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Sunday February 20, 1972
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Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday February 20, 1972:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Movie: Ben-Hur (1959), part two CBS News Special Report
ABC The F.B.I.: The Test TV Movie: Adventures Of Nick Carter (1972) ABC News Special
NBC Wonderful World Of Disney: The City Fox The Jimmy Stewart Show: Jim's Decision Bonanza: Search In Limbo The Bold Ones: The New Doctors: Broken Melody (R)
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[CBS 7:30] Movie: Ben-Hur (1959), part two
W: Karl Tunberg   D: William Wyler

With Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Sam Jaffe, Cathy O'Donnell, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring.
Academy Award-winning action tale based on Gen. Lew Wallace's best-selling story of ancient Rome.

[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The City Fox
Season 18, episode 16

With Tom Chan, Jerry Jerish (Humane Society Officer).
Rex Allen narrates an animal adventure tale about a young red fox that hops a rowboat drifting on the Sacramento River and winds up on a wide-eyed and sometimes terrified tour of the sights of San Francisco.

[ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Test
Season 7, episode 22
W: Mark Weingart   D: Michael O'Herlihy

With Robert Foxworth (Paul Hale), John Colicos (Logan), Harold Gould (George Hale), Barbara Babcock (Mary Hale).
When lumber tycoon George Hale is kidnapped by a man who blames him for his own business failure, Inspector Erskine discovers he must instill courage in the magnate's alcoholic son before he can seek the victim's return.

[NBC 8:30] The Jimmy Stewart Show [Reg]: Jim's Decision
Season 1, episode 22
W: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum   D: Ezra Stone

With Regis Philbin (Johnny Crown), Jimmy Lydon (Judson Hopkins), Chanin Hale (Lala Brody), Ann Raymond (Wanda Jurgensen), Myron Natwick (Wes), Alice Frost (Dr. Golden).
Jim Howard is faced with a tough decision when he makes an unexpected hit on a TV talk show and gets a lucrative job offer from a large university.

[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Adventures Of Nick Carter (1972)
W: Ken Pettus   D: Paul Krasny

With Robert Conrad, Shelley Winters, Broderick Crawford, Dean Stockwell, Neville Brand, Pat O'Brien, Pernell Roberts, Sean Garrison, Laraine Stephens.
Private eye thriller with Carter hunting the killer of a friend among the social register and the dregs of 1912 New York, and finding that his friend's death is tied to the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.

[NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: Search In Limbo
Season 13, episode 21
W: Don Ingalls   D: Leo Penn

With Albert Salmi (Sheriff), Pamela Payton-Wright (Amy), Kenneth Tobey (Notary), Lawrence Montaigne (Sid Langley), Lee McLaughlin (Clerk), Gerald Hiken (Dr. Jacob Penner), Lucille Benson (Mrs. Melody).
In a strange community on a business trip, Ben Cartwright falls victim to amnesia due to an injury and finds himself suspected of murdering the man he was sent to meet.

[CBS 9:30] CBS News Special Report
CBS News previews the President's historic journey to the People's Republic of China. Mike Wallace and Morley Safer are anchormen.

[NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: Broken Melody
Season 3, episode 1

With Joyce Van Patten (Millicent Wilson), Ivor Francis (George Wilson), Bobby Eilbacher (Johnny Wilson), Milton Selzer (Otologist), Reuben Singer (Dr. Peters), Don Hanmer (Manager).
The rotating series of dramas on law and medicine (last season's Senator portion has been dropped) returns for its third year. Tonight, a singer and a belligerent little boy discover a desperate need for each other.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1971)

[ABC 10:30] ABC News Special
Coverage of President Nixon's arrival in Peking.


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