Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday August 23, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The Road Back (2)
Season 16, episode 15 Without memory of her past, Lassie wanders through San Francisco where she's befriended by a troubled young father. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/11/1970)
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| [ABC 7:00] Land Of The Giants [Reg]: The Marionettes
Season 2, episode 23 W: William Welch D: Sobey Martin With Frank Ferguson (Goalby), Victoria Vetri (Lisa), Robert Hogan (Brady), Sandra Giles (Harem Dancer), Dianne Krabbe (Diane), Bob Baker (Puppet Man), Janos Prohaska (Bobo/Gorilla), Al Lampkin (Fire Eater), Carl Carlsson (Knife Thrower), Martin Liverman (Trainer). When a giant puppeteer saves the lives of Valerie and Betty, Fitzhugh and Betty decide to masquerade as performing puppets in an audition for a circus owner. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1970)
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| [NBC 7:00] NBC Nightly News
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| [CBS 7:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: A Friend For Penny
Season 1, episode 22 With Christine Matchett (Maria), Jean-Michel Michenaud (Nico). Penny finds a new friend in the daughter of a wealthy family who's too busy to notice the child's growing attachment to the Endicotts. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/5/1970)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Willie And The Yank (1)
Season 13, episode 15 W: Harold Swanton D: Michael O'Herlihy With Kurt Russell (Willie), Jack Ging (Lt. Mosby), James MacArthur (Henry). A young, inept Confederate soldier proves his worth when he becomes a scout for Mosby's Raiders. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/8/1967)
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 22, episode 3 With Lee Marvin, Woody Allen, Oliver, Shirley Bassey, Topo Gigio, The Yale Glee Club, Jo Anne Worley. Comedian Woody Allen does a stand-up monologue, pop singer Oliver performs "Jean" and "Where is Love?". Shirley Bassey sings "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" and "This is My Life". Actor Lee Marvin makes his singing debut with "Wandering Star" (from the movie "Paint Your Wagon") accompanied by the Yale Glee Club. Laugh-In's Jo Anne Worley performs a comedy bit and sings a song. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1969)
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Deadfall
Season 5, episode 25 W: Robert Heverly D: Don Medford With Buck Young (S.A.C. Bennett Adams), Robert Drivas (Frank Moonan), Wayne Rogers (Ronnie Brimlow), Paul Picerni (Fred Cochella), Grace Gaynor (Mrs. Florella), Peg Shirley (Madeleine Cerelli), Erin Moran (Vicki Florea), Rick Adams (Arthur Cody), Paul Tod (Surveillance Agent), Zohra Lampert (Mary Cochella), Anne Francis (Shelly Brimlow). Inspector Erskine puts his life on the line when he impersonates the husband of a kidnap victim and allows himself to be taken prisoner by the abductor, a bank robber on the FBI's "most wanted" list. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1970)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: This Mouth Is Rated X
Season 1, episode 25 W: Ed Weinberger, Martin Ragaway D: R. Robert Rosenbaum With Joyce Bulifant (Marsha Patterson), Robert Burton (Bob Nicholson), Bobo Lewis (Mrs. Nicholson), Carol Green (Gail Snyder). Chet is sent scrambling for a solution to an epidemic of bad language which has infected his basketball team. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/29/1970)
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| [CBS 9:00] Comedy Tonight
With Jack E. Leonard, Jacqueline Suzann.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Night Of The Generals (1967)
W: Joseph Kessel, Paul Dehn D: Anatole Litvak With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Charles Gray, Christopher Plummer. Suspense tale of a manhunt against the background of Nazi-occupied Warsaw and Paris, continuing to present-day Nuremberg.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: Danger Road
Season 11, episode 15 W: Milton Gelman D: William F. Claxton With Stuart Nisbet (Storekeeper), William Sylvester (Mr. Cambeau), Ollie O'Toole (Bartender), Jay D. Jones (Willard), Leroy Johnson (Ed), Robert Lansing (Gunny O'Riley), Anna Navarro (Serafina O'Riley). Ben, still having bitter feelings, faces a difficult decision when he needs the services of a man he recognizes as a wartime deserter. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/11/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Phantoms
Season 4, episode 19 W: Laurence Heath D: Marvin Chomsky With Ivor Barry (Edmund Moore), Ralph Leabow (Jan Golni), Ben Astar (Deputy Premier Barzin), Michael Baseleon (Georgi Kull), Jeff Pomerantz (Stefan Zara), Antoinette Bower (Nora Bennett), Luther Adler (Leo Vorka), Gregory Sierra (Gomal). The IMF devises a plan to induce hallucinations in a ruthless premier who's carrying out a purge of his country's young artists. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1970)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Lawyers [Reg]: The Shattered Image
Season 1, episode 8 With Will Geer (Ralph Turner), Audrey Totter (Edith Powell), Ford Rainey (D.A. Douglas), Karen Ericson (Nina Hollister), Allan Lurie (Mel Gale), Tod Andrews (Ted Hollister), Duane Gray (Judge). Attorney Walter Nichols is framed on a jury-tampering charge and, after acting as his own defense lawyer, must call on partner Neil Darrell in a last-ditch attempt to beat the charge. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/15/1970)
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