Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday December 27, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The Blessing
Season 16, episode 12 W: Bob Schaefer, Eric Freiwald D: Bonita Granville Wrather With Med Flory (Father Matthew), Tony Davis (Manuel). In a Christmas story, Lassie restores a young boy's faith when he, with his small deaf dog, seeks a miracle at Mission San Luis Rey. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/21/1969)
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| [ABC 7:00] The Young Rebels [Reg]: Unbroken Chains
Season 1, episode 14 W: Anthony Lawrence D: Marc Daniels With Paul Winfield (Pompey), Sasha Harden (Lt. Col. Schieffler), Michael Allinson (Capt. Southwick), Chris Howard (Scout). The Yankee Doodlers uncover a British spy -- Isak's brother -- who is ordered executed by Lafayette.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom
Jim Fowley and Marlin Perkins join an annual roundup of wild ponies on the island of Assateague, Va. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 7:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: The Dropouts
Season 6, episode 14 W: Laurence Marks D: Marc Daniels With John Stephenson (Professor Bauer), Ben Wright (Dr. Reimann), Chris Anders (Guard), Howard Caine (Hochstetter), Gordon Pinsent (SS Captain Steiner). Hogan and Sgt. Carter are captured by the Gestapo while trying to blow up a bridge near Stalag 13.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Minado The Wolverine
Season 12, episode 7 W: Homer McCoy With Sebastian Cabot (Narrator). Animal adventure story of a ferocious wolverine that avenges the death of its mother at the hands of a trapper. Filmed in Canada's Far North. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1965)
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 23, episode 15 With Bobbie Gentry, Raphael, Peter Nero, The Friends of Distinction, Slappy White. The Friends of Distinction do their hit, "Grazing In The Grass"; Bobbie Gentry and the Goose Creek Symphony supply "He Made A Woman Out Of Me", "Cripple Creek" and "Welcome to Goose Creek". Then Gentry sings a gospel medley while playing the piano. Peter Nero and the orchestra do "I Got Rhythm" and "Rhapsody in Blue".
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Inheritors
Season 6, episode 14 W: Alvin Sapinsley D: Jesse Hibbs With Lew Brown (S.A.C. Allen Bennett), Phil Dean (S.A.C. Kirby Greene), Paul Sorenson (Billy Hanson), Larry Linville (George Franciscus), William Traylor (Lester Hunter), Mary Munday (Blance Frye), John S. Ragin (Harvey Davis), Don Spruance (Guerneville Agent), James Chandler (Businessman), Ivan Bonar (Ames), William Tregoe (Conrad Russell), Ric Mancini (Warehouse Manager), Vera Stough (Laura Franciscus), Frank Albertson (Padre), Gene Raymond (Harlan Franciscus), Ray Danton (Glen Frye), Suzanne Pleshette (Temple Alexander). An embezzler and his beautiful accomplice elude authorities and escape to California -- and a scheme to shake down a millionaire wine maker.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: Teacher Of The Year
Season 2, episode 14 W: Martin A. Ragaway D: Coby Ruskin With Joyce Bulifant (Marsha Peterson), William Wintersole (Mr. Halperin), Margueritte Ray (Miss O'Connell), Jerome Guardino (Mr. LaRosa), Jay Adler (Mr. Abrams), Dick Balduzzi (Mr. Green), E.A. Sirianni (Mr. Harrison), Helen Funai (Miss Hillard), Stanley Bennett Clay (Anderson), Dale Ishimoto (Mr. Shimura). Chet goes all out when he receives the nomination of "Teacher of the Year" from students and faculty, but then it appears the ceremony will lead to embarrassment for him.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 21 With Dionne Warwick, The Fifth Dimension, Ruth Buzzi, John Byner. Miss Warwick solos "Always Something There to Remind Me" and joins Glen for "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"; Fifth Dimension offers "The Declaration of Independence"; Miss Buzzi portrays a love-starved librarian. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/22/1970)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Cardinal (1963)
W: Robert Dozier D: Otto Preminger With Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Dorothy Gish, Maggie McNamara, Bill Hayes, Cameron Prud'Homme, Cecil Kellaway, Loring Smith, John Saxon. Religious drama that traces the rise of an Irish immigrant from priesthood to a prince of the Catholic Church.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: For A Young Lady
Season 12, episode 14 W: B.W. Sandefur D: Don Richardson With Bing Russell (Deputy Clem Foster), Harry Holcombe (Dr. Martin), Paul Fix (Buford Sturgis), William Bramley (Gifford Owens), Peggy Rea (Clara), Jewel Blanch (Carrie Sturgis), Madeleine Sherwood (Aunt Vella Owens). The Cartwrights, concerned for the welfare of the young granddaughter of an injured prospector, take her into their home and wind up charged with kidnapping.
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| [CBS 10:00] CBS News Correspondents Report
The first of two reports recapitulating the major events of the past year. Walter Cronkite will moderate the first broadcast, which will originate in New York. Joining him in analyzing various events, their impact and ramifications will be national correspondent Eric Sevareid, White House correspondent Dan Rather, Congressional correspondent Roger Mudd and correspondents Daniel Shorr and John Laurence.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Senator [Reg]: To Taste Of Death But Once
Season 1, episode 1 W: Joel Oliansky D: Daryl Duke With Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Sgt. Traynor), Michael Bell (F.B.I. Agent Shaw), James Wainwright (Hyatt), Barry Brown (Steve Lascoe), Frank Campanella (Detective), Robert Karnes (Reporter). The trilogy of dramas focusing on medicine, law and politics returns for its second year with a new series called "The Senator", replacing last season's law enforcement episodes. In the premiere episode, Senator Hays Stowe refuses to be intimidated following a warning to cancel a college speaking engagement.
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