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Monday May 18, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 18, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: Gunfighter, R.I.P. (R) Here's Lucy: Lucy And Ann-Margret (R) Mayberry R.F.D.: Palm Springs Cowboy (4) (R) The Doris Day Show: Today's World Catches The Measles (R) The Carol Burnett Show (R)
ABC It Takes A Thief: Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars? (R) Movie: Pit And The Pendulum (1961) Now: Missing In Randolph
NBC My World And Welcome To It: A Friend Of The Earth (R) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #63 (R) Movie: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1966)
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[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Gunfighter, R.I.P.
Season 12, episode 6
D: Mark Rydell

With Darren McGavin (Joe Bascome), H.T. Tsiang (Ching Fa), Michael Conrad (Paul Douglas), Stefan Gierasch (Mark Douglas), Allen Emerson (Burt), Don Hanmer (Barber), France Nuyen (Ching Lee).
While recovering from wounds, Matt Dillon becomes a target for a hired killer.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1966)

[ABC 7:30] It Takes A Thief [Reg]: Who'll Bid Two Million Dollars?
Season 3, episode 1
W: Robert I. Holt   D: Jeannot Szwarc

With Edward Binns (Wally), Paola Pitagora (Janet Martin), Peter Sellers (Harbor Master), Jacques Herlin (The Frenchman), Nicoletta Machiavelli (Varina), Nike Arrighi (The Duchess), Kalam Shamsuddin (Indrahan), Callisto Callisti (Police Lieutenant).
Alexander Mundy becomes an expendable agent -- especially to the competition -- when he's assigned to obtain a fortune in plutonium.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1969)

[NBC 7:30] My World And Welcome To It [Reg]: A Friend Of The Earth
Season 1, episode 10
W: Paul Wayne   D: Hal Cooper

With Arthur Hunnicutt (Zeph Leggin), Larry Storch (Paul Morton).
John Monroe finds a country humorist too much competition when his wife and daughter laugh at the man's jokes.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1969)

[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #63
Season 3, episode 23
W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Coslough Johnson, Jeremy Lloyd, et al   D: Mark Warren

With Tiny Tim, Carol Channing, Sheldon Leonard, Ringo Starr, Maureen Starr, Wally Cox, Art Metrano.
Beatle Ringo Starr appears in a rash of comedy skits. Highlights: the little old man (Arte Johnson) sets out to buy a ring for his marriage to Gladys (Ruth Buzzi); an airline hijacker (Henry Gibson) takes a plane already over Cuba; the Pentagon earns the Fickle Finger of Fate Award for the third time.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1970)

[CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Ann-Margret
Season 2, episode 20
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer   D: Herbert Kenwith

With John O'Neill (Walter), Ann-Margret (Herself).
Craig is discouraged about getting his song published until guest star Ann-Margret decides to introduce the song on a television special.

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

[ABC 8:30] Movie: Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
W: Richard Matheson   D: Roger Corman

With John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Laura Anders, Vincent Price, Antony Carbone.
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Palm Springs Cowboy (4)
Season 2, episode 13
W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant   D: Christian Nyby

With Billy McLean (Shorty), Jeanne Bates (Jennie), Arthur Space (Walter Michaels), Dick Foran (King Beaumont).
A one-time cowboy star tries to hit the comeback trail guided by the sure hand of Howard.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/29/1969)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1966)
W: Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee, Larry Gelbart   D: Richard Lester

With Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford, Roy Kinnear, Frank Thornton, Michael Crawford, Annette Andre.
Musical comedy of a conniving slave in ancient Rome who plans to get his freedom by finding a sweetheart for his master's son.

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Today's World Catches The Measles
Season 2, episode 16
W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul   D: Fred De Cordova

With Edward Andrews (Colonel Fairburn), Walter Sande (Dr. Wagner), Issa Arnal (Helen), Joe Hoover (Jack).
Doris invites Ron Harvey and Mr. Nicholson for a relaxing weekend on the farm and all end up quarantined because of measles.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1970)

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 10

With Martha Raye, Tim Conway.
A salute to 20th Century Fox, highlighted by musical spoofs of Shirley Temple movies and such films as "Fantastic Voyage" and "Doctor Doolittle". Miss Raye solos "Is That All There Is?"

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1969)

[ABC 10:30] Now: Missing In Randolph
ABC News studies what the loss of one man in Vietnam can mean to his community, relatives and friends. The program focuses on how the death of Bill Hillard, 21, affected the farming town of Randolph, N.Y.


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