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Thursday May 21, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 21, 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: What's Funny About A Broken Leg? (R) Fifth Dimension Special: An Odyssey in the Cosmic Universe of Peter Max Movie: Pirates Of Tortuga (1961)
ABC Animal World That Girl: I Am A Curious Lemon (R) Bewitched: And Something Makes Four (R) This Is Tom Jones (R) Paris 7000: Elegy For Edward Shelby (R)
NBC Daniel Boone: The Return Of Sidewinder (R) Ironside: Beyond A Shadow (R) Dragnet: Burglary Auto - Courtroom (R) The Dean Martin Show (R)
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[CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: What's Funny About A Broken Leg?
Season 4, episode 7
W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish   D: Charles T. Barton

With Donald Livingston (Henry), Brian Forster (Boy), Jennifer Raine (Mother), Laurie Main (Passenger), Oliver McGowan (Dr. Perry), Richard Bull (Manager), Scott Garrett (Tom), George Ostos (Roberto).
Buffy breaks her leg and misses a night at the circus, but the Davis family and French bring the circus to her.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/6/1969)

[ABC 7:30] Animal World
The story of a ranger patrol and a band of poachers on the Umfolozi Game Reserve in Natal, South Africa

[NBC 7:30] Daniel Boone [Reg]: The Return Of Sidewinder
Season 5, episode 11
W: Melvin Levy   D: Nathan Juran

With Forrest Tucker (Joe Snag), Rex Holman (Davy Rock), Charles Dierkop (Dumas), Charles Picerni (Beetle), Bill Foster (Pottle), Robert Cornthwaite (Sir Ives Wallace), Frederic Downs (Dewey), Joseph V. Perry (Kinch), Jackie Kahane (Doble), Bob Adler (Equerry).
Daniel and a river pirate he has captured are marked for death by a gang of thieves.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/12/1968)

[CBS 8:00] Fifth Dimension Special: An Odyssey in the Cosmic Universe of Peter Max [special]
A musical-variety program which features the 5th Dimension in their first special, using the imaginative backgrounds of graphics artist Peter Max. In addition to guest performers Glen Campbell, Arte Johnson, Joey Heatherton and Flip Wilson, several celebrities will appear in surprise "fly-by" cameos. Musical numbers will be drawn from the group's past hits and recent recordings.

[ABC 8:00] That Girl [Reg]: I Am A Curious Lemon
Season 4, episode 14
W: Alex Barris   D: Russ Mayberry

With Gino Conforti (Nino), Cindy Eilbacher (Caroline), Corinne Conley (Trudy), Susan Quick (Heather), William Christopher (Chippy).
Ann Marie's weekend visitor, Caroline, and the child's little lemon tree make shambles of her dinner party for Don and his old friends, the Dolans.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/25/1969)

[ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: And Something Makes Four
Season 6, episode 5
W: Richard Baer   D: Richard Michaels

With Art Metrano (Ralph Davis), Maurice Evans (Maurice), Bobo Lewis (Delivery Room Nurse), John Hiestand (Mr. Busby), Margueritte Ray (Delivery Room Nurse #2), Kay Elliot (Night Supervisor), Pat Priest (Day Supervisor), Gordon DeVol (Mr. Paikowski), Robert Gros (Mr. Johnson), Stefani Warren (Admissions Nurse), Hilary Thompson.
Samantha is rushed to the hospital by Darrin for the birth of her second child, but Samantha's warlock-father, Maurice, is upset because his grandchild is not "front and center" in the hospital's baby viewing room.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1969)

[NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: Beyond A Shadow
Season 3, episode 12
W: Martha Wilkerson   D: Richard Benedict

With Simon Scott (John Lowell), James McCallion (Harrington), Dana Wynter (Tracy Oliver), Mort Sahl (Len Leavitt), Russ Conway (Howard Wycoff), Harold Ayer (Clemmons), Michael Fox (Dr. Leonard Marcus).
The suicide attempt by a widowed socialite, acquitted of a murder charge, brings a TV news commentator to the hospital to record the sight of a "guilty" woman repenting.

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

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Pirates Of Tortuga (1961)
W: Jesse Lasky Jr., Melvin Levy, Pat Silver   D: Robert D. Webb

With Ken Scott, Letitia Roman, Dave King, John Richardson, Robert Stephens, Rafer Johnson, Stanley Adams.
In the 17th century a privateer vessel sets out to capture the infamous Henry Morgan, who has been spiriting English cargo ships to his hideout on the island of Tortuga, near Jamaica.

[ABC 9:00] This Is Tom Jones [Reg]
Season 2, episode 7

With Connie Stevens, Shecky Greene, Matt Monro, The Moody Blues.
Miss Stevens sings "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" and "Spinning Wheel". The Moody Blues perform "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" and Tom joins them for "It's A Hangup, Baby".

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/6/1969)

[NBC 9:30] Dragnet [Reg]: Burglary Auto - Courtroom
Season 4, episode 9
W: Jack Barrett   D: Jack Webb

With Lew Brown (Bob Simmons), Olan Soule (Judge), Stacy Harris (Dan Mungol), Maudie Prickett (Mrs. Chambers), Dick Whittingill (Dr. Patterson), Don Ross (Don Hale).
Friday and Gannon go to court but their key witness against three burglary suspects is temporarily delayed in making an appearance.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/20/1969)

[ABC 10:00] Paris 7000 [Reg]: Elegy For Edward Shelby
Season 1, episode 8

With Jan Arvan (Waiter), Warren Stevens (Arthur Cameron), Elizabeth Allen (Margaret Shelby), Belinda Montgomery (Francine Shelby).
Jack Brennan gets involved when an apparent suicide triggers a daughter's hatred for her stepmother.

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1970)

[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 8

With Bing Crosby, Eva Gabor, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/6/1969)


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