Monday March 22, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 22, 1971:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: The Whispering Tree (R) Here's Lucy: Lucy The Crusader (R) Mayberry R.F.D.: The City Planner The Doris Day Show: Doris Finds An Apartment (R) The Carol Burnett Show
ABC Movie: Africa: Texas Style (1967) Conversation With The President The Eye Of The Storm
NBC Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree (R) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #80 (R) Triple Play


Sports
Movie
Drama
News
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Variety
Comedy

Program details:



[CBS 7:30] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Whispering Tree
Season 12, episode 8
W: Calvin Clements   D: Vincent McEveety

With Morgan Woodward (Earl Miller), Jacqueline Scott (Ada Stanley), Lane Chandler (Guard), Fred Coby (Station Attendant), Roy Barcroft (Roy), Allen Jaffe (Ryan), Rex Holman (Garr), John Saxon (Virgil Stanley), Stephen McEveety (Boy), Kathleen O'Malley (Mother), Christopher Pate (Curtis), Donald Losby (Bryant), Edward Asner (Redmond). A farmer returns home after eight years in prison to recover the fortune he stole. The man's plans are complicated by his ex-partner in crime, a greedy range detective and his own family, who have completely changed the layout of the farm during the ensuing years.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/12/1966)

[ABC 7:30] Movie: Africa: Texas Style (1967)
W: Andy White   D: Andrew Marton

With Hugh O'Brian, John Mills, Nigel Green, Tom Nardini, Adrienne Corri, Ronald Howard, Charles Malinda. To prove his theory of wild game ranching is practical, the owner of a large ranch in Kenya imports a world champion cowboy and his Navajo sidekick to capture and tame the wild animals of Africa. Filmed on location in Africa.

[NBC 7:30] Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree [special]
W: Larry Clemmons, Xavier Atencio, Vance Gerry, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, Dick Lucas   D: Wolfgang Reitherman

With Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, Howard Morris, Sebastian Cabot, Junius Matthews, Clint Howard. Reprise of an animated musical based on A.A. Milne's children's stories. The fantasy concerns the whimsical antics of Pooh -- the "bear of little brain" -- as he seeks to satisfy his appetite for honey. Sterling Holloway is the voice of Pooh. Narrated by Sebastian Cabot.
(Repeat program)

[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #80
Season 4, episode 14
W: Allan Manings, Jim Mulligan, Allan Katz, Don Reo, John Rappaport, et al   D: Mark Warren

With Debbie Reynolds, Phyllis Diller, Jilly Rizzo, Bing Crosby, Rich Little. Miss Reynolds turns up as Charlie Chaplin, a circus knife-thrower, a stewardess for Burbank Airlines, and as Fifi, black sheep of the Farkle family. Also: a parody of old-time film stars.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/14/1970)

[CBS 8:30] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy The Crusader
Season 3, episode 5
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz   D: Herbert Kenwith

With Carole Cook (Mrs. Casten), Charles Nelson Reilly (Elroy P. Clunk), John J. Fox (Salesman), Kathleen Hughes (Mrs. Portnoy), Bob Hastings (Martin Phillips), Jerome Cowan (Mr. Gary), Donald Briggs (Mr. Huntington). Lucy plunges into a consumer crusade when she discovers that a large manufacturer's guarantees on its many products put the consumer at a great disadvantage.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1970)

[CBS 9:00] Mayberry R.F.D. [Reg]: The City Planner
Season 3, episode 25
W: Bob Mosher, Charles Stewart   D: Hal Cooper

With Ruta Lee (Terry Phillips), Alice Backes (Miss Pringle), Ernest Sarracino (Gino). Sam finds himself on the brink of trouble when Millie leaves on vacation just as a pretty city planner arrives to work with him.

[NBC 9:00] Triple Play [special] "Inside O.U.T." stars Bill Daily as director and agent for the Office of Unusual Tactics, an organization devoted to helping people deal with their computerized society. With Alan Oppenheimer, Farrah Fawcett, Mike Henry.

"The Good Life" stars Larry Hagman and Donna Mills as a young American couple who hire out as butler and maid to enjoy the benefits of society without being imprisoned by them. With Kate Reid, Danny Goldman, David Wayne.

"Is There A Doctor In The House?" stars William Windom and Rosemary Forsyth as a pair of unmarried doctors in a small New England town. With Margaret Hamilton.

[CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Doris Finds An Apartment
Season 3, episode 1
W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul   D: Denver Pyle

With Kaye Ballard (Angie Pallucci), Bernie Kopell (Louie Pallucci), Gordon Jump (Captain), Carol Worthington (Ethel Weber), Joe Hoover (Co-Pilot). Series moves to a San Francisco setting for its third year. Doris finds an apartment over an Italian restaurant but her lease is canceled the first day. Kaye Ballard and Bernie Kopell join the cast as semi-regulars.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1970)

[ABC 9:30] Conversation With The President This hour-long conversation between President Nixon and Howard K. Smith has no limitation so far as subject matter is concerned. It is the first time an incumbent President has held a conversation live on television with a single commentator.

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 25

With David Frost, Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne. A show taped in New York at the Ed Sullivan theater. Frost plays a snobbish English car salesman hustling wealthy Americans Harvey Korman and Carol, and David returns in the finale to narrate "Italian Cinderella", featuring the opera stars as Cindy's (Carol) stepsisters.

[ABC 10:30] The Eye Of The Storm An examination of a unique experiment in prejudice and discrimination among the students of the Riceville Community Elementary School in Riceville, Iowa, where an imaginative third-grade teacher in this tiny farm community illustrated the pain and misery of discrimination to her all-white students.

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