Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 6, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] My Three Sons Retrospective [special]
Fred MacMurray hosts a nostalgic look at the many changes occurring in both cast and story development on his series, now in its 12th season. Film clips from the past illustrate the point that many viewers now in their 20s literally grew up watching the series. Segments of the 1960 pilot film are shown and also later episodes with scenes depicting the courtship and marriage of Steve and Barbara (Beverly Garland).
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: 21 Days To Tenstrike
Season 2, episode 15 W: John Thomas James, Irving Pearlberg D: Mel Ferber With Pernell Roberts (Terrence Tynan), Linda Marsh (Elizabeth Tynan), Steve Forrest (Jake), Glenn Corbett (Ralph), Dick Cavett (Sheriff), Walter Brennan (Gantry). Heyes and Curry join a cattle drive and find themselves in the middle of a murder spree.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 16 With Dan Blocker, Ray Charles, Kaye Ballard, The Clara Ward Singers. In skits, swinger Freddie (Flip) becomes an astronaut and with Blocker is launched into space; Flip and Blocker are bank robbers who are forced by a teller (Kaye) to go through the proper procedures for robbing banks. Charles sings "Feel So Bad" and "Look What They've Done to My Song". Kaye sings "Chitarro Romano". The Clara Ward Singers do "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Heaven With A Gun (1969)
W: Richard Carr D: Lee H. Katzin With Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine, J.D. Cannon, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Townes. A stranger arrives in a frontier town where ranchers and sheepmen are battling. He's assumed to be a gunman until he reveals he is actually a preacher.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: Let The Memories Be Happy Ones
Season 1, episode 15 W: Mark Rodgers D: Jeffrey Hayden With Rosemary Forsyth (Hannah Aalborg), Lonny Chapman (Lt. Crane), Karl Swenson (Sven Aalborg), Jim Antonio (John Lang), Milton Selzer (Dr. Slater), Ed Lauter (Officer). Mike's first meeting with his sister-in-law Hannah has a tragic outcome. Minutes after she arrives at the airport her wealthy husband is seriously wounded by an unseen gunman.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Unreasonable Facsimile
Season 5, episode 17 W: Merwin Gerard D: Don Weis With Burgess Meredith (Harry Coltrane), Susan Seaforth (Ellen Packer), Bernie Kopell (George Packer), Frank Aletter (Frank Clawson). A charming ex-vaudevillian and reformed bank robber, whose "trademark" in robberies was a scar-faced makeup, discovers an imitator is at work.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Warlock At Mach 3
Season 1, episode 15 With George Nader (Col. Bevins), Pat Crowley (Sue Rohmer), Nicolas Beauvy (Ned Rohmer), Richard Roat (Deke Rohmer). Marshall and Brandon defend an Air Force colonel charged with culpable negligence in the death of a pilot on a test flight.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 17 With Art Carney, Caterina Valente. In skits, Art portrays a nosy janitor who horns in on a surgeon's operation, and a mugger who gets involved over territorial rights with a pal. Caterina sings "Sun on My Face" and joins Dean in "My Melancholy Baby". Dean solos "What's Yesterday".
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