Monday August 31, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 31, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: Hackett (R) The Lucy Show: Lucy And John Wayne (R) Mayberry R.F.D.: The Farmer Exchange Project (R) The Doris Day Show: Singles Only (R) The Wild Wild West: The Night Of The Underground Terror (R)
ABC It Takes A Thief: An Evening With Alistair Mundy (R) Movie: The 2nd Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World (1965) Now: Unions And The Blacks
NBC Reply To The President Movie: The Hallelujah Trail (1965)


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Program details:



[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Hackett
Season 15, episode 25
W: William Kelley   D: Vincent McEveety

With Ken Swofford (Alvin Bronk), Robert Totten (Phelps Tully), Bill Erwin (Businessman), Woodrow Chambliss (Lathrop), Morgan Woodward (Quentin Sargent), Earl Holliman (Hackett), Allen Jung (Chinese Proprietor), Jennifer West (Geneva Sargent). A vengeful ex-convict seeks reprisal against his former partner-in-crime, now a poor dirt farmer.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/16/1970)

[ABC 7:30] It Takes A Thief [Reg]: An Evening With Alistair Mundy
Season 3, episode 22
W: Glen A. Larson   D: Jack Arnold

With Edward Binns (Wally), Francesco Mule (Funello), Gavin MacLeod (General Contell), Richard Angarola (King Armand), Logan Ramsey (Krebbs), Cindy Eilbacher (Princess Carlotta), Lynn Kellogg (Gabriella), Carl Carlsson (Poppy), Bruce Morgan (Rollo), George Perina (Chief Guard), Fred Astaire (Alistair Mundy). Alistair Mundy recruits his son Alexander to join him in a plan to help a king save his country -- and daughter -- from a scheming general.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/9/1970)

[NBC 7:30] Reply To The President A discussion of the Indochina war issue by Senators J.W. Fulbright (D-Ark.) and George McGovern (D-S.D.). Fulbright is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and McGovern is co-author of the McGovern-Hatfield amendment, which would phase out the Indochina war through limitations on military funding.

[NBC 8:00] Movie: The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
W: John Gay   D: John Sturges

With Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasance, Brian Keith, Martin Landau. Comedy-adventure of an Army officer charged with protecting a liquor shipment from Indians and a crusading, temperance-minded woman in post-Civil War Colorado.

[CBS 8:30] The Lucy Show [Reg]: Lucy And John Wayne
Season 5, episode 10
W: Bob O'Brien   D: Maury Thompson

With John Wayne (Himself), Joseph Ruskin (Director), Morgan Woodward (Pierce), Bryan O'Byrne (Assistant Director), Kay Stewart (Waitress), Joyce Perry (Joyce), Milton Berle (Himself). Invited to watch the filming of a movie, Lucy causes so many production headaches that guest star John Wayne doesn't know whether to shoot the picture or Lucy.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/21/1966)

[ABC 8:30] Movie: The 2nd Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World (1965)
W: Howard Griffiths, Lindsay Shonteff   D: Lindsay Shonteff

With Tom Adams, Karel Stepanek, Veronica Hurst, Peter Bull, John Arnatt. A British agent -- who tries harder because he's number two -- fights and loves on a mission to protect a Swedish scientist from the Reds.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The Farmer Exchange Project
Season 2, episode 7
W: Paul West, Dennis Whitcomb   D: Christian Nyby

With Linda Meiklejohn (Hilda), Pitt Herbert (Clerk), Dorothy Konrad (Flora), Charlene Polite (Tanya). Sam is all set to play host to a visiting Russian farm expert -- then the expert turns out to be a woman.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1969)

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Singles Only
Season 2, episode 9
W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder   D: William Wiard

With Sid Melton (Lou Lester), Ed Fury (Chet), Michael Lerner (Fat Man), Joseph V. Perry (Harry Dumbrowski), Alice Backes (Agnes Albright), Joe Ross (Virgil Praskins). Myrna's disappointment after renting an apartment in a "swinging singles" building entangles Doris in a lease-breaking plot.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1969)

[CBS 10:00] The Wild Wild West [Reg]: The Night Of The Underground Terror
Season 3, episode 19
W: Max Hodge   D: James Clark

With Dick Cangey (Carter), Whitey Hughes (Steinlen), Jerry Laveroni (Quist), Red West (Maberly), Douglas Henderson (Colonel Richmond), Kenya Coburn (Madame Pompadour), Nehemiah Persoff (Major Hazard), Sabrina Scharf (China Hazard), Jeff Corey (Tacitus Mosely), Louise Lawson (Slave Girl), Terry Leonard (Cope), Gregg Martell (Cajun). West and Gordon hunt the former commandant of a Civil War prison camp to arrest him for atrocities -- and to protect him from revenge-seeking veterans.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/19/1968)

[ABC 10:30] Now: Unions And The Blacks ABC News examines the relationship between the nation's largest and most important unions and the country's black population. Among the issues studied are local vs. federal enforcement of an equitable work-force integration and how the black community and rank-and-file members of the unions feel about the present state of affairs. William H. Lawrence reports.

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