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Saturday December 25, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 25, 1971:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS All In The Family: Gloria Discovers Women's Lib (R) The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Christmas And The Hard Luck Kid (R) The New Dick Van Dyke Show: A Star Ain't Born (R) Arnie: Welcome To The Club (R) Mission: Impossible: Encore (R)
ABC Getting Together: The Great Pretender TV Movie: Tribes (1970) The Persuaders: The Man In The Middle (R)
NBC The Partners: Desperate Ours The Good Life: The Gardeners Movie: Far From The Madding Crowd (1967), part one
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[CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Gloria Discovers Women's Lib
Season 1, episode 11
W: Norman Lear, Sandy Stern   D: John Rich

With Mike Evans (Lionel Jefferson).
Gloria discovers women's liberation and winds up moving out of the Bunker household as a result of an argument with Mike when she demands he treat her as a complete equal.

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/23/1971)

[ABC 8:00] Getting Together [Reg]: The Great Pretender
Season 1, episode 12
W: Lee Kalcheim   D: Ron Winston

With Barbara Daitch (Barbara), Beverly Washburn (Janet).
Bobby falls in love with Janet, an encyclopedia salesgirl who, he learns later, can't deal truthfully with anyone.

[NBC 8:00] The Partners [Reg]: Desperate Ours
Season 1, episode 14
W: Earl Barret, Arne Sultan   D: Gary Nelson

With Robert Karvelas (Freddie Butler), Felice Orlandi (Killer Larsen), Karen Smith (Roxy).
Dets. Crooke and Robinson guard their captain when his life is threatened by a convict he sent to prison 10 years ago.

[CBS 8:30] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Christmas And The Hard Luck Kid
Season 1, episode 14
W: Allan Burns, James L. Brooks   D: Jay Sandrich

With Ned Wertimer (Fred), Henry Corden (Charlie).
Mary's plans to spend the holidays with her family are thwarted when she learns that she has to work in the newsroom on both Christmas eve and Christmas day -- alone.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/19/1970)

[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Tribes (1970)
W: Tracy Keenan Wynn, Marvin Schwartz   D: Joseph Sargent

With Darren McGavin, Earl Holliman, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Gruber, Danny Goldman.
A tough sergeant in the Marine Corps faces the formidable job of turning a young draftee who wears a Hindu robe, sandals and sports shoulder-length hair into a fighting soldier.

[NBC 8:30] The Good Life [Reg]: The Gardeners
Season 1, episode 14
W: Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen   D: Claudio Guzman

Butler Miller attempts to cut down on household expenses, but encounters resistance from the gardeners.

[CBS 9:00] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: A Star Ain't Born
Season 1, episode 2
W: Arnold Kane, Gordon Farr   D: Mark Breaux

With Joan Huntington (Ann Marsh), Noam Pitlik (Director), Gordon Jump (Father Stone).
Dick Preston gets a chance at the big time when a famous actress summons him to Hollywood to test for the role of her husband.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1971)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Far From The Madding Crowd (1967), part one
W: Frederic Raphael   D: John Schlesinger

With Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates.
An English farm heiress is courted by three men of widely differing temperments -- a soldier, a rich landowner and a sheep farmer. The headstrong woman's involvement with the trio sets in motion events she can't control that threaten to ruin the lives of everyone concerned.

[CBS 9:30] Arnie [Reg]: Welcome To The Club
Season 2, episode 5
D: Bruce Bilson

With Don Beddoe (Miles), Charles Nelson Reilly (Randy Robinson).
Greek-American Arnie Nuvo has second thoughts about joining his boss' exclusive polo club.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1971)

[CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Encore
Season 6, episode 2
W: Harold Livingston   D: Paul Krasny

With Charles Picerni (Danny Ryan), William Shatner (Thomas Kroll), Michael Baseleon (Frank Stevens), Paul Mantee (Bill Fisher), James Daris (Arthur), Janaire (Carol Swanson), Paul Bryar (David St. James).
An aging hoodlum is artificially transported back to the 1930s and the scene of his unsolved crime.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1971)

[ABC 10:00] The Persuaders [Reg]: The Man In The Middle
Season 1, episode 4
W: Donald James   D: Leslie Norman

With Laurence Naismith (Judge Fulton), Terry-Thomas (Archie Sinclair-Beauchamp), Suzy Kendall (Kay Hunter), Stephen Greif (Krilov), John Orchard (Gregor), Stanley Meadows (David Price).
Brett is suspected as a British Intelligence traitor when he tries to help the British trace the real traitor.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/9/1971)


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