Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 13, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Me And The Chimp [Reg]: Mike's Day With Buttons
Season 1, episode 1 D: Alan Rafkin With Reta Shaw, Eddie Quillan, Dick Wilson. Debut of a comedy series about a successful dentist, his wife, two children and a "live-in" chimpanzee with a talent for trouble. In the first show Dr. Mike Reynolds decides to get better acquainted with with Buttons the chimp, and makes the mistake of taking him along to his office to clear up some paper work. A nervous society woman shows up for some emergency dental treatment.
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The McCreedy Bust: Going, Going, Gone!
Season 2, episode 16 W: Nicholas E. Baehr D: Alexander Singer With Cesar Romero (Armendariz), Lee Majors (Joe Briggs), Burl Ives (Big Mac McCreedy), Bradford Dillman (Spencer), Ted Gehring (Seth Griffin), Bing Russell (Sheriff). Heyes and Curry are hired by a wealthy rancher to dispose of a controversial $10,000 bust of Caesar, but first they must recover the bust from an equally wealthy Mexican rancher.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 17 With Tim Conway, Bobby Darin, Redd Foxx. In skits, Flip plays Sonny the janitor in Washington where the President (Tim) gets the "hot line" to Moscow confused with the line to Roscoe in the pool hall; Flip and Bobby are prospective fathers attending a school run by Tim; Flip and Bobby sing "One of Those Songs". Bobby sings "A Simple Song of Freedom".
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: TV Triplets
Season 12, episode 13 W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With Bob Hastings (Jack Lorning), Michael Dante (Perry Perigrine), Jon Lormer (Blake Willerson). Katie's triplets are selected to appear in a TV commercial, but the boys won't hold still for the camera.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Liquidator (1965)
W: Peter Yeldham D: Jack Cardiff With Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White. A professional killer is hired to get rid of British Intelligence personnel who are giving vital information to the enemy.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: Survival Times Two
Season 1, episode 16 W: Mark Rodgers D: James Harmon Brown With Neville Brand (Peter LaBrienne), Jan Shepard (Alice Page), Robert Donner (George Fourchet). Mike and Duke take off on a fishing trip that becomes a matter of life and death when the latter is bitten by a poisonous snake.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Find A Victim
Season 5, episode 18 W: Irv Pearlberg D: Christian I. Nyby II With Pat Hingle (Lou Karns), Fred Lerner (Stanley), Paul Winfield (Benson), Morgan Paull (Pete), John Cliff (Johnson), Dean Smith (Thaler), Glen Vernon (Shipley), Jimmy Pelham (Speedy Robbins), Philip Kenneally (Frankie Kellner), Norman Leavitt (Peter Ferguson), Mike Road (Storey), Charo (Dancer), Robert Emhardt (Willford). The proprietor of a "halfway house" for men newly released from prison is a self-styled Robin Hood who takes from rich mobsters and gives to poor reformed criminals.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Eight Cents Worth Of Protection
Season 1, episode 16 With Dick Sargent (Neil Vickery), Vic Morrow (Andy Capasso), Richard X. Slattery (Pat Higgins), Pat Harrington Jr. (Charles Giannetta). Police rush to a home because of a reported shooting. When they arrive they find a woman dead and her husband wounded, and he is suffering a traumatic loss of memory but thinking he must be guilty of the crime.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 18 With Petula Clark. Dean and Petula team in three song medleys and also sing "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off". They also appear in a comedy bit as a bride and groom who make the mistake of sharing all their secrets. In the Lane household segment, Mrs. Lane (Kay Medford) and friends hold a seance.
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