Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday March 18, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Hee Haw
Season 1, episode 26 With Faron Young, Dolly Parton. Young sings "The Occasional Wife" and "Your Time Is Comin'". Miss Parton sings "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy".
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| [ABC 7:30] Nanny And The Professor [Reg]: The Tyrannosaurus Tibia
Season 1, episode 9 W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Richard Kinon With Patsy Garrett (Florence Fowler), Eileen Baral (Francine Fowler), Jim Backus (Dr. Charles Walters), Diana Chesney (Dr. Lois Hire), Whitney Rybeck (Colby), George Winters (Blakely), Greg Konblett (Mike), Jimmy Bracken (John). Waldo, the Everetts' dog, turns neurotic when the backyard where he has buried his treasure of bones becomes the site of a full-scale archaeological dig.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Virginian [Reg]: The Gift
Season 8, episode 24 W: Robert Van Scoyk D: Seymour Robbie With Tab Hunter (Cart Banner), Julie Gregg (Sally Anne), Frank Marth (Rawlings), Walter Burke (Billy Neal), Ross Elliott (Sheriff Abbott), Stuart Nisbet (Bart). A gunman robs a railroad stationmaster of a large payroll but loses the loot to his partner as they make a fast getaway.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: And Eddie Makes Three
Season 1, episode 3 W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper With Diana Muldaur (Lynn Bardman). Tom Corbett's fiancee has a chance to practice being a mother when Eddie catches cold and Mrs. Livingston is out with the flu. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1969)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Beverly Hillbillies [Reg]: Honesty Is The Best Policy
Season 8, episode 26 W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson D: Robert M. Leeds With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Dave Willock (Fred Hutchins). Con man Shifty Shafer dresses his wife in a black lace mantilla to pose as his "Spanish" mother in a scheme to defraud the Clampetts.
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| [ABC 8:30] Room 222 [Reg]: Just Between Friends
Season 1, episode 26 W: George Aktins D: Hal Cooper With Ivor Francis (Mr. Dragen), Jan Shutan (Bonnie), James Wheaton (Parent), Jason Wingreen (Parent), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Ruiz), Gloria Lord (Mrs. Jackson), Suzanne Taylor (Mrs. Musgrove), Henry Oliver (Mr. Turner). Pete Dixon and Mr. Kaufman, friends and tennis partners, become angry opponents over the prospect of further overcrowding of classrooms because of rezoning.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Combatants
Season 1, episode 22 W: Oliver Crawford D: Earl Bellamy With Barbara Dana (Esther Neily), Renne Jarrett (Vicki Kaufman), Lonny Chapman (Mr. Kaufman), William Shatner (Dr. Eli Neily), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett), Jack Garner (Doctor). The determination of a research scientist to have his probable cure for Hodgkin's Disease accepted by the center brings him to a parting of the ways with the hospital and weakens his friendship with Dr. Gannon.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Johnny Cash Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 9 With George Gobel, Jeannie C. Riley, Merle Haggard, Tommy Cash. Gobel talks about his days as a radio announcer. Haggard sings "The Fightin' Side of Me" and is joined by Cash on "Women Make a Fool of Me". Miss Riley sings "Country Girl".
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| [NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Special [special]
With Perry Como, Barbara Eden, Tony Curtis, Billy Casper. The main comedy sketch has a regulation-ridden world of the year 2000 as its theme. A romantic couple (Hope, Eden), because of a law banning love, attend their secret wedding at a "Love-easy" (as opposed to speakeasy), but the place gets raided. In another parody, an anti-smoking crusader (Curtis) brings along a bag of tricks and a final psychological weapon to reform an avid smoker (Hope). Still another routine features two actors (Hope, Como) who are rocketing to Mars, spicing their voyage with jingles and songs to attract a TV audience at a time when space shots have become blase.
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| [CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Forty Feet High And It Kills!
Season 2, episode 3 W: Robert C. Dennis D: Michael O'Herlihy With Bill Bigelow (John Padway), Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat), Wright Esser (Dr. Michael Crichton), Will Geer (Professor Harold Lochner), Sabrina Scharf (Victoria Lochner). A foreign power plots a false tidal wave alert to divert attention from the kidnapping of a famous genetic engineer who has discovered a revolutionary breakthrough in chemistry that will produce a super race. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/8/1969)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
Season 1, episode 9 With Ken Berry, Kaye Stevens, Georgia Brown, Tommy Roe. Engelbert sings "Let's Work Together" and "Everybody's Talkin'". Miss Brown does "Just Leave Everything to Me". Miss Stevens sings "Get Ready" and "God Bless the Child". Berry is featured in a medley.
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| [NBC 10:00] Tennessee Ernie Ford Special [special]
Barbara Feldon, Eva Gabor, Joey Heatherton and Shirley Jones are guests of Ernie Ford in a comedy and musical special. Among the dozen musical productions and skits, Ernie plays a man with four wives, a country cousin who visits a gypsy to talk with a dead cow, and a modern-day Robin Hood. Also in a sketch, each of Ernie's guests donates her most attractive facial feature in an attempt to create the perfect woman.
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