Prime-time network TV listings for Monday September 20, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Phoenix
Season 17, episode 2 W: Anthony Lawrence D: Paul Stanley With Glenn Corbett (Phoenix), Frank Corsentino (Fraker), Ramon Bieri (John Sontag), Mariette Hartley (Kate Hume), Gene Evans (Jesse Hume). A young ex-convict takes a contract to kill a man he has never met. He soon has second thoughts about the deal, but his employers threaten to kill him if he doesn't carry out the job.
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| [ABC 8:00] Nanny And The Professor [Reg]: The Flower Children
Season 3, episode 2 W: Bob Mosher D: Richard L. Bare With Larraine Stephens (Marjorie Meyers), Alvy Moore (Al Bender). Professor Everett's romance with an ecology buff hits a snag.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #94
Season 5, episode 2 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With Roman Gabriel, Vida Blue, Andy Granatelli, Sugar Ray Robinson, Doug Sanders, Vin Scully, Bill Russell, Willie Shoemaker, Joe Namath. Highlights include a "Mod Look at the World of Sports".
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| [ABC 8:30] Frank Gifford's Game Plan
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And The Mountain Climber
Season 4, episode 2 W: Lou Derman, Larry Rhine D: Coby Ruskin With Sid Gould (Photographer), Tony Randall (Rudolph Springer III), Morgan Jones (Contest Representative), Janos Prohaska (Black Bear). Unless Lucy can prove her athletic prowess to uphold a vigorous, youthful image for the firm, she's liable to lose her job.
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| [ABC 9:00] Monday Night Football
ABC initiates its NFL Monday night season coverage with a National Conference Central Division match between the two leading candidates to reach the playoffs - the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. The Vikings nabbed quarterback Norm Snead from Philadelphia in an off-season trade. Snead can throw the bomb. Minnesota has additional strength at this position with Gary Cuozzo. The Vikes also have a superlative defense. Detroit probably has the best offensive team in the division, and quarterback Bill Munson had an outstanding preseason record. Excellent pass defense and good set of linebackers make the Lions a formidable team. Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell report from Tiger Stadium, Detroit.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Alamo (1960), part two
W: James Edward Grant D: John Wayne With John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Linda Cristal, Chill Wills, Joan O'Brien, Patrick Wayne, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle. In the year 1836, when Texas was the northernmost province of Mexico, the people rebel against the government of a general and declare their freedom. Gen. Sam Houston hurriedly raises and trains an army for the war that is certain to follow.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Mr. And Mrs. Raffles
Season 4, episode 2 W: Arthur Julian D: Norman Tokar With Billy De Wolfe (Willard Jarvis), Ken Lynch (Detective Broder), H.M. Wynant (Rodney), Lynette Mettey (Dolly), Dick Wilson (Clerk), Charles Wagenheim (Pop Jenson). A nighttime stroll to the post office turns into a trip to jail for Doris and her neighbor, Mr. Jarvis.
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| [CBS 10:00] My Three Sons [Reg]: Fergus For Sale
Season 12, episode 2 W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With Fred MacMurray (Fergus McBain Douglas), Anne Francis (Terri Dowling), Alan Caillou (Voice of Fergus). Uncle Charley places Fergus on the marriage block with a newspaper ad.
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| [CBS 10:30] Arnie [Reg]: Well There Goes The Neighborhood
Season 2, episode 2 D: Don Richardson With Richard X. Slattery (Moving Boss), Charles Nelson Reilly (Randy Robinson). Charles Nelson Reilly debuts in the recurring role of Randy Robinson, a gourmet chef who moves into the Nuvos' neighborhood.
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