Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday April 17, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Homecoming
Season 5, episode 4 W: Laurence Heath D: Reza Badiyi With Joe Maross (Sheriff Brad Owens), Jack Donner (Stan Sherman), Jacqueline Scott (Cynthia Owens), Fred Beir (Joe Keith), Loretta Swit (Midge Larson), Frank Webb (Seth Morley), Patricia Smith (Julia Keith), Sharon Acker (Connie Hastings), Larry Pennell (Karl Burroughs), James B. Sikking (Corrigan), Owen Bush (Reynolds). Phelps returns to his hometown on personal business, only to discover the place in a state of panic due to the mysterious deaths of several girls. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1970)
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| [ABC 7:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 10 W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye With Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Ray Stevens. Phyllis and Jonathan do a takeoff on Women's Liberation and weekend campers; Andy sings "Hello, Young Lovers" and "Emily". (Repeat program, originally aired 11/21/1970)
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Robbie's Honey
Season 11, episode 17 W: Arthur Sheekman D: Fred De Cordova With Ann Marshall (Cynthia Wright), David Brandon (Co-Worker). Cold war threatens the marital bliss between Robbie and Kate when circumstantial evidence stacks up against him. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/23/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Pearl Bailey Show
Season 1, episode 13 With Gregory Peck, Mike Douglas, Carol Lawrence, Phyllis Diller. Pearl demonstrates how to cook "macaroni for the masses" with model homemaker Phyllis.
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| [NBC 8:30] Movie: Sebastian (1968)
W: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes D: David Greene With Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, Lilli Palmer, John Gielgud, Nigel Davenport. A brilliant British mathematician hires a woman to work in his top secret department where she trains to become a decoder for intelligence.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: One Strike And You're Out
Season 1, episode 7 D: Gary Nelson With Cliff Norton (Martin), Olan Soule (Springer), Allan Hunt (Bobby), Jimmy Scruggs (Duke). Arnie's company is struck by the dock workers' union and his loyalty is torn because as a former dock worker he is still a member of the union. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1970)
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Anchorman Overboard
Season 1, episode 12 W: Lorenzo Music D: Jay Sandrich With Bob Duggan (Clock Man), Bill Fiore (Dave Curson). Phyllis asks Mary to use her influence with a TV news personality to be the guest speaker at a ladies' club meeting, unaware that the guy needs help to write his name. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/5/1970)
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| [ABC 9:30] Movie: When Worlds Collide (1951)
W: Sydney Boehm D: Rudolph Mate With Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke, Stephen Chase. As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: The Solid Gold Web
Season 2, episode 23 W: Blake Ritchie, Donn Mullally D: Sutton Roley With Shirley O'Hara (Iris Meacham), Whit Bissell (Harry Meacham), Sally Kellerman (Diana Walker), John Archer (Judge John Leigh), Anne Loos (Cinny), John Randolph (Jason Walker), Hal Baylor (Cully), Jason Wingreen (Barney), Robert Ellenstein (Macklin Reeves). Joe Mannix becomes involved in murder and political intrigue when he agrees to help a wealthy newspaper publisher find the reasons for his daughter's strange behavior. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/22/1969)
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