Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday January 24, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] Lassie [Reg]: The River
Season 17, episode 16 With Robert Patten, Don Eitner, Scott Perry, Robert Ferrel, Danny Madrid. Lassie endangers her own life to save two adventurous boys from raging rapids.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wild Kingdom
Cameras record the work of Africa's Kruger National Park rangers in locating hippopotamuses. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 7:30] Hogan's Heroes [Reg]: That's No Lady, That's My Spy
Season 6, episode 17 W: Arthur Julian D: Jerry London With Jon Cedar (Oskar Danzing), David Morick (Patrol Leader), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), Alice Ghostley (Mrs. Mannheim), Diana Chesney (Berta Burkhalter), Wendy Wilson (Red Riding Hood). Newkirk poses as a general's wife to get penicillin to an ill underground leader.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin (2)
Season 17, episode 16 W: Lowell S. Hawley D: James Neilson With Roddy McDowall (Eric "Bullwhip" Griffin), Suzanne Pleshette (Anabelle Flagg), Karl Malden (Judge Higgins), Harry Guardino (Sam Trimble), Richard Haydn (Quentin Bartlett), Hermione Baddeley (Irene Chesney), Bryan Russell (Jack Flagg), Liam Redmond (Captain Swain), Cecil Kellaway (Mr. Pemberton), Mike Mazurki (Mountain Ox), Alan Carney (Bartender), Parley Baer (Chief Executioner), Arthur Hunnicutt (Referee), Burt Mustin (Old Man), Dub Taylor (Timekeeper). In the second segment of the three-part presentation of the 1967 movie, Butler Eric Griffin agrees to fight the most feared man in the territory.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Ed Sullivan Show [Reg]
Season 23, episode 18 With Sergio Franchi, Godfrey Cambridge, Nancy Ames, B.J. Thomas, Peter Gennaro. B.J. Thomas opens with "No Love At All" and a medley of songs including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "Most of All" and "I Just Can't Help Believin'". He then duets with Nancy Ames on "Your Song", after which Nancy Ames solos "Lady Love" and "Heaven Help Us All". Peter Gennaro and his dancers do an "Impossible Dream" production number. Pro football player Jim O'Brien talks with Ed and does a football demonstration.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Eye Of The Needle
Season 6, episode 18 W: Robert Heverly D: Virgil Vogel With Jerry Ayres (Jimmy Vaughn), Robert Yuro (Gene Fordyce), George Wallace (George Ayres), Richard Roat (S.A.C. Ed Windsor), Byron Keith (S.A.C. Lee Brownell), Lynette Mettey (Marian), Vince Howard (Carter Graham), Tari DeMeyer (Girl Patient), William Toomey (F.B.I. Agent), Leo G. Morrell (Supervisor Al McClure), Richard Kiley (Dr. Herbert Barth), Coleen Gray (Mrs. Barth), Michael Baseleon (Paul Menard). The Bureau launches a widespread search through Washington's Cascade mountains for a wealthy surgeon kidnapped from his solitary campsite.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Bill Cosby Show [Reg]: The Sesame Street Rumble
Season 2, episode 18 W: Ed Weinberger D: Bill Cosby With Kelvin Cosby (Davey), Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (Bob), Bill Russell (Teacher), Dick Balduzzi (Teacher), Lee Weaver (Brian Kincaid), Hazel Medina (Davey's Mother), Jerry Fujikawa (Teacher), Don Elson (Teacher). Chet is faced with 14 anxious football fans, a broken down TV set and a 5-year-old neighbor who insists on watching Sesame Street.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 3, episode 18 With Sonny and Cher, comics John Byner and R.G. Brown, Mel Tillis, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Medley of rock tunes from the 1950s; Campbell solos "Live for the Good Times", "Without Her" and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother".
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: In Harm's Way (1965), part one
W: Wendell Mayes D: Otto Preminger With John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss. Star-studded drama of the naval war in the Pacific after the Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor.
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| [NBC 9:00] Peggy Fleming At Sun Valley [special]
Headlining her third music-on-ice special, Peggy Fleming is host to French ski champion Jean-Claude Killy, the Carpenters, comic Pete Barbutti and former Ice Follies stars Bill Thomas and Hugh Smith. Highlighting the hour are a skate-ski ballet and a behind-the-scenes salute to the famed ski resort in Idaho where the special was produced.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Jackie Gleason Show [Reg]: The Curse Of The Cuckoo Thief
Season 4, episode 4 With George Chakiris. A birthday shopping trip turns chaotic as guest star Chakiris plays shoplifter "Mousey the Dip". (Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1969)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: An Absence Of Loneliness
Season 2, episode 7 W: Michael Blankfort D: Joel Rogosin With Julie Adams (Lynn Craig), Edward Binns (Jim Lynch), Kathryn Hays (Marcy), Coleen Gray (Mary Lynch), Brad David (Ronnie Lynch), Phillip Pine (Ed Resnick), Ann Doran (Helen Robinson), Kasey Rogers (Pam Ellis), John S. Ragin (Dr. Gomrick). The imminent death of a friend prompts Dr. David Craig to set up an experimental family therapy unit in which terminal patients give their reactions to dying.
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