Sonny continued to work with Cher through the early and mid-1970s starring in a popular television variety show, The Sonny and Cher Show, which ran on CBS from 1971 to 1974.

His last studio recordings as a leader were made in November 1971 for the English Black Lion label, near the end of a worldwide tour with " The Giants of Jazz ," a group which included Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey.

* The Giants of Jazz ( Atlantic, 1971 ) with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding

On The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, which ran from 1971 to 1974, director Chris Bearde enlisted animator John David Wilson to direct animated segments of current hits of the day reinterpreted by the duo.

The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour debuted in 1971 as a summer replacement series.

* August 1 – The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premieres on CBS ( 1971 – 1974 ).

* The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour ( 1971 – 1974 ).

* The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour ( 1971 – 1974 ).

* May 29 – The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ( 1971 – 1974 ).

The film tells the story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston ( Michael Bentt ), his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, banishment from boxing, his return to fight Joe Frazier ( James Toney ) in 1971, and, lastly, his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974.

* The Giants of Jazz ( Atlantic, 1971 ) with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Stitt

* The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour as himself ( 2 episodes, 1971 – 1972 )

Sonny Werblin built the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey which he ran from 1971 to 1977.

Alan Wray Tudyk ( born March 16, 1971 ) is an American actor known for his roles as Hoban " Wash " Washburne in the science fiction / western television series Firefly and movie Serenity, Simon in the British comedy Death at a Funeral, Steve the Pirate in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Sonny in the science fiction drama I, Robot, Doc Potter in 3: 10 to Yuma, Tucker in Tucker & Dale vs Evil, and Alpha in Dollhouse.

In 1971, Sonny and Cher had stopped producing hit singles.

Despite the relatively large number of " old guard " variety shows cancelled in the purge, Fred Silverman would actually continue to create new variety shows to replace the ones he cancelled ; one of the first was The Sonny & Cher Show, which debuted in February 1971.

* The Giants of Jazz ( Atlantic, 1971 ) with Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding

* Cher Antoine, ou L ' Amour rate ( Paris: La Table Ronde, 1969 ); translated by Hill as Dear Antoine, or The Love That Failed ( New York: Hill & Wang, 1971 ; London: Eyre Methuen, 1971 ).

He proceeds to sing the 1971 song " Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves " by Cher.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled The Man and the City.

He starred in the ABC television series The Smith Family between 1971 and 1972.

She starred in a string of above average and successful comedies starting with There's a Girl in My Soup ( 1970 ), $ ( 1971 ), and Butterflies Are Free ( 1972 ).

In 1971, he starred in another show, Porky Pig and Friends.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

Steiger also starred in the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's play Happy Birthday, Wanda June ( 1971 ).

From 1971 to 1986, she had a long-term relationship with actor Timothy Dalton, with whom she had starred in the film Mary, Queen of Scots.

Expresso Bongo, Staircase and Amadeus were filmed with other actors, but Scofield starred in the screen versions of A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ) and King Lear ( 1971 ).

Harris starred in the Man in the Wilderness in 1971, Juggernaut in 1974 ( a British suspense movie about the hijacking of an ocean liner ), in 1976 in The Cassandra Crossing, along with the actresses Sophia Loren and Ava Gardner, and in a B-movie, Orca, in 1977.

In 1971, Coburn starred in the spaghetti western Duck, You Sucker !, directed by Sergio Leone, as an Irish explosives expert and revolutionary who has fled to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century.

Gere first worked professionally at the Provincetown Playhouse on Cape Cod in 1971 where he starred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Peter Lawford starred in a television movie, Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You, in 1971.

In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ), Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ), Petulia ( 1968 ), McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), and Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ).

Christie also starred in The Go-Between ( 1971 ), Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), and Demon Seed ( 1977 ).

The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971.

Jeremy Gelbwaks ( born May 22, 1961 ; Los Angeles, California ) was a child actor who starred in the television series The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1971.

Johnson also starred in the 1971 episode of " Rod Serling's Night Gallery " entitled " The Flip-Side of Satan.

In 1971, Midler starred in the first professional production of The Who's rock opera Tommy, with director Richard Pearlman and the Seattle Opera.

In 1971, she starred in The Anderson Tapes ( with Sean Connery ), The Burglars, and Such Good Friends, receiving a Best Actress Golden Globe nomination for the last performance.

In 1971, Field starred in Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring with David Carradine and a soundtrack by Linda Ronstadt.

Two movies in which he had starred, 200 Motels and Blindman, had been released at the end of 1971, and before starting on this one, he had just finished work on his directional debut, the T. Rex documentary Born to Boogie.

In 1971 he launched his eldest son Randhir Kapoor in Randhir's acting and directorial debut Kal Aaj Aur Kal which also starred Raj's father Prithviraj Kapoor as well as Randhir's would-be-wife Babita.

In 1971 he made a cameo appearance in Bunny O ' Hare, which starred Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine.