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Thursday August 27, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 27, 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: The Boys Against The Girls (R) Happy Days: Comedy & Music Of The 1930's & '40s Movie: The Visit (1964)
ABC Animal World: Killer Sharks That Girl: Ugh, Wilderness (2) (R) Bewitched: Serena Stops The Show (R) This Is Tom Jones (R) College Football 1970
NBC Daniel Boone: Mama Cooper (R) Ironside: Little Jerry Jessup (R) Dragnet: Forgery - The Ranger (R) Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers
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[CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: The Boys Against The Girls
Season 4, episode 22
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs   D: Charles T. Barton

With Miguel Monsalve (Carlos), Francine York (Sherry), Scott Garrett (Tom), Sean Kelly (Randy).
Because the new captain of the Tigers' stickball team is a woman hater, Buffy is fired from the squad.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/26/1970)

[ABC 7:30] Animal World: Killer Sharks
The crew of the Geronimo, a specially-equipped research vessel operated by Marineland, go in search of a killer shark.

[NBC 7:30] Daniel Boone [Reg]: Mama Cooper
Season 6, episode 16
W: Lionel E. Siegel   D: William Wiard

With Ethel Waters (Rachel), Tyler McVey (Preacher Potter), Jean Howell (Norma Del Carruther), Michael-James Wixted (Emmanuel), Sidney Clute (Otto Schmidt), Sue Hirdler (Mrs. Schmidt), Timothy Carey (Wibberly), Louise Arthur (Mrs. Pritchard), Roy Engel (Dr. Ramsey), William Conklin (Mecom), Sam Laws (Cuffee), Jordan Rhodes (Teddy).
Gabe Cooper learns that his mama, whom he hasn't seen since he was 12, might be alive in Virginia, which is still slave country. He sets out to find her and bring her to Boonesborough. Boone accompanies him, knowing that as a runaway slave Gabe might encounter trouble.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/5/1970)

[CBS 8:00] Happy Days: Comedy & Music Of The 1930's & '40s
Season 1, episode 10

With Buddy Rich.
Rich plays the drums, dances and does comedy. Musical numbers include "C-Jam Blues" and "Airmail Special". Louis Nye, Bob & Ray and Chuck McCann star.

[ABC 8:00] That Girl [Reg]: Ugh, Wilderness (2)
Season 4, episode 19
W: Joseph Bonaduce   D: John Rich

With Russell Johnson (Jon), Hal Baylor (Cop #1), Douglas Mitchell (Cop #2), Bruce Lorange (Bellhop).
Ann Marie's worst fears are realized when the small plane in which she and Don are passengers makes a forced landing in heavy fog.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/5/1970)

[ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Serena Stops The Show
Season 6, episode 22
W: Richard Baer   D: Richard Michaels

With Art Metrano (Chick), Elizabeth Montgomery (Serena), Tommy Boyce (Himself), Bobby Hart (Himself), Judy Strangis (Sandra), Cindy Malone (Lee Anne), Jeff Burton (Doorman).
Samantha's cousin Serena makes her debut as a singer and dancer. She wants the Boyce and Hart singing duo for the witches' annual Cosmic Cotillion, and insists they use a song she has written. When they won't cooperate, she takes their popularity away. In turn, the boys' angry client threatens to take his advertising business away from Darrin.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/19/1970)

[NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: Little Jerry Jessup
Season 3, episode 22
W: Sy Salkowitz   D: Don Weis

With Michael Bell (Al Carter), Rita Conde (Mrs. Mendares), Kenneth Tobey (Lt. Reynolds), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Mendares), William Shatner (Marty Jessup), Mitch Vogel (Jerry Jessup), Nancy Malone (Lydia Jessup), Byron Bradley (Officer Bolton).
Ironside has the distasteful task of informing a convicted burglar that his wife has been slain by an intruder in their home.

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

[CBS 9:00] Movie: The Visit (1964)
W: Ben Barzman   D: Bernhard Wicki

With Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Valentina Cortese, Claude Dauphin, Eduardo Cianelli.
The richest woman in the world returns to her home town after a 20-year absence to settle a score with her former sweetheart.

[ABC 9:00] This Is Tom Jones [Reg]
Season 2, episode 6

With Barbara Eden, Wilson Pickett, Hendra and Ullett.
Miss Eden sings "As Long as He Needs Me". Pickett sings "Born to Be Wild". Hendra and Ullett do a comedy bit about the United Nations and, with Tom, perform "Tea for Two Cha Cha Cha".

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1969)

[NBC 9:30] Dragnet [Reg]: Forgery - The Ranger
Season 4, episode 21
W: Don Kilburn   D: Jack Webb

With Stacy Harris (Clifford Ray Owens / Barney Regal), Judith McConnell (Karen Fields).
Friday and Gannon question a man who claims to be a forest ranger but is a suspect in a con game.

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

[ABC 10:00] College Football 1970: The Year Of The Quarterback
The special focuses on the great quarterbacks who will be playing college football this season, featuring clips and interviews with Archie Manning of Mississippi, Jim Plunkett of Stanford, Rex Kern of Ohio State and Joe Theismann of Notre Dame.

[NBC 10:00] Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers [Reg]
Marty Feldman and Charles Nelson Reilly spoof medicine and newspaper interviews; Golddiggers sing "Anything Goes" and "Applause".


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