Sunday August 8, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday August 8, 1971:


7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Lassie: Troubled Waters (R) Animal World Comedy Playhouse: An Amateur's Guide To Love The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour: Show 2 Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn
ABC   The F.B.I.: The Eye Of The Needle (R) Movie: Africa: Texas Style (1967)
NBC   Wonderful World Of Disney: The Waltz King (2) (R) The Red Skelton Show: Ironside Spoof (R) Bonanza: The Luck Of Pepper Shannon (R) The Bold Ones: The New Doctors: Tender Predator (R)


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Program details:



[CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: Troubled Waters
Season 17, episode 19
W: Bob Schaefer, Eric Freiwald   D: Jack B. Hively

With Aron Kincaid (Reed Adams), Frank Webb (John Tanner). Lassie enters a feud between an irresponsible youth and a young harbor patrol officer.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1971)

[CBS 7:30] Animal World Cameras follow two Siberian tiger cubs as they leave their den.

[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Waltz King (2)
Season 10, episode 6
W: Maurice Tombragel   D: Steve Previn

With Kerwin Matthews, Senta Berger, Brian Ahearne. Conclusion of a two-part romantic drama about Viennese composer Johann Strauss Jr.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1963)

[CBS 8:00] Comedy Playhouse: An Amateur's Guide To Love
D: Gordon Wiles

With Dick Martin, Rose Marie, Michael Landon, Peter Marshall. A Candid Camera-like show with hidden cameras catching the reactions of the unsuspecting in such situations as girl-watching, getting married, and being asked for a date by a hair dryer.

[ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Eye Of The Needle
Season 6, episode 18
W: Robert Heverly   D: Virgil Vogel

With Jerry Ayres (Jimmy Vaughn), Robert Yuro (Gene Fordyce), George Wallace (George Ayres), Richard Roat (S.A.C. Ed Windsor), Byron Keith (S.A.C. Lee Brownell), Lynette Mettey (Marian), Vince Howard (Carter Graham), Tari DeMeyer (Girl Patient), William Toomey (F.B.I. Agent), Leo G. Morrell (Supervisor Al McClure), Richard Kiley (Dr. Herbert Barth), Coleen Gray (Mrs. Barth), Michael Baseleon (Paul Menard). The Bureau launches a widespread search through Washington's Cascade mountains for a wealthy surgeon kidnapped from his solitary campsite.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1971)

[CBS 8:30] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 2
Season 1, episode 2
D: Art Fisher

With Ken Berry. Highlights are a Gilbert & Sullivan-style spoof of the Pentagon papers; Cher solos "It Had to Be You"; Sonny and Cher duet "I Believe in Music" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand".

[NBC 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: Ironside Spoof
Season 20, episode 24
W: Jeffrey Barron, Lionel Burt, Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Red Skelton   D: Terry Kyne

With Sebastian Cabot (Chief Copperside), Chanin Hale (Prudence Virtue). Cabot plays "Copperside" in the main comedy sketch. Silent spot: Red pantomimes a bumbling mechanic at a raceway. (Last show of the series.)
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/15/1971)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: Africa: Texas Style (1967)
W: Andy White   D: Andrew Marton

With Hugh O'Brian, John Mills, Nigel Green, Tom Nardini, Adrienne Corri, Ronald Howard, Charles Malinda. To prove his theory of wild game ranching is practical, the owner of a large ranch in Kenya imports a world champion cowboy and his Navajo sidekick to capture and tame the wild animals of Africa. Filmed on location in Africa.

[NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Luck Of Pepper Shannon
Season 12, episode 11
W: John Hawkins   D: Nick Webster

With Arthur Peterson (Donavan), Raymond Guth (Jones), Harry Holcombe (Dr. Martin), Dan Tobin (Mills), Walter Brooke (Corey), Neville Brand (Pepper Shannon). A former desperado returns to Virginia City after a long prison term to settle an old score.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1970)

[CBS 9:30] Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn
W: Nick McCarty   D: Naomi Capon

With Dorothy Tutin (Anne Boleyn), Keith Michell (King Henry), Anne Stallybrass (Jane Seymour), Patrick Troughton (Duke of Norfolk), Sheila Burrell (Lady Rochford). The story of Henry VIII's second wife, who was queen for a thousand days before being beheaded for "treasonous" conduct.

[NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: Tender Predator
Season 2, episode 8
W: Don Ingalls   D: Richard Benedict

With Stephen Young (Dr. Neal Young), Melissa Hart (Kate), Katherine Crawford (Abby), Karen Valentine (Gayle Ritter), Kiel Martin (Dr. Martin Thomas), Barbara Sigel (Nurse), Fred Holliday (Dr. Garber). A charming, indomitable young woman enters the Craig Institute with a two-fold purpose -- to be cured of ailments incurred during her work with the Navajos, and to find a physician-husband for herself.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1971)

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