Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 9, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Wrong Man
Season 12, episode 7 D: Robert Totten With James Anderson (Harmon), Clifton James (Tenner Jackson), Charles Kuenstle (Wilton Kyle), Carroll O'Connor (Hootie Kyle), Victor Izay (Dutch), Mel Gaines (Squeak), Gilman Rankin (Hank Purvis), Terry Frost (Stage Driver), Kevin O'Neal (James Kyle), James Almanzar (Morell). A poor farmer is suspected of slaying a gambler who won the last of his money. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/29/1966)
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| [ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal
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| [NBC 7:30] From A Bird's Eye View [Reg]: Russian Roulette, Millie Style
Season 1, episode 4 W: Lew Schwarz D: Ralph Levy With Sheila Bernette (Mrs. Cake), Yuri Borienko (Ter Vinovitsian), Robert Cawdron (Uncle Bert Quigley). Millie is almost responsible for an international incident when a drunken Russian athlete follows her home. Uncle Bert makes matters worse when he keeps the athlete tipsy to prevent his entering the shot-put competition. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/19/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC Comedy Theater: The Seven Little Foys
W: Melville Shavelson D: David Butler With Eddie Foy Jr. (Eddie Foy), The Osmond Brothers, Mickey Rooney (George M. Cohan), Morgan Brittany (Madeline Foy), George Tobias (Barney Green), Naomi Stevens (Aunt Clara), Elaine Edwards (Miss Williams). The story of the vaudeville family, adapted fro the 1955 movie. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Lucy Show [Reg]: Lucy And Clint Walker
Season 4, episode 24 D: Maury Thompson With Clint Walker (Frank Winslow). A handsome construction superintendent strikes up a romance with Lucy. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1966)
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| [ABC 8:30] It Was A Very Good Year: 1944
Season 1, episode 14 Host Mel Torme recalls 1944 and President Roosevelt's signing of the GI Bill, the 50th anniversary of motion pictures, the swooning of Frank Sinatra's fans, the Oscar-winning "Going My Way" and such musical hits as "Accentuate the Positive", "Bless Them All" and "I Should Care".
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| [CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Howard The Swinger
Season 3, episode 22 W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant D: Elliott Lewis With Lea Cook (Second Girl), Judith McConnell (Pamela Bennington), Sunni Walton (First Girl), Judy Cassmore (Jane), Susan Odin (Susie), John Strong (Pete), Sandra De Bruin (Cheryl). Howard Sprague, the shy county clerk, moves into a swinging-singles apartment complex at the invitation of a beautiful newswoman. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1971)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Sergeant Dead Head (1965)
W: Louis M. Heyward D: Norman Taurog With Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon, Eve Arden, Harvey Lembeck, Buster Keaton, Pat Buttram. A timid Air Force sergeant's accidental space flight transforms him into an arrogant woman-chaser.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Neon Ceiling (1971)
W: Howard Rodman, Carol Sobieski D: Frank Pierson With Gig Young, Lee Grant, Denise Nickerson, Herb Edelman, William Smithers, James McEachin. Miss Grant won an Emmy for her performance in this highly-acclaimed TV movie about a housewife who flees with her daughter from a drab marriage and encounters romance and new meaning at a lonely, desert roadside cafe.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Jarvis' Uncle
Season 3, episode 19 W: Budd Grossman D: Reza Badiyi With Billy De Wolfe (Willard / Randolph Jarvis). Mr. Jarvis' uncle, much to Doris' delight, proves to be not the slightest like his nephew. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] CBS Newcomers
With Barclay Shaw and his puppet Madame Clara Clark. Dave Garroway offers man-on-the-street interviews with zany characters played by the Good Humor Company.
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