), Darwin Joston (Craig Cheppa), Ron Foster (Dr. Griffith), Dabbs Greer (Mr. Carew), Helen Baron (Mrs. Carew). Ironside fights to save an organization dedicated to rehabilitation of ex-convicts when one of the members is accused of a jewel theft.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: The African Queen (1951)
W: James Agee, John Huston   D: John Huston

With Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Cotell. During World War I a prim old-maid missionary enlists the aid of a tough river captain to take a boat down uncharted African rivers and destroy a German gunboat that commands the only British invasion route.

[ABC 9:00] This Is Tom Jones [Reg]
Season 2, episode 23

With Bob Hope, Bobbie Gentry, Billy Eckstine. Hope joins his host in songs and teases Tom about his female admirers. In his monologue, Hope satirizes swinging London then gets to solo the hit theme "Thanks For the Memories". Another vocal highlight is Tom's rendition of "When the World Was Young".

[NBC 9:30] Dragnet [Reg]: Missing Persons - The Body
Season 4, episode 20
W: Robert C. Dennis   D: Jack Webb

With Anthony Eisley (Thomas Dutcher), Luana Patten (Ruth Dutcher), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Campbell), Ben Wright (Paul Overbeck), Olan Soule (Ned Harris), Howard Culver (Matt Levecque), Don Ross (Sgt. Wolfer), John Nolan (Walt Wright). Friday and Gannon must learn the identity of Jane Doe No. 37, a young woman found dead in the water off a pier. The only clues are a wad of paper clutched in her hand and a ring of unusual design.

[ABC 10:00] Paris 7000 [Reg]: The Shattered Idol
Season 1, episode 7

With Carol Lawrence, William Shatner. Jack Brennan, looking in on a hospitalized American who was injured in a fight, is amazed to discover he is a famous actor in need of plastic surgery.

[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 23

With Barbara Anderson, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostley, Gale Gordon, Marty Robbins. Miss Anderson sings "Hello, I Love You, Goodbye" and also a medley with Martin. Caesar plays a hippie musical genius in a comedy number and also teams with Miss Ghostley in a sketch about the trials of a husband whose wife wants him to challenge every man who looks at her. Gordon portrays a hardnosed clerk in an exchange department.

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