Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 15, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 1 With Jim Nabors. It's the fifth season premiere for Miss Burnett and her company of regulars: Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence and the Ernest Flatt Dancers. Jim Nabors, as he has for the past five years, joins Carol on her opening show. They do a song 'n' dance salute to his home town of Sylacauga, Ala. Nabors also sings "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Comedy spots: In a spoof of King Henry VIII, Korman plays the monarch and Carol is Anne Boleyn; Carol plays a child actress who upstages a ham actor (Korman); Carol plays a mother who chaperones her daughter (Vicki) on a date. In her feature number, Carol, as an elegantly attired female, sings "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out".
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| [ABC 8:00] Bewitched [Reg]: How Not To Lose Your Head To King Henry VIII (1)
Season 8, episode 1 W: Ed Jurist D: William Asher With Ronald Long (Henry VIII), Henry Oliver (Friar), Victor Rogers (Nobleman), Mike Howden (Knight), Ivor Barry (Chamberlain), Arlene Martel (Malvina), Laurie Main (Guide). Series returns for its eighth season with a two-part episode. In part one, Samantha and Darrin are in Europe on a pleasure trip. During a visit to the Tower of London, Samantha frees a nobleman trapped in a portrait.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Extortion
Season 4, episode 1 W: Robert I. Holt D: Christian Nyby With Benny Rubin (Mr. Gold), John Bleifer (Mr. Fine), George O'Hanlon Sr. (Drunk), Lillian Ames (Mrs. Fine), Bob Hastings (Bartender), Willie Aames (Little Boy). Law and order series returns for a fourth season on a new night. Officers Malloy and Reed round up a gang of hoodlums engaged in an anti-Semitic shakedown.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: My Son, The Artist
Season 3, episode 1 W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Don Weis With Angus Duncan (Mr. Buckner), Patti Cohoon (Gretchen). The third season begins with widower Tom Corbett's art class having progressed from still life to live nude models, and raises some questions in young Eddie's mind about his dad's after-hours activities.
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| [NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Murder By The Book
Season 1, episode 1 W: Steven Bocho D: Steven Spielberg With Rosemary Forsyth (Joanna Ferris), Martin Milner (Jim Ferris), Jack Cassidy (Ken Franklin), Lynette Mettey (Gloria), Barbara Colby (Lilly La Sanka). Peter Falk stars in the premiere of Columbo, one of three rotating mystery dramas (with McCloud and McMillan and Wife). Columbo is a colorful police lieutenant whose disheveled and lackadaisical approach masks a finely-tuned mind to the mores of criminals. Tonight, a mystery writer plans a "perfect crime" with his ex-partner as the target.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Blood Line
Season 3, episode 1 W: Jackson Gillis With Carol Lawrence (Flora McCrae), William Windom (Nick McCrae), Percy Rodrigues (Lt. Preston), Vincent Van Patten (Jimmy McRae), Ed Hall (Dr. Bricker). Third season gets underway with doctors Gannon and Lochner faced with an unusual problem: a critically ill child needs the type of blood only his fugitive father can supply.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Smith Family [Reg]: The Anniversary
Season 2, episode 1 W: Sydney Boehm D: Herschel Daugherty With Greg Mullavey (Pete Willis), Julie Parrish (Agnes Hoffer), Agnes Moorehead, Vince Howard (Ed Thomas). Second season begins with Chad Smith loking forward to a gourmet dinner that Cindy, his daughter, is preparing for his and Betty's 21st wedding anniversary. But a bomb threat at police headquarters changes his plans.
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| [ABC 9:30] Shirley's World [Reg]: The Berkley Club Caper
Season 1, episode 1 D: Ralph Levy With Rayner Newmark (Lord Arthur), Charles Lloyd-Pack (Sir Harold Wilbright-Manners), Arthur Howard (Elderly Member), Erik Chitty (Commissionaire). Shirley MacLaine makes her series bow as a career girl whose photo-journalist assignments take her all over the world. Episodes were filmed on various locations. In the first show, Shirley arrives in London for her new job and discovers she's to interview the retired Lord Chamberlain who lives at an austere club which is off-limits to women.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Dark So Early, Dark So Long
Season 5, episode 1 W: Robert W. Lenski D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Arline Anderson (Mrs. Allen), K.T. Stevens (Nun), Sam Melville (John Ogilvy), Rosemary Forsyth (Leslie Fielding), Guy Stockwell (Glenn Fielding), Josephine Hutchinson (Mildred Oliver). Police detective Joe Mannix begins his fifth season. In the first episode a wealthy woman is the victim of a blackmail plot from an unexpected quarter. She and her husband call on Mannix when it appears that she, rather than the blackmailer, may go to prison.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Man And The City [Reg]: Hands Of Love
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bess Boyle D: Daniel Petrie With Lee H. Montgomery (Tommy), Walter Brooke (Judge Bremer), June Lockhart (Ellen Lewis), Audree Norton (Ann Larabee), Lou Fant (Richard Larabee), Norman Alden (George E. Kirshner), Carmen Zapata (Josefina), Mala Powers (Marian Crane). Anthony Quinn makes his bow in a law and order series. In a contemporary setting, Quinn plays Mayor Tom J. (Thomas Jefferson) Alcala, a compassionate, involved and politically shrewd veteran of 16 years in office at a large southwestern city. Tonight, a case worker implores him to intercede on behalf of a deaf couple faced with losing their 7-year-old adopted son in court proceedings because they're handicapped.
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes W: Rod Serling D: John Badham With Michael Constantine (Wellman), Clint Howard (Herbie Bittman), Ellen Weston (Dr. Peterson), Bernie Kopell (Reed), William Hansen (Godwin), Rance Howard (Cameraman). A youth's truthful predictions bring him to the attention of TV network officials. He becomes a commentator until one night he refuses to appear for reasons he will not explain. 2. Miss Lovecraft Sent Me W: Jack Laird D: Gene Kearney With Sue Lyon (Betsy), Joseph Campanella (Vampire). A babysitter arrives for work at the home of a strange-looking man -- a home which she flees in terror. 3. The Hand Of Borgus Weems W: Alvin Sapinsley D: John Meredyth Lucas With George Maharis (Peter Lacland), Robert F. Hoy (Everett Winterreich), William Mims (Brock Ramsey), Patricia Donahue (Dr. Innokenti), Peter Mamakos (Nico Kazanzakis), Joan Huntington (Susan Douglas), Ray Milland (Dr. Ravdon). A desperate man seeks out the help of a surgeon when he discovers an invading presence has control of his right hand. 4. Phantom Of What Opera? W: Gene Kearney D: Gene Kearney With Mary Ann Beck (Beautiful Prisoner), Leslie Nielsen (Phantom). The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.
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