Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday March 31, 1970:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The Lions Are Free [special]
A documentary sequel to the movie "Born Free". Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the husband-wife team who were in the movie, return to Kenya to see how the lions used in the movie adjusted to their wilderness life.
|
| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
Season 2, episode 25 W: Rita Lakin, Harve Bennett D: Robert Michael Lewis With Frank Converse (Warren Loring), Linda Marsh (Ellie Myers), Norman Alden (Russ Barry), Edward Asner (Harry Loring), Paul Stewart (Scooter Stiles). A young film producer asks for police protection when a series of "accidents" plague his film about a 20-year-old unsolved murder.
|
| [NBC 7:30] The Brass Are Comin' [special]
With Johnny Carson, Gene Kelly, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Lorne Greene. Repeat of a musical-variety hour from 1969 starring Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and featuring Petula Clark. Cameo appearances spotlight television and movie personalities. Alpert does a comedy routine with Jack Burns and joins Petula in kidding the film techniques of directors Fellini, Warhol and Hitchcock. (Repeat program)
|
| [CBS 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: Be It Ever So Crumbled, There Is No Place Like Home
Season 19, episode 27 W: Seaman Jacobs, Arthur Phillips, Mort Greene, Robert Orben, Fred S. Fox With George Gobel, Barbara Bostock, Original Caste (Rock group). Gobel answers Freddie the Freeloader's ad for a roommate to escape a nagging wife. The Original Caste perform "Mr. Monday" and "One Tin Soldier". The Silent Spot has a practical joker (Red) getting his comeuppance at a picnic.
|
| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Seven In Darkness (1969)
W: John W. Bloch D: Michael Caffey With Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Sean Garrison, Arthur O'Connell, Lesley Anne Warren, Alejandro Rey. Adventure drama about blind survivors of a plane crash who must fight their way down a rugged mountain.
|
| [NBC 8:30] Goldilocks [special]
W: A.J. Carothers Modern musical version of the fairy tale combines live-action and animation. The Crosby family -- Bing, Kathryn, Mary Frances and Nathaniel -- appear live and provide voices for animated characters. Other voices are by Paul Winchell and Avery Schreiber.
|
| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Shakiest Gun In The West (1968)
W: Edmund Hartmann, Frank Tashlin, Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum D: Alan Rafkin With Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Ruth McDevitt, Don 'Red' Barry, Pat Morita, Carl Ballantine, Dub Taylor, Hope Summers, Dick Wilson, Vaughn Taylor. A dental school graduate from the East decides to take his practice to the frontier and gets involved with a lady bandit.
|
| [CBS 9:30] The Governor & J.J. [Reg]: Second Opinion
Season 1, episode 26 W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin With Gary Collins (Dr. Bob Livingston), Allan Drake (Duke), Ilona Wilson (Helen). The governor refuses to submit to veterinarian Bob Livingston's diagnosis of his basset hound's illness and insists on another opinion.
|
| [CBS 10:00] 60 Minutes
Flamboyant Italian fashion designer Emilio Puccini is profiled at his palace in Florence by David Dimbleby; Mike Wallace reports on the problems involved in disposing of increasing amounts of garbage. The main segment is a visit to the nation's largest regional Internal Revenue Service center at Martinsburg, W. Va., where 1,800 reels of tape containing the returns of all U.S. taxpayers (about 56,000 per reel) are run through computers which determine if a return is accurate and whether a refund is due.
|
| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Hello, Goodbye, Hello
Season 1, episode 1 W: Jerry De Bono D: Marc Daniels With Susan Clark (Ruth Ann Adams), Michael Barbera (Tony), Gary Dubin (Peter), Daniel Fitzgerald (Billy), Margot Jane (Angela), Catherine McLeod (Mrs. Pate), Fredricka Meyers (Miss Mathews), George O'Hanlon Sr. (Writer), Venetta Rogers (Marsha). A young, outgoing school teacher retreats into isolation when she learns she has only a few months to live. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1969)
|