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Monday August 23, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 23, 1971:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke (R) The Lucy Show: Lucy Sues Mooney (R) Mayberry R.F.D.: Goober The Hero (R) The Doris Day Show: Colonel Fairburn, Jr. (R) CBS Newcomers
ABC Let's Make A Deal Newlywed Game It Was A Very Good Year: 1936 Movie: El Greco (1966)
NBC The 90-Day Freeze, part one NBC Comedy Theater: Holloway's Daughters (R) Three Pilots (R)
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[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]
(Repeat program)

[ABC 7:30] Let's Make A Deal

[NBC 7:30] The 90-Day Freeze, part one
NBC's John Chancellor is the reporter for a wage-price freeze special that will be shown in two parts on Monday and Tuesday nights. Government spokesmen spell out restrictions imposed by the freeze.

[ABC 8:00] Newlywed Game

[NBC 8:00] NBC Comedy Theater: Holloway's Daughters
W: Burt Styler   D: Ida Lupino

With Robert Young (Nick Holloway), David Wayne (George Holloway), Barbara Hershey (Casey Holloway), Brooke Bundy (Fleming Holloway), Meg Wyllie (Mrs. Ramsworth), Ellen Corby (Miss Purdy), Marian McCargo (Martha Holloway), Bruce Gordon (Hartford), William O'Connell (Hugo), William Mims (Hood).
Comedy about a father-and-son team of private detectives. Sure that their father will bungle his first solo case, the recovery of stolen jewels, his teenage daughters decide to help him out.

(Repeat program)

[CBS 8:30] The Lucy Show [Reg]: Lucy Sues Mooney
Season 6, episode 12
D: Jack Donohue

With Irwin Charone (Bailiff), Lew Parker (Garfield), Parley Baer (Judge), Jack Carter (Willy Wiley).
Lucy is slightly injured while working in Mooney's home, and Mary Jane persuades her to sue.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/27/1967)

[ABC 8:30] It Was A Very Good Year: 1936
Season 1, episode 16

Social Security went into effect, Eugene O'Neill won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Olympics in Berlin resulted in a sweeping victory for the U.S., and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was returned to office for a second term.

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: Goober The Hero
Season 3, episode 24
W: Bob Mosher   D: Hal Cooper

With James Westerfield (Sheriff Matson), Burt Mustin (Mr. Benson), Bill Baldwin (Newsman), Brian Morrison (Richard), Len Wayland (Ted Barnsdale).
Goober volunteers to guide the Junior Woodsmen on an outing to nearby caves and promptly gets himself lost from the others, setting emergency services into action -- including on-the-scene television coverage, the sheriff's department and bloodhounds.

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/15/1971)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: El Greco (1966)
W: Guy Elmes, Luigi Magni   D: Luciano Salce

With Mel Ferrer, Rosanna Schiaffino, Adolfo Celli, Fernando Rey.
Biographical tale of the great painter focuses on his love affair with a Spanish noblewoman and his trial before the Inquisition. Filmed on location in Spain.

[NBC 9:00] Three Pilots [special]
"Inside O.U.T." stars Bill Daily as director and agent for the Office of Unusual Tactics, an organization devoted to helping people deal with their computerized society. With Alan Oppenheimer, Farrah Fawcett, Mike Henry.

"The Good Life" stars Larry Hagman and Donna Mills as a young American couple who hire out as butler and maid to enjoy the benefits of society without being imprisoned by them. With Kate Reid, Danny Goldman, David Wayne.

"Is There A Doctor In The House?" stars William Windom and Rosemary Forsyth as a pair of unmarried doctors in a small New England town. With Margaret Hamilton.
(Repeat program)

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Colonel Fairburn, Jr.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Budd Grossman, Don Genson   D: Reza Badiyi

With Edward Andrews (Colonel Fairburn), Rick Ely (Clifford Fairburn), Larry Gelman (Terry Madden).
Doris is caught in the middle when her boss' son is put in charge during his father's absence and the young man begins transforming the magazine into a hippie bulletin.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1971)

[CBS 10:00] CBS Newcomers
With Ronald Radford (Flamenco guitarist).
David Arlen and the Californians perform "Lost in the Stars"; Peggy Sears solos "Rain"; Raul Perez offers "Love's Been Good to Me"; Gay Perkins sings "Never Let Me Go".


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