Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday December 13, 1970:
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Program details:
[CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: Any Heart In A Storm
Season 17, episode 13 With Kate Reid (Woman). Lassie repays a kindness by saving a lonely woman from a devastating storm.
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[ABC 7:00] Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner. ABC presents a Christmas musical-fantasy in "animagic", a three-dimensional animation technique. This special tells the story of an abandoned baby, Kris, who is brought up by Tanta Kringle and the toy-maker elves.
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[NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom
Cameras record the work of marine biologists in capturing and training a porpoise in Hawaii.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/4/1970)
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[CBS 7:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: The Gypsy
Season 6, episode 13 W: Harvey Bullock D: Richard Kinon With Sigrid Valdis (Hilda), Mathias Reitz (Captain Gruber). LeBeau assumes the role of a lightning-struck oracle to play on Col. Klink's penchant for astrology.
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[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: It's Tough To Be A Bird
Season 17, episode 11 W: Ted Berman, Ward Kimball D: Ward Kimball With Ruth Buzzi (Soprano), Richard Bakalyan (M.C. Bird). Oscar-winning 1969 short subject combines animation and live-action to study man's love for -- and brutal treatment of -- birds.
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[CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 23, episode 13 With Bobby Sherman, Guy Marks, Robert Merrill, Ballet Africains. The New Seekers perform "Look What They've Done to My Song", "Your Song", Baby Face" and "Beautiful People". Bobby Sherman offers "Going Home" and "Song of Joy". Baritone Robert Merrill sings "If I Were a Rich Man" and the Arias from "Aida", "Carmen" and "La Traviata". Hal Linden, Robby Benson and other cast members from the Broadway musical "The Rothschilds" perform "Sons". Marilyn Michaels sings "Swanee" as a tribute to Judy Garland. Guy Marks does a stand-up routine about young love. Ali MacGraw recites a Christmas poem from 1692 while a montage from "Love Story" is shown. Les Ballets Africains (a troupe that performs traditional African dances) performs "Dance of the Lion King".
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[ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Witness
Season 6, episode 12 W: Mark Rodgers D: William Hale With June Dayton (Margaret McElroy), Hank Brandt (S.A.C. William Converse), Logan Field (Lt. Cmdr. Chamblis), Roger Perry (Jerry Leigh), John Vivyan (George Petrarkis), Robert Phillips (Jack), Barbara Baldavin (Nurse Shannon), Lisa James (Lynne), Steven Marlo (Vance), Edward Colmans (High Commissioner), Larry Ward (Cmdr. Frank Wilson), Murray Hamilton (Douglas McElroy), Flora Plumb (Yvonne Demarest), Don Grady (John McElroy). Syndicate mobsters blackmail the joy-seeking son of a wealthy businessman in a plot to infiltrate an industrial combine.
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[NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: Swann's Way
Season 2, episode 12 W: Ed Weinberger D: Jay Sandrich With Don Knotts (Leo Swann), Joyce Bulifant (Mrs. Patterson), John Amos (Salesman). A friendly repossessor is after a television set that Chet Kincaid buys and refuses to pay for when it breaks down.
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[CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 3, episode 13 With Ray Charles, Norm Crosby, Wally Cox, Anne Murray. Glen joins Ray for "If You Were Mine", gets advice on auto repairing from Crosby, and interviews "boxing champion" Cox; Charles, Campbell and Miss Murray offer a medley of Charles' hits.
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[ABC 9:00] Movie: Way, Way Out (1966)
W: William Bowers, Laszlo Vadnay D: Gordon Douglas With Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg, Dick Shawn, Howard Morris, Brian Keith, Dennis Weaver. Romantic farce of unmarried couples manning a weather station on the moon in 1989.
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[NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Impostors
Season 12, episode 12 W: Robert Vincent Wright D: Lewis Allen With Robert Ridgely (Marley), Strother Martin (Joad Bruder), Diane Shalet (Mrs. Bud York), William Lucking (Gabe Leroy), Harry Harvey (Bixle), Larry Finley (Petey), Tony Colti (Randy Bruder), Anthony James (Willie), Jarion Monroe (Cass), Jim Raymond (Deputy Harris). Little Joe and Hoss pose as outlaws in a ruse to recover money stolen in a stage holdup.
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[CBS 10:00] The Tim Conway Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 13 With Walter Brennan, Connie Stevens. The final show of the series finds millionaire Brennan's daughter in love with the "Monkey Man of Cleveland". Also: Walter and Tim portray baseball announcers plagued by foul balls; Belland and Somerville sing "Impossible Dream".
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[NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: In Dreams They Run
Season 2, episode 5 W: Don Tait, Sandy Stern D: Jerry Lewis With Joanne Linville (Anne Sorenson), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Gil Dodds), Arch Johnson (Frank Sorenson), Ella Edwards (Babe Dodds), Jason Karpf (Davey Sorenson), Kathleen Freeman (Nurse), Eve Brent (Nurse). Jerry Lewis directed this story of a stricken pro golfer whose confidence -- and courage -- is restored by a young boy afflicted with muscular dystrophy.
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