Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 19, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Hostage
Season 5, episode 13 W: Harold Livingston D: Barry Crane With Lee Duncan (Frederico), Lou Antonio (Robert Siomney), Ron Castro (Luis Cabal), Conrad Parham (Roerca), Pepe Callahan (Ortega), David Renard (Carlos Marchese), Joe De Santis (Jorge Cabal). Paris, still wearing his makeup from a completed mission, is kidnapped by a group of revolutionists who think he is an influential American magnate. They hope to use him to bargain for release of three political prisoners.
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]: Christmas Show
Season 2, episode 13 W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye With Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Claudine Longet, John Astin. The show opens on a winter setting with Andy, his brothers and family in chorus singing "Jingle Bells," later moving to the lodge with Andy in a solo of "White Christmas." Following a family-styled Christmas cookie sketch with Noelle and Christian (Andy's children) and Claudine, Claudine tells a story in song, "Petit Papa Noel," of a little girl's talk with Santa Claus. Andy then sings "It's A Most Wonderful Time of the Year." The highlight of the program will be a Christmas Fable scanning such mythical places as Rock Land, Doll Land and the joyful Christmas Land, featuring Andy, Captain Kangaroo and Charlie Callas; Claudine narrates.
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| [ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: St. Louis Blues
Season 11, episode 13 W: Lois Hire D: Fred De Cordova With Joan Tompkins (Lorraine Miller). Katie's mother makes a surprise visit with news that her anniversary gift to them will be to baby-sit the triplets for a month.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 96 -- Pilgrimage
Season 3, episode 11 W: James Doherty D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Stanley Adams (Fred Ludden), Ivan Naranjo (Tom Nasheboo), Sandi Ego (Rosa), J. Pat O'Malley (Santa Claus), Sallie Shockley (Sandy Quillan), Foster Brooks (George Selfridge), Len Wayland (Jason Lamb), Bert Holland (Vernon Hale). It's a busy Christmas for officers Malloy and Reed: Santa Claus gets arrested when he is robbed and takes matters into his own hands, and a small Indian girl, whose parents are bedded down for the night in the hills, is reported lost.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: To Buy Or Not To Buy?
Season 1, episode 14 D: Don Richardson With Jackie Joseph (Mrs. Chester), Walter Brooke (Mr. Maxwell), Gino Conforti (Mr. Chester), M. Emmet Walsh (Cliff), Edwina Gough (Rita). Arnie's boss persuades him to make a deal on a large home in a swanky district, but just before they are to move the family enthusiasm begins to fade.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Love God? (1969)
W: Nat Hiken D: Nat Hiken With Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Edmond O'Brien, James Gregory, Maggie Peterson, Ruth McDevitt. A small-town publisher of a bird-watchers' monthly magazine finds himself on the verge of bankruptcy when a con artist comes along to bail him out of trouble.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Christmas And The Hard Luck Kid
Season 1, episode 14 W: Allan Burns, James L. Brooks D: Jay Sandrich With Ned Wertimer (Fred), Henry Corden (Charlie). Mary's plans to spend the holidays with her family are thwarted when she learns that she has to work in the newsroom on both Christmas eve and Christmas day -- alone.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Most Deadly Game [Reg]: Model For Murder
Season 1, episode 9 With Frank Converse (Ben), Barbara Hale (Edith), William Smith, Edward G. Robinson Jr. (Bartender), Lou Krugman (Berkowitz). Vanessa is captured by a madman after she poses as a fashion model to trap a killer who preys on girls displaying fashions in restaurants.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Duet For Three
Season 4, episode 13 W: Al Brenner D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Robert Reed (Lt. Adam Tobias), Johnny Silver (Cab Driver), Gloria Grahame (Mae), Katherine Justice (Ellen Gray), John Considine (Mart Gray), Liam Dunn (Motel Manager), Harold Fong (Vendor), Terence Pushman (Dance Assistant), Robert Colbert (Vic Stanley). Joe Mannix becomes involved in a series of apparent suicides by members of a black-market ring, when he's hired by the widow of one of the deceased to find out why she's being followed.
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