Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday April 12, 1970:
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Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: No Margin For Error
Season 16, episode 4 W: Frank L. Moss D: Dick Moder With Richard Evans (Jeff Treat), Ross Elliott (Chuck), Roy Engel (Sheriff). Lassie must make her way around a "live" bomb to aid young Jeff Treat, trapped in an abandoned Air Force practice range. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/19/1969)
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| [ABC 7:00] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: The Night Of The Squid
Documents the ultimate moment of life -- and death -- for a generation of secretive sea creatures. The squid is one of the most unusual and diverse creatures in the animal kingdom. Nearly 95% of all earth's species have belonged to this group of invertebrate marine animals. Cousteau discovered the squid breeding grounds off the Pacific Coast and has filmed the first record of the procreation cycle.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/15/1970)
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| [NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom
Film footage spotlights bears and bear cubs of the high country of Wyoming and Montana.
(Repeat program)
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| [CBS 7:30] Charlie Brown's All-Stars [special]
W: Charles M. Schultz D: Bill Melendez With Peter Robbins, Sally Dryer, Christopher Shea. Encore of the animated cartoon featuring the comic strip characters of Charles M. Schultz. Charlie Brown faces numerous decisions as the Peanuts gang assemble for baseball season. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Adventures Of Chip 'N Dale
Season 5, episode 20 D: Bill Justice With James MacDonald (Voices of Chip and Dale). An all-animated hour featuring the antics of the two madcap chipmunks in which they encounter the wiles of a female singer named Clarice, wreak havoc on Donald Duck's farm, and then outwit the villainous Peg Leg Pete. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/27/1959)
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 22, episode 28 With Joan Rivers, Sergio Franchi, Myron Cohen, Florence Henderson, The Muppets. Florence Henderson sings "What Do You Do When Love Dies?" and a medley of songs from her movie "Song of Norway." Joan Rivers takes a humorous look at topics including current fashions and doing housework. The Muppets pantomime to the Beatles' "Come Together" and Albert Almoznino does hand puppets of David Ben-Gurion, Josef Stalin, Nikita Kruschchev, Charles De Gaulle, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. In a cameo appearance, comedian Lewis J. Stadlen (dressed as Groucho Marx) interrupts Ed at the beginning of the show.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Gamble With Death
Season 5, episode 6 W: Don Brinkley D: William Hale With Jerry Ayres (John Springer), Barry Russo (Webber), Peter Hobbs (S.A.C. Anthony Harper), Claudia Bryar (Hospital Clerk), Simon Scott (Alexander York), Russell Thorson (Andrew Paisley), Shirley O'Hara (Nurse Swenson), Claire Kelly (Secretary), William Wintersole (Doctor), Robert Duggan (Newsman), Michael Callan (Harry Springer), Anne Helm (Amy Springer), Laraine Day (Helen York). An investigation of an extortion demand made upon a shipyard owner lifts the lid off a closed murder case in which the man was the state's key witness. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/19/1969)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: The Best Hook Shot In The World
Season 1, episode 3 W: Ed Weinberger D: Harvey Hart With Joyce Bulifant (Marsha Patterson), Gregory Gordon (Joey Howe), Richard R. Keefe (Larry Tompkins). Chet is upset by a counselor's accusation that his "prejudice" against short basketball players has caused a boy to drop out of school. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/28/1969)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
With Johnny Cash, Rich Little, Linda Ronstadt. Campbell opens with "Wives and Lovers"; Cash sings "See Ruby Fall"; Little, Cash and Glen spoof "True Grit"; Miss Ronstadt duets with Campbell. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Scared Stiff (1953)
W: Herbert Baker, Walter DeLeon D: George Marshall With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda, Dorothy Malone, George Dolenz, William Ching. A singer, in a jam with gangsters, flees with a busboy friend when he thinks he's killed a man.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: What Are Pardners For?
Season 11, episode 27 W: Jack B. Sowards D: William F. Claxton With Dabbs Greer (Judge), Tol Avery (Bradley), Slim Pickens (Sheriff), Richard Evans (John), John Beck (Luke), Hamilton Camp (Calvin), Bruce Glover (Scooter), Robert Padilla (Running Cloud), Robert Cornthwaite (Blake), Tom Peters (Ray Stahl). Hoss is arrested as an accomplice to a bank holdup after befriending two newcomers seeking frontier excitement.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Fool's Gold
Season 4, episode 5 W: Ken Pettus D: Murray Golden With Arline Anderson (Secretary), Sally Ann Howes (Beth), Nehemiah Persoff (Igor Stravos), David Opatoshu (Premier Roshkoff), Ronald Long (Sir Malcolm Forrester), Paul Marin (Clerk), Jak Brami (Guard). Paris must break through a brain-destroying ultrasonic barrier to obtain counterfeit plates which are going to be used to ruin a friendly country. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/26/1969)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: To Save A Life
Season 1, episode 1 W: Irv Pearlberg D: Don McDougall With Pat Hingle (Dr. Ben Gold), Gene Raymond (Walter Markle), Ricky Kelman (Steve Markle), Linda Dangcil (Elena), Virginia Gregg (Dorothy), Jason Bernard (Dr. Griffith), Michael Lerner. Doctors Craig, Hunter and Stuart are stymied in attempts to save a patient's life by an "old line" physician's unwillingness to accept death in his own patient's case. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1969)
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