Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 22, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The Jackie Gleason Show [Reg]
The Kramdens and Nortons stop off in Africa on the last leg of their round-the-world tour. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] NBC Comedy Playhouse: Simon Says Get Married
With Joanna Barnes (Programmer), Bob Newhart (Scientist), Dorothy Provine (Waitress), Martin Milner (Writer). An electronic computer named Simon, usually infallible in its matchmaking, has a breakdown when it has the task of playing Cupid for its programmer. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Table For Eight
Season 10, episode 14 W: Bob Touchstone D: Fred De Cordova With Eleanor Audley (Mrs. Vincent), John Gallaudet (Bob Anderson), David Brandon (Joe Gutherie), Jean Cook (Sylvia Anderson), Allan Gruener (Peter Price), Shela Moor (Patricia Price), Mary Ann Gibson (Margaret Gutherie). Barbara gets her severest test as a hostess when a dinner party for Steve and his colleagues is called off because of business, and then reactivated. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]
Officers Malloy and Reed answer an armed robbery call at a church rectory and discover the prime suspect is one of their chief informants. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] Green Acres [Reg]: Bundle Of Joy
Season 5, episode 17 W: Jay Sommers, Dick Chevillat D: Richard L. Bare With Herb Voland (Judd Carling), Bartlett Robinson (Ma Robinson), Sid Grossfeld (Mr. Sternweiss), Patience Cleveland (Janet Glassworth), Mary Alice Fox (Susie). An abandoned puppy is left on the Douglas doorstep while Oliver is away in New York. In the confusion of a phone call from Lisa right in the middle of a legal conference, Oliver thinks the foundling is a baby. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1970)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: By Love Possessed (1961)
W: Charles Schnee D: John Sturges With Lana Turner, Jason Robards, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Barbara Bel Geddes, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane, Yvonne Craig, Gilbert Green, Frank Maxwell, Carroll O'Connor, Susan Kohner, Jean Willes. After his wife accuses him of being incapable of love, a prominent lawyer begins a torrid affair with the alcoholic spouse of his sexually disabled business partner. He also struggles in his attempts to persuade his wayward son to become a lawyer like him -- even though his own career has brought him neither fulfillment nor emotional stability.
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| [CBS 9:30] Exhibition Football
The powerful Minnesota Vikings, last season's NFL champions, take on the Houston Oilers at the Astrodome. Minnesota relies on a crushing rushing game and Joe Kapp's explosive passing. Houston is normally defensive-minded, but is looking at rookie running backs in preseason play. Jack Buck and Pat Summerall report.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
Season 1, episode 14 With Jonathan Winters, Dusty Springfield, Buddy Greco. Featured production number is a nostalgic look at those brassy musicals Hollywood used to make. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/22/1970)
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