Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 19, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Killer
Season 5, episode 1 W: Arthur Weiss D: Paul Krasny With Robert Conrad (Eddie Lorca), Davis Roberts (William Barton), Carole Carle (Flo), Byron Morrow (Alfred E. Chambers/Scorpio), Martin Ashe (Clerk), Helen Spring (Old Lady), Pegi Boucher (Girl), Victoria Hale (Maid), Tommy Huff (Bellhop), Richard Karie (Man), Rachel English (Woman). New time and day as the series begins its fifth year. The IMF is assigned to prevent a professional assassin from carrying out his mission, without knowing the identity of his target. Lesley Warren joins the cast as singer-actress Dana Lambert.
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 1 W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye With Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, The Supremes, Bobby Darin. Andy starts his second year. Andy and the Supremes open with "Peace in the Valley" and "Together". Landau and his wife team for a musical recollection, "When I Was Young". Andy's solos are "Close to You", "I Just Can't Help Believing" and "Sing That Song Again".
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| [ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The First Anniversary
Season 11, episode 1 W: George Tibbles D: Fred De Cordova With Norman Alden (Tom Williams), Doris Singleton (Margaret Williams), Virginia Lewis (Dorothy Danson). The 11th season starts with Dodie learning that Steve and Barbara will be celebrating their first wedding anniversary, so she decides to give a surprise party for them.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 174 -- Loan Sharks
Season 3, episode 1 W: James Doherty D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Arthur Hunnicutt (Slim Draper), Tim Rooney (Jim Russell), Marshall Reed (John Russell), Eve McVeagh (Marge Jenkins), Kenneth Tobey (Sgt. Strong), Dean Cromer (Charlie Barnes). Start of the series' third year. Officers Malloy and Reed find a star witness, a courageous teenager, in a mob beating case only to learn the youth has been kidnapped.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: David Swift D: David Swift With Dick Van Patten (Walter Granscog), Allison McKay (Frances Granscog), Olan Soule (Fred Springer), Angela Clarke, Carol Worthington. Series about a loading dock foreman who, following a dispute with an executive, is astonished to learn that instead of being fired he's promoted to an executive position with a big pay increase. However, the man he argued with remains as a menace to his future.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: P.J. (1968)
W: Philip Reisman, Jr. D: John Guillermin With George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jason Evers, Coleen Gray, Susan Saint James. A tough private detective is hired by a tycoon to serve as bodyguard for his mistress, whose life has been threatened by ambitious relatives of the millionaire's wife.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Love Is All Around
Season 1, episode 1 W: Allan Burns, James L. Brooks D: Jay Sandrich With Lisa Gerritsen (Bess Lindstrom), Angus Duncan (Bill), David Morick (Locksmith). Situation comedy about a girl who leaves behind a four-year romance to seek a new life. She arrives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and applies for a job as secretary in a local TV newsroom but is hired instead as associate producer. In the first episode, she encounters a frustrated mother (guest star Cloris Leachman) in the apartment house.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
Season 1, episode 16 With Liberace, Allan Drake, Fay McKay. Engelbert sings "Cabaret", "The Good Life", "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and "Release Me". (Repeat program, originally aired 5/13/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: A Ticket To The Eclipse
Season 4, episode 1 W: Harold Medford D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Mark Stewart (Toby), Darren McGavin (Mark), Don McGovern (Ray Endicott), Paul Mantee (Tommy Gantt), Dane Clark (Lt. Deegan), Jack Griffin (1st Zoo Attendant), John Wheeler (2nd Zoo Attendant), Chris Woodley (Girl). When a member of Joe Mannix's former Korean War army unit confesses to killing two people in his quest for revenge because of a grievance incurred during the war, the police think he's a crank. But Mannix believes him.
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