Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 28, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Squeeze Play
Season 5, episode 12 W: David Moessinger D: Virgil Vogel With Albert Paulsen (Albert Zembra), Peter Kilman (Paul Corrigan), Victoria Vetri (Eve Zembra), Nicholas Georgiade (Vito Nicola), Albert Carrier (Pierre Morat), Nico Minardos (Carlos Empori). When the IMF learns that a leading illegal supplier of heroin is dying of cancer and is about to turn over to his successor a vital list to keep the operation going, they set out to intercept. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/12/1970)
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| [ABC 7:30] The Lawrence Welk Show
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| [NBC 7:30] NBC Adventure Theater: Deadlock
W: Stanford Whitmore, Evan Hunter D: Leo Penn With Lee Grant, Jack Kelly, Percy Rodrigues, Tige Andrews, Nicholas Colasanto, Brooke Bundy, Eldon Quick. A criminal's widow bluffs her way into a police squad room and threatens officers with a bottle of nitroglycerin. Originally aired in 1967 as an episode of "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre". (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: The Recital
Season 11, episode 20 W: Douglas Tibbles D: Fred De Cordova With Victoria Paige Meyerink (Margaret Spencer), Jodie Foster (Susan), Jon Walmsley (Neal Nuswander), Ann Doran (Mrs. Pomeroy), Billy McMickle (Roger). Dodie informs Steve and Barbara that Mrs. Pomeroy's Rondelay Trio plans on practicing at the Douglas house. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/20/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] Tom Jones. . . And This Is The Devil [special]
With Juliet Prowse, Bruce Forsyth. Tom sings "Daughter Of Darkness", "Resurrection Shuffle", "Do What You Gotta Do" and "Oh, What A Woman". Juliet sings "Somebody In My Orchard", Bruce sings "I Believe In You" and "This Is All I Ask". Tom and Juliet duet on "St. James Infirmary", "Just A Little Lovin'" and "Keep On Running".
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| [NBC 8:30] Movie: The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
W: Helen Deutsch D: Charles Walters With Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley, Harvey Lembeck. A midwest girl during the frontier days travels to the mining town of Leadville, Colo. where she marries, strikes it rich and crashes high society.
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| [CBS 9:00] Preseason Football
The Detroit Lions, boasting the best defense against the rush, limiting opponents to just 82.3 yards per game in the National Conference in 1970, take on the Miami Dolphins, the team with the best rushing offense, a total of 2,082 yards in the American Conference last season. Greg Landry, Mel Farr and Earl McCullough lead the Lions' attack. Bob Griese, Larry Czonka and Mercury Morris spearhead the Miami offense. Ray Scott, Pat Summerall and Don Criqui report from the Orange Bowl in Miami in this first of three pre-season games CBS is covering.
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| [ABC 9:30] TV Movie: Seven In Darkness (1969)
W: John W. Bloch D: Michael Caffey With Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Sean Garrison, Arthur O'Connell, Lesley Anne Warren, Alejandro Rey. A plane crash traps seven blind people on a remote mountain and their characters are revealed as they try to grope their way back to civilization.
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