Television Highlights 1970s Network Schedule Snips
A compact guide lists TV highlights across channels with brief plot hooks and stars. Highlights include Jeannie budget woes, Lancer facing cattlemen conflict, Debbie Reynolds at a reunion, Julia joining a vocal group, Red Skelton finale with Ellington, Recruiter on college grads race, Foreign Exchange thriller with Robert Herton, Phantom of the Opera with Herbert Lom, Wings of Fire romance stunts, Tiara Tahiti unit history, and a meteor bombardment fact about 75 million daily meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere.
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Jeannie
Tony
NASA
Lancer
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie
Robert Herton
Herbert Lom
Louis Nye hosts Happy Days and stars in Charley's Aunt
Louis Nye, a veteran of television since the Milton Berle era, will host the CBS summer replacement Happy Days and star in a Broadway revival of Charley's Aunt. He has taped 10 Happy Days episodes and the Broadway show will run at least three weeks. The program features 1920s and 1940s mood and music with Helen O'Connell and Harry James, while CBS promotes Fred Silverman to oversee entertainment, following Michael Dann's resignation.
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New York
Louis Nye
Milton Berle
Mr. TV
Jim Nabors
CBS
Nye
Steve Allen
Troika
Madmen
Don Knotts
Tom Poston
Gordon Hathaway
Louis
Las Vegas
London
Jack Benny
Helen O'Connell
Harry James
Fred Silverman
Silverman
Cbs-Tv
Robert D. Wood
Michael H. Dann
Children's Television Workshop
FBI Operatives Alleged on Kent State Campus
Kent State University opened summer classes for 1969 with 6,967 students as Sen. Stephen M. Young claims up to 50 FBI operatives are enrolled as students. FBI Director Hoover denies the allegation. Young says some agents may be on other campuses, including Ohio State University.
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Kent, Ohio
Kent State University
U.S
Stephen M. Young
D-Ohio
FBI
Ohio National Guard
Young
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Sen. Youngs
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio Democrat
Ohio State
Kent State
Large Lizard On The Loose In Gainesville Florida
A six foot thirty pound water monitor reptile named Varanus salvator roams Gainesville after escaping its cage from importer Bill Thacker who had planned to sell it to a zoo for two hundred fifty dollars. Thacker warns the lizard could prey on small animals if hungry and may become permanent in the area.
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Gainesville
Fla
Bill Thacker
Singapore
Thacker
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Twist King
Chubby Checker
Niagara Falls
Ben Gold
Checker
Williamson
Total Electric
Williamson Electric
Williamson-Ziegler Inc
Television
Julia
Tank Blue
Red Skelton
Red
Duke Ellington
Suzanne Pleshette
Germany
James Mason
Earth
Cynthia Lowry
Hoover
Kent
Office Outfitters
General Office
Americard
Mid-town Center
Lasko
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