Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 27, 1971:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The Carol Burnett Show		Medical Center: The Shattered Man		Mannix: Run Till Dark
ABC	Bewitched: The Ghost Who Made A Spectre Of Himself	The Courtship Of Eddie's Father: Two's Company	The Smith Family: Mac	Shirley's World: Thou Shalt Not Be Found Out	The Man And The City: The Handwriting On The Door
NBC	Adam-12: The Ferret	Columbo: Dead Weight			Night Gallery

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[CBS 8:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 6
With Tim Conway, Diahann Carroll. Diahann and Carol play two girls at a singles dance; Conway and Miss Burnett portray department store browsers who discover water beds; Miss Carroll solos "Song for You" and Carol offers "Saturday Morning Confusion".

[ABC 8:00] Bewitched [Reg]: The Ghost Who Made A Spectre Of Himself
Season 8, episode 7
W: Ed Jurist D: William Asher
With Kasey Rogers (Louise), Elizabeth Rogers (Duchess), Cicely Walper (Maid), Maurice Dallimore (Duke), Patrick Horgan (Ghost). When Samantha and Darrin stay in an English castle, a ghost falls in love with Samantha.

[NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Ferret
Season 4, episode 6
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Alan Crosland Jr.
With Russ Conway (Curtis Atherton), Steve Franken (The Ferret), Don Pedro Colley (T. Leeland Sabeth), Jordan Rhodes (Larry Dent), James Bacon (William Spence), Alma Platt (Lady). Officers Malloy and Reed must find an elusive saboteur who conducts a destructive one-man anti-pollution campaign.

[ABC 8:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: Two's Company
Season 3, episode 7
W: Shirley Gordon D: Bill Bixby
With Madlyn Rhue (Dolores), Ronny Graham (Tony). Tom and Tina realize that they are being used in a cat-and-mouse game when they repeatedly fail to reunite Tom's old girlfriend with her ex-husband.

[NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Dead Weight
Season 1, episode 3
W: John T. Dugan D: Jack Smight
With Kate Reid (Mrs. Walters), Suzanne Pleshette (Helen Stewart), Eddie Albert (Major General Martin Hollister), John Kerr (Col. Roger Dutton), Val Avery (Harry Barnes). Det. Columbo's prime witness begins to doubt her testimony when the murder suspect, a war hero, takes up courting her.

[CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Shattered Man
Season 3, episode 7
W: Robert M. Young D: Michael Caffey
With Bradford Dillman (John Weisley), Collin Wilcox (Claudia), David Wayne (Quentin Thayer), Jayne Meadows (Nurse Chambers). When Dr. Gannon treats a young executive for accident injuries, he realizes that his patient has a serious marital problem but refuses to seek help.

[ABC 9:00] The Smith Family [Reg]: Mac
Season 2, episode 7
W: Alan J. Levitt, Sydney Boehm D: Herschel Daugherty
With Neville Brand. Chad Smith learns that the truck driver who rescues his son from a fatal car accident is a convicted murderer escaped from prison.

[ABC 9:30] Shirley's World [Reg]: Thou Shalt Not Be Found Out
Season 1, episode 7
D: Ray Austin
With Nigel Davenport (Richard Burley), Jeremy Lloyd (Henry), Lelia Goldoni (Mary Burley). After interviewing a movie star whose marriage is on the rocks, Shirley abandons writing her article in hopes of saving the marriage.

[CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Run Till Dark
Season 5, episode 7
W: Dan Ullman D: Murray Golden
With Jonathan Lippe (Lee Thomas), Val Avery (Mel Cooley), J. Pat O'Malley (Bryant), Charlotte Stewart (Barbara Joyce), Woodrow Parfrey (Willie Small), Val Bisoglio (Charlie Larrabee), Jason Wingreen (Harry Osborn), Byron Morrow (Warden), Vince Howard (Dr. Jackson), Bobby Riha (Steve Brewster). When a syndicate man attempts to kill a little league manager, Mannix learns that the order came from a prison.

[ABC 10:00] The Man And The City [Reg]: The Handwriting On The Door
Season 1, episode 7
D: Paul Henreid
With Henry Darrow (Raul Alvarez), Lynne Marta (Maureen Alvarez), Shelley Morrison (Mrs. Bermudez), William Mims (Capt. Walsh), Gregory Sierra (Ruben). Mayor Alcala incurs the wrath of militant Chicanos when he supports a police officer's claim that he did not beat two suspects, one a Mexican-American, during interrogation.

[NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. A Question Of Fear
W: Theodore J. Flicker D: Jack Laird
With Leslie Nielsen (Denny Malloy), Fritz Weaver (Dr. Mazi), Ivan Bonar (Fred), Jack Bannon (Al).
A former Army officer bets an acquaintance $10,000 that he can survive a night in a haunted house.

2. The Devil Is Not Mocked
W: Gene Kearney D: Gene Kearney
With Mark de Vries (Machine Gunner), Gino Gottarelli (Radio Man), Martin Kosleck (Hugo), Hank Brandt (Kranz), Francis Lederer (Master of the Castle), Helmut Dantine (General von Grunn).
A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.