Wednesday August 26, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 26, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Where's Huddles?: A Sticky Affair Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: Sing A Song Of Papa (R) The Beverly Hillbillies: Hotel For Women (R) Medical Center: The Deceived (R) Hawaii Five-O: Run, Johnny, Run (R)
ABC Comedy Preview: Prudence And The Chief The Courtship Of Eddie's Father: They're Either Too Young Or Too Old (R) Room 222: Goodbye, Mr. Hip (R) Johnny Cash Presents The Everly Brothers The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
NBC The Virginian: Sue Ann (R) Kraft Music Hall Then Came Bronson: The Forest Primeval (R)


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[CBS 7:30] Where's Huddles? [Reg]: A Sticky Affair
Season 1, episode 9
W: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen   D: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
After Huddles commits 36 fumbles in one week, Bubba concocts a homemade brew of super-glue to help his pal hold on to the football.

[ABC 7:30] Comedy Preview: Prudence And The Chief
With Sally Ann Howes (Prudence), Rick Jason (Chief). A widowed schoolteacher goes west as a missionary on an Indian reservation. Opposing her well-meaning efforts is a proud chief, who has strong opinions about a white woman with meddlesome ways.

[NBC 7:30] The Virginian [Reg]: Sue Ann
Season 5, episode 16
W: Gabrielle Upton, True Boardman   D: Gerald Mayer

With Jimmy Lee Cook (2nd Hand), Patty Duke (Sue Ann McCrae), Edward Binns (Pa McCrae), Paul Carr (Joe Stevens), Tim McIntire (Milt), Rita Lynn (Mrs. Crandall), Kirk Travis (Petey), Kerry MacLane (Jim), Roy Barcroft (Mr. Tait), Charles Land (1st Hand), Boyd Stockman (Stagecoach Driver). A farm girl, tired of the drudgery of her life, goes in search of excitement. She winds up in Medicine Bow, where she discovers a job as saloon waitress falls far short of her previous desires.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/11/1967)

[CBS 8:00] Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. [Reg]: Sing A Song Of Papa
Season 3, episode 25
W: Aaron Ruben   D: Coby Ruskin

With Forrest Compton (Col. Edward Gray), Anthony Caruso (Nino), Milton Frome (Emcee), Sammy Shore (Joe), Frank Puglia (Papa), Doreen D'Arcy, Bobby Winters (Juggler). Gomer wins an amateur contest singing in the Jade Club and is invited back the next night to sing for Nino, owner of the bistro.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1967)

[ABC 8:00] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: They're Either Too Young Or Too Old
Season 1, episode 19
W: Bob Rodgers   D: Ralph Senensky

With Sherry Lynn Diamant (Glori). Eddie falls in love with his 15-year-old babysitter, who has a mad crush on his father, Tom Corbett. Eddie proposes, but gives up the idea when Glori counter-proposes that she become hs mother instead.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/21/1970)

[CBS 8:30] The Beverly Hillbillies [Reg]: Hotel For Women
Season 8, episode 23
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Bettina Brenna (Gloria Buckles), Jean Bell (Jean). The Clampetts get homesick for the hills and move into a log cabin in the back yard. Meanwhile, Shorty turns the mansion into a hotel for girls.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/25/1970)

[ABC 8:30] Room 222 [Reg]: Goodbye, Mr. Hip
Season 1, episode 19
W: Dale McRaven   D: Terry Becker

With Bernie Kopell (Roger Duncan), Ta-Tanisha (Pam), Bob Carricart (Fred), Joe Crawford (Frank). Mr. Kaufman warns a too-groovy teacher to stop joking with students about his use of marijuana before someone takes him seriously.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/21/1970)

[CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Deceived
Season 1, episode 14
W: Andy Lewis   D: Vincent Sherman

With Inga Swenson (Nina Hoagley), Booth Colman (Dr. Persky), Sean Morgan (Janusas), Pat Hingle (Tom Hoagley), Greg Mullavey (Frank Alber), Carrie Snodgress (Mimi Hoagley). Dr. Gannon gets a mysterious turndown when he asks the mother of a girl needing a kidney transplant to become her donor. After discussing the case with the father, he begins to unfold the reasons for he mother's strange attitude.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/7/1970)

[ABC 9:00] Johnny Cash Presents The Everly Brothers [Reg]
Season 1, episode 8

With Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Medley, Debbie Lori Kaye, Bruce Kirby. Regulars Joe Higgins and Ruth McDevitt are in comedy skits.

[NBC 9:00] Kraft Music Hall [Reg]
With Phil Silvers, Kaye Stevens, The New Faces. Silvers plays a hungry tramp in a restaurant; Miss Stevens sings "Eli's Coming"; host Des O'Connor sings "Thinking of You".

[CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Run, Johnny, Run
Season 2, episode 17
W: Mel Goldberg   D: Michael O'Herlihy

With Beau Van Den Ecker (Fred Waters), Remi Abellira (Thomas Mala), Christopher Walken (Walt Kramer), Jack Ging (Carl Anderson), Nephi Hannemann (Johnny Mala), Marcy Brown (Sue Waters), Myrtle Hilo (Napua Mala), Al Michaels (Dave Bronstein). McGarrett and his special force run into Naval resistance when they try to bring a shooting suspect in under civil law to protect him.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/14/1970)

[ABC 10:00] The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
Season 1, episode 8

With Liberace, David Frye, Pat Paulsen, Hedge and Donna.

[NBC 10:00] Then Came Bronson [Reg]: The Forest Primeval
Season 1, episode 23
W: Thomas Y. Drake, Jon Edward Manson   D: Earl Bellamy

With Gary Clarke (Forest Ranger), Lee De Broux (Station Operator). Jim Bronson's gamble to bring his motorcycle out of the mountains by cutting cross-country turns into a desperate race against time and the elements.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/4/1970)

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