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Monday October 5, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday October 5, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: Sam McTavish, M.D. Here's Lucy: Lucy And The Drum Contest Mayberry R.F.D.: The New Housekeeper The Doris Day Show: Dinner For One The Carol Burnett Show
ABC The Young Lawyers: The Two Dollar Thing Silent Force: A Deadly Game Of Love ABC Monday Night Football
NBC The Red Skelton Show: The Private Detective Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #70 Bob Hope Show Jack Paar Diary
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[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Sam McTavish, M.D.
Season 16, episode 4
W: Gerry Day, Bethel Leslie   D: Bernard McEveety

With Read Morgan (Dan Slade), Vera Miles (Dr. Samuel McTavish), Lisa Gerritsen (Christina), Arch Johnson (Barn Bascomb), Dee Carroll (Ellen), Tom Fadden (Harley), Kathleen O'Malley (Bridget O'Reilly), Robert Rothwell (Joe Slade), Amzie Strickland (Minnie Carver), Lance Thomas (Tom Slade), Glenn Redding (Frank O'Reilly).
Shocked to discover his temporary replacement, Dr. Sam McTavish, is a female, Doc Adams is forced to work with her during an epidemic and falls in love.

[ABC 7:30] The Young Lawyers [Reg]: The Two Dollar Thing
Season 1, episode 3

With Russ Conway (Judge Conway), Joan Delaney (Louise), Virginia Vincent (Mrs. Whitley), Ellen Weston (Miss Emerson), Joy Bang, Peter Strauss.
An unmarried couple, commune residents Stuart Kelsey and Louise Grafton, appeal to the Neighborhood Law Office for help when faced with losing their 4-year-old son.

[NBC 7:30] The Red Skelton Show: The Private Detective
Season 20, episode 4
W: Jeffrey Barron, Lionel Burt, Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Red Skelton   D: Terry Kyne

With Johnny Carson, Mike Connors, Robin Wilson.
Clem Kadiddlehopper plays a detective in charge of protecting a witness.

[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #70
Season 4, episode 4
W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al   D: Mark Warren

With Jilly Rizzo (Cameo Appearance), Tim Conway (Cameo Appearance), Ken Berry.
Ken Berry of Mayberry RFD visits the cast as a stockbroker, tap dancer and "head man" Henry VII. Also: Mod Mod World looks at the funeral business and the Fingle Finger award is presented to the Dept. of the Interior.

[CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And The Drum Contest
Season 3, episode 4
W: Martin A. Ragway   D: Jerry Paris

With Buddy Rich (Himself), Richard Yniguez (Jose Garcia), Eugene Molnar (Willy), Dick Winslow (Emcee).
Lucy convinces guest star Buddy Rich to give Craig free drum lessons to help him win a scholarship but doesn't take into account the competition.

[ABC 8:30] Silent Force [Reg]: A Deadly Game Of Love
Season 1, episode 3
W: Jack Turley

With Peter Mark Richman (Walter Garland), John Clarke (Howard Bartlett), Joan Van Ark (Louise Hanson).
A plot to gain "favors" from a political figure leads the Force into an investigation of a blackmail-prostitution racket at a posh desert resort.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The New Housekeeper
Season 3, episode 4
W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield   D: Christian Nyby

With Hope Summers (Clara), Vince Barnett (Elmo), Mike Peil (Tommy), Helen Page Camp (Grace), Ted Gehring (Foreman).
Alice Ghostley debuts as cast regular Cousin Alice, who comes home after 20 years in the Army to keep house for Sam and Mike.

[ABC 9:00] ABC Monday Night Football
Two vastly improved Central Division clubs of the National Football Conference meet at Detroit's Tiger Stadium. Veteran Jack Concannon appears to have solved Chicago's jittery quarterback problem. The Bears are strongest on defense when Dick Butkus is running things. The Lions have two good quarterbacks (Bill Munson and Greg Landry), fast receivers and hard-hitting running backs. Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell report.

[NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Show [special]
With Edie Adams, Kaye Ballard, Ruth Buzzi, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Nanette Fabray, Totie Fields, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Virginia Graham, Teresa Graves, Sheila MacRae, Minnie Pearl, Martha Raye, Irene Ryan, Connie Stevens, Nancy Walker, Jo Anne Worley.
Seventeen entertainment femmes join Hope in telling the story of women's liberation in "the day women took over the network", the first of this season's Bob Hope specials. Music by Les Brown.

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Dinner For One
Season 3, episode 4
W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul   D: Reza Badiyi

With Kaye Ballard (Angie Pallucci), Bernie Kopell (Louie Pallucci), Stubby Kaye (Bum), Robert Emhardt (Dudley Grey), Eldon Quick (Perry Ferguson).
Doris tries to help publicize Angie and Louie's restaurant and almost succeeds in having the place closed down.

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 4

With Eydie Gorme, Joan Rivers.
Eydie and Carol offer a concert spot and are joined by Joan in a spoof of a hit recording group; Miss Rivers views women's lib.

[NBC 10:00] Jack Paar Diary [special]
In his first network special since "Jack Paar and His Lions" in Spetember, 1969, Jack Paar presents bizarre and humorous vignettes encountered during his recent travels in Western Europe. Highlights include a German artist's method of protesting inadequate parking facilities and a tour by Paar, joined by his wife, of unusual restaurants in Ireland, Amsterdam and Rome. Produced, written and directed by Paar.


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