Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday July 17, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: A Ghost Story
Season 5, episode 21 W: Ken Pettus, Ed Adamson D: Reza Badiyi With John Winfield (Morgan), Andrew Duggan (Justin Bainbridge), Marion Ross (Mrs. Foster), Anthony Norwalk (Paul Bainbridge), William Smith (Vincent Sandler), Frank Farmer (Howard Bainbridge). The IMF infiltrates the domain of a paranoid right-winger and seek to break him down with images of ghosts and inner voices, as part of their plan to recover a secret formula for nerve gas that the man's murdered son had developed. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/27/1971)
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| [ABC 7:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
The Champagne Music Makers salute California.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Andy Williams Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 26 W: Chris Bearde, Allan Blye With Cass Elliot, Jonathan Winters, Mrs. Joan Kennedy (Wife of Senator Edward Kennedy), Phyllis Diller, Henry Mancini. Winters is the "Old Storyteller" in a skit about Goldilocks. Andy and Miss Elliot discuss men and women's liberation. Andy sings "Proud Mary" and "For the Good Times". Mrs. Kennedy plays Debussy's "Arabesque No. 1" and "Love Story". (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 3/27/1971)
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The New Vice-President
Season 11, episode 16 W: Lois Hire D: Fred De Cordova With John Gallaudet (Bob Anderson), Oliver McGowan (Dave Avery), Betty Lynn (Janet Dawson), Lisa Pera (Evelyn), Byron Morrow (Joe Marvin), Rolfe Sedan (Gus Sommers), Robert Gibbons (Male Clerk), Jeanne Bates (Dr. Louise Larson), Marilyn Hare (Effie), Patrick Campbell (Man). Barbara suspects a promotion for Steve may be in the works when she's invited to a tea for wives of top company executives. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/16/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Val Doonican Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 6 With Leslie Uggams, Dudley Moore, The New Seekers.
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| [NBC 8:30] Movie: Hellfighters (1968)
W: Clair Huffaker D: Andrew McLaglen With John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Vera Miles, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Barbara Stuart. Story of an oil well firefighter and the effect that his perilous occupation has on the lives of his family.
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| [CBS 9:00] Arnie [Reg]: To Buy Or Not To Buy?
Season 1, episode 14 D: Don Richardson With Jackie Joseph (Mrs. Chester), Walter Brooke (Mr. Maxwell), Gino Conforti (Mr. Chester), M. Emmet Walsh (Cliff), Edwina Gough (Rita). Arnie's boss persuades him to make a deal on a large home in a swanky district, but just before they are to move the family enthusiasm begins to fade. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/19/1970)
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| [CBS 9:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Howard's Girl
Season 1, episode 15 W: Treva Silverman D: Jay Sandrich With Richard Schaal (Paul Arnell), Henry Jones (Mr. Arnell), Mary Jackson (Mrs. Arnell). Mary Richards is attracted to a man whose brother she used to date, and finds herself in an awkward situation with the brothers' parents. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/2/1971)
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| [ABC 9:30] TV Movie: The Young Country (1970)
W: Roy Huggins D: Roy Huggins With Walter Brennan, Joan Hackett, Wally Cox, Pete Deuel, Roger Davis. Comedy-western of a footloose young gambler's search for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: The Color Of Murder
Season 4, episode 22 W: Harold Medford D: Barry Crane With Shirley O'Hara (Martha), Diane Keaton (Cindy Conrad), Karen Huston (Thelma Wilkins), Virginia Gregg (Jenny Loman), Anthony Redondo (Conrad), David Westberg (Roger), Bill Baldwin (Announcer), Jo de Winter (Miss Dee), Johnny Haymer (Jerry), James McCallion (Sam), John Sebastian (Vegas Thug), Pepper Martin (Roebuck), Guy Way (Hood), Thomas A. Geas (Sweater), John McLiam (Blaney), John Lupton (Thompson). An heiress believes that her father's murderer is still at large and pleads with Joe Mannix to help her find him. The private eye becomes suspicious when he learns that her chief suspect is the executor of her father's estate and that he has been trying to give her a lesson in frugality. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/27/1971)
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