Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 27, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Kids! 53 Things To Know About Health, Sex And Growing Up [special]
CBS conducts a news test for young people that will answer questions about some of the subjects they themselves consider important. Among the topics are drugs, physical fitness, sex and dating, music, sports, dress and appearance, foods. Questions were brought out in interviews Charles Kuralt had with a representative group of students in Atlanta. Seven professional experts provide the answers.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: The Rift
Season 2, episode 17 W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper Eddie gets mad at his father when he nixes Norman Tinker's plan to buy him a horse.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Men From Shiloh [Reg]: The Legacy Of Spencer Flats
Season 9, episode 17 W: B.W. Sandefur D: Russ Mayberry With Edgar Buchanan (Teddy Birdwell), Bradford Dillman (Deke Slaughter / Sheriff O'Dell), Carolyn Jones (Annie Spencer), Ann Sothern (Della Spencer). Trampas stumbles into a Spencer Flats saloon out of a sandstorm and finds everything delightful until two spinster sisters and their handyman accuse him of being a wanted criminal.
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| [ABC 8:00] Room 222 [Reg]: The Long Honeymoon
Season 2, episode 17 W: William Wood D: Terry Becker With Tim Matheson (Jerry Cates), Eve McVeagh (Mrs. Cates), Ketty Lester (Mrs. Ellis), Morris Buchanan (Mr. Ellis), Barbara Collentine (Mrs. Bush), Margarita Cordova (Mrs. Santos). When a basketball player seems distracted and sleeps in classes, both his friend, the team manager, and Mr. Kaufman are concerned. Principal Kaufman learns the youth is on his own because his mother has gone off to pursue another marriage prospect.
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| [CBS 8:30] To Rome With Love [Reg]: Age Of Life
Season 2, episode 18 With Robert Deman (Alfredo), Johnny Jensen (Roy), Margaret Field (Stephanie), Taldo Kenyon (Desk Clerk), Frank Puglia (Bibo). Penny gets a crush on an older boy, wihle Grandpa Andy loses his head over a pretty American tourist, young enough to be his daughter.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Smith Family [Reg]: The Ex-Con
Season 1, episode 2 D: Herschel Daugherty With Booth Colman (Ex-Con), Paul Petersen (Paul). An ex-convict comes to the Smith home for help, and Detective Smith agrees he is entitled to resume his place in society.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Danger Point
Season 2, episode 18 W: Jackson Gillis, John Meredyth Lucas D: Michael Caffey With Joanne Linville (Joan Morton), Frank Aletter (Morton), Parley Baer (Elter), Don Dubbins (Parker), Brent Davis (Charlie), Stephen Hudis (Rick), James Griffith (Follit), Paul Picerni (Reinart), Alex Miller (MacGill), James A. Watson Jr. (Stan), Michael Stearns (Orderly). The hospital is endangered when a patient, deranged by the death of her newborn baby, loses a radioactive implant for cancer treatment then can't remember the incident.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Johnny Cash Show [Reg]: Country Music Story (2)
Season 2, episode 17 With Chet Atkins, Merle Haggard, Minnie Pearl, Tammy Wynette, Faron Young, Takahiro Saito (Japan's "Johnny Cash"). Cash and his guests trace the progress of country music from remote areas of the southeastern mountains of the U.S. to its current international popularity.
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| [NBC 9:00] Kraft Music Hall [Reg]: The Friars Roast Jerry Lewis
With Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Jack Carter, Charlie Callas, Rex Reed, Alan King. Johnny Carson is the Roastmaster for an evening of friendly insults directed at Jerry Lewis.
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| [CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
Season 3, episode 18 W: Jerry Ludwig, Eric Bercovici D: Michael O'Herlihy With Ed Fernandez (Ship Captain), Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat), John McMartin (Ron Nicholson), Sabrina Scharf (Nicole Fleming), Roger C. Carmel (Misha Toptegan), Monte Landis (Tony Madrid), Melvin Kwon (Lee Foy), Peggy Oumansky (Mrs. Spencer), Ed Sheehan (Customs Officer). McGarrett, while acting for the CIA, tracks down a pair of printing plates stolen from the U.S. government and sought by three other governments.
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| [ABC 10:00] State Of The Union: A Democratic Appraisal
With Mike Mansfield (D-Montana).
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| [NBC 10:00] Man's Thumb On Nature's Balance [special]
With footage from the Aleutian Islands, Tule Lake and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, the Great Swamp in New Jersey and the Federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, NBC documents the methods man uses to control and preserve wildlife. The controversy surrounding some of these methods is also reported on by correspondent Jack Perkins.
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