Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 5, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Storefront Lawyers [Reg]: A Man's Castle
Season 1, episode 1 D: Lee H. Katzin With David Arkin (Gabriel Kaye), A Martinez (Roberto Alvarez), Dean Jagger (Karl Holder), Edward Andrews (Joseph Carlson), Barry Morse (Holly Chapman), Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Thatcher), Bill Zuckert (Judge), Carmen Mathews (Mrs. Holder). Dramatic series in which three aspiring lawyers provide free neighborhood advice to needy clients while working for a big law firm in Los Angeles. The trio of law school graduates deals in cases ranging from the high-rise corporation halls of Century City to the ghetto level in Watts. In the first episode they are asked to defend a 73-year-old dispossessed homeowner accused of having killed a financier. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1970)
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| [ABC 7:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: Hello, Mrs. Bessinger, Goodbye
Season 2, episode 7 W: Joanna Lee D: Bob Sweeney With Suzanne Pleshette (Valerie Bessinger), Patrick O'Moore (Senator Goldrich), Natalie Masters (Mrs. Goldrich). A glamorous jet setter who is conducting learning experiments with Eddie and other children for an article becomes romantically involved with Tom Corbett. But he changes his mind about marriage when she breaks a promise to the children. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1970)
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| [NBC 7:30] The Men From Shiloh [Reg]: Crooked Corner
Season 9, episode 7 W: Harry Kronman D: Herbert Hirschman With Lloyd Battista (Embry), Kurt Kasznar (August Hansch), Walter Koenig (Paul Erlich), Susan Strasberg (Clara Hansch), Ross Elliott (Sheriff Abbott), Brock Peters (Mace Ivers), Mills Watson (Albie). German settlers near Shiloh get help from Tate after mistaking him for a gunslinger they hired for protection. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/28/1970)
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| [ABC 8:00] Room 222 [Reg]: Write On, Brother
Season 2, episode 1 W: John D.F. Black D: Terry Becker With Ramon Bieri (Gil Casey), Ivor Francis (Mr. Dragen), Wes Stern (Ted Winkler), Ta-Tanisha (Pam). In the first episode of the second year, a class discussion of intolerable acts of oppression that led to the Revolutionary War brings on a student protest in the form of an underground newspaper. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1970)
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| [CBS 8:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: Dr. Andy
Season 2, episode 14 With Philip Frame (Charles), Victoria Vetri (Christina). Controlled panic is a bylaw when it appears Mama Vitale's niece is going to give premature birth at the Endicott's apartment. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/29/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Smith Family [Reg]: Cindy
Season 1, episode 1 W: Edmund L. Hartmann D: Herschel Daugherty With June Vincent (Mrs. Bradford), Yale Summers (Mr. Bowers), Heather Menzies (Janie Bradford). Henry Fonda returns to TV in a series about the home life of a 25-year veteran of a police force. His family represents various stages of the generation gap, but all are frequently reminded of the demands and dangers of his profession. In the first episode, a divorcee imposes on his friendship when she discovers her daughter is hiding marijuana. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/20/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Witch Hunt
Season 2, episode 9 W: Ed Adamson With Jeff Donnell (Mrs. Hersey), Dana Wynter (Amanda Scott), Joan Delaney (Janice), Dick Kallman (Charlie), John Abbott (Professor MacIntyre), Ted de Corsia (Bert Wilcox), Ed Hall (Intern), Alfred Shelly (Officer Dormer). Gannon tracks down a campus witchcraft cult that is using bizarre practices to treat an ailing coed. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/11/1970)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Johnny Cash Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 10 With Glen Campbell, Tony Joe White, The Stoneman Family. Campbell sings "Wichita Lineman". Johnny sings "Workin' Man Blues" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Johnny and Glen duet on "Arkansas". The Stoneman Family perform "Doin' My Time". Tony Joe White sings "Conjure Woman". (Repeat program, originally aired 11/25/1970)
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| [NBC 9:00] America's Junior Miss Pageant [special]
Hosted by Ed McMahon.
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| [CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Force Of Waves
Season 3, episode 7 W: Mark Rodgers, Eric Bercovici D: Paul Krasny With Carole Kai (Nurse), William Keoho (Officer John Onoe), Ann McCormack (Grace Sloan), Thomas Norton (Clark Sloan), Grace Albertson (Dr. Landis), Diane Morrissey (Alicia Anderson), James Daris (Neal Porter), Linda Marsh (Maria Sloan), Dewey Martin (Richard Fairbirne), John Vernon (Cal Anderson). The investigation of a boat explosion that killed a wealthy businessman indicates the widow's previous husband was responsible -- until a series of coincidences and similarities tie the death with that of several other wealthy men who left families for younger women. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/28/1970)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Young Lawyers [Reg]: We May Be Better Strangers
Season 1, episode 6 With David Carson (Tony Fulton), Tim O'Connor (Lew Fulton), John Rubinstein (Dan Fulton), Marsha Hunt (Celia Fulton), Sam Melville (Gabe Thomas), Doria Cook (Eve), Lew Brown (Patrolman), Douglas Henderson (Judge). Aaron Silverman is caught between a father and son when the young man, charged with the possession of marijuana, pleads his innocence and the adamant parent insists he's guilty and suffer the consequences. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/26/1970)
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| [NBC 10:00] San Francisco International Airport [Reg]: Once We Came Home To Parades
Season 1, episode 3 W: William Read Woodfield With Robert Webber (Brig. Gen. Goodwin), Tim Matheson (Danny), Mills Watson, Deidre Hall, Edward Faulkner. Airport manager Conrad must secure the arrival and layover of a controversial general who is the target of demonstrators and an assassin. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1970)
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