Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 20, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Sam McTavish, M.D.
Season 16, episode 4 W: Gerry Day, Bethel Leslie D: Bernard McEveety With Read Morgan (Dan Slade), Vera Miles (Dr. Samuel McTavish), Lisa Gerritsen (Christina), Arch Johnson (Barn Bascomb), Dee Carroll (Ellen), Tom Fadden (Harley), Kathleen O'Malley (Bridget O'Reilly), Robert Rothwell (Joe Slade), Amzie Strickland (Minnie Carver), Lance Thomas (Tom Slade), Glenn Redding (Frank O'Reilly). Shocked to discover his temporary replacement, Dr. Sam McTavish, is a female, Doc Adams is forced to work with her during an epidemic and falls in love. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1970)
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| [ABC 8:00] Terror In Northern Ireland
ABC News London Bureau chief George Watson narrates a look at the conflict in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #105
Season 5, episode 13 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With Joe Namath, Petula Clark, Charo, Burt Mustin, Queenie Smith. Joe Namath, quarterback for the New York Jets, turns comic on tonight's edition. Namath portrays Gladys Ormphby's (Ruth Buzzi) dream husband, a duck hunter and an inductee at a draft board physical. The girls give an Orphan Annie introduction to the "news" and members of the cast take part in a new panel show, "The Aging Game".
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy's Lucky Day
Season 4, episode 15 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin With Dick Patterson (Dick Dunkirk), Billy Sands (Mr. Orson). Lucy Carter becomes a contestant on a TV game show and winds up with a chimpanzee and a very slim chance of winning one of the show's valuable prizes.
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| [ABC 9:00] Liberty Bowl
Tennesse vs. Arkansas at Memphis, Tennessee.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Ceremony (1963)
W: Ben Barzman D: Laurence Harvey With Laurence Harvey, Sarah Miles, Robert Walker Jr., John Ireland, Ross Martin. As Sean McKenna awaits execution for his part in a bank holdup and murder, his brother plots his escape with the condition that the prisoner's girlfriend yield to him.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: And Here's ... Doris
Season 4, episode 1 W: Laurence Marks D: Norman Tokar With Jim Wells (Jim), Joseph Mell (Jacob Berns), Alan DeWitt (Professor Frisbee), Bob Crane (Bob Carter). In the season-opening episode, Doris Martin, a full-fledged writer for Today's World magazine, is sent by her editor to interview the host of a late-night TV talk show, but the plan misfires. John Dehner and Jackie Joseph join the regular cast for the series' fourth season. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] My Three Sons [Reg]: Lady Douglas
Season 12, episode 3 W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With Fred MacMurray (Fergus McBain Douglas), Alan Caillou (Voice of Fergus), Anne Francis (Terri Dowling), Frank DeVol (Jonas Tevron). Steve's look-alike Scottish cousin Fergus has his first date with Terri Dowling. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1971)
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| [CBS 10:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Goodbye, Fergus
Season 12, episode 4 W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With Fred MacMurray (Fergus McBain Douglas), Alan Caillou (Voice of Fergus), John McLiam (Reverend MacDougal), Anne Francis (Terri Dowling). Steve's look-alive cousin Fergus disappears on the day of his wedding to Terri Dowling. Last of a four-part story. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1971)
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