Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 20, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Family Affair [Reg]: The Unsinkable Mr. French
Season 5, episode 12 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Charles T. Barton With Noel Drayton (Mr. Hardcastle), Henry Hunter (Dr. Terrell), Karl Lukas (Mr. Parker), Marj Dusay (Dana Markham), Heather Angel (Miss Faversham). In a day of near-disasters, French, while preparing for a big party, twice has his trousers badly ripped, soaks a guest with champagne, accidentally dips his elbow in the frosting of a cake -- and still remains outwardly calm. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/3/1970)
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| [ABC 7:30] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The Great Shell Game
Season 1, episode 6 W: Glen A. Larson D: Richard Benedict With Peter Breck (Chuck Morgan), Sam Jaffe (Soapy Saunders), Diana Muldaur (Grace Turner). Heyes acts like he's lost interest in amnesty when he takes a beautiful woman to a gambling house. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1971)
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| [NBC 7:30] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 12 With Lena Horne, Tony Randall. Flip plays a prisoner with the world's most untidy cell who is assigned a cellmate with a fetish for neatness; Tony is an elderly hippie movie producer who is arrested by a parking meter maid named Geraldine; Miss Horne sings "I Had a Dream" and "Rocky Raccoon". (Repeat program, originally aired 12/10/1970)
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| [CBS 8:00] Jim Nabors Hour [Reg]: Family Show
Nabors launches into a giant medley of Broadway hit songs including "Oklahoma!", "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "The Impossible Dream". Ronnie Schell plays his interior decorator character, Bruce Baroque; Harry teaches Loomis about door-to-door salesmen in "Brothers-in-Law"; Karen Morrow plays a rural spinster looking over prospects Nabors and Schell. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:30] Bewitched [Reg]: Samantha's Hot Bed Warmer (2)
Season 7, episode 4 W: Ed Jurist D: William Asher With Dick Wilson (Old Timer), Richard X. Slattery (Policeman #1), Ron Masak (Policeman #2), Elizabeth Montgomery (Serena), Noam Pitlik (Newton), Virginia Hawkins (Witch), Jack Wells (Captain Harkness), Bill Zuckert (Judge), Joan Hotchkis (Miss Ferndale). Samantha's husband is charged with stealing an antique bedwarmer from the House of Seven Gables and is sent to jail in Salem. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1970)
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| [NBC 8:30] Ironside [Reg]: Check, Mate: And Murder (1)
Season 4, episode 7 W: Sandy Stern D: David Lowell Rich With Karin Dor (Jeanine Duvalier), Richard Angarola (Doorman), Alan Bergmann (Pierre Fougere), William Lanteau (Arnold Beckman), Ivor Francis (Claude), Alain Patrick (Robert Duvalier), Maria Grimm (Claudette), Michael Sugich (Henri), Emile Genest (Frank Rousseau), Hermione Gingold (Ernestine Mugford). Ironside renews an old love in Montreal and becomes involved with terrorist bombings and an international robbery. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/29/1970)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Chamber Of Horrors (1966)
W: Stephen Kandel D: Hy Averback With Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker, Patrick O'Neal, Jeanette Nolan, Wayne Rogers. Story of a maniac who terrorizes the city of Baltimore in the early 1880s. His activities center around the House of Wax, a museum featuring re-creations of infamous crimes and their perpetrators.
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| [ABC 9:00] Make Room For Granddaddy [Reg]: Tonoose, The Exile
Season 1, episode 8 With Hans Conried (Uncle Tonoose), Sid Caesar (Habib). Uncle Tonoose moves in when his niece calls off the marriage he had arranged for her. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/11/1970)
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| [ABC 9:30] Dan August [Reg]: In The Eyes Of God
Season 1, episode 5 W: Barry Trivers D: Harvey Hart With Steven Benson (Paramedic), James Best (Wiley), Donna Mills, Bradford Dillman (Matthew Costa). Dan August's investigation into the attempted murder of an elderly priest leads to a young priest who recently renounced his vows -- and a possible link to a series of brutal ice pick slayings. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/21/1970)
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| [NBC 9:30] Adam-12 [Reg]: Log 45 -- Bright Boy
Season 3, episode 4 W: James Doherty D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Bruce Gordon (Sgt. Poster), Stephen Hudis (Harold Ruskin), Rand Brooks (Walter Marshall), Robin Raymond (Marine Prout), Patricia Winters (Lorean Harper). An 11-year-old youth makes officers Malloy and Reed believers in his photographic memory when his description proves decisive in a burglary case. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1970)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 14 With Glen Campbell, Dom DeLuise, Gale Gordon, The Golddiggers. Dean's solos are "She's a Little Bit of Country" and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head". Campbell offers "Gotta Travel On" and a medley with Dean. In skits, Gordon tries to sell Dean his particular line of merchandise -- "gifts especially for your enemies"; DeLuise, as a dog psychiatrist, advises Dean on his dog's problems, and also plays a waiter who nearly destroys a restaurant as he tries to extinguish a fly. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/17/1970)
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| [ABC 10:30] This Is Your Life
(Repeat program)
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