Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 6, 1970:
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Program details:
[CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The Road Back (3)
Season 16, episode 16 With Lisa Lu, Davana Brown, Rob Hughes. Lassie's efforts to discover her own identity bring renewed hope to a lonely young girl and lead the valiant canine into a harrowing race for survival. Filmed on location in San Francisco. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/18/1970)
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[ABC 7:00] Land Of The Giants [Reg]: Comeback
Season 2, episode 10 W: Richard Shapiro D: Harry Harris With Jesse White (Manfred), Fritz Feld (Quigg), James Jeter (Studio Gateman), Janos Prohaska (Baby the Gorilla), Olan Soule (Cameraman), John Carradine (Egor Crull). A giant has-been actor traps the earthlings and plans to use them to insure his comeback in a horror movie which could mean their deaths. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/23/1969)
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[NBC 7:00] NBC Nightly News
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[CBS 7:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: My Daughter Penny
Season 1, episode 17 W: Blanche Hanalis D: Charles Barton With Tim Weldon (Antonio), Bobby Riha (David Warren), Jean-Michel Michenaud (Nico). When Penny gets a crush on an Italian boy and decides to give up her tomboy ways, her father decides to "encourage" her femininity by arranging for one of his students to ask her for a date. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1970)
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[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Willie And The Yank (3)
Season 13, episode 17 With Kurt Russell (Willie), James MacArthur (Henry Jenkins), Peggy Lipton (Oralee). Willie arranges a wedding of his sister to his best friend, a Yankee soldier. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/22/1967)
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[CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 22, episode 5 With Liza Minnelli, David Hemmings, Henry Mancini, Judy Carne, Trio Hoganas. Santana performs "Persuasion" and "Jingo"; Liza Minnelli sings "Come Saturday Morning" as scenes from her movie "The Sterile Cuckoo" ar shown. Actor David Hemmings reads from "Romeo and Juliet," while Henry Mancini leads the orchestra with "A Time for Us". Mancini also does the themes from "Peter Gunn" and "Romeo and Juliet". Mason Williams does "Cowboy Buckaroo" and plays the guitar. Judy Carne from Laugh-In sings "American Moon" ("There's an American Flag on the Moon Tonight"). (Repeat program, originally aired 10/26/1969)
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[ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Scapegoat
Season 5, episode 11 W: Robert Heverly, Edward J. Lakso D: Don Medford With Noah Keen (S.R.A. Arnold Kaplan), Arthur Franz (Carl Stokely), Harrison Ford (Everett Giles), Brooke Mills (Karen Blakely), Bob Okazaki (Gardener), Lincoln Demyan (Captain Thomas), Lew Elias (Lester Watson), Harlan Warde (Warden), Joe Stefano (Guard), Michael Burns (Harley Garnett), Nan Martin (Eleanor Garnett), Brenda Vaccaro (Jerri Coates). In a probe into the death of a girl on a government reservation, Inspector Erskine finds evidence linking the case to another in which a man was sentenced to prison. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/23/1969)
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[NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: The Return of Big, Bad, Bubba Bronson
Season 1, episode 24 W: Rick Mittleman D: Bill Cosby With Lou Gossett Jr. (Hurricane Smith), Don Pedro Colley (Big Bronson), Lloyd Kino (Postman), Benny Baker (Mr. Apollo). Chet Kincaid fears physical injury when an old high school enemy writes he's going to visit Chet. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/22/1970)
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[CBS 9:00] Football: More Than A Game [special]
CBS presents a portrait of some of the men who make football infinitely "more than a game". Omitting statistics and strategy, the special focuses on Joe Kapp, quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings; Dick Butkus, defensive stalwart of the Chicago Bears; Lou Saban, coach of the Denver Broncos, and Willie Davis, retired Green Bay Packers star. Steve Ailes narrates and provides commentary.
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[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: House On Greenapple Road (1970)
W: George Eckstein D: Robert Day With Janet Leigh, Julie Harris, Tim O'Connor, Walter Pidgeon, Barry Sullivan, Keenan Wynn, Christopher George. A police lieutenant delves into a case of suspected murder only to find the mystery deepening when a body is discovered.
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[NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Trouble With Amy
Season 11, episode 17 W: Jack Miller, John Hawkins D: Leon Benson With Harry Hickox (Mr. Eads), Jo Van Fleet (Amy Wilder), Donald Moffat (Judge), John Crawford (Barton Roberts), Linda Watkins (Margaret Wilder), Brian Wood (Fareiti), Elaine Giftos (Charley), Carl Pitti (David), Harriet Medin (Mrs. Ocher), Eleanor Berry (Mrs. Eads), Gail Billings (Mary Ann), Elizabeth Thompson (Sally). Elderly Amy Wilder, widowed old friend of Ben Cartwright, refuses to abide by local ordinances and is involved in a long-standing legal battle with developer Barton Roberts. Amy's situation becomes a major concern to Ben when she's charged with attempted murder. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1970)
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[CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Crane
Season 4, episode 23 W: Ken Pettus D: Paul Krasny With Carl Betz (General Yuri Kozani), Felice Orlandi (Colonel Strabo), Don Eitner (Rafik), Eric Mason (Constantine), George Fisher (Lieutenant), Ralph Ventura (Clay). After rescuing a prisoner from execution, the IMF moves to create dissention between a dictator and his security chief. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1970)
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[NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Protectors [Reg]: Memo From the Class Of '76
Season 1, episode 6 W: Ben Masselink D: Daryl Duke With Billy Gray (Morgan Vontz), Norma Crane (Mrs. Austin), Peter Hooten (Clancy Austin). A high school narcotics arrest turns into a desperate search for dangerously contaminated drugs and a girl who has used them. (Last show of the Protectors portion of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1970)
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