Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 16, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Missile
Season 5, episode 16 W: Arthur Weiss D: Charles R. Rondeau With David Sheiner (James Reed), Barry Coe (Bob Willard), John Beck (John Hecker), John Pickard (Commander Wardman), Gerald Hiken (Farrell), Karen Carlson (Doris Gordon), John Dennis (Duke), Percy Helton (Daily), Jimmy Bracken (Bobby). The IMF devises an elaborate scheme to dupe a foreign agent into stealing a bogus missile guidance system.
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| [ABC 7:30] Arthur Godfrey's America: The Everglades [special]
Godfrey, a crusader for saving the environment, presents a tour of Florida's Everglades region. He warns of despoilation in store for the region. He interviews area inhabitants including a Miccasukee Indian chief, a former alligator poacher, naturalist John Hamlet and a land developer.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 16 W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye With Ray Charles, Cass Elliot, Lorne Greene, Elton John. Lorne sings a novelty number about an old miner's possessions -- provided in staggery array by the prop man; Andy, Lorne, Cass Elliot and Jerry Maren's Little General in a "Siberian Express" sketch; Ray Charles sings "If You Were Mine" and is backed by the cast in a rocking "Heaven Help Us All"; Cass clowns with the bear and duets with Andy; Elton John performs "Your Song".
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The New Vice-President
Season 11, episode 16 W: Lois Hire D: Fred De Cordova With John Gallaudet (Bob Anderson), Oliver McGowan (Dave Avery), Betty Lynn (Janet Dawson), Lisa Pera (Evelyn), Byron Morrow (Joe Marvin), Rolfe Sedan (Gus Sommers), Robert Gibbons (Male Clerk), Jeanne Bates (Dr. Louise Larson), Marilyn Hare (Effie), Patrick Campbell (Man). Barbara suspects a promotion for Steve may be in the works when she's invited to a tea for wives of top company executives.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 8:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 26 -- LEMRAS
Season 3, episode 15 W: James Doherty D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Ken Lynch (Jack Stokes), Don 'Red' Barry (Edwin M. Kale), Pam Kenneally (Wendy Tucker), Barbara Perry (Wilma Engles), Sally Mills (Mrs. Tucker), Pamela Curran (Mrs. Vandemar), Thomas Bellin (Charles Hammond). Officers Malloy and Reed help quell a holdup and contend with a series of burglaries that are linked to mysteriously disappearing motorcyclists.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: Hello, Holly
Season 1, episode 17 D: Allen Baron With Bob Cummings (Hollingsworth), Irwin Charone (Peterson). A former company executive of great charm and wit visits his old stomping grounds, and the joyous reception he gets causes Arnie to fear for his job.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Duel At Diablo (1966)
W: Marvin Albert, Michael Grilikhes D: Ralph Nelson With James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers, Bibi Andersson. Attempts by a mule skinner's wife to live among Apache Indians are frustrated by a frontier scout and an army horse wrangler.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Just A Lunch
Season 1, episode 17 W: Allan Burns, James L. Brooks D: Bruce Bilson With Joyce Bulifant (Marie Slaughter), Monte Markham (John Corcoran), Gloria Lord (Woman in Restaurant). A handsome war correspondent, fresh from the Vietnam front, pays a visit to the television newsroom where he used to work and makes a big play for Mary.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Most Deadly Game [Reg]: I, Said The Sparrow
Season 1, episode 12 W: Marion Hargrove D: George McCowan With Dick Cavett (Himself), John Fiedler (Alfred), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Verney), Mildred Natwick (Janet McLeod), Joan Huntington (Maggie). An internationally-known mystery writer is murdered while watching himself on Dick Cavett's program. Another mystery writer asks help from the criminologists. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: The Judas Touch
Season 4, episode 16 W: Merwin Gerard D: Gerald Mayer With Linda Chandler (Coronet Girl), Robert Ritchie (Paul Parish), Ruth Roman (Victoria Parish), Brenda Benet (Helen Parish), Don Eitner (Frank Walker), James Wainwright (Smitty), Wayne Heffley (Max), Robert Lansing (Chief Carl Yaring). A police officer, an ex-convict, is suspected of robbery and murder and disappears. Mannix and the police chief, who know and respect the accused, set out to prove the evidence wrong.
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