Monday November 16, 1970
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday November 16, 1970:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: The Scavengers Here's Lucy: Lucy, The Diamond Cutter Mayberry R.F.D.: Millie's Dream The Doris Day Show: Doris The Spy The Carol Burnett Show
ABC The Young Lawyers: At the Edge Of The Night Silent Force: A City In Concrete ABC Monday Night Football
NBC The Red Skelton Show: San Fernando Red And The Football Star Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #76 Bob Hope Show Jack Benny Anniversary Special


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[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Scavengers
Season 16, episode 10
W: Jim Byrnes   D: Robert Totten

With Robert Totten, Roy Jenson (Rath), Link Wyler (Logan), James Almanzar (Ogana), Eddie Little Sky (Scarface), Steve Raines (Driver), Victor Izay (Barkeep), Henry Wise (Livery Man), Cicely Tyson (Rachel Biggs), Yaphet Kotto (Piney Biggs), Slim Pickens (Colley), Jere Fields (Merilee Biggs), Victor Holchak (Lieutenant). A hungry wanderer's heroic boasts place the lives of innocent Indians in jeopardy.

[ABC 7:30] The Young Lawyers [Reg]: At the Edge Of The Night
Season 1, episode 9

With Angela Clarke (Mrs. McGuire), Ben Hammer (Bryan Fox), Robert F. Lyons (Bill Wicks), Willard Sage (Maurice Neilson). A Vietnam veteran is accused of killing his landlord, and claims a loss of memory. A lawyer advises him to plead guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter, but David Barrett, not convinced of his guilt, offers him a choice between a "safe" plea of guilty and the gamble of pleading innocent and perhaps being sentenced to death.

[NBC 7:30] The Red Skelton Show: San Fernando Red And The Football Star
Season 20, episode 9
W: Jeffrey Barron, Lionel Burt, Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Red Skelton   D: Terry Kyne

With Jan Arvan, Chanin Hale, Godfrey Cambridge, Ida Mae McKenzie. Cambridge portrays football hero "Joe Broadway". Red plays San Fernando Red, football agent. Silent spot: Diamond Jim Grady in an exclusive restaurant.

[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #76
Season 4, episode 10
W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al   D: Mark Warren

With Bob Newhart. Bob Newhart guests as Laugh-In's prop man, and also as the President and the Garden of Eden's Adam (Ruth Buzzi plays Eve). Other highlights: Mod, Mod World takes a look at "the weird world around us".

[CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy, The Diamond Cutter
Season 3, episode 10
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz   D: Herbert Kenwith

With Mary Wickes (Maid), Wally Cox (Gustav Vandemeer), Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. Cornelius Whitmark III). Uncle Harry hires a diamond cutter to cut the famous "Casbah" gem to rid it of a curse it is reported to carry.

[ABC 8:30] Silent Force [Reg]: A City In Concrete
Season 1, episode 9

With Jeanne Cooper (Tina Barnes), Michael Conrad (Max Fredericks), Duncan McLeod (Richard Lewin), Art Lewis (Zeke Williams). SF agents investigate the syndicate's loan-sharking in the construction industry when the president of a concrete mixing plant is found dead after threatening to expose the syndicate.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Millie's Dream
Season 3, episode 10
W: Gene Thompson   D: Christian Nyby

With Norman Leavitt (Mr. Felton). Millie dreams that something terrible will happen to Sam and Howard on their fishing trip, and begs them not to go.

[ABC 9:00] ABC Monday Night Football Two of the NFL's leading ground-gainers, explosive MacArthur Lane of the St. Louis Cardinals and powerful Calvin Hill of the Dallas Cowboys, are on view tonight from the Cotton Bowl. Both clubs have the ability to put a lot of points on the board and each operates similar offenses. Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and Don Meredith report.

[NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Show [special]
With Lucille Ball, Tom Jones, Danny Thomas, George Burns. Hope's second show this season, which re-creates famous vaudeville acts of the past.

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Doris The Spy
Season 3, episode 10
W: Budd Grossman   D: Reza Badiyi

With John McGiver (Chief Fleming), James B. Sikking (Horace Bowers), John Kroger (Nelson), Kay Stewart (Emma Fleming), B.J. Mason (Foster). Doris is taken into custody by federal agents who believe her to be a foreign spy.

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 10

With Martha Raye, Ross Martin. Martin, as Carl Sandburg, recites the poet's "Love"; guests and cast regulars spoof a popular musical series.

[NBC 10:00] Jack Benny Anniversary Special [special] Youthful "39-year-old" Jack Benny celebrates his 20th year in television with a musical-comedy special featuring Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Bob Hope and such members of Benny's radio and TV families as Mary (Benny) Livingstone in her first small screen appearance in 14 years; Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson and Benny Rubin. Film clips from two decades of Benny shows feature such personalities as Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell and President Harry S. Truman.

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