Prime-time network TV listings for Monday February 23, 1970:
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Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Celia
Season 15, episode 22 W: Harry Kronman D: Philip Leacock With Cliff Osmond (Ben Sommars), Roy Roberts (Mr. Bodkin), Charles Seel (Barney), Melissa Murphy (Celia Madden), Frank Marth (Martin Blake), George Petrie (Cashier), Walker Edmiston (Burnett). Newly O'Brien finds it hard to convince friend Ben Sommars that the pretty girl who answered his ad for a wife is really a swindler.
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| [ABC 7:30] It Takes A Thief [Reg]: To Sing A Song Of Murder
Season 3, episode 20 W: Norman Hudis D: Barry Shear With Joseph Cotten (Mr. Jack), George Murdock (Devon), Billy Davis Jr. (Billy), Florence LaRue (Florence), Lamonte McLemore (Lamonte), Ron Townson (Ron), Marc Gordon (Marc), Marilyn McCoo (Marilyn Lee), Will Kuluva (Zoltan), Beah Richards (Sister Gowen), Buddy Lester (Lenny Freland), Paul Micale (President Havos), Bill Bonds (Newscaster), Bones Howe (Producer), Ralph L. Williams (The Huckster). Members of the pop-rock group The Fifth Dimension guest star in a tale in which agent Alexander Mundy is drawn into an assassination plot by a supposedly dead singer-guitarist.
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| [NBC 7:30] My World And Welcome To It [Reg]: The Fourth Estate
Season 1, episode 24 W: Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn, Melville Shavelson, Danny Arnold D: John Rich With Allyn Ann McLerie (Mrs. McGraw), Michael Barbara (Buzz), Christopher Shea (Patrick McGraw). John Monroe is shaken when his work is not only lambasted by his own editor but rejected by his daughter's sixth-grade class editor.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #63
Season 3, episode 23 W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Coslough Johnson, Jeremy Lloyd, et al D: Mark Warren With Tiny Tim, Carol Channing, Sheldon Leonard, Ringo Starr, Maureen Starr, Wally Cox, Art Metrano. Beatle Ringo Starr appears in a rash of comedy skits. Highlights: the little old man (Arte Johnson) sets out to buy a ring for his marriage to Gladys (Ruth Buzzi); an airline hijacker (Henry Gibson) takes a plane already over Cuba; the Pentagon earns the Fickle Finger of Fate Award for the third time.
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| [CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Takes Over
Season 2, episode 23 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Jay Sandrich With Lyle Talbot (Lawyer). Lucy finds herself as the owner of Harry's business and all his possessions when he can't pay a promissory note his ancestors gave Lucy's family 100 years before.
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: Teacher's Pet (1958)
W: Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin D: George Seaton With Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren, Nick Adams, Marion Ross, Charles Lane, Jack Albertson, Peter Baldwin. A hard-boiled newspaperman poses as a student to warm up to a pretty teacher, who initially despises him.
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| [CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The New Well
Season 2, episode 17 W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant D: Christian Nyby With Douglas Fowley (Judson), Hal Lynch (Harris). Skeptical of an old dowser's claim that he can find water on the farm, Sam hires a geologist to drill a well scientifically. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1970)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Ritual Of Evil (1970)
W: Robert Presnell, Jr. D: Robert Day With Louis Jourdan, Anne Baxter, Diana Hyland, John McMartin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Belinda Montgomery, Carla Bonelli, Georg Stanford Brown, Regis Cordic. A suspense drama about a psychiatrist who, while investigating the apparent suicide of a patient, uncovers a bizarre organization involved in ritualistic murder and supernatural practices.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Doris Hires A Millionaire (1)
Season 2, episode 20 W: Budd Grossman D: Fred De Cordova With Lew Ayres (William Tyler), Ross Elliott (Mr. Clark), John Stuart (Mr. Bradford), John Lawrence (Officer), Issa Arnal (Helen). A publicity-shy billionaire takes a job on the Martin ranch.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 20 With Pat Carroll, Jack Jones. Pat and Carol portray TV commercial actresses and housewives who flirt with their golf instructor (Lyle Waggoner); Jones sings "I Love You More Today Than I Did Yesterday" and "God Bless the Child". The soap opera chapter focuses on a housewife (Pat) with a weight problem, who takes advise from best friend Burnett and divorce lawyer Harvey Korman. Harvey later returns as a hypochondriac dealing with wife Carol.
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