Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday October 17, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Movie: The Sand Pebbles (1966), part two
W: Robert Anderson D: Robert Wise With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Greene, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane, Mako, Larry Gates, Simon Oakland, Ford Rainey. During the political unrest in China in the 1920s, an American gunboat and its crew struggle to protect American lives without disrupting international relations.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Summer Magic (2)
Season 12, episode 12 With Hayley Mills (Nancy), Dorothy McGuire (Mrs. Carey), Burl Ives (Osh Popham), Peter Brown (Tom Hamilton), Deborah Walley (Julia), Una Merkel (Mrs. Popham). Repeat of a two-part presentation of a 1963 film comedy about a destitute Boston family that moves to the Maine countryside. In the conclusion, the Carey family's new life is complicated by the arrival of a snobbish cousin.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Mastermind (1)
Season 7, episode 6 W: Robert Heverly D: Virgil Vogel With Bradford Dillman (Curtis Breer), Steve Ihnat (Howard Rademaker), Scott Marlowe (Clenard Massey), Clu Gulager (Lyle Chernik), Virginia Vincent (Mrs. Rademaker), Robert Emhart (Cyril Boyer), Jennifer Billingsley (Mavis Barret), Marianne McAndrew (Mrs. Breer). Four bandits disguise themselves as strolling entertainers to rob an amusement park of $1,800,000, but the mastermind of the plot double-crosses the others and gets away with all the money.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Jimmy Stewart Show [Reg]: Another Day, Another Scholar
Season 1, episode 5 W: Hal Kanter D: Ezra Stone With Margaret Markov (Joyce Gibbs), Bonnie Boland (Donna Haley), M. Emmet Walsh (Lionel Atkins), Alice Nunn (Big Mother), Richard Annis (Karpopolis). A glamorous co-ed, determined to charm her way into Prof. Howard's class, sets off rumors of a student-professor romance.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Sullivan Years [special]
Ed Sullivan, who hosted the first of all network variety shows for 23 years, hosts a 90-minute kaleidoscope of memorable segments from the series. Included are once-controversial appearances by Elvis ("the pelvis") Presley, the American debut of the Beatles, the Moiseyev Ballet, Jerry Lewis going it alone, Jack Benny and his violin and excerpts from Sullivan's salute to Irving Berlin. Assembled from two decades of programs, the special also spotlights Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Joan Sutherland, Alan King and many others.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: No Way To Treat A Lady (1968)
W: John Gay D: Jack Smight With Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton, Michael Dunn. Suspense tale about a strangler with a macabre sense of humor on the loose in New York City.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Prisoners
Season 13, episode 5 W: Arthur Heinemann D: William F. Claxton With Morgan Woodward (Sheriff Moorehouse), Priscilla Garcia (Maria), Michael Witney (Hank Simmons). Deputized by an injured lawman, Little Joe almost loses his life while transporting an accused killer to trial.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Lawyers [Reg]: The Strange Secret Of Yermo Hill
Season 3, episode 2 W: William D. Gordon D: Jeffrey Hayden With Randolph Mantooth (Terry Kimble), Mills Watson (Yermo Hill), Arlene Golonka (Ruth), Edmund G. 'Pat' Brown (Judge), John Milford (Lt. Hewitt), David Spielberg (Deputy D.A. Wahlburg), Paul Gleason (Detective), Anne Ramsey (Mrs. Foxx). Former California Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown makes his acting debut in a guest appearance as a judge in a drama about an ex-Marine charged with murder.
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