Prime-time network TV listings for Monday April 26, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Prairie Wolfer
Season 13, episode 10 W: Calvin Clements D: Robert Butler With I. Stanford Jolley (Grandpa), Lou Antonio (Rich), Jon Voight (Cory), Charles McGraw (Dolen), Kelly Jean Peters (Adele), Matt Emery (Trail Boss). Left in charge of the marshal's office, Festus Haggen mistakenly refuses to pay a wolfskin bounty to two hide hunters. The wild pair hold up a hide broker and later take Festus hostage as they flee a Dodge City posse. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/13/1967)
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] From A Bird's Eye View [Reg]: Wife Trouble
Season 1, episode 5 W: T.E.B. Clarke D: Ralph Levy With Neil Stacy (Charles), Richard Caldicot (Sir Albert), Dora Reisser (Gina). Helpful Millie volunteers to pose as the Italian wife of a distraught passenger for a meeting with his boss and, as usual, almost brings on disaster.
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| [ABC 8:00] L'il Abner [special]
With Ray Young, Nancee Parkinson, Billie Hayes, Billy Bletcher, Bobo Lewis. ABC presents an original musical based on the comic strip characters of Al Capp. This contemporary version of the life and times of Dogpatch finds the villagers face-to-face with pollution - deadly "glops" which threaten the world. Featured are cameos by Eddie Albert, Carol Burnett, Ken Berry, Monty Hall and Donald O'Connor. Music by Earl Brown and Jimmy Dale. Written by Coslough Johnson, Ted Ziegler, Chris Beard and Allan Blye.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #75
Season 4, episode 9 W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al D: Mark Warren With Greer Garson, Carl Reiner, Andy Williams, Jim Backus. Reiner plays William Shakespeare, Marty Farkel and a new occupant of a honeymoon suite. Mod Mod World looks at the news media. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1970)
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| [CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price
Season 3, episode 9 W: Martin A. Ragway D: Herbert Kenwith With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vincent Price (Himself), Tol Avery (Auctioneer), Jack Collins (Kurt). Vincent Price's movie image sends Lucy's imagination on a wild trip when she pays him a visit at home and begins to think he's after her brain. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1970)
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| [CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Millie, The Best-Dressed Woman
Season 3, episode 7 W: Bob Mosher D: Hal Cooper With Mary Lansing (Martha), Vince Barnett (Elmo), Joan Tompkins (Emily), Toni Moss (Debbie), Ivor Francis (Carl Brady), Ken Sansom (Clarence), Judith McConnell (Pamela). Millie inspires marital woe when, after being named the county's best-dressed woman, she decides to change over to midi-skirts -- and the rest of Mayberry's women want to follow suit. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/26/1970)
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| [ABC 9:00] Plimpton! Shoot Out At Rio Lobo [special]
ABC reprises this entertainment documentary following George Plimpton's preparations for his role in John Wayne's "Rio Lobo" filmed on location in Tucson, Ariz. Also within the hour are tributes to Wayne and director Howard Hawks and a segment with veteran actor Jack Elam featuring film clips of character actors from the past. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Intruders (1970)
W: William Lansford, Dean Riesner D: William Graham With Don Murray, Edmond O'Brien, John Saxon, Anne Francis, Gene Evans, Edward Andrews. Western drama of a town faced with an impending raid by the Jesse James-Cole Younger gang, complicated by a clash between the marshal, a fast-gun who has lost his courage, and a ruthless town boss.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Doris Leaves Today's World (2)
Season 3, episode 6 W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul D: Reza Badiyi With Lew Ayres (William Tyler), Pat Cranshaw (Fred), John Stuart (Jameson), Teru Shimada (Mr. Orokumu), Richard Angarola (Mr. Constantine). Doris' glamorous life as exective secretary to billionaire WIlliam Tyler loses much of its appeal when, while in Greece, she learns that Toby is missing at home. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/19/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 20 With Rita Hayworth, Jim Bailey. Rita Hayworth makes her television performing debut. Heretofore a TV holdout, Miss Hayworth's appearance was induced by Miss Burnett's spoof last September of "Gilda", the 1946 Hayworth-Glenn Ford movie featuring Rita's classic "Put the Blame on Me" number. Carol and Rita sing "Mutual Admiration Society". Charwoman sketch is "Lovely Story". (Repeat program, originally aired 2/1/1971)
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| [ABC 10:00] Tom Jones. . . Movin' Up River [special]
With Phil Harris, Mary Travers, Tina Charles. Journeying along the Mississippi River's levees and bayous, the Welsh singer offers a revue of jazz flavored music at the places where the music originated. Among his numbers are "St. Louis Blues", "Rovin' Gambler", "25 or 6 to 4", "Proud Mary" and "Tupelo Mississippi Flash". A teenage singing discovery, Tina Charles, sings the Beatles' hit "Hey Jude".
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