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Saturday May 8, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 8, 1971:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Mission: Impossible (R) My Three Sons: The Liberty Bell (R) Arnie: Why Spy? (R) The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Boss Isn't Coming To Dinner (R) Mannix: A Ticket To The Eclipse (R)
ABC The Lawrence Welk Show The Pearl Bailey Show (R) Movie: Black Sabbath (1963)
NBC The Andy Williams Show (R) Movie: Guns For San Sebastian (1968)
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[CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]
The IMF tries to smuggle a secret weapon from behind the Iron Curtain.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 7:30] The Lawrence Welk Show

[NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 14
W: Chris Bearde Allan Blye, Marty Farrell, Milt Rosen   D: Alan Handley

With Petula Clark, Flip Wilson, Sly and the Family Stone, Bill Haley and the Comets.
Flip plays the first traveling salesman and the Reverend Leroy. Miss Clark sings "Happy Heart" and "Going Out of My Head".

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/2/1971)

[CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The Liberty Bell
Season 11, episode 14
W: Douglas Tibbles   D: Fred De Cordova

With Ann Marshall (Cynthia Wright), Sal Mineo (Jim Bell), Mark Tapscott (Ralph), Robert Rhodes (Harry).
Robbie's footloose pal from the old days in Bryant Park rides his motorcycle back into Rob's life with appealing tales of travel and adventure.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/2/1971)

[ABC 8:30] The Pearl Bailey Show
Season 1, episode 5

With Kate Smith, Phil Harris, George Kirby.
Pearl and Harris duet on "Muskrat Ramble" and a "challenge routine". George Kirby does another imitation of Pearl and the two of them dig into "Ballin' the Jack". Kate Smith booms out "God Bless America" and the cast joins in for a big salute to "Americana".

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/20/1971)

[NBC 8:30] Movie: Guns For San Sebastian (1968)
W: Serge Gance, Miguel Morayta, Ennio De Concini   D: Henri Verneuil

With Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer, Charles Bronson, Sam Jaffe, Silvia Pinal, Leon Askin.
An army deserter in 18th century Mexico seeks sanctuary in a church where a priest befriends him. The priest is then exiled to a village for helping him.

[CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: Why Spy?
Season 1, episode 9
D: Don Richardson

Arnie is demoted from executive to floor sweeper but it's all a ruse to snag an industrial saboteur.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/14/1970)

[CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Boss Isn't Coming To Dinner
Season 1, episode 21
W: Lorenzo Music, David Davis   D: Jay Sandrich

With John Amos (Gordy Howard), Paul Micale (Waiter).
Mary can't seem to understand why her boss keeps turning down her dinner invitation. A phone coversation with his wife clears the air.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/13/1971)

[ABC 9:30] Movie: Black Sabbath (1963)
W: Mario Bava, Antonio Bevilacqua, Marcello Fondato   D: Mario Bava

With Boris Karloff.
A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients - an elderly medium who died during a seance.

[CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: A Ticket To The Eclipse
Season 4, episode 1
W: Harold Medford   D: John Llewellyn Moxey

With Mark Stewart (Toby), Darren McGavin (Mark), Don McGovern (Ray Endicott), Paul Mantee (Tommy Gantt), Dane Clark (Lt. Deegan), Jack Griffin (1st Zoo Attendant), John Wheeler (2nd Zoo Attendant), Chris Woodley (Girl).
When a member of Joe Mannix's former Korean War army unit confesses to killing two people in his quest for revenge because of a grievance incurred during the war, the police think he's a crank. But Mannix believes him.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1970)


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