Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 23, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Storefront Lawyers [Reg]: The Law Can't Touch Him
Season 1, episode 2 W: Meyer Dolinsky With Melinda Dillon (Connie Swann), Jim McMullan (Steve Swann), Bill Quinn (Judge Hayes), Robert Dowdell (Philip Evers), Frederic Downs (Dr. Martine). Attorney Hansen suspects that his client is withholding information when she repeatedly changes her mind about divorcing her estranged husband.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: The Unbirthday Present
Season 2, episode 1 W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper Eddie decides to give his father a surprise gift "because that's the best kind", as the series starts its second year.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Men From Shiloh [Reg]: The Best Man
Season 9, episode 2 W: Leslie Stevens D: Russ Mayberry With Margarita Cordova (Tia Marguerita), Mario Alcalde (Cristobal Nieves), Desi Arnaz (El Jefe), James Farentino (Pick Lexington), Katy Jurado (Mama Fe), Susana Miranda (Teresa Zaragosa), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Hernan). When two gunmen vie for the attention of a colorful border town character's daughter, the whole community runs scared.
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| [ABC 8:00] Make Room For Granddaddy [Reg]: Make Room For Grandson
Season 1, episode 1 D: Danny Thomas With Hans Conried (Uncle Tonoose), Jana Taylor (Susan McAdams Williams). Entertainer Danny Williams returns for a new chapter in the Williams family. There are now three generations to get involved in problems. New to the cast are Rosey Grier in the role of Danny's accompanist, and Michael Hughes as Danny's grandson. In the first episode, Danny and Kathy return from a year's stay in Australia and are confronted with a delicate situation. Daughter Terry is leaving for Japan to join her Army-based husband, and must leave her young son behind.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Governor & J.J. [Reg]: And The World Begat The Bleep
Season 2, episode 1 W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin With Paul Stewart (Dr. Graham), Ed Riley (TV Technician), Sarah Hardy (Script Girl). The second year begins with the governor suffering from laryngitis and having to bow out of a probing television talk show. Daughter J.J. is asked to fill in and the results are disastrous.
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| [ABC 8:30] Room 222 [Reg]: Write On, Brother
Season 2, episode 1 W: John D.F. Black D: Terry Becker With Ramon Bieri (Gil Casey), Ivor Francis (Mr. Dragen), Wes Stern (Ted Winkler), Ta-Tanisha (Pam). In the first episode of the second year, a class discussion of intolerable acts of oppression that led to the Revolutionary War brings on a student protest in the form of an underground newspaper.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Undercurrent
Season 2, episode 2 W: Robert M. Young D: Daniel Petrie With Pamela Murphy (Linda Petrie), Murray MacLeod (Pvt. Burton Reeves), Andrew Duggan (Dr. Oliver Garson), Paul Burke (Dr. Ben Teverley), Salome Jens (Dr. Abby Whitten), Severn Darden (Dr. Seaton), Jack Garner (Dr. Bolton), Ivan Bonar (Dr. Crump). A dedicated research scientist's vital work on a new drug is threatened when anonymous letters accuse him of being a homosexual.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Johnny Cash Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 1 With Liza Minnelli, Ray Charles, Arlo Guthrie. The second year begins, featuring regulars June Carter, Carl Perkins, Tennessee Three, The Statler Brothers, Mother Maybelle and The Carter Sisters. New feature is the "Country Gold" spot, in which tribute will be paid to country-western singers who've sold millions of records although relatively unknown.
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| [NBC 9:00] Kraft Music Hall [Reg]
With Anthony Quinn, Peggy Lee.
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| [CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Trouble In Mind
Season 3, episode 2 W: Mel Goldberg, Sasha Gilien D: Danny Arnold With Nancy Wilson (Eadie Jordan), Milton Selzer (Ron), Robert Gibbons (Rags), Dave Burton (Harry), Remi Abellira (Boy), Morton Stevens (Hank), Hal Lewis (Kiley), Harry Guardino (Mike). A failing singer's attempt at a comeback is shattered by her involvement in contaminated narcotics smuggling which is being investigated by McGarrett.
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| [ABC 10:00] Dan August [Reg]: Murder By Proxy
Season 1, episode 1 W: Robert C. Dennis D: George McCowan With Diana Muldaur (Elizabeth), Burr DeBenning, Anne Francis (Nina Porter), Roger Perry, Milton Selzer, Ford Rainey. Dramatic adventures of a detective-lieutenant in the homicide division of a small coastal city in California. He works in his hometown and is personally acquainted with many of its people who represent a cross-section of ethnic, social and economic groups. In this episode the body of an auto racer is found inside a car at the bottom of a shallow lake. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 10:00] McCloud [Reg]: Horse Stealing On Fifth Avenue
Season 1, episode 2 W: Glen A. Larson D: Bruce Kessler With Lorraine Gary (Joan Sanford), Howard Curtis (Christy Sanford), Leo Gordon (Officer Riley), Angus Duncan (Dr. Bussey), William Wintersole (Lab Man), Ric Mancini (Brodney), Tony Ballen (Officer), Jeff Burton (Reporter), Diana Muldaur (Chris Coughlin), Ken Scott (Polk). While New York police take on the major task of capturing a drug addict involved in a series of drugstore robberies, McCloud is given a minor assignment of locating a horse stolen from a mounted policeman.
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