Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 14, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] National Geographic Society Special: Holland Against The Sea [special]
The season's fourth NGS special is a study of a nation trying to keep its head above water. The focal point of the documentary is the relationship between the Dutch people and their greatest ally and enemy - the sea. Included is a look at the country's history and traditions.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: The Girl In Chair Nine
Season 2, episode 1 W: William Blast D: Gene Nelson With Angela Greene (Mrs. Whitney), Iris Rainer (Barbara), Gary Crabbe (Tory Peterson), Sylvia Hayes (Big Mama), Lillian Bronson (Aunt Margaret), Robert R. Cannon (Jerry Bronson), Veronica Cartwright (Gail Whitney), John Stephenson (Professor Tanner), Cesare Danova (Dr. Santos). A clairvoyant's prediction initiates an investigation into an abortion racket. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1969)
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| [NBC 7:30] I Dream Of Jeannie [Reg]: My Master, The Chili King
Season 5, episode 24 W: James Henerson D: Claudio Guzman With Pearl Shear (Woman Shopper), Scotty Morrow, Lew Brown (Master Sergeant), Gabriel Dell (Cousin Arvel), Dick Van Patten (Grocery Store Clerk). Tony is forced to use guile to get Jeannie to use her magic to block the efforts of Tony's con-man cousin.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Debbie Reynolds Show [Reg]: Where There's a Will, There's No Way
Season 1, episode 26 With Larry Storch. An all-out family war ensues when Bruce doesn't select Debbie as his prospective guardian. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: Pop, The Astronaut
Season 19, episode 2 W: Seaman Jacobs With The Lettermen, Walter Brennan. Main comedy sketch features lawmen Skelton and Brennan, both after the same job and widow, and both hiring the same gunman to do the other in. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1969)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Over-The-Hill Gang (1969)
W: Jameson Brewer D: Jean Yarbrough With Pat O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Jack Elam, Ricky Nelson, Edward Andrews, Lillian Bronson. Western spoof of an aged quartet of former Texas Rangers who reassemble to clean up a corrupt town.
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| [NBC 8:30] Julia [Reg]: The Switch Sitters
Season 2, episode 28 W: Ben Gershman D: Bernard Wiesen With C. Lindsay Workman (Otto Brockmeyer), Tom Hatten (Dr. Cross), Janear Hines (Roberta Simms), Anna Pagan (Adele), Melissa Newman (Wilma), Gerald York (Al). A tape recorder reveals that Julia is the victim of a rotating babysitter conspiracy run by "mothers' helpers".
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The D.A. - Murder One (1969)
W: Harold Jack Bloom D: Boris Sagal With Robert Conrad, Howard Duff, Diane Baker, Scott Brady, J.D. Cannon, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Dana Elcar, David Opatoshu, Carlos Romero, Alfred Ryder, Ford Rainey. A deputy district attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Governor & J.J. [Reg]: There Go The Judge
Season 1, episode 2 D: Leonard Stern With Thomas Hunter (Ed Lundy), Peter Bonerz (Officer Hubble), Bryan O'Byrne. J.J. gets a traffic ticket and everyone refuses to believe she doesn't want it "fixed". (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1969)
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| [CBS 10:00] 60 Minutes
A look at the U.S. Navy's M-48 torpedo program which has gone more than $3 billion over budget to date, with interviews of Senators and Ernest Fitzgerald, a former efficiency expert on the program; a study of mystic Rosemary Brown of London who transcribes music "dictated" to her by Beethoven, Liszt, Bach and Brahms; an examination of the complex, big money-making recording business. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/3/1970)
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: The Rebel Doctor
Season 1, episode 26 W: Lionel E. Siegel D: John Erman With Kaz Garas. Dr. Welby tries to help a young doctor fighting a last-ditch battle to keep a clinic operating in a poor neighborhood.
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