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Friday April 3, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Friday April 3, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Cinderella (R) The Don Knotts Nice, Clean, Decent, Wholesome Hour Like Hep!
ABC The Flying Nun: No Tears For Mrs. Thomas The Brady Bunch: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (R) The Ghost And Mrs. Muir: There's A Seal In My Bathtub (R) Here Come The Brides: Two Women Love, American Style (R)
NBC The Unexplained The Name Of The Game: One Of The Girls In Research Bracken's World: The Sweet Smell Of Failure (R)
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[CBS 7:30] Cinderella [special]
W: Joseph Schrank   D: Charles S. Dubin

With Lesley Ann Warren, Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm, Jo Van Fleet, Stuart Damon, Pat Carroll.
The acclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein musical version of the children's classic (originally presented in 1965) relating the story of a young girl who escapes the kitchen drudgery with the aid of her fairy godmother, and wins the affections of Prince Charming.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 7:30] The Flying Nun [Reg]: No Tears For Mrs. Thomas
Season 3, episode 26
W: Stanley Adams, George F. Slavin   D: Jon C. Andersen

With Frank Silvera (Thomas Martinez), Penny Santon (Mrs. Montero), Booth Colman (Priest), Don Diamond (Dr. Escoviro), Larry Gelman (Mendoza).
One of the fisherman in San Tanco has a feeling he's going to die and wants the nuns to help him arrange a funeral in advance. (Last show of the series.)

[NBC 7:30] The Unexplained [special]
An Encyclopedia Britannica documentary exploring the challenging enigma of space, unknown powers of the brain and body, and several baffling geographic mysteries. The program employs unusual film clips, some historical film footage and animation. Rod Serling narrates. Specific topics include dolphins' "seeing" with sound at a pace 10 times faster than our language; evidence that America was discovered in 1500 B.C.; the idea that computers will someday be able to program themselves; and what mankind will eventually do with its knowledge of genetic engineering and ability to control the environment.

[ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Season 1, episode 4
W: Paul West   D: John Rich

With Fred Pinkard (Mr. Stokey).
Alice begins packing her bags when she feels the Bradys no longer need her services.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/17/1969)

[ABC 8:30] The Ghost And Mrs. Muir [Reg]: There's A Seal In My Bathtub
Season 2, episode 3
W: Miles Wilder, William Raynor   D: John Erman

With Irwin Charone (Delbert Peterson).
The Muir children find an injured seal on the beach and believe that Claymore is the guilty hunter.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1969)

[NBC 8:30] The Name Of The Game [Reg]: One Of The Girls In Research
Season 2, episode 25
W: Marion Hargrove

With George Chandler (Palmer), Rose Craig (Jill), Judi West (Barbara), Woodrow Parfrey (Dr. Malcolm), Sheree North (Mrs. Palmer), Will Geer (Mac), Stephen McNally (Tiner), Brenda Vaccaro (Sandy Graham).
Publisher Glenn Howard goes in search of an eccentric, publicity-shy industrialist who is trying to put him out of business because Howard is planning a cover story about him.

[CBS 9:00] The Don Knotts Nice, Clean, Decent, Wholesome Hour [special]
With Andy Williams, Juliet Prowse, Andy Griffith, The Establishment.
Host Don Knotts "tries" to put together a special. The production numbers he visualizes, featuring his guests, all seem too expensive. Don manages to work himself into the show as a song conductor, a non-smoker lecturer and a man trapped in an elevator with Miss Prowse.

[ABC 9:00] Here Come The Brides [Reg]: Two Women
Season 2, episode 26
W: Jack Miller   D: E.W. Swackhamer

With Jane Wyatt (Emma Peak), Lynda Day George (Valerie).
A wealthy spinster returns to Seattle with her niece and commissions the Bolt brothers to build her a mansion. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 10:00] Like Hep! [special]
W: Chris Bearde   D: George Schlatter

With Diana Ross, Lucille Ball, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, The Smothers Brothers (cameo), Greg Morris (cameo), Lorne Greene (cameo).
A music-comedy program starring Dinah Shore that was originally broadcast on NBC in 1969. In a fairy tale sketch, Diana Ross plays Snow White and Lucille Ball her mean godmother who socks it to Rowan and Martin, who are cast as Tommy Tucker and Little Boy Blue. "Laugh-In" blackouts predominate in a singing sister routine; the ladies mimic the Supremes in a version of "Dinah" and Miss Shore does songs like "Windmills of Your Mind".

[ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1.   Love And The Joker
W: Bill Box   D: Bruce Bilson

With E.J. Peaker (Vera), Larry Storch (Bill).  
A girl suffers from a practical joker boyfriend.

2.   Love And The Living Doll
W: Larry Markes   D: Bruce Bilson

With Marlyn Mason (Barbara), Arte Johnson (Harvey), Estelle Winwood (Mrs. Bradbury), Richard X. Slattery (Cop).  
A scheme to gain the attentions of a pretty neighbor.

3.   Love And The Letter
W: Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn   D: Alan Rafkin

With Henry Corden (Mr. Schmidt), Reni Santoni (Vito Salone), Robert Clary (Maurice), Margaret O'Brien (Miss Walker), Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (Valdez), Elda Maida (Maria), Yoshio Yoda (Mr. Tenaka), Miko Mayama (Miss Chung).  
An immigrant falls for his teacher.

4.   Love And The Unlikely Couple
W: Bob Rodgers   D: Bruce Bilson

With Barbara Rhoades (Bunny), Wes Stern (Wally), Alice Ghostley (Mrs. Silversmith), Lou Jacobi (Mr. Silversmith).  
A story of two puzzled parents.

[NBC 10:00] Bracken's World [Reg]: The Sweet Smell Of Failure
Season 1, episode 7
W: Charles A. McDaniel   D: Charles S. Dubin

With Ricardo Montalban (Carl Duran), Paul Picerni (Bob Lederer), Fred Sadoff (Bernie).
Sylvia Caldwell visits a rehabilitation center for narcotics addicts in an attempt to persuade an ex-movie director to come back to work.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1969)


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