Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 17, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: Feat Of Clay
Season 5, episode 14 W: Joseph Hoffman D: Charles T. Barton With Adele Claire (Woman), Carleton Young (Man), Julie Parrish (Nancy Mason). Jody drops and breaks an odd-looking pre-Colombian figure, a gift to Bill, and after failing to glue it together before his uncle's return to town, he and Buffy make a copy of it out of modeling clay,
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| [ABC 7:30] Matt Lincoln [Reg]: Lia
Season 1, episode 12 W: Jean Holloway D: Marc Daniels With Dean Jagger (Dr. Matt Lincoln Sr.), Katherine Crawford (Lia McKenna), Frank Maxwell, Reta Shaw, Dan Tobin. Lincoln saves a child from drowning and falls in love with his widowed mother. Matt proposes and is accepted, but afterwards she receives a medical report that turns their wedding ceremony into a bittersweet occasion.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 13 With Sid Caesar, Bobby Darin, B.B. King. In a silent movie spoof, Sid plays a broken-down fight champion on whose doorstep a baby boy (Flip) is left; Caesar plays a gumball machine with dreams of grandeur; Flip tries to cope with a far-out musician, "Progress Hornsby" (Caesar) and his friend "the late, great John Rawlinson" (Darin); the Jekyll-Hyde story with Sid playing Jekyll and Flip playing Hyde.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 13 With Totie Fields. Nabors and Miss Fields play two kiddies waiting up for Santa (Frank Sutton). Ronnie Schell appears as TV newsman Walter Concrete interviewing French sex symbol Brigette Boffo (Fields).
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| [ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Samantha's Magic Potion
Season 7, episode 12 W: Shirley Gordon D: William Asher With Charles Lane (Harmon), Bernard Fox (Dr. Bombay). Samantha's husband gives up trying to maintain the delicate balance between witchcraft and mortal life that has sustained their marriage. A series of business setbacks convince Darrin that his mother-in-law has cast a spell on him.
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| [NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: This Could Blow Your Mind
Season 4, episode 13 W: Stephen J. Cannell, Sy Salkowitz D: James Neilson With Bradford Dillman (William Danner), George Grizzard (Larry), John Lupton (Dr. Freeman), Jerry Douglas (Fenton), Anne Whitfield (Receptionist), Ann Doran (Mrs. Briggs), Regina Gleason (Mrs. Danner), Tod Andrews (Guard), John Cliff (Night Watchman). A gangland "enforcer" tries to use a psychological testing center to force Chief Ironside to reveal the hiding place of an informer.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows! (1968)
W: Blanche Hanalis D: James Neilson With Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Dolores Sutton, Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Van Johnson, Robert Taylor. The Mother Superior of a girls' school is dismayed when a progressive young man upsets the peaceful decorum of the Academy by permitting her students to participate in civil rights, peace and labor demonstrations.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barefoot In The Park [Reg]: Nothing But The Truth
Season 1, episode 12 W: Alan Mandel, Charles Shyer D: Charles R. Rondeau After Corie attends a sensitivity session she decides that she and Paul must be totally honest with each other. But when the Kendricks come to dinner the "truth" begins to backfire. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Scrooge Gets An Oscar
Season 1, episode 12 W: Ron Friedman D: George Tyne With Larry Gelman (Vinnie), Garry Walberg (Speed), Ryan MacDonald (Roy), Ogden Talbot (Messenger). After turning down the role of Scrooge in a Felix-directed Christmas play, Oscar kicks Felix out of the apartment. To celebrate, Oscar feasts on well-spiced food, falls asleep in front of the TV set and in a nightmarish version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" sees himself as Ebenezer Madison, haunted by his past misdeeds.
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| [NBC 9:30] Nancy [Reg]: Boys' Night Out
Season 1, episode 14 With Don Hanmer (Bert), Frank Bonner (Hank), Amzie Strickland (Mrs. Drew), Eddie Applegate (Willie Maxwell). Nancy joins a Woman's Club to combat Adam's weekly poker games, but they both soon discover they are miserable away from each other.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Immortal [Reg]: The Return
Season 1, episode 12 W: Robert Specht D: Michael Caffey With Richard Ward (Joe Carver), Harry Townes (Roy Adkins), Martine Bartlett (Mrs. Adkins), Marlene Clark (Carol Carver), Ted Knight (Dr. Arliss), Ford Rainey (Sheriff Billy), William Benedict (Player), John Gallaudet (Ralph), Patience Cleveland (Nurse). Ben Richards returns to his home town seeking information about his missing brother and finds his foster father in trouble.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 14 With Glen Campbell, Dom DeLuise, Gale Gordon, The Golddiggers. Dean's solos are "She's a Little Bit of Country" and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head". Campbell offers "Gotta Travel On" and a medley with Dean. In skits, Gordon tries to sell Dean his particular line of merchandise -- "gifts especially for your enemies"; DeLuise, as a dog psychiatrist, advises Dean on his dog's problems, and also plays a waiter who nearly destroys a restaurant as he tries to extinguish a fly.
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