Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday March 8, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: Warm Heart -- Cold Nose
Season 16, episode 21 With Ford Rainey (Clint Fraser), Ann Doran (Edie), Bing Russell (Ed). Lassie and Ginger, a seeing eye dog, protect and guide blind Clint Fraser through the forest in search of help for his injured wife, left alone at the Fraser cabin.
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| [ABC 7:00] Land Of The Giants [Reg]: Wild Journey
Season 2, episode 24 W: William Welch D: Harry Harris With Erik Nelson (S.I.D. Man), Bruce Dern (Thorg), Yvonne Craig (Berna), Marshall Stewart (Man Passerby), Win Liverman (Security Guard), Louise Lorimer (Miss Smith), Sheila Allen (Miss Collier). Steve and Dan steal a time-travel device from two strange people, planning to transport themselves back to Los Angeles and two years back in time so they can stop the takeoff of their spaceship.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom
A family of leopards occupy a deserted castle in Rajasthan, India. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 7:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: Birds, Bees And Romans
Season 1, episode 19 With Lee Casey (Mario), Jean-Michel Michenaud (Nico), Vitina Marcus (Signora Cardozza). Unnoticed by all, Pokey brings home a baby she finds unattended in a park while her father joins the frantic neighborhood search for the infant.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Menace On The Mountain (2)
Season 16, episode 19 W: Robert Heverly D: Vincent McEveety With Mitch Vogel (Jamie McIver), Pat Crowley (Leah McIver), Charles Aidman (Jed McIver), Albert Salmi (Poss Timberlake), Eric Shea (Mark McIver), Jodie Foster (Suellen McIver), Richard Anderson (Major Galt), Dub Taylor (Cicero Everhart). Following the defeat of the Confederacy, Jed McIver returns to South Carolina to find his family driven from its home by ruthless Poss Timberlake.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 22, episode 23 With Nancy Sinatra, Wayne and Shuster, Bobby Vinton, Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Rodney Dangerfield, Irwin C. Watson, National Urban Coalition Glee Club. Nancy Sinatra opens with "I Love Them All (The Boys In The Band)" and "California Dreamin'" (with the Rutgers University Marching Band). Bobby Vinton does "Take Me In Your Arms" and "My Elusive Dream." There is a filmed public service announcement from the National Urban Coalition promoting racial harmony. In the film, 100 figures in entertainment, business, government and sports are gathered together to sing "Let the Sunshine In." Among those appearing are Jim Backus, Dan Blocker, Johnny Carson, Ray Charles, Ossie Davis, Henry Fonda, Merv Griffin, Chet Huntley, Martin Landau, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Myrna Loy, Ali MacGraw, Dina Merrill, Greg Morris, Leonard Nimoy, Carl Reiner, Nipsey Russell, Dinah Shore, Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson, Flip Wilson, and the cast of "Hair."
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Quest
Season 5, episode 26 W: Mark Weingart D: Philip Abbott With Anthony Eisley (S.A.C. Chet Randolph), Larry Gates (Austin Carr), Richard O'Brien (Hauser), Morgan Sterne (Blair Evans), Loretta Leversee (Sarah Evans), Parley Baer (Newman), Frank Maxwell (Wendell Bricker), Claire Brennan (Girl), Ellan Nance (Nurse Thornton), Michele Tobin (Mindy Evans), Trudy Stolz (Sue Evans), Earl Holliman (Walker Carr), Russell Johnson (Dr. McGregor). The Bureau's search for an escapee from an institution for the criminally insane is hampered by lack of cooperation of the man's father.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: How You Play The Game
Season 1, episode 23 W: Ed Weinberger D: Coby Ruskin With Dane Clark (Dave Baxter), Marlene Clark (Vicki Himbrough), Tony De Costa (Gene Terrell), Stuffy Singer (Garrett Winslow). A handball expert gives Coach Kincaid a good chance to live up to his own advice about being a good loser.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 23 With Mike Connors, John Davidson, Lily Tomlin, Glenn Ash. Glen opens with "Once in a Lifetime"; Davidson sings "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"; Connors and Campbell spoof gunmen in a non-violent western; finale satirizes private eye and gangster films.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Dial Hot Line (1970)
W: Carol Sobieski D: Jerry Thorpe With Vince Edwards, Chelsea Brown, Kim Hunter, Lane Bradbury, Felton Perry, Michael Larrain, Elliott Street, G.D. Spradlin. The story of a "hot line" clinic whose staff consists of nonprofessional young volunteers who man telephones around the clock to listen to the problems of kids who need to talk. When a caller carries out a rash threat, the hot line is placed in jeopardy.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Gold Mine
Season 11, episode 23 W: Robert Bruckner, Preston Wood D: Leon Benson With Bruce Dern (Bayliss), Ross Hansen (Rader), Tony De Costa (Ramon), Charles P. Thompson. The Cartwrights befriend a young Mexican whose father "sold" him to two cruel miners.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Crane
Season 4, episode 23 W: Ken Pettus D: Paul Krasny With Carl Betz (General Yuri Kozani), Felice Orlandi (Colonel Strabo), Don Eitner (Rafik), Eric Mason (Constantine), George Fisher (Lieutenant), Ralph Ventura (Clay). After rescuing a prisoner from execution, the IMF moves to create dissention between a dictator and his security chief.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Protectors [Reg]: Memo From the Class Of '76
Season 1, episode 6 W: Ben Masselink D: Daryl Duke With Billy Gray (Morgan Vontz), Norma Crane (Mrs. Austin), Peter Hooten (Clancy Austin). A high school narcotics arrest turns into a desperate search for dangerously contaminated drugs and a girl who has used them. (Last show of the Protectors portion of the series.)
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