Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday October 13, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] National Geographic Society Special: Zoos Of The World [special]
NGS delves into the zoological world in its first special of the season to record the sights and sounds and fascination that lure over 300 million visitors a year into the more than 500 zoos around the world. Writer-producer Christine Zurbach traveled the United States, Europe, Japan, India and Africa in her quest. Among those appearing on the program are zoo directors and conservationists, keepers, children, and well-known figures such as Desmond Morris, author of "The Naked Ape", and Britain's Lord Snowdon. Joseph Campanella is host-narrator.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: 'A' Is For Annie
Season 3, episode 4 W: William Blast D: Robert Michael Lewis With Ron Hayes (George McKenna), Jewel Blanch (Luanne McKenna), Edmund Gilbert (Fred Simpson), Cindy Eilbacher (Sally Sanders), Barbara Boles (Doris McKenna), C. Lindsay Workman (Harrison), Hank Jones (Herbie Hughes), Jo Van Fleet (Annie Crabtree). A former teacher of Julie's comes under attack for her liberal approach to sex education, and violence erupts.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Don Knotts Show
With Irene Ryan, Bobby Sherman, Jack Weston, The Tapestry singing group. Miss Ryan represents Women's Lib in a sketch; Sherman sings "Make Your Own Kind of Music"; the Tapestry septet offers "Hard to Handle".
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| [CBS 8:30] Hee Haw
Season 2, episode 5 With Marty Robbins, Connie Eaton.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)
W: Luther Davis D: Walter Grauman With Edward G. Robinson, Martin Balsam, Diane Baker, Percy Rodrigues, Ruth Roman, Sam Jaffe, Edward Asner, Martin E. Brooks, Paul Picerni. A suspense story of an old man who's unable to convince anyone -- even his own family -- that he witnessed a murder.
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| [NBC 8:30] Julia [Reg]: Tanks Again
Season 3, episode 5 W: Ben Gershman D: Ezra Stone With Gary Crosby (Tank Blue), Robert Alda (Mike Murray), Carolyne Barry (Annie O'Day). Julia finds herself on stage at Las Vegas' Sands Hotel when Corey loses his lucky coin to a professional gambler.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Night Of The Following Day (1969)
W: Hubert Cornfield, Robert Phippeny D: Hubert Cornfield With Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin, Jess Hahn. Two men kidnap a girl off the streets, take her to a beach house owned by a drug-addicted stewardess, and hold her for ransom.
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| [CBS 9:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: A Boy To Remember
Season 2, episode 5 With Claudio Martinez (Paolo), Jonathan Lippe (Professor Watkins), Ellen Clark (Mrs. Watkins). Penny wants her father to adopt a homeless Italian boy -- a mute little bicycle thief.
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| [CBS 10:00] 60 Minutes
CBS' bi-monthly magazine spotlights a public figure who can affect the life of every American yet is little known -- Dr. Henry Kissinger, assistant to the President for national security affairs. This profile segment of the chief foreign policy adviser to President Nixon includes a look at his duties and his leisure time, and an interview by Mike Wallace.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Epidemic
Season 2, episode 5 W: Jerome Ross D: Daniel Petrie With Michele Lee (Rowena Dancy), Hope Summers (Mrs. Whittaker), Joaquin Martinez (Dr. Ramirez), Marlene Clark (Lorine), Alma Platt (Mrs. Prentiss), Burt Mustin (Mr. Truscott). A rich young hypochondriac complicates an outbreak of a dangerous new strain of influenza that has doctors Welby and Kiley working around the clock.
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