Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 17, 1971:

	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The Beverly Hillbillies: Elly, The Secretary (R)	Green Acres: The High Cost Of Loving (R)	Cimarron Strip: The Judgment (R)			Tomorrow's People
ABC	The Mod Squad: A Bummer For R.J. (R)		TV Movie: Escape (1971)			Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Woman's Place (R)
NBC	The Bill Cosby Show: Viva Ortega (R)	Make Your Own Kind Of Music		Movie: Frankie And Johnny (1966)

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[CBS 7:30] The Beverly Hillbillies [Reg]: Elly, The Secretary
Season 9, episode 21
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson D: Robert M. Leeds
With Hannah Aden (Louellen). One of Jethro's childhood sweethearts comes to town for a visit and Jethro fears she has marriage on her mind. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/2/1971)

[ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: A Bummer For R.J.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Jack Turley D: Philip Leacock
With Carl Betz (R.J. Coleman), Brooke Mills (Donna Pierson), Barbara Rhoades (Tonie), Elliott Street (Fleas), Joyce Jameson (Lois Johnson), Jesse White (Leo), Daniel J. Travanti (Johnny Graham), Annette O'Toole (Lorrie). A 40-year-old tries to recapture his youth in a hippie lifestyle after his wife divorces him. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/19/1971)

[NBC 7:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: Viva Ortega
Season 2, episode 16
W: Sandy Baron, Treva Silverman, Oliver Wolcott D: Luther James
With Joaquin Martinez (Ortega), Frank Campanella (Mr. Lombardi), Marcus Hemphill (Phil), Eunice Suarez (Catalina Ortega), Ref Sanchez (Hector). Chet goes out of his way to help an immigrant pass his citizenship test only to be accused by the man of conniving with the examiner to make the test too easy. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1971)

[CBS 8:00] Green Acres [Reg]: The High Cost Of Loving
Season 6, episode 11
W: Jay Sommers, Dick Chevillat D: Richard L. Bare
With Judith McConnell (Darlene Wheeler). A mistake in a mail-order course infects Eb with the acting bug. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1970)

[NBC 8:00] Make Your Own Kind Of Music [Reg]
With Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.

[CBS 8:30] Cimarron Strip [Reg]: The Judgment
Season 1, episode 15
W: Dan Ullman D: Robert Butler
With Solomon Sturges (Sandy), Kipp Whitman (Jerry), Don Keefer (Bolt), James Stacy (Joe Bravo), Burr DeBenning (Emmett Lloyd), Leonard Stone (Judge Samuel Gilroy), G.D. Spradlin (Kermin), Charles Dierkop (Smitty), I. Stanford Jolley (Bellow), David Bailey (Arthur). Marshal Jim Crown outrages a frontier community when he appoints as deputy marshal the leader of a bunch of cowboys who terrorized the town. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/4/1968)

[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Escape (1971)
W: Paul Playdon D: John Llewellyn Moxey
With Christopher George, Avery Schreiber, Marlyn Mason, William Windom, Gloria Grahame, William Schallert, John Vernon, Huntz Hall. An escape artist battles a criminal mastermind who has kidnapped a scientist with knowledge that could spell doom for mankind.

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Frankie And Johnny (1966)
W: Alex Gottlieb D: Frederick De Cordova
With Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Nancy Kovack, Anthony Eisley, Harry Morgan, Sue Ane Langdon, Joyce Jameson, Audrey Christie, Robert Strauss. A romantic musical of a showboat gambler's luck at cards and lack at love.

[CBS 10:00] Tomorrow's People [special] A special which examines the rapid changes in living that have been made in the past few years.

[ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: A Woman's Place
Season 2, episode 18
W: Charles A. McDaniel D: Leo Penn
With Rachel Roberts (Dr. Victoria Thorson), Ramon Bieri (Paul Barrett), Dana Elcar (Dr. McCready), Lee H. Montgomery (Billy Channing), Keye Luke (Dr. Braley), Bruce Kirby (Lou Rienzi). Welby and Steven Kiley try to help a once-successful orthopedic surgeon who's become an alcoholic. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1971)