Prime-time network TV listings for Monday January 4, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Captain Sligo
Season 16, episode 16 W: William Kelley D: William Conrad With Royal Dano (Watney), Robert Totten (Blacksmith), Troy Melton (Rackley), Richard Basehart (Captain Aron Sligo), Salome Jens (Josephine Burney), Stacy Harris (Leonard), Bobby Eilbacher (Tim Burney), Geri Reischl (Anne Burney), Larry Finley (Bartender), Matt Emery (Trail Boss), Brian Foley (Cowboy), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Tanner), Fred Stromsoe (Tobin), Robert Herron (Vern). A rugged sea captain plans to settle in Dodge with his pet buffalo.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Young Lawyers [Reg]: False Witness
Season 1, episode 15 With Brenda Scott (Jennie Stevens), Robert Webber (Sergeant Fielder), John Kerr (Rogers), Devra Korwin (Mrs. Rogers). Aaron Silverman's defense of a maid acused of theft appears doomed when it's learned she pawned some of the missing jewelry.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Red Skelton Show: Junior And Sunday Morning
Season 20, episode 14 W: Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Arthur Phillips, Larry Rhine, Red Skelton D: Terry Kyne With Jan Arvan, Elsie Bauer, Audrey Meadows, Jackson Bostwick, John Magruder, Yvonne Ewald. Miss Meadows plays the mother of the "mean little kid"; Skelton's monologue is about money and the Silent Spot is about keeping romance alive.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #82
Season 4, episode 16 W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al D: Mark Warren With Sammy Davis Jr., Wilt Chamberlain. Sammy Davis Jr. squares off againt 7-footer Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain for the Laugh-In "championship of the world"; Mod World looks at ethnic humor with Davis and Johnny Brown updating Amos 'n' Andy.
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| [CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy's Vacation
Season 3, episode 17 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin With Sid Gould (Mr. Hilliard), Parley Baer (Dr. Cunningham), Kimetha Laurie (Jan). Lucy's been late to work so often that according to Harry she's used up her vacation, so she plans to get herself fired to get another one.
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| [ABC 8:30] Silent Force [Reg]: The Banker (1)
Season 1, episode 14 W: Mark Rodgers With Robert Pine, John Vernon, Paul Stewart, Carla Borelli. The Force investigates the syndicate's huge gambling operation in the Caribbean.
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| [CBS 9:00] A Conversation With The President
President Richard M. Nixon participates in his second live round table discussion with a representative from each television network since taking office. He discusses major issues of his administration with newsmen John Chancellor (NBC), Howard K. Smith (ABC), Eric Sevareid (CBS) and Nancy Dickerson (PBS). The first program of this type with Nixon was telecast last July 1. Earlier similar programs with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson have been telecast, but those programs were taped.
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| [ABC 9:00] A Conversation With The President
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| [NBC 9:00] A Conversation With The President
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 16 With Art Carney, Pat Carroll. A soap opera spoof and a premature salute to July 4 featuring a medley of George M. Cohan songs.
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| [ABC 10:00] Movie: Spartacus (1960), part two
W: Dalton Trumbo D: Stanley Kubrick With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom. Conclusion of the epic story of Rome's slave rebellion.
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| [NBC 10:00] Rapping With Brinkley
David Brinkley discusses major issues of 1970 with high school student newspaper editors. (Repeat program)
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