Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday March 15, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: Chucka
Season 16, episode 22 With Med Flory (Sam). In Navajo country, Lassie finds danger as she helps a playful sheepdog face his "moment of truth". Filmed in Monument Valley, Ariz.
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| [ABC 7:00] Ballad Of The Iron Horse [special]
ABC news traces the history of American's railroads and the men who ran the trains from the 1820s to the present. Studied are early locomotives, the martial impact of the railroads during the Civil War, the construction of the transcontinental span, the social turmoil created by the financial giants, and finally the degeneration and possible salvation of the nation's "roads".
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| [CBS 7:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: The Pretty Little Girl
Season 1, episode 20 With Ahna Capri (Julie), Vitina Marcus (Professor Venturi). Mike Endicott thinks Alison's pretty friend is just a young girl -- until she sets out to charm him.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]: Salute To "Holiday On Ice"
Season 22, episode 24 With Lana Cantrell, Ed Ames. Ed sings "Three Reasons", Miss Cantrell provides "Isn't This a Lovely Day?", and there are numerous ice skating segments including Muller's Chimps: ice-skating chimpanzees trained by Werner and Denyse Muller.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Nightmare Road
Season 5, episode 2 W: Mark Rodgers D: Harvey Hart With Roy Engel (Eldon Hunter), Ron Doyle (S.R.A. Harmon), Phil Dean (S.A.C. Jansen), Fred Holliday (S.A.C. Clark), Robert Duvall (Gerald Wilson), Burr DeBenning (Jack Collins), Ellen Weston (Barbara Mercer), Anthony Hayes (Special Agent Mercer), Warren Parker (Dr. Haller), Ray Kellogg (Policeman), Midge Ware (Teller), Ron Brown (Surveillance Agent), Davey Davison (Carolyn Paul). Inspector Erskine leads a field force in a tri-state manhunt for the slayers of a fellow agent and deputy sheriff. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1969)
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| [NBC 8:00] David Copperfield [special]
W: Jack Pulman D: Delbert Mann With Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire, Wendy Hiller, Ron Moody, Michael Redgrave. Charles Dickens' classic story of a young boy's journey into manhood comes to television in a special made by Omnibus Productions in association with NBC.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 24 With George Lindsey, Judy Collins, Al Martino, Larry Storch. Miss Collins sings "Someday Soon" and joins Glen for "Four Strong Winds"; Lindsey performs "After Taxes"; Martino offers "Can't Help Falling in Love With You"; Campbell solos "True Grit".
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Up From The Beach (1965)
W: Claude Brule, Howard Clewes, Stanley Mann D: Robert Parrish With Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring, Broderick Crawford, Slim Pickens. An American sergeant becomes a reluctant nursemaid to French civilians and a German offiicer just after the Normandy invasion.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Death Squad
Season 4, episode 24 W: Laurence Heath D: Barry Crane With Pernell Roberts (Chief Manuel Corba), Cicely Tyson (Alma Ross), Leon Askin (Riva), John Schuck (Lieutenant Jocaro), Richard Angarola (Tolima), Valentin de Vargas (Luis Corba), Natividad Vacio (Flower Man), Luanne Roberts (Louisa), Trish Mahoney (Maria). Jim Phelps leads the IMF on a personal rescue mission when Barney is arrested and marked for execution by a sadistic Caribbean police chief.
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| [NBC 10:00] On Stage: To Confuse The Angel [special]
W: Loring Mandel D: Alex Segal With Lee J. Cobb, Blythe Danner, Beah Richards, Tony Call, Paul Sparer, Stefan Gierasch. An original drama by Loring Mandel ("Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"), the story of an aging doctor faced with crises of faith and decision. David Susskind was executive producer.
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