Video: 'Carpenters: Live at the BBC' (part 1)
(Saturday, November 6, 1971) — “The Carpenters” (aka, Carpenters: Live at the BBC), a videotaped studio concert performed by The Carpenters aired tonight on Britain’s BBC1 (it was taped on Saturday, Sept. 25, 1971). Continue reading Carpenters’ British TV special debuts 40 years ago tonight (1971)
(Saturday, November 6, 1971) — Shaft, the soundtrack album by Isaac Hayes, became the #1 album on today’s Billboard 200’s chart for one week.
Video: 'Play Misty for Me' trailer
(Wednesday, November 3, 1971) — Play Misty for Me, a psychological thriller film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood in his directorial debut, opened today at neighborhood theaters in New York. Jessica Walter and Donna Mills co-star.
Video: 'For a Million... Why Not?' (part 1)
(Tuesday, November 2, 1971, 8:30 p.m. ET) — Five seemingly good citizens with different motives band together to steal $6 million while McGarrett is away on the “Big Island” of Hawaii at a trial on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV police procedural drama Hawaii Five-0. Continue reading ‘For a Million… Why Not?’ on ‘Hawaii Five-0’ 40 years ago this hour (1971)
(Saturday, October 30, 1971, 8:00 p.m. ET) — A local election has the Bunker family in turmoil as Mike and Gloria are all for Claire Packer, a woman, which is exactly why Archie is dead set against her on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family.
(Wednesday, October 27, 1971, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Malloy and Reed are on the lookout for an environmentalist known as “The Ferret” who has been posing as an employee to infiltrate and sabotage industrial complexes he feels are creating too much pollution on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12.
Video: 'Air Cargo - Dial For Murder' (part 1)
(Tuesday, October 26, 1971, 8:30 p.m. ET) — While investigating the death of a security agent at an airport, McGarrett comes into contact with a gang who steals air cargo to sell on the black market on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV police procedural drama Hawaii Five-0. Continue reading ‘Hawaii-Five-0’ presents ‘Air Cargo — Dial for Murder’ 40 years ago this hour (1971)
Video: Nixon decides with Attorney General John Mitchell to appoint Rehnquist over Sen. Howard Baker (Oct. 21, 1971, 9:33 a.m. ET)
(Thursday, October 21, 1971, 7:30 p.m. ET) — President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell Jr., 64, a former president of the American Bar Association, and William H. Rehnquist, 46, an Assistant Attorney General, to the Supreme Court tonight in an address to the nation.
If confirmed, Powell would replace Hugo Black (appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, Black had retired Sept. 17, 1971, and then died eight days later) and Rehnquist would replace John Marshall Harlan II (appointed by President Eisenhower in 1955, Harlan had retired Sept. 23, 1971).
(Wednesday, October 20, 1971, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Malloy and Reed report to a robbery at a grocery store, where Malloy is required to engage in a high speed pursuit with one of the suspects while Reed apprehends the other suspect on foot on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12.
Video: 'And I Want Some Candy...' (part 1)
(Tuesday, October 19, 1971, 8:30 p.m. ET) — Young Vietnam veteran and marksman Billy Shem Jr. buys a rifle under false pretences and proceeds to a bunker at Diamond Head on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV police procedural drama Hawaii Five-0. Continue reading ‘Hawaii-Five-0’ presents ‘…And I Want Some Candy and a Gun That Shoots’ 40 years ago this hour (1971)
