Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 16, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Great Santa Claus Switch [special]
W: Jerry Juhl D: John Moffitt Reprise of a holiday musical fantasy starring Art Carney and the Muppets. An evil magician kidnaps Santa on Christmas Eve. Ed Sullivan narrates. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: Everything Else You Can Steal
Season 2, episode 13 W: John Thomas James D: Alexander Singer With Jessica Walter (Louise Carson), Patrick O'Neal (Kenneth Blake), Kermit Murdock (Henry Blodgett), David Canary (Sheriff Coffin), Ann Sothern (Blackjack Jenny), Richard Hatch (Accomplice). When Heyes and Curry are charged with robbing a bank, they must find the real culprit or lose ther chance for amnesty.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 13 With Petula Clark, Roy Clark, Redd Foxx. Flip introduces the world's sharpest cowboy, Leroy Rogers. In other skits, Flip is the director of a TV commercial for the he-man and Clark is a football player hired to be the actor; Flip plays a poor nightclub comic plagued by a funnier heckler (Foxx). Miss Clark sings "What Love Is About".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
W: Ronald Harwood, Ken Hughes D: Ken Hughes With Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan. Taking advantage of a sizable inheritance, a man embarks on a succession of marriages to beautiful women that becomes a way of life.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: The Old Team Spirit
Season 1, episode 13 W: Robert Hamner D: James Sheldon With Leif Erickson (Harold Kemp), John Ericson (Frank Glendon), Grace Albertson (Frances Kemp), Ed Lauter (Detective), Laura Miller (Leona Porter). Mike uncovers a conspiracy involving a close friend's involvement in a series of armored car robberies.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Class Of '57
Season 5, episode 14 W: Robert Earll, Sy Salkowitz D: James Neilson With Johnny Seven (Lt. Carl Reese), Ellen Tucker (Mary), Christian Juttner (Eddie), Jerry Fogel (Roger Jameson), Marlyn Mason (Ann Garfield), Charles Knox Robinson (Bernie Simmons), Gary Crosby (Steve Owen), Denis Jay (Tom), Carol Shelyne (Connie Richmond), Joseph Hindy (Tony), Alex Henteloff (Frank), Fredd Wayne (Arthur Greene). Det. Ed Brown's reunion with a lovely widow, his former high school girlfriend, turns sour when he suspects she has knowledge about the criminal activites of another classmate.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Voice From A Nightmare
Season 1, episode 13 With Ben Hammer (Ron Hentzel), Skip Homeier (Fallon), Hildy Brooks (Louise Fallon), Leonard Stone (Lawrence Ryman), William Schallert (Darryl Williamson), Kip Niven (Mike Williamson), Will Geer (Ben Hale). Marshall defends a man charged with attempting to commit murder because of a lawsuit which will bankrupt his father.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 14 With Ginger Rogers, Arte Johnson, Don Meredith. Comedy highlights: Dean, Arte and Don are three "wallflowers" who share their mutual problem; Don interviews the world's champ Ukrainian goal kicker (Arte); a censor has a problem at a night club.
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