Milburn Stone Reflects on Kansas Roots and Gunsmoke Farewell
Milburn Stone speaks of his native Kansas with affection recalling Dodge City Larned Spearville and Burrton where he was born. He recalls Gunsmoke years with Jim Arness Ken Curtis and Amanda Blake and notes regret over the show ending and lack of contract assurances. He fondly remembers frontier lore and Halley’s Comet memory from Burrton.
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Hollywood
Milburn Stone
Kansas
Dodge City
Larned
Spearville
Burrton
Stone
Strain
Doc
Rancho Santa Fe
Calif
G. Adams
Milburn
Jim Arness
Ken Curtis
Ol’ Festus
Colorado
Kitty
Amanda Blake
Amanda
Jim
Dodge
Halley
Monday Night TV Schedule Highlights and Features
A dense listings page summarizing a full Monday night lineup across NBC ABC and CBS. Programs include religious telecast with Mother Teresa, daytime soaps such as General Hospital and The Young and the Restless, evening classics like Bonanza Gunsmoke and The Partridge Family, plus news gaps and special features including Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and select film and theater segments. The grid lists times and show titles with occasional brief descriptions and guest appearances.
Jersey Welder Captures National Tobacco Spitting Crown
Tom Eilenberg, a 25 year old welder from Millville New Jersey, won the distance contest with a 28 foot six inch spit. The victory ended Mississippi dominance as the first non Mississippian winner in 24 years. First prize included a brass spittoon and a year’s supply of chewing tobacco, awarded at John Crumpton’s farm west of Raleigh Mississippi, billed on a local billboard as The Home of the National Tobacco Spitting Contest.
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Raleigh, Miss
UPI
New Jersey
Tom Eilenberg
Millville
N.J
Eilenberg
John Crumpton
Sophia Valdez Leads TV Strike in Viva Valdez
Sophia Valdez challenges husband Luis over a women’s lib meeting in their home during TV-13’s Viva Valdez 8 to 8 30 p m. In Mama Doesn’t Luis resists family decisions while Sophia tours a feminist visitor Ms Mendoza. Don Red Barry joins Paramount Orca cast with Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling.
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Viva Valdez
Mama
Sophia Valdez
Luis
TV-13
Jerry Ramirez
Sophia
Ms. Mendoza
Hollywood
UPI
Don ‘‘Red” Barry
Paramount
Orca
Richard Harris
Tarlotte Rampling
James Brolin to Star in The Car at Universal
Hollywood reports James Brolin will headline the film The Car at Universal Pictures. UPI notes Marty Feldman leads The Last Remake of Beau Geste with co stars Ann Margret Michael York James Earl Jones and Peter Ustinov.
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Hollywood
UPI
James Brolin
Universal
Marty Feldman
Ann-Margret
Michael York
James Earl Jones
Peter Ustinov
John Houston resumes acting in Jocasta
Hollywood reports director John Houston returns to acting in Jocasta a Sophia Loren film for Zev Braun Susan Blakely lands the lead role in Universal’s adaptation of Harold Robbins The Lonely Lady
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Hollywood
UPI
John Houston
Sophia Loren
Zev Braun
Susan Blakely
Universal
Harold Robbins
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Las Vegas
Doc Adams
Jarel Glasser
Debbie Zipp
Teresa Medaris
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Moorpark High
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Mother Theresa of
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Price
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Hot Seat
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Family Feud
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Real McCoys
Gus
Ross
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One Life To Live
Another World
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General Hospital
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All In the Family
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Lassie
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Peter O'Toole
Rhoda Rhoda
Joe
Louisville Ky
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Johnny Carson
Clark
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Joe Forrester
Promised Land
Mike
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Maude
Henry Fonda
Medical Center
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Alfred Hitchcock
Spencer Tracy
Elizabeth Taylor
Mary Hartman
Echo Theatre
Walter Mitty
Danny
Mitty
Anatole
Paris
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Virginia Mayo
Merv Griffin
Snyder
Ida Lupino
David Hartman
Edward G. Robinson
Burt Lancaster
Candlelight
Granger
Dana
Farley Granger
Wild West
Today Show
Ed Ryan
Jim Hartz
Iowa
Robert Ray
Hershey
Shady Lady
Charleston and Valley View
Barry
Greater
Sahara
Sun
OLR
Uck
3Rd & Ogden
the Car’ Star
Houston
Blakely
the Savage Innocents
Gathering of
Eagles
Major League Baseball
Mele
West Las Vegas
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