Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 20, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] CBS News Adventure: Savage Waters / Savage Beast [special]
Two stories of man's conquering his environment: four divers swim the rapids of a river in the French Alps; a scientist, Dr. John Teal, attempts to tame the wild musk ox of Alaska and create a new industry -- soft musk ox wool for needy Eskimos. Charles Kuralt narrates.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Flying Nun [Reg]: When Generations Gap
Season 3, episode 24 W: Burt Styler D: Leon Benson With Bobby Hart (Bobby), Tommy Boyce (Tommy). Sister Bertrille almost destroys the popularity of a young singing duo when she runs through a red light.
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| [NBC 7:30] The High Chaparral [Reg]: New Hostess In Town
Season 3, episode 22 W: Walter Black D: Virgil Vogel With Ed Bakey (Bates), Paul Fierro (Domingo), Todd Martin (Gideon), Natividad Vacio (Major Domo), Mills Watson (Greer). A group of renegades kidnap Victoria and force her to work in a border town cantina. She uses her feminine wiles to play one outlaw against the other while awaiting rescue.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Lost Locket, Found Locket
Season 1, episode 25 W: Charles Hoffman D: Norman Abbott With Jack Griffin (Guard). Jan receives a locket from an unknown admirer and all the Bradys are curious about who sent it. But suddenly it disappears.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: Crittendon's Commandos
Season 5, episode 25 W: Bill Davenport D: Edward H. Feldman With Bernard Fox (Colonel Crittendon), Robert Hogan (Tobin). Col. Crittendon, a kind of gung-ho but ineffectual commando officer, parachutes with his force into the camp with a plan to capture a high-ranking enemy officer.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Ghost And Mrs. Muir [Reg]: The Great Power Failure
Season 2, episode 1 W: Dan Beaumont, Joel Kane D: Jay Sandrich With Mason Curry (Deke Tuttle), Betsy Moreland-Jones (Mrs. Post), Treva Frazee (Mrs. Jenkins). Carolyn plans to hold a PTA meeting at Gulf Cottage over Capt. Gregg's objections. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/18/1969)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Name Of The Game [Reg]: Echo Of A Nightmare
Season 2, episode 23 W: Don Brinkley D: John Newland With Tom Drake (Harrison Brill), Michael Callan (Ronnie), Hoagy Carmichael (Willie Meeker), Andrew Prine (Victor Bailey), Ricardo Montalban (Martinez), Joanna Cameron (Carole Crown), Arthur Hill (Leo Crown). A notorious kidnapper is released from prison and offers to tell Dan Farrell the facts of the crime, but his sudden death points to new suspects, one a police captain.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Rio Conchos (1964)
W: Joseph Landon, Clair Huffaker D: Gordon Douglas With Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Edmond O'Brien, Warner Anderson, Jim Brown, Wende Wagner, Vito Scotti. Shortly after the Civil War, four men are sent out by the U.S. Cavalry to recover 2,000 stolen rifles which, it is feared, may be sold to the Apaches.
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| [ABC 9:00] Here Come The Brides [Reg]: Absalom
Season 2, episode 24 W: Michael Fisher D: Paul Junger Witt With Mitch Vogel (Absalom), Steve Ihnat (Oliver/Howard Tray), Mitzi Hoag (Sister Agnes), Mills Watson (Phineas Beef). Jason Bolt becomes the guardian of an orphan boy who acts like an animal and can't speak or hear.
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| [ABC 10:00] They Care For A City, part one
The first of a three-part series dealing with the salvaging and rehabilitation of our environment is "They Care for a City". Each of the programs examines ways in which individuals today are successfully coping with pollution and conserving the nation's resources. In this first installment, government officials and, as private citizens, Ed Ames and Pete Seeger take part by telling of the problems faced by urban metropolix and what is currently being done to solve them.
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| [NBC 10:00] Bracken's World [Reg]: Day For Night
Season 1, episode 25 W: Robert Lewin D: Nick Webster With James Gregory (Leeson Fowler), Olive Dunbar (Nan Fowler). Rachel Holt gets uptight about her career and makes demands on the studio that bring about her dismissal.
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