Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 28, 1971:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Bearcats! [Reg]: Conqueror's Gold
Season 1, episode 6 W: Stephen Kandel, Alexander Richards D: Richard Donner With Kevin McCarthy (Carter Gladstone), Jane Merrow (Samantha Burke), Tom Nardini (Father Liberto), Pepper Martin (Gus Bailey), Rod Cameron (Warden Price), Victor Eberg (Jason). A girl photographer upsets Brackett and Reach's plans to free an Indian pueblo held hostage by a bandit who robs the residents of their conquistador gold.
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: Six Strangers At Apache Springs
Season 2, episode 7 W: Arnold Somkin, John Thomas James D: David Colasanto With John S. Ragin (Edward Fielding), Carmen Matthews (Caroline Rangely), Sian Barbara Allen (Sister Grace), Patricia Barry (Lucy Fielding), Logan Ramsey (Smithers). Heyes and Curry are captured by Indians while trying to recover gold caches belonging to a prospector's widow.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 7 With the Smothers Brothers, Melba Moore. City slicker Freddie Johnson (Flip) tries to charm a small-town girl (Melba Moore); the Smothers Brothers portray two deacons in Rev. Leroy's (Flip) church. Songs include "Hair", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "I Talk to the Trees".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Comedians (1967)
W: Graham Greene D: Peter Glenville With Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford, Lillian Gish, Georg Stanford Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, James Earl Jones, Gloria Foster, Raymond St. Jacques, Cicely Tyson. Despite a native rebellion, an Englishman returns to Haiti to reopen his hotel and resume his relationship with a diplomat's wife.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: The Shape Of Nightmares
Season 1, episode 7 W: Stirling Silliphant D: James Neilson With Dana Elcar (Dr. Burlen), Paul Koslo (Bobby Karp), William Smith (Montana), Scott Walker (Caleb), Michael C. Gwynne (Harper). Acting for a widow who stands to lose an insurance claim, Mike Longstreet enters a state prison to investigate the death of her convict husband.
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| [NBC 9:00] Nichols [Reg]: The Specialists
Season 1, episode 7 W: Frank Pierson, George Kirgo D: Frank R. Pierson With Ralph Waite (Sam Burton), Don Keefer (Burt Lincoln), Michael Baseleon (Willy Brownfur), Henry Beckman (Murphy), Charles Dierkop (Nose), Robert F. Simon (Slade), Poupee Bocar (Carmen), Stefan Gierasch (Doc Bernstein), John Harding (Salter), John Crawford (Marshall). When Nichols recruits a rugged band of crime specialists to recover stolen money from a fugitive living in Mexico, Ketcham becomes curious and decides to tag along, threatening the sheriff's plans.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Shadow Of A Name
Season 1, episode 7 W: John Wilder D: Harry Falk With Jean Allison (Martha Collier), Tim Matheson (Gerry Collier), Bryan Montgomery (Roger Carlisle), Barry Sullivan (Grant Chase), Jesse Vint (Joe Boysen), Donald Woods (Judge McDowell), Rick Weaver (Gary McNett), John Larch (George Patterson), Ed Begley Jr. (Howard), John Gilgreen (Bob Courtney), Farrah Fawcett (Tori Barbour). Owen Marshall is teamed with a criminal attorney, whose methods he does not like, when defending two college students charged with murder.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 7 With Ernest Borgnine, Elaine Stritch, Norm Crosby, Leonard Barr. Borgnine plays Prince Charming to Miss Stritch; Elaine portrays a jet-set girl-next-door; Dean sings "La Vie en Rose"; Ding-a-Ling Sisters perform "Fool on the Hill".
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