Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday February 24, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Me And The Chimp [Reg]: The Lost Flashlight
Season 1, episode 6 Buttons the chimp loses his flashlight at a drive-in movie, and the animal keeps the neighborhood in turmoil while the object is missing.
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: What's In It For Mia?
Season 2, episode 22 W: William D. Gordon D: John J. Dumas With Sallie Shockley (Charlotte Austin), Ida Lupino (Mia Bronson), Buddy Ebsen (George Austin). Heyes and Curry declare war on Mia, the woman who owns and runs King City, after she has them beaten and thrown out of town.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 23 With Joe Namath, George Carlin, Miss Black America contestants. Namath and Carlin narrate a fashion show in which "Geraldine" is a model; they also team up in a card game to fleece pigeon Wilson. Flip and Carlin do a third edition of the "6 PM News". Carlin solos with ethnic sounds and an ecology bit, and the Miss Black America finalists repeat their winning performances.
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Bad Day For Steve
Season 12, episode 18 W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With John Gallaudet (Bob Anderson), Betty Anne Rees (Janet Ingram), Volney Howard IV (Little Boy). Steve suddenly becomes accident-prone, perhaps as an indirect result of young Ernie's class project on how phases of the moon affect people's behavior.
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| [CBS 9:00] CBS News Special
Coverage of President Nixon in China.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: Through Shattering Glass
Season 1, episode 22 W: Jackson Gillis D: James Harmon Brown With Lee Meriwether (Miss Cooper), Peggy McCay (Mrs. Ames), William Bramley (Ames), Don McGovern (Fred), Ron Masak (Vic), John Kellogg (Stevens), Kenneth Tobey (Lt. Gilford), Stacy Harris (Jim Carlton). When Mike is meeting with a man in a deserted warehouse to discuss a series of airline freight robberies, their conversation is interrupted by a disturbance from another part of the building. The airline official goes to investigate and meets with sudden death.
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| [NBC 9:00] NBC News Special
Coverage of President Nixon in China.
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| [CBS 9:30] Movie: Bandolero! (1968)
W: James Lee Barrett D: Andrew McLaglen With James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy, Andrew Prine, Will Geer. During an attempted robbery of a Texas bank, a band of outlaws led by a former Confederate soldier kills a wealthy rancher. With the gang arrested and sentenced to be hanged, the brother of the leader poses as the hangman to rescue them.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: A Question Of Degree
Season 1, episode 22 With Pat Hingle (Judge Fisher), Lloyd Nolan (Col. Rutledge), Louise Latham (Frances Fisher), Roger Perry (Paul Lobello). A judge who is a longtime friend of Marshall's becomes the target of ultra-conservative forces in the community because of his recent change of views in political and social areas, and is charged with corruption.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 22 With Eva Gabor, Charles Nelson Reilly. In a feature skit, Miss Gabor plays Snow White while Dean is a policeman. Reilly portrays a TV reporter who interrupts a holdup to get on-the-spot interviews. The Ding-a-Lings sing "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate". Dean solos "Last Summer" and "Party Dolls and Wine".
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