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Wednesday September 16, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 16, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Storefront Lawyers: A Man's Castle It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown (R) Medical Center: Brink Of Doom Hawaii Five-O: And A Time To Die
ABC The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (R) The Courtship Of Eddie's Father: Mrs. Livingston, I Presume (R) Room 222: Once Upon A Time There Was Air You Couldn't See (R) Johnny Cash Presents The Everly Brothers The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
NBC The Men From Shiloh: The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie Kraft Music Hall McCloud: Who Says You Can't Make Friends In New York City?
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[CBS 7:30] Storefront Lawyers [Reg]: A Man's Castle
Season 1, episode 1
D: Lee H. Katzin

With David Arkin (Gabriel Kaye), A Martinez (Roberto Alvarez), Dean Jagger (Karl Holder), Edward Andrews (Joseph Carlson), Barry Morse (Holly Chapman), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Thatcher), Bill Zuckert (Judge), Carmen Mathews (Mrs. Holder).
Dramatic series in which three aspiring lawyers provide free neighborhood advice to needy clients while working for a big law firm in Los Angeles. The trio of law school graduates deals in cases ranging from the high-rise corporation halls of Century City to the ghetto level in Watts. In the first episode they are asked to defend a 73-year-old dispossessed homeowner accused of having killed a financier.

[ABC 7:30] The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians [special]
The voices of Jack Benny, George Burns, Phyllis Diller, George Jessel, Flip Wilson, Jack E. Leonard, Groucho Marx, the Smothers Brothers and Henny Youngman are heard over the animations of routines performed by those humorists.

(Repeat program)

[NBC 7:30] The Men From Shiloh [Reg]: The West vs. Colonel MacKenzie
Season 9, episode 1
W: Jean Holloway   D: Jerry Hopper

With Elizabeth Ashley (Faith Andrews), Don DeFore (Mayor Evans), Bobby Eilbacher (Petey Andrews), Martha Hyer (Amalia Clark), John Larch (Sheriff), James Gavin (Frank Hoag), Dennis McCarthy (Lamb).
Stewart Granger joins the cast as the new owner of Shiloh Ranch, as the series formerly titled The Virginian starts its ninth year. Granger plays Alan MacKenzie, a former British Army colonel. In the first episode, MacKenzie becomes involved with the cattlemen's association over the hanging of an alleged rustler.

[ABC 8:00] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: Mrs. Livingston, I Presume
Season 1, episode 1
W: Richard M. Powell   D: Alan Rafkin

With Karin Wolfe (Etta), Lynn Fields (Heidi), Ann Marie (Hildy), Victoria Vetri (Dolly).
Friendly Eddie meets a movie-struck girl on a studio tour and invites her to spend the night at the Corbetts' apartment. When Mrs. Livingston comes to work in the morning she thinks the girl is Tom's guest and is so upset she leaves.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1969)

[CBS 8:30] It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schultz   D: Bill Melendez

With Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Hilary Momberger, Glenn Gilger.
On the first day of school, Charlie Brown recalls the disasters which befell him.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] Room 222 [Reg]: Once Upon A Time There Was Air You Couldn't See
Season 1, episode 20
W: John D.F. Black   D: Lee Philips

With Liam Dunn (Mr. Waters), Gloria Lord (Miss Jackson), Helena Hatcher (Teacher), Lieux Dressler (Waitress), Walter Brooke (Mr. Barker).
Pete and two of his students plan their own television campaign against smog.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1970)

[CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Brink Of Doom
Season 2, episode 1
W: Dick Nelson   D: Daniel Petrie

With Rita Rogers (Elena Marsh), Robert Lipton (Bryan Marsh), George Grizzard (Dr. Tom Forley), Elizabeth Ashley (Anne Forley), James Shigeta (Dr. Osaka), Lloyd Kino (Doctor).
A brilliant surgeon is stricken with a crippling muscular ailment just as he is perfecting a radical new surgical technique. Anxious for a fellowship grant, the doctor stubbornly tries to hide his condition from his wife and gets furious when she goes to Dr. Joe Gannon for information.

[ABC 9:00] Johnny Cash Presents The Everly Brothers [Reg]
Season 1, episode 10

With Tony Joe White, Mac Davis, Bobbi Martin, Ike Everly, Carl Gottlieb.

[NBC 9:00] Kraft Music Hall [Reg]
With Totie Fields, Eva Gabor, Paul Lynde, Anne Meara.
Alan King hosts the opener. The comedy theme centers around the movement for equality for women. In an opening monologue, King zeroes in on the "women's equality" theme, noting that he is fully in favor of women getting "all that they have coming to them". Later, King and his four guests are featured in a series of sketches.

[CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: And A Time To Die
Season 3, episode 1
W: Ken Pettus   D: Charles S. Dubin

With Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat), Michael Leong (Sanders), Danny Kamekona (Chung), Chuck Couch (Shepard), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Sam Kavanaugh), Donald Moffat (Dr. Forbes), Norman duPont (Glenn Ralston), Sherry Plep (Ellen Forbes), Linda Ryan (Janet Forbes), Nick Nickolas (Oren), Baird Miller (Tyler).
Series begins its third year with the problem of corralling foreign agents responsible for critically wounding a U.S. government undercover agent on his return from a 10-year mission in Red China.

[ABC 10:00] The Smothers Brothers Summer Show
Season 1, episode 11

With Pat Paulsen, Edwin Hawkins Singers, John Denver, Keith Barbour.
Highlights: Paulsen presents a defense of air pollution; the Smothers Brothers introduce two Saul Bass films, "Go Go Girl" and "One, Two, One, Two"; Paulsen sings "There's No Business Like Show Business"; Denver sings "Follow Me", "Wooden Indian" and "Rhymes and Reasons". (Last show of the series.)

[NBC 10:00] McCloud [Reg]: Who Says You Can't Make Friends In New York City?
Season 1, episode 1
W: Matthew Howard, Leslie Stevens   D: Douglas Heyes, Russ Mayberry

With Diana Muldaur (Chris Coughlin), Susan Strasberg (Anne Verdige), Alfred Ryder (Mason), Marcel Hillaire (Inspector Prideaux), Maurice Marsac (Official), Ralph Story (Newscaster), Carl Betz (Aldon F. Flanders), Marj Dusay (Ellen Childs), Johnny Silver (Elevator Operator), Charles H. Gray (Policeman), Bill Fletcher (Voss), Len Wayland (Pilot), Barbara Davis (Boots Walker).
McCloud intervenes in a dispute between a man and a woman when he hears her screaming from a hotel room. His investigation discloses that a former deputy district attorney is involved.


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