Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 17, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: The Good Neighbors
Season 5, episode 1 W: John McGreevey D: Charles T. Barton With David Brandon (Mr. Alcott), Cynthia Niles (Alicia), Susan Crane (Mrs. Alcott), Gene Benton (Mr. Sanderson), Irene Hervey (Mrs. Eldridge), Lou Krugman (Mr. Tobin), Olan Soule (Mr. Maxwell). Buffy is shocked at the lack of friendliness between the tenants in their apartment building after she and Jody watch how they behave toward each other in the elevator as the fifth season begins.
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| [ABC 7:30] Animal World: Our Vanishing Wildlife
Film footage and depressing statistics on animals being jeopardized by man on land, sea and air are documented. The threatened species are the whale, sea otter, leopard, cheetah, oryx and the California condor. If the current rate of killing goes on, in about 30 years it is feared that all of the 4,062 species of mammals still on earth will disappear entirely.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 With David Frost, James Brown, Big Bird and Oscar (of the Sesame Street muppets), Sunday's Child. Comedy-variety series built around the talents of comic Wilson. In his premiere show, Frost does a take-off on his own show when he interviews "Geraldine Jones". Wilson and Frost are in another skit in which a passenger books a flight on the basis of the movie being shown. Wilson and Big Bird perform in a musical number . Brown sings "It's a New Day" and "September Song". Sunday's Child sing "Wichita Lineman".
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| [CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 1 With The Jackson 5. The Jackson 5 do a musical production number called "Gospel, Now" backed up by the Tony Mordente Dancers and the Nabors Kids choral group.
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| [ABC 8:00] That Girl [Reg]: All's Well That Ends
Season 4, episode 26 W: Sydney Zelinka D: Saul Turteltaub With Mary-Robin Redd (Janie), Colin Male (Doctor), Vernon Weddle (Murray). Believing Don's little joke that he couldn't get theater tickets for her birthday, Ann agrees to baby-sit for Janie Downes' moppet that evening. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/26/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Make Love, Not Hate
Season 6, episode 30 W: Ed Jurist D: William Asher With Cliff Norton (Norton), Charles Lane (Mr. Meiklejohn), Sara Seegar (Mrs. Meiklejohn), Alice Ghostley (Esmerelda), Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay). Samantha's plans for an elegant dinner are upset by a love potion. The liquid accidentally gets mixed into the hors d'ouevre Samantha has prepared for Darrin, his boss, their client and his wife. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/16/1970)
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| [NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: A Killing Will Occur
Season 4, episode 1 W: Alvin Sapinsley D: Don Weis With Dane Clark (Vern Enrich), Ira Cook (Reporter), Joan Swift (Waitress), Darlene Conley (Landlady), Barry Brown (Charles Borrow), Ted Hartley (Mr. Mather), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Borrow), Diane Sayer (Hank). Chief Ironside receives a mysterious series of phone calls warning him that "a killing will occur". As the calls continue, Ironside learns when, but not where, the killing will take place. His search leads him to the restaurant of a one-armed man.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Brotherhood Of The Bell (1970)
W: David Karp D: Paul Wendkos With Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger, Maurice Evans, Will Geer, William Smithers, William Conrad, Robert Pine. The story of a secret fraternity whose power to achieve success for its members is equalled only by its determination to punish those who stand in the way. A member is forced to choose between betraying his closest friend or breaking with the faction's power structure.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Many Sides Of Don Rickles [special]
Don Rickles hosts and stars in a comedy-variety special. Don Adams, Robert Goulet and Harvey Korman join Rickles in sketches in which he is featured as a shy monk, an insulting husband and a newlywed. The highlight of the program is when three real doctors sit down with Rickles to try to uncover his real image and reasons for his biting humor. Goulet sings "A Real Live Doll" and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?".
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| [NBC 9:30] Nancy [Reg]: It's A Good Day For Meeting President's Daughters
Season 1, episode 1 With Paul Comi (Secret Service Agent), William Bassett (Agent Turner). Romantic comedy series about the complications that arise when the daughter of the President of the United States falls in love with an Iowa veterinarian. It all begins when Nancy and Abigail, companion and White House representative, visit a farm in Iowa where Nancy has show horses in training.
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| [ABC 10:00] Harold Robbins' The Survivors: Chapter Fifteen
Season 1, episode 15 Duncan is hospitalized by an automobile accident -- which the police discover was no accident. Final episode of the series. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/12/1970)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 1 With Orson Welles, Petula Clark, Joey Bishop. Martin launches his sixth season. Welles turns to comedy in vignettes and is in a sketch with Martin in a pet maternity ward setting. Martin solos "It Keeps Right on a Hurtin'" and "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife". Miss Clark presents "Call Me" and joins Dean for a happiness medley. In a sketch, Bishop and Martin portray two construction workers celebrating 12 years of working together; the cast spoofs famous singers.
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