Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 20, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: Lassie's Interlude
Season 17, episode 1 With Skip Homeier (Jim Pearson), Rob Hughes (Marc Saunders), Sally Fraser, Robert Rockwell (Will Thorne). Series returns for its 17th year with a new format: Lassie is entirely on her own with no regular supporting cast. Premiering a seven-part story, Lassie meets a mate only to be separated by a battle with a killer dog. Badly injured and unconscious at the side of the road, Lassie, who is carrying a litter, is found by a stranger who takes her with him.
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| [ABC 7:00] The Young Rebels [Reg]: Father And I Went Down To Camp
Season 1, episode 1 W: Harve Bennett D: George McCowan With Will Geer (Mayor Larkin), Frank Converse (Robert Larkin), Lawrence Dane. Series set during the American Revolution about the activites of three young members of the Yankee Doodle Society, a secret organization that fights the British with sabotage, propaganda and espionage. While covering the retreat of the Continental Army, Jeremy, Isak and Henry encounter and help wounded General Lafayette and his aide.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom: Challenge Of The Cheetah (2)
Marlin Perkins and Stan Brock aid the capture of cheetahs in the Republic of Botswana (Southern Africa) as part of a conservation project.
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| [CBS 7:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: Cuisine a la Stalag 13
Season 6, episode 1 W: Laurence Marks D: Jerry London With John Hoyt (General Wexler), Chet Stratton (Karl), David Morick (Gestapo Officer), Jay Sheffield (Captain Richter), Brenda Benet (Marie Bizet). Series returns at a new day and time for its sixth year. Kenneth Washington joins the cast as Sgt. Richard Baker. Colonel Klink's perfect record of "no escapes" is threatened when LeBeau answers De Gaulle's call to arms and leaves Stalag 13.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Boy Who Stole The Elephant (1)
Season 17, episode 2 D: Michael Caffey With Mark Lester (Davey), David Wayne (Col. Rufus Ryder), June Havoc (Molly Jeffreys), Dabbs Greer (Stilts), Whitney Blake (Helen Owens), Tom Drake (Mr. Corbett), Christopher Shea (Billy Owens). A young orphan "steals" Queenie the elephant from a circus owner to keep him from selling her to a zoo.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]: The Georgie Awards
Season 23, episode 1 The longest-running entertainment program on television enters its 23rd year as Ed Sullivan presents the first annual "Georgie" Awards of the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA). Originating in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, the hour is devoted to entertainment by many of the presenters and recipients, and to the actual awards ceremony. Among the winners are Bob Hope, Entertainer of the Year; Tom Jones, Male Musical Star; Barbra Streisand, Female Musical Star; Flip Wilson, Male Comedy Star; Carol Burnett, Female Comedy Star. Presenters include Lucille Ball, Danny Thomas, Dionne Warwick, Marc Copage, Emmett Kelly. Jimmy Durante receives the Golden Award presented to an entertainer with 50 or more years in show business. Also: entertainment by impressionist David Frye and dancer Peter Gennaro.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Condemned
Season 6, episode 1 W: Robert Heverly D: Virgil Vogel With Joseph V. Perry (Ed Ramser), James B. Sikking (Dan Marly), Robert Gibbons (Hotel Manager), Tim McIntire (Shep Buford), Joe Mantell (Everett Albers), Royal Dano (Jess Buford), John Hudson (R.L. Rush), Jim McKrell (Edward Carter), Joel Lawrence (1st Bureau Supervisor), Will J. White (Patrolman), Matthew Knox (2nd Bureau Supervisor), Cliff McDonald (3rd Bureau Supervisor), Joan Van Ark (Cindy Scott), Martin Sheen (Perry Victor). Inspector Erskine and Agent Colby track two young Philadelphia bank robbers to St. Louis -- and finally to a prospective heist at a construction site in Oregon.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: Open House
Season 2, episode 2 W: Roland Wolpert D: Jay Sandrich With Richard X. Slattery (Mr. Perry), Barbara Perry (Mrs. Perry), Kip King (Wes), Paul Comi (Fred Thompson), Nancy Jeris (Jo Thompson). Chet agrees to help his friend Wes, a teacher and part-time real estate broker, sell a house. Chet winds up saving a marriage but losing a deal.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 3, episode 1 With Brian Keith, Norm Crosby, The 5th Dimension, Ruth Buzzi, Mel Tillis. Series returns for its third year with banjoist Larry McNeeley featured. Jerry Reed joins the cast. Comedy sketches spotlight Keith in a poetry reading and Miss Buzzi as a woman executive who pursues her handsome secretary, played by Campbell.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Tony Rome (1967)
W: Richard Breen D: Gordon Douglas With Frank Sinatra, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland, Lloyd Bochner, Sue Lyon. Frank Sinatra stars as a tough, cynical private eye in a biting tale of money, high society and the underworld. Filmed entirely in Miami, Fla.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: A Matter Of Faith
Season 12, episode 2 W: Jack B. Sowards, John Hawkins D: William Wiard With Jack Collins (Mayor Corey), Geoffrey Lewis (Rogers), Michael Hinn (Garrison), Bruce Gordon (Scott), Charles Bail. Young Mitch Vogel and Lou Frizzell debut as cast regulars Jamie and Dusty Rhodes, a hapless pair of rainmakers faced with angry townspeople when they fail drought-stricken Virginia City.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Tim Conway Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 With Lana Turner, Dan Rowan. Tim Conway premieres as star-host of a comedy-and-music series. Featured regulars include Bonnie Boland, Art Metrano, Belland and Somerville, McLean Stevenson and Sally Struthers. Highlights: Wealthy couple Lana and Dan hire bumbling, drunken detective Conway to solve a murder; Christmas sketch features Conway, his wife and children.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: This Will Really Kill You
Season 2, episode 1 W: Robert White, Phyllis White D: Jeffrey Hayden With Tisha Sterling (Joan McPartland), Michael Anderson Jr. (Jerry), Richard X. Slattery (Mr. McPartland), Darby Hinton (Hal Parker), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Sgt. Garcia), Ann Prentiss (Elaine), George Murdock (Prescott), Noam Pitlik (Dr. Radnitz), Sandy Kenyon (Peterson), John Lupton (Kenneth Parker), Julie Bennett (Mrs. Parker). A 21-year-old pregnant drug addict enters the hospital in desperation with her life -- and that of her unborn baby -- hanging in the balance.
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