Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 6, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The American Revolution - 1770-1783 [special]
First of a series of programs on the American Revolution. Tonight, a reporter from the colonies (Eric Sevareid) interviews Lord North (Peter Ustinov), the British Prime Minister whose activities in Parliament are generally credited with helping to provoke the revolution.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: A Short Course In War
Season 3, episode 14 W: Mann Rubin D: Robert Michael Lewis With Bob Balaban (Walter Coy), Jack Bender (Jeff Dalton), Michael Warren (Lon), Paul Kent (Dean Harris), Mark Tapscott (Chief Roberts), Monty Margetts (Registrar), Josephine Hutchinson (Sarah Osgood). Julie Barnes and an elderly teacher become hostages when student activists take over a college administration building. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1971)
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| [NBC 7:30] Julia [Reg]: Little Boys Lost
Season 3, episode 3 W: Hal Kanter D: Ezra Stone With Stu Gilliam (Himself), Douglas Fowley (Gus), Janear Hines (Roberta Simms), Buddy Hodge (Policeman), John Copage (Policeman). Corey and Earl get locked in a gas station's men's room and their mothers, unaware they're not asleep in the car, drive on their way to Las Vegas. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/29/1970)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Don Knotts Show
With Tony Randall, Claudine Longet, The Three Degrees. Randall portrays a man of the cloth in one sketch, takes a pet ant to a veterinarian, helps Don find his missing wife, and challenges Knotts to a pool game; Miss Longet sings and helps Don with his French. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/2/1971)
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| [CBS 8:30] Hee Haw
Season 2, episode 8 With Tom T. Hall, Jean Shepherd. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/10/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Escape (1971)
W: Paul Playdon D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Christopher George, Avery Schreiber, Marlyn Mason, William Windom, Gloria Grahame, William Schallert, John Vernon, Huntz Hall. An escape artist battles a criminal mastermind who has kidnapped a scientist with knowledge that could spell doom for mankind.
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| [NBC 9:00] First Tuesday
Tom Brokaw anchors a progress report on the Kienast Quintuplets of Liberty Corner, N.J., who recently celebrated their first birthday. Then there is a session with an encounter group, viewed and commented on by a psychoanalayst who is an opponent of the technique; other segments include a piece on Black Power and its rhetoric of violence in the Caribbean area, which seems to have frightened tourists away but not gained many followers.
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| [CBS 9:30] All In The Family [Reg]: The First And Last Supper
Season 1, episode 13 W: Jerry Mayer D: John Rich With Mel Stewart (Henry Jefferson), Mike Evans (Lionel Jefferson), Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson), William Benedict (Jimmy McNab). At the time Archie is circulating a petition to keep more black families from moving into the neighborhood, Edith accepts an invitation for her and Archie to have dinner with Lionel's parents.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Anonymous Howard Hughes
An examination of the life and career of billionaire Howard Hughes.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: The Worth Of A Man
Season 2, episode 3 W: Don Ingalls D: Leo Penn With Gary Merrill (Orlando Corday), Beth Brickell (Jeanne Corday), Kaz Garas (John Christopher), Carle Benson (Dr. White), Jill Chandler (Mrs. Wesley). Pride and career blend to make a man stricken with a terminal disease refuse Dr. Welby's advice.
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| [CBS 10:30] What Happened To Earth Day?
CBS News updates the ecology movement with a progress report on the year since Earth Day (April 22, 1970). Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr and David Culhane report. The broadcast focuses on Philadelphia and Washington, both of which were centers of activity on Earth Day a year ago. Seen on the broadcast will be William Ruckelshaus, head of the President's Environment Protection Force, and Sen. Edmund Muskie (D., Maine) whose committee will have just concluded hearings on a water pollution bill.
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