Monday May 17, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 17, 1971:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: The Miracle Man (R) Here's Lucy: Lucy, Part-Time Wife (R) Mayberry R.F.D.: The Harp (R) The Doris Day Show: Duke The Performer (R) The Carol Burnett Show (R)
ABC Let's Make A Deal Newlywed Game It Was A Very Good Year: 1964 TV Movie: The City (1971)
NBC From A Bird's Eye View: Never Put It In Writing Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #69 (R) TV Movie: Do You Take This Stranger? (1971)


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Program details:



[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Miracle Man
Season 14, episode 10
W: Calvin Clements   D: Bernard McEveety

With John Crawford (Drunk), Sandra Smith (Lorna Wright), Bruce Watson (Howard Miller), Kevin Cooper (Jacob Wright), William Bramley (Miller), Don Chastain (Bob Sullivan), Lisa Gerritsen (Nettie Wright), Christopher Knight (Boy), Joey Walsh (Gerard Miller), Margie DeMeyer (Prudence Wright). A slick-talking traveling salesman plays on a widow's sympathy and loneliness in a plot to swindle her out of her land.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/2/1968)

[ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal

[NBC 7:30] From A Bird's Eye View [Reg]: Never Put It In Writing
Season 1, episode 8
W: Eric Green, John Muir   D: Peter Duffell

With Noel Hood (Miss Fosdyke). Millie finds herself in a precarious position -- a high window ledge -- when she tries to retrieve a letter of resignation.

[ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game

[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #69
Season 4, episode 3
W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al   D: Mark Warren

With Tim Conway (Cameo Appearance), Jilly Rizzo (Cameo Appearance), Carol Channing (Cameo Appearance), Goldie Hawn. Highlights: Goldie is welcomed back by the entire cast and, as Sparkle Farkel, introduces the family to her favorite fiancee; In "the Rumor Song", Miss Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, Lily Tomlin and Alan Sues dispel and/or confirm everything that's been written about Goldie since she left the show; the cast looks at Women's Lib.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/28/1970)

[CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy, Part-Time Wife
Season 3, episode 14
W: Larry Rhine, Lou Derman   D: Ross Martin

With Carole Cook (Lillian Rylander), Jean Willes (Gertie Krebs), Eddie Quillan (Cab Driver), William Benedict (Delivery Man). Harry bribes Lucy into posing as his expectant wife to keep a former girlfriend from shanghaiing him into marriage.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/14/1970)

[ABC 8:30] It Was A Very Good Year: 1964
Season 1, episode 2
Gower Champion and Olympic swimmer Don Schollander join host Mel Torme for a look back at the year 1964 and the election of Lyndon B. Johnson, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Rev. Martin Luther King, the Alaska earthquake and the dances and songs.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The Harp
Season 3, episode 12
W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant   D: Hal Cooper

With Karen Anders (Mrs. Finch), Ken Sansom (Mr. Ferguson), Leonid Kinskey (Professor Radetsky), Lavina Dawson (Receptionist), Paul Jackson (Boy Violinist), Jill Breslaw (Little Girl). Cousin Alice buys a harp and signs up for lessons from a down-and-out European professor.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1970)

[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The City (1971)
W: Howard Rodman   D: Daniel Petrie

With Anthony Quinn, E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Skye Aubrey, Pat Hingle, Kaz Garas, Peggy McKay, John Larch, Lorraine Gary. The story of a Mexican-American mayor of a southwestern town, a pilot for the series premiering on ABC this fall. Mayor Thomas J. Alcala's career is jeopardized by urban crises and an assassin.

[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Do You Take This Stranger? (1971)
W: Douglas Heyes   D: Richard T. Heffron

With Gene Barry, Lloyd Bridges, Diane Baker, Joseph Cotten, Sidney Blackmer, Susan Oliver. A man schemes to inherit a fortune with the help of a man with a terminal illness.

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Duke The Performer
Season 3, episode 9
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs   D: Reza Badiyi

With Larry Storch (Duke Farentino), Norman Alden (Nicky Burke). Ex-boxer Duke Farentino's debut as a nightclub entertainer is so disastrous that Doris vows he'll be a hit yet -- with her help!
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1970)

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 11

With Paul Lynde, Dyan Cannon. Main comedy sketch spoofs soap operas; Miss Burnett (as the Charwoman) sings "Try To Remember"; entire cast salutes Thanksgiving.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/23/1970)

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