Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 8, 1971:
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Program details:
[CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: It Can't Be Five Years
Season 5, episode 6 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Charles T. Barton With Annette Cabot (Miss Thurston), J. Edward McKinley (Senator), Len Hendry (Man), Lizbeth Deen (Elaine), Robert Rhodes (Larry Caldwell). Instead of coming home where a surprise party awaits him in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the kids, Uncle Bill goes directly from his office to catch a flight to Washington on business. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1970)
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[ABC 7:30] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: Journey From San Juan
Season 1, episode 13 W: Dick Nelson D: Jeffrey Hayden With Dub Taylor (Johnson), Gregory Sierra (Juan), Susan Oliver (Blanche Graham), Nico Minardos (El Clavo), Joaquin Martinez (Carlos), Claudine Longet (Michelle Monet), Med Flory (Marshal), Curt Conway (McKendricks). Heyes and Curry pose as cowboys rounding up maverick cattle in Mexico while hunting more lucrative game.
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[NBC 7:30] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 4 With Perry Como, Lola Falana, Charlie Callas, Denise Nicholas. Como plays the psychiatrist whom Geraldine Jones consults after a marriage proposal to her boyfriend, "Killer", prompts him to tell her she's crazy. Flip also appears as bachelor Freddie Johnson, dating Denise Nicholas of "Room 222" and dancer Lola Falana. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/8/1970)
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[CBS 8:00] The Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]
Season 2, episode 2 With Carol Burnett. In a comedy skit, Carol is trapped in a bathtub with a finger caught in the drain and Nabors is the handyman who comes to the resuce. Another segment spoofs dance marathons of the 1930s. The cast goes Parisian in the finale, recreating Toulouse Lautrec's dancers, singers and nightclub patrons. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1970)
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[ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Samantha's Magic Mirror
Season 7, episode 26 W: Ed Jurist D: Richard Michaels With Alice Ghostley (Esmerelda), Tom Bosley (Ferdy), Jack Denton (Policeman #1), Ed Deemer (Policeman #2), David Manzy (Golf Attendant), Nancy Priddy (Esmerelda's Mirror Image), Richard Rowley (Nephew). Samantha's efforts to help Esmeralda captivate her boyfriend of 400 years ago puts a strain on her happy home and husband Darrin.
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[NBC 8:30] Swing Out, Sweet Land [special]
W: Paul Keyes D: Stan Harris With Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Hugh O'Brian, Bing Crosby. John Wayne traces America's growth over three centuries with comedy, music, dramatic presentations and more than two dozen guest stars who help him pay tribute to such historical figures as Paul Revere, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass. (Repeat program)
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[CBS 9:00] Movie: Who's Minding The Store? (1963)
W: Frank Tashlin, Harry Tugend D: Frank Tashlin With Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead, John McGiver, Ray Walston, Nancy Kulp, Kathleen Freeman. Jerry plays a fumbling department store employee who falls in love with an heiress.
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[ABC 9:00] Make Room For Granddaddy [Reg]: The Great Emancipator
Season 1, episode 4 With Roosevelt Grier (Rosey Robbins), Sid Miller (Sam). Danny hires a black accompanist and develops an uncomfortable relationship with him. In his efforts to be pleasant, Danny becomes condescending. But Rosey has a diplomatic way to get around it. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1970)
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[ABC 9:30] Dan August [Reg]: The Assassin
Season 1, episode 16 W: Mel Goldberg D: Gene Nelson With John Beck (Steve Phipps), Carolyn Jones (Margo Davis), Gary Collins (Larry Edwards), Charles MacCauley, Hal Baylor, Bill Erwin, Joan Hackett (Nancy Williams). As Santa Luisa police chief Untermeyer goes to the aid of a panicked friend, an unseen rifleman knocks him down and kills her. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/14/1971)
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[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 28 With Jimmy Stewart, Dom DeLuise, Laurie Ichino. In a skit, Stewart is a newlywed who has problems with a brash bellboy (Dean); DeLuise plays a pet shop owner who conducts weddings for animals; Dean is a king in search of a court jester; Dean sings "For the Good Times".
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[ABC 10:30] This Is Your Life
With Carol Channing.
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