Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 31, 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: Love Finds Jane Hathaway (R)	Green Acres: The Great Mayoralty Campaign (R)	Cimarron Strip (R)			Reston On China
ABC	The Mod Squad: The Hot, Hot Car (R)		TV Movie: Yuma (1971)			Marcus Welby, M.D.: The Girl From Rainbow Beach (R)
NBC	The Bill Cosby Show: The Long Road Back (R)	Make Your Own Kind Of Music		Sarge: The Badge Or The Cross

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[CBS 7:30] The Beverly Hillbillies [Reg]: Love Finds Jane Hathaway
Season 9, episode 22
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson D: Robert M. Leeds
With Charles Lane (Foster Phinney), Mike Minor (Dick Bremerkamp). An impoverished actor makes a romantic play for Jane Hathaway as a route to roommate Elly May -- and the Clampett millions. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/9/1971)

[ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: The Hot, Hot Car
Season 3, episode 17
W: Elroy Schwartz D: Robert Michael Lewis
With Frank Farmer (Betts), Lloyd Battista (Frank), Ned Glass (Mayes), Robert Donner (Mr. Thomas), John Gruber (Kurt), Tamar Cooper (Mrs. Thomas), Arthur Franz (Lawrence Bunker), Greg Mullavey (Kirk Collins). The squad launches a desperate search for a stolen car wired with dynamite being driven by an innocent family who have been duped into transporting it out of state. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1971)

[NBC 7:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: The Long Road Back
Season 2, episode 25
W: Art Wallace D: Coby Ruskin
With John Marley (John Sloan), Jack Naughton (Charles), Helena Hatcher (Mrs. Dixon), Peter Halton (Tony), Jim Pete (Marty). Chet reluctantly becomes involved in a strange effort to help a wealthy eccentric re-create his childhood. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1971)

[CBS 8:00] Green Acres [Reg]: The Great Mayoralty Campaign
Season 6, episode 6
W: Jay Sommers, Dick Chevillat D: Richard L. Bare Lisa looks to the political strategy of Lady Godiva when she and Oliver are opposing candidates for mayor of Hooterville. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1970)

[NBC 8:00] Make Your Own Kind Of Music [Reg]
With Mac Davis, Helen Reddy. Al Hirt and the Carpenters host.

[CBS 8:30] Cimarron Strip [Reg]
(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Yuma (1971)
W: Charles Wallace D: Ted Post
With Clint Walker, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Kathryn Hays, Peter Mark Richman, Morgan Woodward. A frontier marshal must face the vengeance of a cattleman unless he can prove he didn't murder the man's brother.

[NBC 9:00] Sarge [Reg]: The Badge Or The Cross
W: Don M. Mankiewicz D: Richard Colla
With George Kennedy (Sarge), Larry Gates (Arnie Bigelow), Nico Minardos (Nico), Stewart Moss (Father Terence), Ricardo Montalban (Sgt. Matteo), Diane Baker (Carol), Henry Wilcoxon (Bishop Andrade), Sallie Shockley (Kenji Takichi). Pilot movie for the series. After a bomb in a car kills his wife, Sarge re-evaluates his life and decides to return to the priesthood he once prepared to enter.

[CBS 10:00] Reston On China Report detailing the columnist's trip to China.

[ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: The Girl From Rainbow Beach
Season 2, episode 9
W: Edward DeBlasio D: Marc Daniels
With Don Galloway (Bill Hull), Tiffany Bolling (Ellen Nielsen), Robert F. Simon (Dr. Anders), Sheila Kuehl (Laura Mazza). Welby discovers that an attractive girl contracted leprosy during her childhood in the Philippines. The tragic discovery is made when she comes to him for a routine pre-marital checkup. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1970)