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Tuesday May 4, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday May 4, 1971:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Beverly Hillbillies: Mark Templeton Arrives (R) Green Acres: A Royal Love Story (R) Hee Haw (R) All In The Family: Archie Gives Blood (R) 11:59 - Last Minute To Choose Southern Exposures
ABC The Mod Squad: The Long Road Home (R) TV Movie: Night Slaves (1970) How To Stay Alive
NBC Julia: Smoke Scream (R) The Don Knotts Show (R) First Tuesday
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[CBS 7:30] The Beverly Hillbillies [Reg]: Mark Templeton Arrives
Season 9, episode 4
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Sherry Miles (Darlene Mattingly).
Granny's all set to ring wedding bells for Elly May and a visiting Navy officer -- until she discovers his underwater preoccupation.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/6/1970)

[ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: The Long Road Home
Season 3, episode 1
W: Edward J. Lakso   D: Robert Michael Lewis

With S. John Launer (Dr. Haggin), Bruce Watson (Georgie), Lou Antonio (Case), Garry Walberg (Dr. Felson), Anjanette Comer (Billie Fletcher).
Series returns for its third year. Pete Cochran falls in love with a young woman he has critically injured during an auto chase after a robbery suspect.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/22/1970)

[NBC 7:30] Julia [Reg]: Smoke Scream
Season 3, episode 10
W: Hal Kanter   D: Coby Ruskin

With Eddie Quillan (Eddie Edson), C. Lindsay Workman (Otto Brockmeyer), John D. Harrison (Patient), Milton Stark (Johnson).
Corey and Earl's imagination almost lead to panic when, after learning the evils of smoking, they discover Earl's father stretched out on the couch next to a pile of cigar ashes.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/24/1970)

[CBS 8:00] Green Acres [Reg]: A Royal Love Story
Season 6, episode 4
W: Jay Sommers, Dick Chevillat   D: Richard L. Bare

With Victoria Paige Meyerink (Lori Baker), Oscar Beregi Jr. (Papa), Raoul Franck (Pierre), Bob Frank (Man).
Lisa's imaginative story of her courtship, told to Lori Baker, flashes the Douglases to Paris as "little princess and American tourist".

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/6/1970)

[NBC 8:00] The Don Knotts Show
With Andy Griffith, Jo Ann Pflug, The Celebration group.
Andy can't seem to divorce Don from his "Barney Fife" image, and joins him in a front porch discussion of modern radio, gives him a lesson in square dance calling, and listens to Don recite the Gettysburg Address. Miss Pflug hears Don's impression of her movie hit, M*A*S*H, and sings "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Goin' Out of My Head".

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1970)

[CBS 8:30] Hee Haw
With Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Faron Young.

(Repeat program, originally aired 4/22/1970)

[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Night Slaves (1970)
W: Everett Chambers, Robert Specht   D: Ted Post

With James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Scott Marlowe, Andrew Prine, Tisha Sterling, Leslie Nielsen, Virginia Vincent.
Fantasy-science fiction tale of a couple who, stopping overnight in a small town, are touched by terror when the husband discovers the townspeople -- and his wife -- are nocturnally enslaved by a mysterious force.

[NBC 9:00] First Tuesday
A feature on American soldiers who are arriving in Vietnam as many of their fellow GIs are leaving. Garrick Utley is anchorman.

[CBS 9:30] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie Gives Blood
Season 1, episode 4
W: Norman Lear   D: John Rich

With Mike Evans (Lionel Jefferson), Jeannie Linero (Nurse), James Hong (Doctor).
Mike talks Archie into being a blood donor and winds up in a long-winded discussion about the racial "characteristics" of blood.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1971)

[CBS 10:00] 11:59 - Last Minute To Choose [special]
A film on drug abuse.

[ABC 10:00] How To Stay Alive [special]
ABC News delves into the causes and prevention of heart disease in an hour narrated by Robert Young (whose show is pre-empted for this special). The program in cinema verite fashion portrays the daily lives of five men who are running a high risk of heart attack determined by such factors as family history, stress, smoking, obesity and exercise. Viewers can rate their own risk by answering a quiz related to these factors. Altered habits of work, eating and recreation are then examined to demonstrate the steps that can be taken to improve health and increase longevity.

[CBS 10:30] Southern Exposures [special]
French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on the attitudes, troubles and beauty of Mississippi in presenting his impressions of the American South.


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