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Wednesday December 15, 1971
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Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 15, 1971:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Carol Burnett Show Medical Center: The Nowhere Child Mannix: To Save A Dead Man
ABC Bewitched: Three Men And A Witch On A Horse The Courtship Of Eddie's Father: The Blarney Stone Girl The Smith Family: Family Man Shirley's World: A Mother's Touch The Man And The City: The Girls In Truck Seven
NBC Adam-12: The Dinosaur Columbo: Lady In Waiting Night Gallery
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[CBS 8:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 13

With Ken Berry, Dionne Warwick.
In a western spoof, Carol and Ken play Billy and Lilly who alternately hit the heights and depths in Hollywood with their horse, Dynamite. Dionne sings "Always Something There to Remind Me" and, with Carol, "When in the Course of Human Events", a portion of Thomas Jefferson's words from the Declaration of Independence set to music.

[ABC 8:00] Bewitched [Reg]: Three Men And A Witch On A Horse
Season 8, episode 13
W: Ed Jurist   D: Richard Michaels

With John Fiedler (Spengler), Hoke Howell (Dancer), Scatman Crothers (Handler).
Samantha's mother, Endora, casts a spell making Darrin a compulsive gambler.

[NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Dinosaur
Season 4, episode 12
W: Michael Donovan   D: Ozzie Nelson

With Heather North (Shirley Young), Del Monroe (Frank Young), Warren Stevens (Officer Art McCall).
A police officer who returns to duty after eight years find changes more than he can endure.

[ABC 8:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: The Blarney Stone Girl
Season 3, episode 13
W: Joanna Lee   D: Harry Falk

With Sally Struthers (Katie O'Hara).
A commercial artist of Irish descent seems to have leprechauns against her which leads to disrupting Tom and Eddie's home life.

[NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Lady In Waiting
Season 1, episode 5
W: Steven Bochco   D: Norman Lloyd

With Leslie Nielsen (Peter Hamilton), Richard Anderson (Bryce Chadwick), Jessie Royce Landis (Mother Chadwick), Susan Clark (Beth Chadwick), Barbara Rhoades (Hostess), Garry Walberg (Detective), Jon Lormer (Hearing Officer), Richard Bull (Detective), Joel Fluellen (Charles).
Det. Columbo investigates a murder brought about when a brother and sister quarrel over a corporation.

[CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Nowhere Child
Season 3, episode 14
D: Chad Everett

With Ed Nelson (Hank), Fay Spain (Linda), Willie Aames (Eric), Diana Sands (Dr. Marylou Neeley).
Dr. Gannon suspects a small boy has a brain tumor but when he proposes further tests he runs into objections from the child's own doctor and the couple planning to adopt him.

[ABC 9:00] The Smith Family [Reg]: Family Man
Season 2, episode 13
W: Preston Wood   D: Herschel Daugherty

With Richard O'Brien (Capt. O'Farrell), Ned Romero, Craig Guenther, Gary Clarke, Carol Locatell, Robert Biheller, Lori Loughlin.
Chad Smith helps a fellow officer whose tensions from police work threaten his marriage.

[ABC 9:30] Shirley's World [Reg]: A Mother's Touch
Season 1, episode 14
D: Leslie Norman

With Dandy Nichols (Mina Remberg), James Booth (Edmund Remberg).

[CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: To Save A Dead Man
Season 5, episode 14
W: Donn Mullally   D: Paul Krasny

With Robert Mandan (Ed Noble), Brooke Bundy (Sister Meg Costello), Jeremy Slate (Ted Kilgore), Barbara Baldavin (Alyce Taggart), Leonard Stone (Lyle Grandt), Melendy Britt (Adrienne Lindholm), Peter Brocco (C.W. Taggart), Arthur Franz (Father Vale).
A condemned man insists he committed a murder although the evidence indicates he is innocent.

[ABC 10:00] The Man And The City [Reg]: The Girls In Truck Seven
Season 1, episode 13

With Tina Chen (Liu), Harry Townes (Booth), Annette Charles (Antonia), Mala Powers (Marian Crane), James Douglas (Mike Jameson), Don Collier (Ross).
Mayor Alcala befriends an Oriental girl in this country illegally to search for the Vietnam vet who is the father of her expected child.

[NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1.   The Messiah On Mott Street
W: Rod Serling   D: Don Taylor

With Edward G. Robinson (Abraham Goldman), Yaphet Kotto (Buckner), Tony Roberts (Dr. Morris Levine), John J. Fox (Santa Claus), Ricky Powell (Mikey Goldman), Anne Taylor (Miss Moretti), Joseph Ruskin (Fanatic).  
Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah.

2.   The Painted Mirror
W: Gene Kearney   D: Gene Kearney

With Zsa Zsa Gabor (Mrs. Moore), Arthur O'Connell (Frank Standish), Rosemary DeCamp (Ellen Chase).  
A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures in an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.


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