Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 27, 1971:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: P.S. Murry Christmas
Season 17, episode 15 W: William Kelley D: Herb Wallerstein With Sarah Selby (Ma Smalley), Jack Elam (Titus Spangler), Jeanette Nolan (Emma Grundy), Patti Cohoon (Mary), Erin Moran (Jenny), Willie Aames (Tom), Josh Albee (Michael), Todd Lookinland (Jake), Brian Morrison (Owen), Jodie Foster (Patricia), Jack Collins (J. Stedman Edgecomb), Maudie Prickett (Mrs. Pretch), Herb Vigran (Judge Caleb Brooker). Seven homeless children run away from their Kansas orphanage in search of a Christmas they have never known. When the orphanage's stern headmistress arrives in Dodge to reclaim her charges, the town is reluctant to let them go.
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[ABC 8:00] Nanny And The Professor [Reg]: Whatever Happened To Felicity?
Season 3, episode 15 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Bruce Bilson With Don Beddoe (Mr. Thatcher), Walter Baldwin (Mr. Trimble), Edith Evanson (Mrs. Trimble), Len Ross (Delivery Man), Gail Forget (Little Girl). Prudence, being ignored by her brothers, becomes attached to Nanny's old doll. (Last show of the series.)
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[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #106
Season 5, episode 14 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With Buddy Hackett, Sally Struthers, Fannie Flagg, Jack La Lanne, Mona Tera. Tonight's edition features a "Mod World Look at Health". Buddy portrays a gunslinger, a hotel doorman and a clerk in a gag gift shop.
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[CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy's Bonus Bounces
Season 4, episode 16 W: Martin A. Ragway D: Coby Ruskin With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vanda Barra (Waitress), Parley Baer (Dr. Cunningham), Paul Picerni (IRS Agent). Lucy racks her brain to determine why Harry presented her with a $50-a-week raise.
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[ABC 9:00] North-South Shrine All-Star Football
Top college seniors from around the nation meet in the 26th annual North-South Shrine All-Star classic at the Orange Bowl in Miami. The North, coached by John Majors of Iowa State and New Hampshire's Jim Root, spotlights Northwestern quarterback Maurice Daigneau and linebacker Ralph Cindrich of Pittsburgh. Bill Battle of Tennessee and Fran Curci of Miami helm the South's team sparked by Tennessee fullback Curt Watson and Bobby Majors, defensive back from Tennessee and brother of the North coach. Frank Gifford and Don Meredith report.
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[NBC 9:00] Movie: Far From The Madding Crowd (1967), part two
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.
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[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: The Wings Of An Angel
Season 4, episode 15 W: Richard Powell D: Richard Kinon With Marc Lawrence (Frankie Fury), David Doyle (Warden McPherson), Dick Patterson (Albert), Jack Griffin (Guard). Editor Cy Bennett envisions his magazine exposing the nation's major crime syndicate when he assigns Doris to interview at the state prison a notorious mobster who claims he wants to squeal.
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[CBS 10:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 7 - Midseason Premiere
Season 1, episode 7 With Harvey Korman, Glenn Ford, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Merrill. The debut of a variety series featuring regulars Ted Zeigler, Peter Cullen, Murray Langston, Freeman King, Tom Solari and Clark Carr. Highlighted on tonight's edition is an operatic spoof of O'Connor's top-rated series, All in the Family, with Merrill as Archie Bunker.
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