Monday July 12, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday July 12, 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 Twisted Heritage (R) The Lucy Show: Lucy And John Wayne (R) Mayberry R.F.D.: The Moon Rocks (R) The Doris Day Show: Doris vs. Pollution (R) CBS Newcomers
ABC Let's Make A Deal Newlywed Game It Was A Very Good Year: 1947 Movie: Weekend At Dunkirk (1964)
NBC From A Bird's Eye View: I Too Was A Novice NBC Comedy Theater: The Blue-Eyed Horse TV Movie: City Beneath The Sea (1971)


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Program details:



[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Twisted Heritage
Season 14, episode 15
D: Bernard McEveety

With Virginia Gregg (Jesse Copperton), Nora Marlowe (Ma Dagget), Conlan Carter (Logan Dagget), Charles Kuenstle (Elan Dagget), James Nusser (Louie Pheeters), Steve Raines (Stage Driver #1), Robert Karnes (Stage Driver #2), John Erickson (Blaine Copperton), Lisa Gerritsen (Tracey Copperton), Richard O'Brien (Simpson), Joshua Bryant (Young), Robert Luster (Cookie), David McLean (Webb). Kitty takes the reins in a desperate stagecoach race to save the life of a passenger wounded in a holdup and runs into more trouble.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/6/1969)

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

[NBC 7:30] From A Bird's Eye View [Reg]: I Too Was A Novice
Season 1, episode 15
W: Brad Ashton   D: Peter Duffell

With George Tovey (Alf Grover), Gay Hamilton (Jeannie), Hilary Pritchard (Yvonne), Bob Howay (Captain). Millie and Maggie try to comfort a bumbling new stewardess and flashbacks recall their own early mishaps.

[ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game

[NBC 8:00] NBC Comedy Theater: The Blue-Eyed Horse
W: Michael Fessier

With Ernest Borgnine (Melvin Freebie), Joan Blondell (Mrs. Freebie), Barbara Heller (Jennie Haggerty), Paul Lynde (Judge), Joyce Jameson (Mrs. Rassendale), Ann Jillian (Daughter). A humorous tale about a man who, fed up with his wife's horse-racing losses, wishes she would turn into a horse. Undismayed when she does, he then sets out to recoup her losses.

[CBS 8:30] The Lucy Show [Reg]: Lucy And John Wayne
Season 5, episode 10
W: Bob O'Brien   D: Maury Thompson

With John Wayne (Himself), Joseph Ruskin (Director), Morgan Woodward (Pierce), Bryan O'Byrne (Assistant Director), Kay Stewart (Waitress), Joyce Perry (Joyce), Milton Berle (Himself). Invited to watch the filming of a movie, Lucy causes so many production headaches that guest star John Wayne doesn't know whether to shoot the picture or Lucy.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/21/1966)

[ABC 8:30] It Was A Very Good Year: 1947
Season 1, episode 10
Ralph Edwards joins Mel Torme for a review of 1947, a year marked by depression in Europe, the first telephone strike, Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball and flying saucer sightings.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The Moon Rocks
Season 3, episode 18
W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant   D: Christian Nyby

With Maudie Prickett (Myrtle), Don Melvoin (Eddie), Eddie Firestone (Tom), Tyler McVey (Charles Hendricks), Gary Crosby (Pete). Sam convinces his friend, a NASA official, to give Howard a private showing of a moon rock.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1971)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: Weekend At Dunkirk (1964)
W: Francois Boyer   D: Henri Verneuil

With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, George Geret, Jean-Pierre Marielle. French soldiers try to save themselves during the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II.

[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: City Beneath The Sea (1971)
W: John Meredyth Lucas   D: Irwin Allen

With Stuart Whitman, Robert Wagner, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert, Burr DeBenning, Susana Miranda, Richard Basehart, Joseph Cotten. In the year 2053, the commander of an undersea city pilot project faces hostility from inhabitants while trying to move the nation's nuclear and gold supplies to an undersea vault.

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Doris vs. Pollution
Season 3, episode 16
W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul   D: Reza Badiyi

With Edward Andrews (Colonel Fairburn), Kay E. Kuter (Mr. Gwynn), James B. Sikking (Fred Sutton), Carol Worthington (Ethel Weber), Jerome Guardino (Cab Driver), Owen Bush (Serviceman). Doris puts Today's World publisher Colonel Fairburn on the hot seat when she launches a slashing anti-pollution attack on a factory, then discovers he also heads the corporation which owns the pollution-spewing plant.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/28/1970)

[CBS 10:00] CBS Newcomers
D: Bill Hobin
CBS premieres a summer series of comedy-variety hours hosted by Dave Garroway and featuring professional talent discovered in a 56-city hunt for new faces. The cast includes The Californians, a San Diego choral group, singers David Arlen, Gay Perkins, Cynthia Clawson, Raul Perez and Rex Allen Jr., comics Joey Garza and Rodney Winfield, singer-guitarist Peggy Sears and the Good Humor Co. comedy group.



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