Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 22, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Hostage
Season 5, episode 13 W: Harold Livingston D: Barry Crane With Lee Duncan (Frederico), Lou Antonio (Robert Siomney), Ron Castro (Luis Cabal), Conrad Parham (Roerca), Pepe Callahan (Ortega), David Renard (Carlos Marchese), Joe De Santis (Jorge Cabal). Paris, still wearing his makeup from a completed mission, is kidnapped by a group of revolutionists who think he is an influential American magnate. They hope to use him to bargain for release of three political prisoners. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/19/1970)
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| [ABC 7:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 22 W: Allan Blye With The Smothers Brothers, Ray Stevens, Gladys Knight and the Pips. Stevens sings "Mr. Businessman"; the Smothers are featured in one segment with the cookie-stealing bear and in a skit about the history of communication. Gladys & the Pips sing "Friendship Train", and Andy is heard in numbers like "Honey Come Back", "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" and "Days of Wine and Roses". (Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1970)
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The Elopement
Season 11, episode 7 W: George Tibbles D: Fred De Cordova With Norman Alden (Tom Williams), Doris Singleton (Margaret Williams), Sidney Clute (Operator). While parked in Lover's Cove, Polly and Chip discover they are being followed. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1970)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Cherokee Shaft
ABC News explores the most dangerous occupation in America: coal mining, which annually claims the lives of over 200 miners. Despite this terrible statistic, mining continues as a major industry. Narrator Frank Reynolds tells of the realities, good and bad, that confront the people who continue to work for a crucial energy source for this country.
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| [NBC 8:30] Movie: Torn Curtain (1966)
W: Brian Moore D: Alfred Hitchcock With Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath. An American professor, attending an international conference of scientists in Copenhagen, shocks his secretary-finacee by defecting to the East.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: For Whom The Whistle Blows
Season 1, episode 10 D: Don Richardson While Arnie is participating in his boss's tough exercise program under orders, wife Lillian is pressuring him to tell the boss where to go. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/21/1970)
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Snow Must Go On
Season 1, episode 8 W: Lorenzo Music, David Davis D: Jay Sandrich With Richard Schaal (Chuckles the Clown), Ivor Francis (Father Flint), Robert Rothwell (Floor Manager), Mimi Kirk (Phone Girl). Mary Richards produces her first television news show despite the obstacles of a rebellious crew and a tote board that breaks down. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1970)
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| [ABC 9:30] Movie: Konga (1961)
W: Aben Kandel, Herman Cohen D: John Lemont With Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon, Austin Trevor, Jack Watson. A dcotor visiting Africa comes across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size.
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| [CBS 10:00] Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant [special]
Fifty-one girls compete in the annual Miami Beach pageant to select the 1971 queen, who will go on to represent the United States in the "Miss Universe Pageant" in July. June Lockhart and Bob Barker cohost with Gary Puckett entertaining.
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