Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 24, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: Desert Isle, Manhattan Style
Season 5, episode 2 W: Elroy Schwartz D: Charles T. Barton With Gregg Fedderson (Gregg), Ronne Troup (Helen), Carolyn Stellar (Abby), Rick Gates (Larry). French phones Uncle Bill in Chicago for permission to visit his cousin in Washington and Bill says it's all right so long as Cissy is there to look after Buffy and Jody.
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| [ABC 7:30] Matt Lincoln [Reg]: Sheila
Season 1, episode 1 W: Charles Israel D: Allen Reisner With Patty Duke (Sheila), Jed Allan, Christina Crawford, Sam Chew Jr.. Vince Edwards returns to weekly TV to star in a series about a new breed psychiatrist who is also director of a "hot line" facility for troubled teenagers. In this episode, an unwed mother resists Dr. Lincoln's suggestion that she return to therapy when she asks help in placing her baby for adoption.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 2 With Bobby Darin, Stanley Myron Handelman, Denise Nicholas, Roy Clark. Flip is featured is sketches about a bachelor entertaining a lady named Lulu and a spoof titled "Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid". Handelman's monologue concerns an allergy to hippopotami.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 2 With Carol Burnett. In a comedy skit, Carol is trapped in a bathtub with a finger caught in the drain and Nabors is the handyman who comes to the resuce. Another segment spoofs dance marathons of the 1930s. The cast goes Parisian in the finale, recreating Toulouse Lautrec's dancers, singers and nightclub patrons.
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| [ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: To Go Or Not To Go, That Is The Question (1)
Season 7, episode 1 W: Michael Morris D: William Asher With Jane Connell (Hepzibah). In the first episode of the series' seventh year, Samantha refuses to attend the witches convention in Salem, Mass., site of the witch trials of 1692, without her husband, even though mortals are barred from such gatherings.
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| [NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: No Game For Amateurs
Season 4, episode 2 W: Sy Salkowitz D: John Florea With Martin Sheen (Johnny Ballantine), Carl Reindel (Richy Bolton), Tony Brande (Arnie Lande), Michael Christian (Roger), Lew Brown (Edwards), Michael Greer (Phil), Pamela McMyler (Nancy O'Dwyer), Casey MacDonald (Peggy), Barbara Smith (Folk Singer), Ken Drake (Bartender). Ironside and staff seek the killer of a witness in a government trial in the ranks of an anti-war group dedicated to the assistance of young men evading the draft.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Dirty Dozen (1967)
W: Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller D: Robert Aldrich With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Clint Walker, Robert Webber. Twelve soldiers who have been convicted of murder, among other crimes, are offered the opportunity for a more honorable death or a possible pardon if they train for and complete a suicidal mission of blowing up a chateau housing top-ranking German officers.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barefoot In The Park [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bill Idelson, Harvey Miller D: Bruce Bilson With Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Wilson), Herbert Rudley (Mr. Wilson), Patsy Kelly (Old Lady), Doris Packer (Mrs. Kendricks), Gil Lamb (Hansom Driver). An all-black version of Neil Simon's Broadway play depicts the trials and tribulations of a young lawyer and his bride living in a one-room apartment on the top floor of an old, integrated brownstone in New York. In this episode, Paul Bratter submits to the pleas of his wife and mother-in-law and substitutes as a bartender-writer at a party.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: The Laundry Orgy
Season 1, episode 1 W: Jerry Belson, Garry Marshall D: Jerry Paris With Garry Walberg (Speed), Larry Gelman (Vinnie), Ryan MacDonald (Roy), Monica Evans (Cecily Pigeon), Carole Shelley (Gwendolyn Pigeon). Comedy-drama based on characters created by Neil Simon in his Broadway hit. The "odd couple" who share the apartment are an overly-neat photographer and a sloppy sportswriter. In the first show, Oscar announces to Felix that they have a date with the Pigeon sisters and is reminded that it's their regular poker night.
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| [NBC 9:30] Nancy [Reg]: Guess Who's Coming To The White House?
Season 1, episode 2 W: Sidney Sheldon D: Alan Rafkin With Farrah Fawcett (Salon Woman), William Bassett (Agent Turner), Gene Andrusco (Tommy Wilson), Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Wilson), Ernesto Macias (Agent Rodriguez). An ailing cow on an Iowa farm takes precedence over an engagement party given in Washington by the President for Nancy's fiancee.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Immortal [Reg]: Sylvia
Season 1, episode 1 W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Don McDougall With Carol Lynley (Sylvia Cartwright), Glenn Corbett (David Hiller), Sherry Jackson (Sherry Hiller), David Brian (Arthur Maitland), Paul Langton (Walter Hiller), Angela Greene (Mrs. Hiller), Bob Orrisson (Thug #1), Frank Orsatti (Thug #2), Bill Burton (Thug #3), Alan Oliney (Thug #4). Series about the adventures of a man whose blood contains antibodies which make him immune to disease and old age. This condition makes him the target of those who would become immortal through his blood. In the first episode, his fiancee suddenly tells him she's going to marry another man becuase of his constant hounding by a ruthless billionaire.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 2 With Joe Namath, Peter Falk, Shirley Jones, Paul Lynde, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. In comedy skits, Falk and Martin are robbers whose "getaway" is delayed by an overzealous service station attendant (Lynde); Miss Jones plays a fashion-conscious woman who can't decide what to wear during a bomb scare; Namath shows off his unique apartment.
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