Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 31, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: Heroes Are Born
Season 5, episode 15 W: Stanley Roberts D: Charles T. Barton With Donald Livingston (Boy), Randy Whipple (Boy), Larry Pennell (Ken Granger), Leif Garrett (Bobby Granger). Jody is thrilled when a professional football player invites him to have dinner in his apartment with his nephew.
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| [ABC 7:30] Matt Lincoln [Reg]: Jimmy
Season 1, episode 14 W: Sy Salkowitz D: Seymour Robbie With Guy Stockwell (Jimmy), Julie Gregg (Arlene Thatcher), Larry D. Mann (Morris), Patricia Smith, Wesley Addy, Arch Johnson. Lincoln conducts an investigation to learn why five high school students, all on probation, are being dismissed.
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| [NBC 7:30] Orange Bowl Parade [special]
Telecast of the annual parade along Miami's Biscayne Blvd. The theme is "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". Joe Garagiola and Anita Bryant comment.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 15 With Jane Wyman, Mary Costa. Miss Wyman presents a reading, "The New Year Gift", and joins Miss Costa in a skit involving Nabors as a bumbling waiter at a society party. Miss Costa sings a medley from "Carousel".
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| [ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Darrin On A Pedestal
Season 7, episode 5 W: Bernie Kahn D: William Asher With Dick Wilson (Old Timer), Elizabeth Montgomery (Serena), Wallace Rooney (Gardner), Jud Strunk (Maitre d'), Victoria Thompson (Hat Check Girl), Robert Brown (Seaman), John Gallaudet (Barrows). Samantha's cousin zaps Darrin onto the pedestal of the famed Helmsman statue in Gloucester, and then romps off with the "liberated" seaman. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1970)
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| [NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: Blackout
Season 4, episode 14 W: Robert Pirosh D: Don McDougall With Bill Quinn (Sgt. Reddick), James McEachin (Desk Officer), Fred Holliday (Policeman #2), Jack Albertson (Dave Spangler), Sandy Kenyon (Kinney), Roman Gabriel (Holloway), Allen Jaffe (Jonesy), Myron Healey (Brill), Carol Saunders (Office Clerk), John S. Ragin (Policeman #1). When a power station blackout paralyzes a major portion of San Francisco, Chief Ironside and his staff assist members of the police department. It becomes a tense evening for Ironside when he meets an old friend on the force who has been jealous of him.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Chamber Of Horrors (1966)
W: Stephen Kandel D: Hy Averback With Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker, Patrick O'Neal, Jeanette Nolan, Wayne Rogers. In the city of Baltimore in the early 1880s, a maniac terrorizes the public. His activities center around a wax museum featuring re-creations of infamous crimes and their perpetrators.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barefoot In The Park [Reg]: The Bed
Season 1, episode 2 W: Jerry Belson, Garry Marshall D: Jerry Paris With Charles Lampkin (S.J. Robinson), Gino Conforti (Slow Eddie). Paul and Corie buy a bed wholesale through Honey Robinson's connections and find the $100 deal is something less than comfortable. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1970)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: The Laundry Orgy
Season 1, episode 1 W: Jerry Belson, Garry Marshall D: Jerry Paris With Garry Walberg (Speed), Larry Gelman (Vinnie), Ryan MacDonald (Roy), Monica Evans (Cecily Pigeon), Carole Shelley (Gwendolyn Pigeon). Comedy-drama based on characters created by Neil Simon in his Broadway hit. The "odd couple" who share the apartment are an overly-neat photographer and a sloppy sportswriter. In the first show, Oscar announces to Felix that they have a date with the Pigeon sisters and is reminded that it's their regular poker night. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1970)
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| [NBC 9:30] Nancy [Reg]: Budget, Budget, Who's Got The Budget?
Season 1, episode 16 W: Sidney Sheldon D: Allen Baron With Ron Masak (Hawkins), Herbert Anderson (Emerson), Ivor Francis (Watts), Dick Patterson (Jennings), Alexander Beckett (Schroeder), Nada Rowand (Wilkie), John Neris (Cord). When Nancy and Adam run into a budget problem, they get unsolicited federal help which merely complicates matters.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Immortal [Reg]: To The Gods Alone
Season 1, episode 13 W: Ken Trevey D: Leslie H. Martinson With Barry Sullivan (Jordan Braddock), Lynn Loring (Grace Lee Canby), Bruce Dern (Luther Seacombe), Robert Sampson (Check Hutchins), Peggy Rea (Mrs. Strom). Ben Richards battles, then tries to help his old nemesis, who is seriously hurt while deep in the Everglades.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 15 With Frank Sinatra, Ruth Buzzi, Barbara Heller. Frank and Dean sing a seven-song medley and take part in a blind-date skit, computerized-date skit, and give impressions of famous performers.
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