Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday August 1, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The Awakening
Season 17, episode 18 W: Frank L. Moss D: Jack B. Hively With Joan Tompkins (Katherine), Brooke Bundy (Patty). Lassie saves a rebellious young girl from arsenic poisoning, then tries to reunite her with her outspoken aunt. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1971)
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| [CBS 7:30] Animal World
A look at the unusual marine life and environment of the Galapagos Islands. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Waltz King (1)
Season 10, episode 5 W: Maurice Tombragel D: Steve Previn With Kerwin Matthews, Senta Berger, Brian Ahearne. First of a two-part romantic drama about Viennese composer Johann Strauss Jr. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1963)
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| [CBS 8:00] Comedy Playhouse: My Wives Jane
With Janet Leigh, Barry Nelson, John Dehner, McLean Stevenson. CBS premieres a series of unsold pilots (some repeats) in this time slot with a tale of a doctor's wife whose career as a soap opera actress creates confusion.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Three-Way Split
Season 6, episode 26 W: Gerald Sanford D: Philip Abbott With James B. Sikking (Harte), Buck Young (Davis), Richard O'Brien (George R. Whelan), Paul Camen (Fred Elgin), Mary Wilcox (Allison Stuart), Jennifer Billingsley (Wanda Moore), Ted Hartley (Larry Cole), Gilbert Green (Mr. Nelson), Don Keefer (Claude Norris), Joel Lawrence (Hill), Noel Shire (Bellboy), Keith Walker (Newscaster), Peter Haskell (Eliot Fielding), Albert Salmi (Roy Mills / John Michaels), Edward Andrews (Frank Merrick), Lex Barker (Owen Stuart). Inspector Erskine tracks three criminals who go their separate ways after dividing nearly a million dollars stolen in a complex Denver bank robbery. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/21/1971)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 1 - Series Premiere
Season 1, episode 1 D: Art Fisher With Jimmy Durante. CBS premieres a summer variety series starring Sonny and Cher (Bono). With the emphasis on comedy, the series features a regular company composed of Tom Solari, Chuck Carr, Ted Zeigler, Murray Langston and Freeman King.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: The Dan Blocker Show
Season 20, episode 8 W: Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Red Skelton D: Terry Kyne With Emmaline Henry, Dan Blocker. Blocker joins Skelton in the main sketch as Little Willie, an old acquaintance from George Appleby's school days. Silent Spot: Tipsy Barber. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1970)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
W: Harold Pinter D: Michael Anderson With George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann. Espionage thriller of an American agent assigned to search out the leader of a neo-Nazi movement that is infecting today's Germany.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Stillness Within
Season 12, episode 24 W: Michael Landon, Suzanne Clauser D: Michael Landon With Harry Holcombe (Dr. Martin), Jeannine Brown (Sally Marks), Robert Noe (Ranch Hand #1), Jo Van Fleet (Ellen Dobbs). Little Joe faces a possible life of sightlessness when he's injured in an explosion. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1971)
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| [CBS 9:30] Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Catherine Of Aragon
W: Rosemary Anne Sisson D: John Glenister With Annette Crosbie. CBS premieres a six-part BBC series on the wives of the legendary British monarch through his reign from an exuberant 18 to a wily, tyranncial 56. Each of the 90-minute dramas has been written by a different author and takes one of the wives as its central figure. Keith Mitchell stars as the Tudor king throughout the series.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Lawyers [Reg]: The Search For Leslie Grey
Season 2, episode 6 With Charles Aidman (Leslie Gray), Leo Gordon (Adolph Zimmer), John Kellogg (Lt. Miller), Rodolfo Acosta (Pablo Delgado), Micil Murphy (Arturo Rosales), Betsy Jones-Moreland (Hazel). A tycoon hires attorneys Nichols, Darrell and Darrell to prevent a corporation from learning a secret from his past. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1971)
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