Prime-time network TV listings for Monday April 6, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: A Matter of Honor
Season 15, episode 9 W: Joy Dexter D: Robert Totten With James Nusser (Louie Pheeters), John Anderson (Jess Fletcher), Katherine Justice (Lydia Fletcher), Tom Simcox (C.V. Fletcher), Dan Ferrone (Otis Fletcher), Walter Sande (Cal Haines), Larry D. Mann (Prosecutor), Richard Bakalyan (Billy Holland), Jack Bailey (Judge Brooker). Town drunk Louie Pheeters is charged with murder when he's found at the scene of the crime, too intoxicated to remember what happened. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1969)
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| [ABC 7:30] This Land Is Mine [special]
With so much of our land being despoiled by pollution, ABC News visits some of the "untouched" spots still left in the American countryside and surveys its people in the quiet of winter. Woven throughout the program are the words of some of the nation's foremost writers, their descriptions capturing the special spirit of of different regions. Appearing on the program are actress Kim Novak, former editor-publisher Henry Beetle Hough, nature photographer Elliot Porter and sculptress Rini Templeton.
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| [NBC 7:30] My World And Welcome To It [Reg]: The Night The House Caught Fire
Season 1, episode 5 W: Melville Shavelson D: Melville Shavelson With Douglas Fowley (Grandpa), Vic Tayback (Alexander), Joe Besser (Fire Chief), Bobby Riha (Young John), Ralph Montgomery (Fireman #1), Ken Greenwald (Fireman #2), Billy Corcoran (Roy Monroe). John Monroe retreats into the past and recalls the time his boyhood sniffles led to the calling out of the town's fire department. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1969)
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #60
Season 3, episode 20 W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Coslough Johnson, Jeremy Lloyd, et al D: Mark Warren With Stu Gilliam, Johnny Carson, Jack Benny, Michael Caine, George Lindsey. Guest star Jack Benny, making his first non-cameo appearance on the show, is pushed out of his leisurely comedy style and into roles as lion tamer, ballet dancer, Eskimo and toreador. Other highlights include phone operator Lily Tomlin calling the White House and the Mod, Mod World's treatment of our favorite pastime -- work. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1970)
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| [CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Liberace
Season 2, episode 16 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Jack Baker With Liberace (Himself), Paul Winchell (Carlo), Ben Wrigley (Williams). Craig convinces guest star Liberace to let him borrow a candelabra for a club initiation but Lucy thinks he took it without asking. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: An Eye For An Eye (1966)
W: Bing Russell, Sumner Williams D: Michael D. Moore With Robert Lansing, Patrick Wayne, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott, Paul Fix, Strother Martin, Clint Howard, Rance Howard. After the murder of his wife and child, a retired bounty hunter takes up his guns again in vengeance, teaming up with a younger man who is blind.
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| [CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Millie The Secretary
Season 2, episode 26 W: Roswell Rogers D: Christian Nyby With Richard X. Slattery (Detective Carter), Lewis Charles (Frank Wayne), Herbie Faye (Marty Parker), Ted Gehring (First Employer), Bill Henry (Barton), Milton Parsons (Third Employer), Olan Soule (Second Employer). Sam, Howard and Emmett encourage Millie to get an office job, and she does -- in a bookie joint.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Jigsaw (1968)
W: Ranald MacDougall, Peter Stone D: James Goldstone With Michael J. Pollard, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland, Victor Jory, Susan Saint James, James Doohan. A young scientist, believing he's killed a girl during an accidental LSD "trip", returns to the scene with a private detective only to find the body gone and everything in order.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Colonel Fairburn Takes Over
Season 2, episode 26 W: Rick Mittleman D: Coby Ruskin With Edward Andrews (Colonel Fairburn), Scott Perry (Jim), Fredricka Meyers (Sharon Fairburn), De De Young (Helen). Publisher Col. Fairburn unexpectedly arrives and assumes control of the office and takes a very personal interest in Doris.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 7 With Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Bob Hope. A salute to Paramount Studios includes spoofs of some memorable films, a medley of Oscar-winning songs by Crosby and Miss Fitzgerald and a musical tribute to the Marx Brothers. In skits, Bing is fawned over by his waitress (Carol) in a restaurant and, as Alice Portnoy, Carol outsmarts a gang of bank robbers. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/10/1969)
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