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Sunday May 16, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday May 16, 1971:


7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Lassie: The Innocents (R) Hogan's Heroes: At Last - Schultz Knows Something (R) The Ed Sullivan Show (R) The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (R) Lure of the Tall Ship
ABC   The F.B.I.: Antennae Of Death (R) Movie: Vertigo (1958)
NBC   Wonderful World Of Disney: Emil And The Detectives (2) (R) The Bill Cosby Show: Tobacco Road (R) Bonanza: Top Hand (R) The Bold Ones: The Senator: Someday They'll Elect A President (R)
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[CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The Innocents
Season 17, episode 5

Lassie and her two little pups fight for survival in an all-animal episode. Fifth of a seven-part story.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1970)

[CBS 7:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: At Last - Schultz Knows Something
Season 5, episode 14
W: Laurence Marks   D: Bruce Bilson

With David Morick (Officer), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), John Myhers (Dr. Hermann Felzer), Jack Riley (Guard), Fay Spain (Carla).
Hogan and his crew use Schultz -- and the persuasiveness of a beautiful underground agent -- in a scheme to destroy a secret enemy atomic installation.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/26/1969)

[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Emil And The Detectives (2)
Season 13, episode 2

With Bryan Russell, Walter Slezak, Heinz Schubert, Peter Ehrlich.
Emil, captured and forced to help the Baron rob the Berlin Bank, is left to die in a dynamite explosion.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/18/1966)

[CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 23, episode 24

With Oliver, Bernadette Peters, Georgie Kaye, George Hamilton, Skiles & Henderson.
Oliver begins with "Early Morning Rain" and "Walking Down the Line"; Bernadette Peters sings "Look for the Silver Lining" and duets with Oliver on "Yes, Yes, Bernadette". Actor George Hamilton croons "If I Could Read Your Mind".

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/21/1971)

[ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Antennae Of Death
Season 6, episode 10
W: Robert Heverly   D: Virgil Vogel

With Robert Doyle (Carl Ahern), Dean Harens (S.A.C. Bryan Durant), Lawrence Montaigne (Gary Grove), Hal Riddle (S.A.C. Crail), Felice Orlandi (Oren Willard), Richard Schaal (Ray Calvin), Mary Gregory (Mrs. Loper), Jack Bender (Robert Loper), Tony Brande (Keith Allison), Victor Campos (Paul Willard), Rhill Rhaden (Kirby Jarret), Robert Palmer (Craig Waters), Charles Bastin (Silvestre), Ray Kellogg (Border Patrol Inspector), John Yates (S.A.C. Dan Riss), William Shatner (Arthur Majors), Bettye Ackerman (Mary Binyon), Astrid Warner (Shelly Binyon).
Inspector Erskine leads an investigation of syndicate narcotics smuggling and a demoted runner who plans to rob dope distributors.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/29/1970)

[NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: Tobacco Road
Season 2, episode 20
W: Ed Weinberger   D: Coby Ruskin

With Herb Edelman (Mr. Maher), Donald Ein (Swedish Man).
Chet sets out to help his friend break his nicotine habit but a party -- and hypnosis -- backfires.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1971)

[CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 3, episode 9

With Dean Martin, John Byner, Anne Murray.
Dean and Glen do a medley of country music hits; Dean sings "Till I Kissed You" with Miss Murray; in a skit Dean and Glen trade personalities; Byner offers his impersonations of top singing stars.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1970)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: Vertigo (1958)
W: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor   D: Alfred Hitchcock

With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones.
Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller about a police detective with a fear of heights who finds hmself involved in a baffling situation with a mysterious girl.

[NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: Top Hand
Season 12, episode 17
W: John Hawkins, Arthur Heinemann   D: William F. Claxton

With Bill Clark (Jimpson), Hal Burton (Smokey), Ben Johnson (Kelly James), Eddie Juaregui (Bones), Jerry Gatlin (Quincy), Walter Barnes (Weatherby), Roger Davis (Bert Yates), Richard Farnsworth (Sourdough).
A Ponderosa trail boss' personal conflict with his men threatens the success of a major cattle drive.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1971)

[CBS 10:00] Lure of the Tall Ship [special]
CBS presents the modern, true-life adventure of Danish teenagers aboard a 19th-century sailing ship that serves as their school for a lesson in practical seamanship. Each year 180 cadets set sail on the Danmark for six months, preparing for jobs on cargo ships and tankers. Charles Kuralt reports.

[NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Senator [Reg]: Someday They'll Elect A President
Season 1, episode 6
W: Leon Tokatyan   D: John Badham

With John Randolph (Gov. Keller), Murray Hamilton (Jonathan Yaeger), Kermit Murdock (Sen. Shea), Dana Elcar (Collie Ford), Bill Quinn (Sen. Stenberg), Lieux Dressler (Mrs. Ford), James Griffith (Channing).
A human error by Jordan Boyle, aide to Sen. Hays Stowe, plunges the Senator into hot water when a scandal magazine writer and a columnist accuse Sen. Stowe of using his office to line the pockets of the syndicate.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1971)


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