Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 26, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Killer
Season 5, episode 1 W: Arthur Weiss D: Paul Krasny With Robert Conrad (Eddie Lorca), Davis Roberts (William Barton), Carole Carle (Flo), Byron Morrow (Alfred E. Chambers/Scorpio), Martin Ashe (Clerk), Helen Spring (Old Lady), Pegi Boucher (Girl), Victoria Hale (Maid), Tommy Huff (Bellhop), Richard Karie (Man), Rachel English (Woman). New time and day as the series begins its fifth year. The IMF is assigned to prevent a professional assassin from carrying out his mission, without knowing the identity of his target. Lesley Warren joins the cast as singer-actress Dana Lambert. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1970)
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 5 W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye With Lorne Greene, Ella Fitzgerald, Chubby Checker, The Grass Roots. Charlie Callas as Capt. Weird, the cookie-loving bear and the Williams Weirdos also appear. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/17/1970)
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| [ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The Return Of Albert
Season 11, episode 3 W: George Tibbles D: Fred De Cordova With Craig Stevens (Albert Conway). When a former suitor of Barbara's comes to town he phones her and also talks to Steve, who not only insists he come to dinner that night but that he join him for a round of golf the next day. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/3/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 85 -- Sign Of The Twins
Season 3, episode 12 W: James Doherty D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Sheila Bromley (Mrs. Wade), Margaret O'Brien (Mrs. Pendleton), Paul Picerni (Officer Boyd), Buddy Foster (Terry Pendleton), Howard Culver (Mr. Craig), Stacy Harris (Carl Kegan), Larry Blake (Officer Quinn). Malloy and Reed contend with an antagonistic robbery victim, a nerve-racked mother and a unique zoning case.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: Wife vs. Secretary
Season 1, episode 4 D: Allen Baron With Allison McKay (Frances Granscog), Angel Tompkins (Gabrielle). Nuvo's myopic secretary, Felicia, becomes the "other woman" in the eyes of Arnie's wife and threatens to destroy a heretofore happy marriage. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1970)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Two For The Seesaw (1962)
W: Isobel Lennart D: Robert Wise With Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elizabeth Fraser, Eddie Firestone. A lawyer from Omaha comes to New York after a broken marriage. He meets a free-living girl from Greenwich Village, and both learn some truths about themselves.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Toulouse-Lautrec Is One Of My Favorite Artists
Season 1, episode 7 W: Gordon Mitchell, Lloyd Turner D: Jay Sandrich With Hamilton Camp (Eric Matthews), Robert Rothwell (Floor Manager). Mary is attracted to a visiting author but is embarrassed to date him because he is shorter than she. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1970)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Most Deadly Game [Reg]: Little David
Season 1, episode 1 W: Burton Wohl D: Philip Leacock With Marj Dusay (Henley Gilliat), Roger Davis (Tod Masters), Cathleen Cordell (Mrs. Gilliat), Ben Wright (Schaeffer), George Robertson (Scarboro), Louise Troy (Mrs. Granger). Debut of an adventure series about a trio of elite private investigators who are called in to take over apparently unsolvable crimes. In the first episode, they are asked to identify the unusual weapon that caused the death of a store owner, found seated in one of his display windows. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Return To Summer Grove
Season 3, episode 3 W: Cliff Gould D: Gerald Mayer With Vera Miles (Jean McBride), Larry Pennell (Troy McBride), Marion Ross (Lurene Warinsky), Booth Colman (Leo Kolligian), Jerry Douglas (Ed Barkley), Victor Jory (Stefan Mannix), Lili Valenty (Maria), Valentin de Vargas (Sheriff Madeiros), Harry Raybould (Fred), Ivy Bethune (Nurse). Joe Mannix returns to his home town of Summer Grove at the request of a past flame to investigate the murder that a man in an iron lung is accused of committing. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/11/1969)
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