Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 28, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Jenny
Season 16, episode 15 W: Jack Miller D: Robert Totten With Robert Totten, Steve Ihnat (Lucas Pritchard), Steve Raines (Ed Reilly), Lisa Gerritsen (Jenny), Rance Howard (Judge Franklin), Bob Burrows (Driver). Dep. Newly O'Brien is stripped of his badge when, after capturing a dangerous outlaw, he releases the man on a promise to return after visiting his daughter.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Young Lawyers [Reg]: Is There A Good Samaritan In The House?
Season 1, episode 1 With Walter Brooke (Dr. Schurz), Frank Converse (Dr. Vince Sabowski), Gordon Pinsent (Henry Norman), David Sheiner (Elliott Tower), Ann Summers (Judge Kingman). Law students in a Neighborhood Law Office (NLO) in Boston provide free legal assistance to those unable to pay, under the direction of an experienced attorney. The series is based on fact: Massachusetts and 13 other states allow prospective attorneys to receive experience by representing clients and pleading cases in court, under the supervision of a practicing attorney. In this episode, Aaron Silverman is assigned to defend a young intern being sued by a father whose son was injured when the intern removed him from a wrecked car. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1970)
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| [NBC 7:30] The Red Skelton Show: Bad Guys And Good Girls
Season 20, episode 5 W: Jeffrey Barron, Lionel Burt, Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Red Skelton D: Terry Kyne With Jan Arvan, Walter Brennan. The main comedy sketch is a western saloon bit, "Bad Guys and Good Girls". In the Silent Spot, Skelton portrays a camper plagued by a neighbor. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1970)
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #81
Season 4, episode 15 W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al D: Mark Warren With William F. Buckley Jr. Laugh-In presents "The Sam Yorty Story" and offers a quick review of 1970. Buckley offers commentary on such issues as the population explosion, the administration and women's liberation.
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| [CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Stops A Marriage
Season 3, episode 16 W: Frank Gill Jr., Vincent Bogert D: Jack Donohue With Jayne Meadows (Laura Trenton), Marcel de la Brosse (Waiter). Lucy thinks that a wealthy woman is the object of Harry's romantic intentions when he pleads that he can't afford to give Lucy a raise.
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| [ABC 8:30] Silent Force [Reg]: Prosecutor
Season 1, episode 1 W: Ronald Austin, James D. Buchanan D: Gene Nelson With Lloyd Bochner (Drake), Mark Tapscott (Sheriff Williamson), Eddie Firestone (Tommy Moran), John Dehner (Judge Caldwell), Vic Tayback (Capt. Grant), Michael Pataki (Prisoner), Ed Prentiss. A strike force of specially selected agents of the U.S. government battle organized crime by working undercover. The SIlent Force executes a daring mission to prevent a small town district attorney, a secret member of the Mafia, from winning the governor's chair by running on an anti-crime platform. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1970)
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| [CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Howard The Dream Spinner
Season 3, episode 15 W: Bob Mosher D: Hal Cooper With Dick Whittinghill (TV Announcer), Maggie Peterson (Edna). Howard becomes the star-host of a local television literary program and becomes attached to a mysterious fan named Melissa.
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| [ABC 9:00] The American Adventure
ABC News surveys basic American values as the nation approaches its 200th anniversary. The special probes such areas as the changing nature of the family, life-styles, educational innovation, religious practices, sexual relationships and government. A large portion of the program focuses on Columbus, Ohio, regarded as a representative American city. Also examined are trends and developments in such locales as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Washington and St. Louis. Frank Reynolds reports.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Lilies Of The Field (1963)
W: James Poe D: Ralph Nelson With Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch, Stanley Adams. A wandering ex-GI helps a group of refugee nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Doris vs. Pollution
Season 3, episode 16 W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul D: Reza Badiyi With Edward Andrews (Colonel Fairburn), Kay E. Kuter (Mr. Gwynn), James B. Sikking (Fred Sutton), Carol Worthington (Ethel Weber), Jerome Guardino (Cab Driver), Owen Bush (Serviceman). Doris puts Today's World publisher Colonel Fairburn on the hot seat when she launches a slashing anti-pollution attack on a factory, then discovers he also heads the corporation which owns the pollution-spewing plant.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 15 With Pat Carroll, Robert Goulet, Rich Little. A salute to the new year. Entire cast performs "Call Me Back" and "Auld Lang Syne"; Goulet plays the kissing bandit in a soap opera spoof, "As the Stomach Turns"; Little offers his impressions of celebrities giving TV commercials; Goulet sings "Without Love" and joins Carol for "Have I Told You Lately".
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