Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 5, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The Jackie Gleason Show [Reg]: The Main Event
Season 2, episode 13 W: Marvin Marx, Rod Parker, Walter Stone D: Frank Bunetta With Peter Palmer, George Petrie, Johnny Morgan, Dick Lynn. Kramden and Norton take a fledgling boxer under their wing and try to turn him into a heavyweight champion. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/2/1967)
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] NBC Comedy Playhouse: Holloway's Daughters
With Robert Young, David Wayne, Barbara Hershey, Brooke Bundy. The head of a detective agency gets a helping hand from his father and his teenage daughters in cracking a jewel theft case.
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| [ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Dodie's Tonsils
Season 10, episode 16 W: Douglas Tibbles D: Fred De Cordova With Roy Roberts (Dr. Roy Conlin), Jane Dulo (Welcome Lady). It's one of those times for the Douglases: Dodie has her tonsils out, Steve sprains an ankle, and the triplets are hospitalized while mom and dad are vacationing in Mexico. Dr. Conlin performs heroic service. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 134 -- Child Stealer
Season 2, episode 23 W: James Doherty D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Gloria Manon (Mrs. Bannister), Squire Fridell (Floyd Bannister), Burt Mustin (Mr. Ward), Woodrow Parfrey (John Marshall), Rand Brooks (Bus Driver), Quintin Sondergaard (Tom Oaks). Officers Malloy and Reed investigate an alleged kidnapping, track down an escaped convict and capture a pair of truck hijackers. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/4/1970)
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| [CBS 9:00] Green Acres [Reg]: The Beeping Rock
Season 5, episode 23 W: Jay Sommers, Dick Chevillat D: Richard L. Bare With Frank Ferguson (Doc Stuart), Jerome Cowan (Wilson), Johnny Whitaker (Dinky Watson), Arthur Peterson (Dr. Stoddard). The Douglas farm succumbs to a bit of lunar madness when a child genius shows up to claim he's just arrived from the moon. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/21/1970)
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| [NBC 9:00] Exhibition Football: Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys
The Kansas City Chiefs, finding the preseason schedule a bit rugged, face the Dallas Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl. The Chiefs are big and fast and have a good passing game. Dallas, accused in the past of not winning the big ones, is trying to improve its pass defense. Calvin Hill makes the Cowboy running game exciting. Jim Simpson and Al DeRogatis report.
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| [CBS 9:30] Petticoat Junction [Reg]: Last Train To Pixley
Season 7, episode 23 W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway D: Elliott Lewis With Sarah Selby (Mrs. Frisby), Elna Hubbell (Kathy Jo), Parley Baer (Mr. Bellingham), Bob Jellison (Ben Miller), Percy Helton (Mr. Benton), Rufe Davis (Floyd Smoot), June Lockhart Jr. (Girl). Right after Uncle Joe takes over the Hooterville Cannonball and puts the train on a split-second schedule, he learns a railway executive is planning on junking the run and writing the whole operation off as a tax loss. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1970)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
Season 1, episode 1 With Tony Bennett, Leslie Uggams, Donald O'Connor. The British singer debuts in a musical-variety series, produced in London. O'Connor and Engelbert do a skit based on "Come Fly With Me" and try to top each other in remembering movie stars of yesterday. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/21/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]
Joe Mannix takes on the almost hopeless task of proving the innocence of a man identified by witnesses as having shot a pharmacist during an attempted holdup. (Repeat program)
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