Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday May 12, 1970:
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Program details:
[CBS 7:30] Arthur Godfrey's America: The Ocean Frontier [special]
The ocean - the importance of its increasingly vital though relatively untapped resources, the fascinating scenery on and below its surface, and the behavioral characteristics of its creatures, especially its porpoises - is the subject of this program. Godfrey explores the sea and sea life from the Pacific's surface to the ocean floor and examines the evolutionary history of the porpoise.
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[ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: To Linc - With Love
Season 2, episode 5 W: Carol Sobieski D: George McCowan With Janet MacLachlan (Ann Gibbon), Allan Melvin (Ned Latten), Mia Fullmore (Katie), Fred Pinkard (Leyton), Maudie Prickett (Clerk), Ceil Cabot (Waitress). Linc falls in love but his romance is threatened by a man from the girl's past. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/21/1969)
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[NBC 7:30] To End The War
With Senators George McGovern (D-S.D.), Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.), Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), Frank Church (D-Idaho), Charles Goodell (R-N.Y.). A discussion of the war in Indochina.
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[NBC 8:00] The Debbie Reynolds Show [Reg]: In The Soup
Season 1, episode 3 With Alberto Isaac (Garcia), Craig Huebing (Hayakawa), Bernie Kopell (Announcer), Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. Patterson), William Schallert (Mr. Patterson). Debbie's appearance in a TV commercial jeopardizes her husband's chance for a sports show. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1969)
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[CBS 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: Singing Waiters, Hillbilly Songwriters
Season 19, episode 9 W: Seaman Jacobs With George Gobel, Lou Rawls. Skelton and Gobel portray two singing waiters trying to write a hit a la Irving Berlin, then two hillbilly songwriters; Rawls sings "Cottonfields" and "You're a Good Thing"; Silent Spot showcases Red as a homeowner after the season's first big storm. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/18/1969)
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[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Monk (1969)
W: Tony Barrett, Blake Edwards D: George McCowan With George Maharis, Janet Leigh, Jack Albertson, Carl Betz, Rick Jason, Raymond St. Jacques, William Smithers, Jack Soo, Linda Marsh, Joe Besser. A San Francisco private detective is hired for a treacherous delivery job, which is soon complicated by murder, betrayal and seduction.
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[NBC 8:30] Julia [Reg]: Romeo And Julia
Season 2, episode 9 W: Bob Marcus D: Coby Ruskin With David Garrison (Roger Blanchard), Kathleen Hughes (Mrs. Blanchard), Arthur Adams (Sam Barnes), Vince Howard (Jordan Hayes), Jodie Foster (Cindy Blanchard). Julia has a blind date with a black militant who she believes is prejudiced against white people. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/18/1969)
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[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Lonely Profession (1969)
W: Douglas Heyes D: Douglas Heyes With Harry Guardino, Dean Jagger, Barbara McNair, Joseph Cotten, Ina Balin, Dina Merrill, Jack Carter, Troy Donahue, Stephen McNally, Fernando Lamas. A private investigator becomes a murder suspect and must clear his name.
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[CBS 9:30] The Governor & J.J. [Reg]: State Of Reunion
Season 1, episode 11 W: Barbara Avedon D: Jay Sandrich With Alexis Smith. A girl out of the Governor's forgotten past intrigues the entire Drinkwater household -- and leaves the chief executive bewildered. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/9/1969)
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[CBS 10:00] 60 Minutes
Interview with Attorney General John Mitchell and his wife Martha; Walter Hickel, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, his wife Euralee and their 18 year old son; a report on 500,000 runaway youths in the U.S.
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[ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Let Ernest Come Over
Season 1, episode 11 W: Lionel E. Siegel D: Marc Daniels With James Doohan (Sgt. Brenner), Percy Rodrigues (Ernest Jackson), Georgia Carr (Sophie Jackson). A police lieutenant lies about his occupation to protect his job -- and a possible promotion. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/9/1969)
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