Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 18, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Christmas Day At The Bunkers'
Season 2, episode 13 W: Don Nicholl D: John Rich With Mike Evans (Lionel Jefferson), Mel Stewart (Henry Jefferson), Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson), Noam Pitlik (Wilbur). Instead of joy there's gloom in the Bunker household on Christmas Day. Archie didn't get his usual bonus this time of year. It takes Edith's womanly wiles to change the atmosphere.
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| [ABC 8:00] Getting Together [Reg]: Blue Christmas
Season 1, episode 11 W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant D: Jerry Bernstein Bobby rents a mountain cabin to give Jenny a real old-fashioned Christmas.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Partners [Reg]: North Is Now South
Season 1, episode 13 W: Milt Rosen D: Earl Bellamy With Jack Webb (Commissioner Norton), Len Lesser (Novack), Jack Somack (Mr. Kellner), Cliff Osmond (Slade). Dets. Crooke and Robinson are caught in the middle of a protection racket involving rival mobsters and the situation is further complicated by a rezoning law.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Ted Over Heels
Season 2, episode 14 W: David Davis, Lorenzo Music D: Peter Baldwin With Arlene Golonka (Betty Bowerchuck). Ted Baxter shows symptoms of love when he starts giving roses to the daughter of Chuckles the Clown.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: What's A Nice Girl Like You. . . ? (1971)
W: Howard Fast D: Jerry Paris With Brenda Vaccaro, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, Jack Warden, Roddy McDowall, Jo Anne Worley. A poor girl from the Bronx is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot by impersonating a rich socialite.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Good Life [Reg]: Albert Gets Rich
Season 1, episode 13 W: Susan Harris D: Joseph Goodson Albert strikes it rich and quits his job as a butler.
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| [CBS 9:00] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: Pepito Of Mexico
Season 1, episode 14 With Jose Estrada (Pepito), Carmen Zapata (Teela). When things start disappearing around the house, the Prestons suspect their maid's six-year-old nephew is the culprit.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Singing Nun (1966)
W: Sally Benson, John Furia D: Henry Koster With Debbie Reynolds, Greer Garson, Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead, Katharine Ross, Chad Everett. Story of the Belgian Dominican sister who brought along a guitar to help the poor and underprivileged and became a world celebrity.
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| [CBS 9:30] Arnie [Reg]: The Gift Of The Majors
Season 2, episode 13 W: Art Baer, Ben Joelson D: Don Richardson With Olan Soule (Fred Springer), Allan Melvin (Mr. Towbin), Thelma Pelish (Zelda), Leif Garrett (Chester), Timothy Blake (Sandy), Maureen Reagan (Secretary). Arnie is depressed over missing out on the Christmas bonus, but then learns the boss has a different kind of gift for him.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Connection
Season 6, episode 14 W: Edward J. Lakso, Ken Pettus D: Barry Crane With Anthony Zerbe (Reese Dolan), Joe Maross (Clegg), Nate Esformes (Turk), Jeff Morris (Page), Bruce Watson (Charles Finch), Michael Lane (Lew Bates), Francoise Ruggieri (Simone), Richard Angarola (Atak Hajii). Jim Phelps and the IMF team break up an underworld ring attempting to establish one of the world's biggest heroin manufacturing plants off the African coast.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Persuaders [Reg]: Someone Waiting
Season 1, episode 12 W: Terry Nation D: Peter Medak With Penelope Horner (Carrie Bowman), John Cairney (Jenkins), Donald Pickering (Morely Lindon), Lois Maxwell (Louise Cornell), Maxwell Shaw (Vine), Tim Barrett (John Radcliffe), Sam Kydd (Dwyer), David Neal (Jerry Sandford), Jenny Hanley (Magda), Sean Lynch (Yates), Helena Ross (Joe), Russ Henderson (Sam). Brett resumes race car driving, only to become the target of someone who is willing to kill him in order to make him stop.
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