Prime-time network TV listings for Friday February 25, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] To All My Friends On Shore [special]
W: Allan Sloane D: Gilbert Cates With Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Dennis Hines, Dennis Tate, Ray Mason. Bill Cosby, in a dramatic special conceived by him, stars as an airport porter whose painfully nurtured dream of providing his little family with a better way of life is shattered when he learns that his son is stricken with sickle-cell anemia. The play was filmed on location in Norwalk, Conn.
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| [ABC 8:00] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: A Sound Of Dolphins
In the straits of Gibraltar and Mauritania, East Africa, Cousteau and his crew study the dolphins' sonar system and their unusual ability to find their way by echo location, and explore the continuing relationship between them and man.
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC News Special
Coverage of President Nixon and Premier Chou En-Lai leaving for Hangchow on a Chinese airliner.
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| [NBC 8:30] Sanford And Son [Reg]: A Pad For Lamont
Season 1, episode 7 W: Aaron Ruben D: Bob Lahendro With Judyann Elder (Darlene), Tangerine Sublett (Ernestine), Lynn Hamilton (Landlady). Angered at his dad for interrupting his dates, Lamont decides to move out. Then Fred finds himself beseiged by the neighborhood widows.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: The Quitter
Season 3, episode 22 W: Douglas Day Stewart D: Charles R. Rondeau With Gerald S. O'Loughlin (Sid Leroi), Richard Hatch (Donnie), William Kerwin, Byron Kane, John Ashley Hamilton (Marshall Leeds), Kitty Carl, John Alderman. A champion swimmer at Whitman quits in the middle of a major race because of something Pete Dixon inadvertently said.
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| [NBC 9:00] Chronolog
"The Gooks", a Canadian-produced film documenting "the feel" of 25 years of war in Vietnam, which offers a glimpse of Vietnamese children in the villages, and in a center for plastic and reconstructive surgery in Saigon that spells out what the war has meant to them. Other segments include a profile of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) and a report on the destroyer escorts of the U.S. Navy.
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| [CBS 9:30] Playhouse 90: Look Homeward, Angel [special]
W: Ketti Frings D: Paul Bogart With Geraldine Page, E.G. Marshall, Timothy Bottoms, James Naughton, Doris Roberts, Barbara Colby, Ronny Cox, Barnard Hughes, Charles Durning, Nancy Marchand, Kathryn Walker. First of a new dramatic series in the tradition of programs presented in the 1950s is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play based on Thomas Wolfe's turbulent autobiographical novel. The members of a 1916 North Carolina family continually strive for "an unfound door" to various somethings beyond their shabby boarding-house existence.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Oscar's Promotion
Season 2, episode 22 W: Martin Cohan D: Jack Donohue With Peter Hobbs (Nathaniel Talbot), Bobby Baum (Buzzy Allen), Virginia Ann Lee (Miss Hong Kong), Jack Soo (Chuk Mai Chin). Oscar hires Felix to cover an international wrestling match and is thrown for a fall by subsequent developments.
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Newscasters W: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen D: Marc Daniels With Carol Wayne (Karen Joy), Kenneth Mars (Darby Digby), John Astin (Rex Bickers), Reva Rose (Thelma Digby), Sid Melton (Jerry), Ruta Lee (Louise Freeman), Lillian Hayman (Gloria), Carol Worthington (Mrs. MacAdoo), Carl Ballantine (Chicken Little). Two small town newsmen battle for position when they learn that a beautiful new program director from New York is in town monitoring their show. 2. Love And The Happy Days W: Garry Marshall D: Gary Nelson With Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham), Peggy Rea (Aunt Bessie), Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham), Tannis G. Montgomery (Arlene Nestrock), Susan Neher (Joanie Cunningham), Ric Carrott (Chuck Cunningham), Anson Williams (Potsie), Harold Gould (Howard Cunningham), Jackie Coogan (Uncle Harold), Sheila Jo Guthrie (Corrine Delarosa), Ed Cambridge (Mr. Dickerson), Ronda Copland (Teresa), Nellie Burt (Grandma), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Nestrock). During what is sometimes called the simple and uncomplicated time of the early 1950s, a young man falls in love for the first time and his family gets the neighborhood's first black-and-white TV set.
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