Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 20, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Lancer [Reg]: Chad
Season 2, episode 15 W: Carey Wilber D: Alan A. Armer With John Beck (Chad Buford), Zina Bethune (Callie Buford), Mills Watson (Buck). Johnny rescues an itinerant musician from a shooting scrape and becomes the object of the unwelcome romantic affections of the man's sister -- then finds himself involved in the family's feud.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: The King Of Empty Cups
Season 2, episode 16 W: Sonya Roberts D: Robert Michael Lewis With Simon Scott (Chief Metcalf), Noel Harrison (Quinn), Barbara Shannon (Fat Elmira), Clive Clerk (Allan), Anne Randall (Denny), Renne Jarrett (Elizabeth Metcalf). Julie, Linc and Pete are assigned to find the missing daughter of the police chief, and they locate her at the home of a pop singing idol -- under the influence of drugs.
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| [NBC 7:30] I Dream Of Jeannie [Reg]: The Solid Gold Jeannie
Season 5, episode 17 W: Joanna Lee D: Jerry Bernstein With Shirley Bonn (Sally), Bill McKinney (First Crewman), Robert Gros (Second Crewman), Jim Galante (Heatherington), Robert Hogan (Wingate). Jeannie blinks herself into the astronauts' quarantined isolation chamber -- inhabited by Tony, Roger and and a third crew member -- then finds she's unable to blink herself out.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Debbie Reynolds Show [Reg]: Advice And Dissent
Season 1, episode 18 With Carl Ballantine (Mr. Newman), Ceil Cabot (Mrs. Newman), Mary Wickes (Aunt Harriet). Debbie gets the chance to write Jim's newspaper's "Advice to the Troubled" column and inadvertently creates more problems than she solves.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: There's No Business Like Show Business, When There Is No Business
Season 19, episode 17 W: Seaman Jacobs With Robert Merrill. Skelton and Merrill portray a broken-down vaudeville team; Merrill solos "Largo al Factotum" from "The Barber Of Seville"; Silent Spot showcases Red pantomiming an old violin teacher.
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| [ABC 8:30] NBA All Star Game
From the Spectrum in Philadelphia, with announcers Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman.
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| [NBC 8:30] Julia [Reg]: The Jolly Green Midget
Season 2, episode 17 W: Phil Leslie D: Bernard Wiesen With Eddie Quillan (Eddie Edson), Jerry Maren (Little Green Man). A little green man appears to impede Julia's efforts to curb son Corey's wild imagination.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: My Sweet Charlie (1970)
W: Richard Levinson, William Link D: Lamont Johnson With Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy, Chris Wilson, Noble Willingham, Dave Ward. Racial tolerance sets the scene as NBC presents a World Premiere movie for television. The drama focuses on a pregnant Southern white girl who, ordered from her father's home, hides in a vacant house. Soon, the house and her privacy is invaded by Charlie, a black New York lawyer on the run from Texas law enforcement officers. Filmed on location in Galveston and Port Bolivar, Texas.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Governor & J.J. [Reg]: The Last Weekend
Season 1, episode 17 W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin With Tol Avery (Senator Barkus), Doris Packer (Mrs. Ferguson). Gov. Drinkwater plans a nostalgic weekend at Moose Lake, then he and J.J. are snowed in.
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| [CBS 10:00] 60 Minutes
Mike Wallace reports on crime and law enforcement in Washington, DC, where the crime rate is extraordinarily higher than the rest of the country. Harry Reasoner and Andrew Ronnie explore how tombstones are made and sold in the U.S. and what they reveal about our attitude toward death. The third report examines a contemporary form of slavery called "The Gold Run", in which Africans from neighboring countries go to work in South Africa and work in the gold mines for two years, earning a total of $400.
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