Prime-time network TV listings for Friday October 8, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Chicago Teddy Bears [Reg]: The Alderman
Season 1, episode 4 D: Leslie H. Martinson With Mike Mazurki (Julie), John Fiedler, Huntz Hall (Dutch), Jamie Farr (Lefty), Mickey Shaughnessy (Duke). Big Nick plans to expand his "protection" business by running for alderman to give himself more muscle to move in on cousin Linc's prosperous business.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: The Wheeler-Dealer
Season 3, episode 4 W: Ben Gershman, Bill Freedman D: Jack Arnold With Chris Beaumont (Eddie), Charles Martin Smith (Ronnie). Greg is stuck with a clunker when he buys his first car on his own.
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| [NBC 8:00] The D.A. [Reg]: The People vs. Saydo
Season 1, episode 4 With Martin Milner (Officer Pete Malloy), Kent McCord (Officer Jim Reed), Michael Lerner (Mark Warren), Joe E. Tata (Lt. Ficklen), Dennis Rucker (Jim Tyler), Victor Bozeman (Judge), John David Carson (Marshall). Deputy Ryan is aided by officers Malloy and Reed in convincing a hostile youth to testify against a revolutionary.
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| [CBS 8:30] O'Hara, U.S. Treasury [Reg]: Operation: Bribery
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert I. Holt D: Allen Reisner With Paul Picerni (Inspector Miller), Marc Hannibal (Inspector Barner), William Stevens (Supervisor McGill), Russell Johnson (Agent Wells), Robert Patten (Inspector Smith), Victor Buono (Al Connors), John Randolph (Thomas J. Gault), Patti Heider (Amy Wells), Frank Gorshin (Little Willie), Erin Moran (Girl). A pair of small time crooks dream of striking it rich, and see their chance in an extortion plot that will sacrifice the career of a Treasury agent.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: The Undergraduate
Season 2, episode 4 W: Susan Silver D: Ralph Senensky With Michael Burns (Paul Bruner), Norman Fell (Mr. Bruner), Ann Morgan Guilbert (Mrs. Bruner), Carol O'Leary (Margo). Shirley takes a psychology course in college and a shy student gets a crush on her.
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| [NBC 8:30] TV Movie: The Impatient Heart (1971)
W: Alvin Sargent D: John Badham With Carrie Snodgress, Michael Brandon, Michael Constantine, Hector Elizondo, Brad David, Marian Hailey. A social worker cares so deeply about the various cases she handles that she drives her boss to distraction.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: Welcome Back, Miss Brown
Season 3, episode 4 W: Joanna Lee D: James Sheldon With Barry Hamilton (Arnie), Gail Fisher (Diana Brown), Len Ross. A returning teacher, a divorcee, is extremely cutting to the male students in social science class until Pete has a serious talk with her.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: The Face Of Fear (1971)
W: Edward Hume D: George McCowan With Ricardo Montalban, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Ashley, Dane Clark, Roy Poole, Charles Dierkop, Burr DeBenning, Regis Cordic, Fred Sadoff, Shirley O'Hara. A woman contracts for her own murder through the San Francisco underworld because she thinks she has a fatal illness, then desperately tries to halt the hired gunman when she learns she's in fine health. Pilot for a series.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Sleepwalker
Season 2, episode 4 W: Mickey Rose D: Jack Donohue Oscar becomes a somnambulist and vents his frustrations against Felix via a pounding with a magazine.
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Television Weekend W: Don Boyle D: Oscar Rudolph With William Windom (Charlie), Barbara Stuart (Helen), Pat Delaney (Danielle), Bert Convy (Herbie), Yolanda Veloz (Alice), Anitra Ford (Brunette), Sunni Walton (Margie). A middle-aged man takes advantage of his wife's absence to sow what he hopes will be wild oats. 2. Love And The See-Through Man With Nancy Walker (Mother), Nancy Dussault (Cynthia). A newlywed girl is hard put to explain to her visiting mother that she's married an invisible man. 3. Love And The Waterbed With Bernie Kopell (Harry Barker), Bob Hastings (Mark), Anita Gillette (Gloria), Johnny Haymer (Wilson). An eager wife, expecting a brief visit from her GI husband, makes waves when she orders a waterbed. 4. Love And The Ledge W: Bill Box D: Charles R. Rondeau With Robert Morse, Arlene Golonka (Gloria), Shelley Berman (Window Washer). An admitted failure, preparing to jump from a ledge, heeds the blandishments of the girl next door.
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