Prime-time network TV listings for Monday October 21, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Iron Men
Season 20, episode 7 W: John Mantley D: Gunnar Hellstrom With William Bryant (Sheriff), Barbara Colby (Kathy Carter), Cameron Mitchell (Chauncey Demon), Eric Olson (Johnny Carter), John Russell (Carl Ryker), Alec Murdock (Mace), Marc Alaimo (Kane), George Murdock (Bartender), Paul Gehrman (Dubbins). A once highly respected sheriff, who has since degenerated into a saloon bum, is helped by his old friend Matt Dillon when a ruthless cattle baron and his hired hands go after him.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Walk A Tightrope
Season 3, episode 5 W: Mann Rubin D: Alexander Grasshoff With Kristoffer Tabori (Corey Banning), Mary Jackson (Mrs. Callender), Francis DeSales (Professor Parmel), Robert Harland, James Carroll Jordan (Ned Weston), Paul Nuckles. Two law students plan to execute Terry Webster, whom they hold responsible for for two deaths in a campus demonstration.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Cay [special]
With James Earl Jones, Alfred Lutter, Gretchen Corbett. A Bell System Family Theater presentation about a seaman who teaches a temporarily blind boy how to survive on a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean after the Nazis have torpedoed their ship. Adapted from Theodore Taylor's novel.
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| [CBS 9:00] Maude [Reg]: Walter's Dream
Season 3, episode 7 W: Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon D: Hal Cooper With Gene Blakely (Man), Henry Calvert (Ed), Joan Kaye (Woman). Walter returns home from his annual fishing trip convinced that he and Maude should sell the house and appliance store and move to the Canadian wilderness.
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| [ABC 9:00] ABC Monday Night Football
Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears at Chicago. Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Alex Karras report.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Candidate (1972)
W: Jeremy Larner D: Michael Ritchie With Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Quinn Redeker, Michael Lerner, Karen Carlson, Kenneth Tobey. Desperately in search of a man to oppose a powerful conservative senator, a campaign manager picks the idealistic son of a former governor who is soon reshaped in the image of public relations.
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| [CBS 9:30] Rhoda [Reg]: The Shower
Season 1, episode 7 W: Gail Parent D: Robert Moore With Beverly Sanders (Susan Alborn), Barbara Sharma (Myrna Morgenstern), Linda Lavin (Linda Monroe), Millie Slavin (Jeanette Lamont), Phyllis Glick (Ellen), Florida Friebus (Harriet). Unable to think of just the right gift for Rhoda, Brenda decides to throw a shower for her soon-to-be-wed sister and use the occasion for a high school reunion.
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| [CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: May God Have Mercy
Season 6, episode 6 W: Jack Guss D: Michael Caffey With Rita Moreno (Lydia), Tim O'Connor (Barney), Vic Tayback (Trailer). A former priest, working as an orderly, falls in love with a nightclub singer who faces a dangerous operation.
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