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Thursday December 9, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 9, 1971:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Appointment With Destiny: The Plot To Murder Hitler Movie: The Comic (1969)
ABC Alias Smith And Jones: The Bounty Hunter Longstreet: There Was A Crooked Man Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law: Until Proven Innocent
NBC Perry Como's Winter Show Bob Hope Special The Dean Martin Show
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[CBS 8:00] Appointment With Destiny: The Plot To Murder Hitler [special]
Second of a series of documentaries re-enacts the unsuccessful scheme to assassinate the Nazi leader on July 20, 1944. William Frick plays Adolph Hitler in scenes filmed at the site of Hitler's bunker outside Munich. James Mason narrates.

[ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The Bounty Hunter
Season 2, episode 12
W: Nicholas E. Baehr   D: Barry Shear

With Robert Middleton (Grayson), Lou Gossett Jr. (Joe Sims), Robert Donner (Nate), R.G. Armstrong (Max), Geoffrey Lewis (Al).
Heyes and Curry discover that goodness doesn't always pay after they save the life of a bounty hunter who promptly recaptures them.

[NBC 8:00] Perry Como's Winter Show [special]
With Mitzi Gaynor, Art Carney, The Establishment.
Como's first special of the season features seasonal songs, cold-weather comedy skits and blackouts.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: The Comic (1969)
W: Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben   D: Carl Reiner

With Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Carl Reiner, Fritz Feld, Barbara Heller, Steve Allen.
A slapstick vaudeville comic becomes a silent screen favorite, but soon starts going down grade.

[ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: There Was A Crooked Man
Season 1, episode 12
W: John Furia Jr., Mark Rogers   D: Don McDougall

With Laird Stuart (Sheraton), Murray Hamilton (Nelson Woodley), Pippa Scott (Julia Woodley), Mills Watson (Charles Murphy).
Mike acts as a go-between when a thoroughbred race horse is stolen and a ransom of $100,000 is demanded.

[NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Special [special]
With Lee Marvin, Barbara Eden, Robert Goulet, Smokey Robinson, the AP All-American Football Team.
In a sketch, two Chinese delegates (Hope and Goulet) to the United Nations are strolling in Central Park when a string of catastrophes befalls them. In a TV parody, Dr. Marcus Sincere (Marvin) attempts to swindle oil millionaire J. Paul Rich (Hope) out of his fortune and pirate his wife (Miss Eden). The Miracles sing "Satisfaction" and "Tears of a Clown".

[ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Until Proven Innocent
Season 1, episode 12
D: Walter Doniger

With Dana Wynter (Mrs. Oliver), Randolph Mantooth (Lonnie), Lindsay Wagner (Diana Oliver).
Marshall defends the shy, brilliant and promising law student daughter of a judge on a charge of felony shoplifting.

[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 13

With Ruth Buzzi, Juliet Prowse, Charles Nelson Reilly.
Juliet, in a song 'n' dance number, does "Don't Rain on My Parade". She also sings a couple of medleys with Dean. Reilly joins Kay Medford and the regulars in a Lane household segment.


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