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Thursday April 23, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 23, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Family Affair: No Uncle Is An Island (R) The Jim Nabors Hour (R) Movie: The Millionairess (1960)
ABC Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: The Return Of The Sea Elephants (R) Bewitched: Sam And The Beanstalk (R) This Is Tom Jones (R) Paris 7000: Journey To Nowhere (R)
NBC The Whale Hunters Of Fayal Ironside: L'Chayim (R) Dragnet: Burglary - Helpful Woman (R) The Dean Martin Show
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[CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: No Uncle Is An Island
Season 4, episode 1
W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish   D: Charles T. Barton

With Billy McMickle (Mark), Herbert Anderson (Chuck), Marilyn Hare (Joyce), Mary Jane Mangler (Tracey), Nancy Hale (Mrs. Manning), Pamelyn Ferdin (Jennifer), Peter Leeds (Joe), Scutter McKay (Dan), Victoria Carroll (Carol), Wayne Heffley (Mr. Manning).
With the rest of the household safely away for the weekend, Uncle Bill's quest for peace and quiet is marred by a fighting married couple, neighbors and their children and univited women visitors.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1969)

[ABC 7:30] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: The Return Of The Sea Elephants
The male sea elephant, measuring up to 20 feet and weighing several tons, has an inflatible proboscis like the trunk of a small elephant. The species, centered on a volcanic island off the coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, once almost hunted to extinction, now faces another threat -- pollution. Capt. Cousteau studies the birth, life and death of the huge mammals.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1970)

[NBC 7:30] The Whale Hunters Of Fayal [special]
Jose Ferrer narrates a study of a vanishing way of life. Fayal is an isle in the Azores where primitive whale hunters have been hunting the sperm whale for 150 years but soon will have to find another line of work.

[CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5

With Kate Smith.
Miss Smith sings "Who Can I Turn To?", joins Nabors in a medley of "moon" songs, and then joins the entire cast in a George M. Cohan production number.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/23/1969)

[ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Sam And The Beanstalk
Season 6, episode 1
W: Michael Morris   D: Richard Michaels

With Ronald Long (Giant), Johnny Whitaker (Jack), Bobo Lewis (Giant's Wife), Deacon Jones (Guard), Mabel Albertson (Mrs. Stephens).
As the 1969-1970 season begins, we are greeted by an all-new Darrin Stephens. Tabitha is jealous of the new baby and decides to run away in the storybook of "Jack and the Beanstalk". Samantha must go into the book to get her back.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/18/1969)

[NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: L'Chayim
Season 3, episode 11
W: Mort Thaw   D: Anton M. Leader

With Bill Quinn (Mr. Royce), Stephen Coit (Packer), Stephen Liss (Allie), Hilly Hicks (Digby), Hal Frederick (Reverend Hanley), Shelly Novack (Jim Trannon), David Opatoshu (Rabbi Farber), Greg Mullavey (Clay Royce), Lillian Adams (Mrs. Farber).
An ancient Torah is stolen from a modest temple, and an innocent group of Negro youngsters are accused of the theft.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/4/1969)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: The Millionairess (1960)
W: Wolf Mankowitz   D: Anthony Asquith

With Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alistair Sim, Vittorio DeSica, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond.
George Bernard Shaw's story about a female tycoon who believes that her money can purchase anything she desires. But she discovers, to her chagrin, that the one thing it cannot buy is what she wants above all else - love!

[ABC 9:00] This Is Tom Jones [Reg]
Season 2, episode 12

With Joel Grey, Sandie Shaw, Ace Trucking Company.
Grey is joined by Jones in a medley of songs about girls written especially for the theater. Tom sings "I Second That Emotion", "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face", "I Can't Turn You Loose", "I've Been Loving You Too Long" and "Sugar, Sugar". Joel sings "Come Together", "If We Only Have Love" and "I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy".

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/11/1969)

[NBC 9:30] Dragnet [Reg]: Burglary - Helpful Woman
Season 4, episode 14
W: Michael Donovan   D: Jack Webb

With Dick Whittinghill, Ann Morgan Guilbert (Bessie McDermott), Nydia Westman (Martha Anderson), Ralph Moody (Chester Anderson), Julie Bennett (Evelyn Gentry), Art Balinger (Capt. Green), Don Ross (Carl Freeman).
Friday and Gannon search for a woman who picks on elderly people as her victims in a rare theft scheme. While the officers ask help of the news media to publicize the suspect's method of operation, they receive a call from the 17th victim within two weeks.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/22/1970)

[ABC 10:00] Paris 7000 [Reg]: Journey To Nowhere
Season 1, episode 4

With Diane Baker (Anna Stempler), Steve Ihnat (Major Strom), John Van Dreelen (Zeigler).
Brennan falls for a pretty German refugee, and despite a warning from an American intelligence agent, takes her to East Berlin to look for her supposed ailing brother.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/12/1970)

[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 30

With Jimmy Stewart, Leslie Uggams, Dom DeLuise, Danny Lockin, Albert Brooks, Jan Daley.
Martin's solos are "I Will" and "Hands Across the Table". Stewart performs in a sketch as he and Martin show for a lady's gown, much to the confusion of the sales clerk, DeLuise.


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