Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday August 2, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: Warm Heart -- Cold Nose
Season 16, episode 21 With Ford Rainey (Clint Fraser), Ann Doran (Edie), Bing Russell (Ed). Lassie and Ginger, a seeing eye dog, protect and guide blind Clint Fraser through the forest in search of help for his injured wife, left alone at the Fraser cabin. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1970)
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| [ABC 7:00] Land Of The Giants [Reg]: Chamber Of Fear
Season 2, episode 9 W: Arthur Weiss D: Sobey Martin With Cliff Osmond (Jolo), Christopher Cary (Deenar), Joan Freeman (Mara), Robert Tiedemann (The Monk). Steve takes advantage of a greedy squabble between two giant thieves and makes a deal to free a captive Fitzhugh. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/16/1969)
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| [NBC 7:00] NBC Nightly News
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| [CBS 7:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: Beautiful People
Season 1, episode 18 W: John McGreevey D: Charles Barton With Nina Foch (Diana Masterson), Heather Menzies (Andrea), Carl Esmond (Kurt). Mike Endicott becomes the target of a wealthy woman who wants to lure him into the jet-set. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1970)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Menace On The Mountain (1)
Season 16, episode 18 W: Robert Heverly D: Vincent McEveety With Mitch Vogel (Jamie McIver), Pat Crowley (Leah McIver), Charles Aidman (Jed McIver), Albert Salmi (Poss Timberlake), Eric Shea (Mark McIver), Jodie Foster (Suellen McIver), Richard Anderson (Major Galt), Dub Taylor (Cicero Everhart). First of a two-part Civil War adventure about a young boy's bitter struggle to prove his manhood and save his family home and property. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1970)
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 22, episode 11 With The 5th Dimension, Imogene Coca, Richard Tucker, Ferrante & Teicher, Ballet America, Ron Carey. The 5th Dimension sing "Wedding Bell Blues" and a medley of "People Got to Be Free" and "The Declaration" (aka "The Declaration of Independence"), then sing Happy Birthday to Rudolph Friml, the oldest member of ASCAP). Ferrante & Teicher on the piano perform the theme from "Midnight Cowboy". Imogene Coca, in a comedy skit, plays a shopper who is forced into hippie garb by an aggressive saleswoman. In his stand-up routine, comedian Ron Carey talks about a Catholic football team. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/7/1969)
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Boomerang
Season 5, episode 4 W: Robert Heverly D: Gene Nelson With Mark Roberts (S.A.C. Murray Davis), John Beck (Harvey Windsor), Marion Thompson (Marjorie Shelton), Solomon Sturges (Bobby Fleming), Marcella Martin (Ruth Collier), Karen Carlson (Decoy), Ed Long (Truck driver), Carl Betz (Gar Shelton), Brooke Bundy (Melinda Collier), Jeff Bridges (Terry Shelton), Nancy Wickwire (Eve Shelton). A oilman's son's scheme to extort $200,000 from his father by faking his own kidnapping turns into a dangerous hoax when his companions decide to take the mony and, in the process, must take the father captive. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1969)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: Rules Is Rules
Season 1, episode 5 W: John Lamonte D: Jay Sandrich With Joyce Bulifant (Marsha Patterson), Fran Ryan (Mrs. Beal), Len Lesser (Supervisor), Johnnie Collins III (Student), Jimmy Witherspoon (Janitor), Marguerite Ray (Nurse). Chet Kincaid raises his standard -- and quite a few eyebrows -- when he fights the battle of red tape to obtain a single basketball valve needle. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1969)
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| [CBS 9:00] Comedy Tonight
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Seconds (1966)
W: Lewis John Carlino D: John Frankenheimer With Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Richard Anderson, Karl Swenson, Jeff Corey, Murray Hamilton. Trapped in a life of commuter trains and stale predictability, a respected banker contracts with a unique organization to arrange his "death" and provide him with a new physical image and an established identity.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: A Matter Of Circumstance
Season 11, episode 28 W: B.W. Sandefur D: William F. Claxton With Ted Gehring (Griffin), Vincent Van Patten (Tim), Harry Holcombe (Doctor). Lilttle Joe is seriously injured on the deserted Ponderosa and, facing the possible onset of gangrene, prepares for the only step that may save his life. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/19/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Orpheus
Season 4, episode 22 W: Paul Playdon D: Gerald Mayer With Albert Paulsen (Eric Bergman), Bart La Rue (Lt. Reikman), Jessica Walter (Valerie), Bruce Glover (Major Deiter), Booth Colman (Werner Stravos), Gene Benton (Dr. Mannerheim), Allen Joseph (Dr. Tratzmer), Karl Bruck (Defense Minister). Jim Phelps poses as a drug addict in a risky plan to get behind the Iron Curtain and stop an unknown assassin from killing an unknown victim. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1970)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Lawyers [Reg]: Point Of Honor
Season 1, episode 7 With Veronica Cartwright (Mary Gaffney), Roger Davis (Randy Burroughs), Paul Stevens (D.A. Phillips), Maria Grimm (Sherma Willens), Grace Lee Whitney (Blonde), Andy Romano (Sgt. Briggs), Herbert Nelson (Judge), Charles Wagenheim (Hotel Clerk), Austin Willis (Hanley). Brian Darrell refuses to act as a defense attorney for a young millionaire he suspects is guilty and becomes a target for an unknown sniper. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1970)
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