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Saturday May 16, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 16, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Jackie Gleason Show (R) My Three Sons: The Littlest Rebel (R) Green Acres: The Picnic (R) Petticoat Junction: The Tenant (R) Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant
ABC Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: Those Incredible Diving Machines (R) The Lawrence Welk Show Jimmy Durante Presents The Lennon Sisters (R)  
NBC The Andy Williams Show (R) Adam-12: Log 14 -- S.W.A.T. (R) Movie: The Stooge (1951)
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[CBS 7:30] The Jackie Gleason Show [Reg]
The prospect of a $200 cash prize lures the Kramdens and Nortons into show business. They all turn up at the local theater on amateur night.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 7:30] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: Those Incredible Diving Machines
Cousteau traces man's earliest attempts to dive -- a glass barrel in 1 B.C. during Alexander the Great's reign -- to today's sophisticated machines.

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/10/1970)

[NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 20
W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye

With Andy Griffith, Claudine Longet, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.
Williams sings "Because" and "Canadian Sunset". Miss Longet sings songs from her album, "Run Wild, Run Free".

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1970)

[CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The Littlest Rebel
Season 10, episode 5
W: George Tibbles   D: Fred De Cordova

With Eleanor Audley (Mrs. Vincent), Naomi Stevens (Mama Rossini), Aladdin (Cesare), Randy Whipple (First Boy), Billy McMickle (Second Boy).
Barbara employs diplomacy in an effort to gain acceptance by Steve's all-male family, only to find that it's her own small daughter who is against her forthcoming marriage.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1969)

[ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show

[NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 14 -- S.W.A.T.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Michael Donovan   D: Alan Crosland Jr.

With Dick Geary (Benson), Adam Wade (Ron Thompson), Lew Brown (Sgt. Baron), Alma Platt (Katy Anderson), Thomas Bellin (John Kursko).
Malloy and Reed are joined by other specially trained officers in order to capture a sniper lodged atop a theater building.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1970)

[CBS 9:00] Green Acres [Reg]: The Picnic
Season 5, episode 22
W: Jay Sommers, Dick Chevillat   D: Richard L. Bare

With Merie Earle (Old Lady), Larry D. Mann (Mr. Wheeler), Mona Bruns (Mrs. Wheeler), Maggie Peterson (Linda), Jane Connell (Clara Burton), Pat Cranshaw (Grandpa).
Oliver and Lisa attempt to go on a secluded picnic but Mr. Haney tags along with ideas on setting up picnics.

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1970)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: The Stooge (1951)
W: Fred Finklehoffe, Martin Rackin   D: Norman Taurog

With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen, Eddie Mayehoff, Marion Marshall, Richard Erdman, Frances Bavier.
A Broadway song-and-dance man marries a singer and then announces that he is breaking up a successful act with his partner to do a single.

[CBS 9:30] Petticoat Junction [Reg]: The Tenant
Season 7, episode 7
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Leslie Parrish (Jackie), Frank Aletter (Arthur Lewis).
Betty Joe and her two sisters create a musical disturbance that drives Steve's casual acquaintance out of the Shady Rest Hotel and into the Elliott homeymoon cottage.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1969)

[ABC 9:30] Jimmy Durante Presents The Lennon Sisters [Reg]
Season 1, episode 14
W: Hugh Wedlock, Bill Box, Don Reo, Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris   D: Bill Davis

With Raymond Burr, Al Martino, Eddie Jackson, Sonny King.
Washington, D.C. is featured in the city segment. (Last show of the series.)

(Repeat program)

[CBS 10:00] Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant [special]
The finals, hosted by June Lockhart and Bob Barker from Miami Beach. Ricky Nelson guests.


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