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Sunday August 22, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday August 22, 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: For The Love Of Lassie (1) (R) Animal World Comedy Playhouse: Elke The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour: Show 4 Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Anne Of Cleves
ABC   The F.B.I.: Center Of Peril (R) Movie: Shoot Loud, Louder -- I Don't Understand (1966)
NBC   Wonderful World Of Disney: A Boy Called Nuthin' (2) (R) The Red Skelton Show: Appleby's Garage Sale (R) Bonanza: A Deck Of Aces (R) The Bold Ones: The Senator: A Single Blow Of The Sword (R)
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[CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: For The Love Of Lassie (1)
Season 17, episode 20
W: Bob Schaefer, Eric Freiwald   D: James B. Clark, Jack B. Hively, Sigmund Neufeld Jr

With Sean Kelly.
The first of a two-part episode finds Lassie plunged into danger when she returns to visit one of her puppies.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1971)

[CBS 7:30] Animal World
A look at Africa's birds, from the four-inch finch to the 300-pound ostrich.

[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: A Boy Called Nuthin' (2)
Season 14, episode 12

With Ron Howard (Richie), Forrest Tucker (Turkeyneck Tugwell), John Carroll (Sagebrush), Donna Butterworth (Laura-Kate).
Conclusion of a two-part comedy-drama about a teen-aged boy from Chicago who helps settle a long-standing feud between his rancher-uncle and a neighbor.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/17/1967)

[CBS 8:00] Comedy Playhouse: Elke
W: Melville Shavelson   D: Melville Shavelson

With Elke Sommer (Elke Stefan), Peter Bonerz (Dr. Peter Stefan), Debbie Storm (Dodie Stefan), Kay Medford (Mrs. Stefan), Paul Peterson (Charlie Stefan).
Comic pilot about the new German-born wife of a doctor whose family and friends suspect she married for money and American citizenship.

[ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Center Of Peril
Season 6, episode 17
W: Robert Malcolm Young   D: Carl Barth

With Robert Knapp (S.A.C. Noel McDonald), Robert Cornthwaite (Creighton Atwood), Maurice Marsac (Perriere), Lewis Charles (Mr. Alister), Wayne McLaren (Jay Yarborough), Maree Cheatham (Miss Evans), Vic Morrow (Porter Bent), Gary Collins (Mark Gaynor), Susan Howard (Yvonne Simpson).
Inspector Erskine poses as an art expert to penetrate a robbery ring which is attempting to sell a priceless painting back to the Kansas City museum from which it was stolen.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1971)

[CBS 8:30] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 4
Season 1, episode 4
D: Art Fisher

With Merv Griffin.
Highlights: Griffin helps out at an international table tennis tournament; Cher offers a medley of "band" songs.

[NBC 8:30] The Red Skelton Show: Appleby's Garage Sale
Season 20, episode 20
W: Mort Greene, Pat McCormick, Arthur Phillips, Larry Rhine, Red Skelton   D: Terry Kyne

With Martha Raye, Dorothy Love, Mike Wagner, Janos Prohaska, Ida Mae McKenzie, Peggy Rea.
Trouble erupts between George and Clara Appleby when George decides to hold a garage sale to pay a horse racing loss. Silent spot: "Stockboy in a Teddy Bear Factory".

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/15/1971)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: Shoot Loud, Louder -- I Don't Understand (1966)
W: Eduardo De Filippo, Suso Cecchi D'Amico   D: Eduardo De Filippo

With Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, Guido Alberti, Leopoldo Trieste, Rosalba Grottesi.
A Walter Mitty-type Italian sculptor thinks he witnessed a murder but isn't sure it's not one of his vivid daydreams.

[NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: A Deck Of Aces
Season 12, episode 18
W: Stanley Roberts   D: Lewis Allen

With Jeff Morris (Turk), Sam Jarvis (Telegraph Operator), Bern Hoffman (Bartender), Jack Collins (Ned Blaine), Guy Wilkerson (Milt Jarvis), Linda Gaye Scott (Dixie), Alan Oppenheimer (Wentworth), Lee McLaughlin (2nd Poker Player), Ralph James (1st Poker Player), John Gilgreen (Desk Clerk #1), Charles Dierkop (Nicholson), Stephen Coit (Mel Waters), Tom Basham (Dan Fielding).
Ben Cartwright's look-alike, con man Bradley Meredith (Lorne Greene in a dual role), plans to "sell" Ponderosa land to a railroad.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1971)

[CBS 9:30] Six Wives Of Henry VIII: Anne Of Cleves
W: Jean Morris   D: John Glenister

With Elvi Hale.
Henry takes his German-born fourth wife in a politically arranged marriage. The play traces the vicissitudes of the German princess from her pre-British days to the time she persuades the king to have the marriage annulled.

[NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Senator [Reg]: A Single Blow Of The Sword
Season 1, episode 8
W: Jerrold Freedman   D: John Badham

With Logan Ramsey (Frank Dixon), David Sheiner (Tom Glouster), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Rev. Isaac Johnson), Mel Stewart (Dawson), Peter Brocco (Sen. Bevan), Regis Cordic (Sen. Tomlinson), Stuart Nisbet (John T. Andrews), Esther Rolle (Black Woman), Ted Gehring (Middle-Aged Man), S. John Launer (Graying Man), Paul Genge (Kalman).
Sen. Hays Stowe's economic self-help bill -- and his career -- are threatened when an ambitious government accountant charges that poverty funds in Stowe's home state have been misused. (Last show of the series.)

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1971)


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