Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday October 18, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The Innocents
Season 17, episode 5 Lassie and her two little pups fight for survival in an all-animal episode. Fifth of a seven-part story.
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| [ABC 7:00] The Young Rebels [Reg]: Fort Hope
Season 1, episode 5 W: Guerdon Trueblood D: E.W. Swackhamer Jeremy and Isak provoke the British into throwing them in the prison where an American agent is held.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom
Marlin Perkins and Stan Brock track down a marauding lion in the desolate Kalahari desert of southern Africa. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 7:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: Lady Chitterly's Lover (2)
Season 6, episode 5 W: Richard M. Powell D: Edward H. Feldman With Sigrid Valdis (Hilda), Howard Caine (Hochstetter), Anne Rogers (Lady Leslie Chitterly), Harold Gould (General von Schlomm), Bernard Fox (Colonel Crittendon / Sir Charles Chitterly). Hogan is convinced that Crittendon can't fool Hitler, and things get complicated when Chitterly escapes.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Wacky Zoo Of Morgan City (1)
Season 17, episode 4 W: Joseph McEveety D: Marvin Chomsky With Hal Holbrook (Mitch Collins), Joe Flynn (Mayor Philbrick), Michael-James Wixted (Noah), Wally Cox (Becker), Mary LaRoche (Nancy Collins), Cecil Kellaway (Al Casey). Two-part comedy about an accountant who takes over the running -- and many headaches -- of a small zoo.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 23, episode 5 With Tony Bennett, George Burns, Robert Klein, The Carpenters, B.B. King. The Carpenters start off with "Close to You" and "We've Only Just Begun". B.B. King adds "Just A Little Bit of Love" and a medley ("How Blue Can You Get" and "The Thrill Is Gone"). Tony Bennett sings "Something", "Get Happy" and "I'll Begin Again". George Burns gives his views on nudity in show business, Robert Klein takes on the World Series, and the New York Stickball Team (an improv group including comedian Steve Landesberg) delivers a routine about psychedelic contact lenses.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Savage Wilderness
Season 6, episode 5 W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Virgil Vogel With Ellen Corby (Mrs. Anderson), Len Wayland (R.A. Cameron), David Macklin (John Evanhauer), Marjorie Eaton (Mrs. Elbert), John Oldham (Vincent Judson), William Patterson (Dr. Sharpe), Craig Kelly (Hank), Fred MacMillan (Virgil Rilling), Don Stroud (Walker Oborn), Darleen Carr (Emily Willis). Inspector Erskine leads a search for a kidnapper, an emotionally disturbed young man who has forced a girl he secretly loves to accompany him to a lovingly furnished cabin in the wilderness.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: The Lincoln Letter
Season 2, episode 6 W: Martin A. Ragaway D: Sid McCoy With Rupert Crosse (Felix E. LeBlanc), Joyce Bulifant (Mrs. Patterson), Isabel Sanford (Aunt Bertha), Beah Richards (Chet's Mom), Lee Weaver (Brian), Olga James (Verna), Laurence Haddon (Salesman), John Zaremba (Jordan Ellingsworth), Jerry Fujikawa (Teacher), Stanley Bennett Clay (Kid). Chet has dreams of fast cars and luxury when he learns he's an heir to a letter supposedly written by Abraham Lincoln to a distant relation.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 3, episode 5 With Andy Griffith, The Supremes, Ruth Buzzi, Mel Tillis. Miss Buzzi gives Glen a demonstration of adult party games; Andy gives Glen the short end of a guitar sale; The Supremes sing "Everybody's Got a Right to Love" and "Something" and join Campbell on "Homeward Bound".
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Nevada Smith (1966)
W: John Michael Hayes D: Henry Hathaway With Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Pat Hingle, Martin Landau, Paul Fix, Gene Evans, Val Avery. A naive half-Indian, half-white man evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: Gideon, The Good
Season 12, episode 6 W: Ken Pettus D: Herschel Daugherty With Carmen Zapata (Maria), A Martinez (Luis), Allen Emerson (Pike Rogers), Wes Bishop (Hicks), Terry Moore (Lydia Yates), John Himes (Dr. Myles), Richard Kiley (Sheriff Gideon Yates). A sheriff steps outside the law.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Tim Conway Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5 With Carl Reiner, Jane Powell.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Lawyers [Reg]: Panther In A Cage
Season 2, episode 2 W: Stephen Kandel D: Nicholas Colasanto With Georg Stanford Brown (Kenneth Miller), Charles Lampkin (Ralph Miller), Gloria Calomee (Miriam Wilson), John McLiam (Judge Wiley), Val Avery (Lt. Makarian), Gerald Hiken (Deputy D.A.), Frank Campanella (Dr. Rowland), Alan Baxter (Sgt. Wilkerson), Jeff Burton (Sgt. Jonas), Tom Castronova (Waiter), Arch Whiting (Sgt. Kramer), Jack Krupnick (Officer Brock). Attorneys Nichols, Darrell and Darrell are retained by an "establishment" father to defend his son, a Black Panther, who is charged with the murder of a plainclothes policeman.
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