Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 14, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Bearcats! [Reg]: Hostages
Season 1, episode 5 W: Jim Byrnes D: Marvin Chomsky With Sam Edwards (Charlie Doyle), David Canary (Joe Bascom), Warner Anderson (Huddleston), Ed Flanders (Ben Tillman), Erin Moran (Elisa Tillman), Ben Zeller (Walton). A ruthless bandit leader tells a helpless village he will hang one of its citizens and that they must select the victim.
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The Posse That Wouldn't Quit
Season 2, episode 5 W: Pat Fielder D: Harry Falk With Richard X. Slattery (Sheriff Morrison), Vera Miles (Belle Jordan), Charles H. Gray (Jesse Jordan), Lisa Eilbacher (Bridget Jordan), Cindy Eilbacher (Beth Jordan), Sidney Clute (Prosecutor). Heyes and Curry hide out at a small ranch to avoid a persistent posse. Finally captured, they are freed by a ranch owner and her two daughters who are later charged with aiding desperadoes.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 5 With Sugar Ray Robinson, George Carlin, Pat Boone. Flip introduces his new character, Herbie, the Good Time Ice Cream Man with a bad disposition. Other highlights: Flip and Carlin appear as newscasters and spoof TV quiz shows in "To Tell a Lie"; Carlin does a monologue on daytime TV; Boone and his family perform "Anthem".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Dirty Dozen (1967), part one
W: Nunnally Johnson, Lukas Heller D: Robert Aldrich With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Clint Walker, Robert Webber. During World War II, a group of soldiers who have been convicted of many crimes, including murder, are offered the opportunity for a more honorable death or a possible pardon if they train for a special mission.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: Elegy In Brass
Season 1, episode 5 W: Steven Lord D: David Lowell Rich With Janet MacLachlan (Molly Richards), Robert DoQui (Gus Pollack), Brock Peters (Danny), Logan Ramsey (Clayton). Mike Longstreet is called on to solve a murder-cum-theft mystery with a New Orleans jazz background.
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| [NBC 9:00] Nichols [Reg]: Gulley vs. Hansen
Season 1, episode 5 W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Frank R. Pierson With Robert Gist (Gulley), Charles McGraw (Hansen), Joe Brown (Minister), Jack Garner (Van Vechten), M. Emmet Walsh (Gabe McCutcheon). Two aging gunfighters are goaded into a fight despite efforts by Nichols to dissuade them.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Make No Mistake
Season 1, episode 5 With Ross Martin (Dr. Emery Lewis), Paul Fix (Dr. Woodruff), Christine Belford (Karen Slater), Darrell Larson (Poco Lewis), DeForest Kelley (Frank Slater). Marshall files a malpractice suit against a highly-respected doctor. The attorney believes a promising singer has a better chance of recovery from what appears to be a nervous breakdown if she can be convinced her condition is due to her allergic reaction to penicillin mistakenly administered by the medic.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 5 With Art Carney, Ruth Buzzi, Lynn Kellogg.
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