Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 6, 1972:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Alias Festus Haggin
Season 17, episode 23 W: Calvin Clements D: Vincent McEveety With Ramon Bieri (Doyle), Rayford Barnes (Grebbs), William Bryant (Bennett), Herb Vigran (Judge Brooker), Jon Lormer (Judge Clayborne), Ed McCready (Scotty), Lloyd Nelson (Shorty), Gregg Palmer (Guthrie), Robert Totten (Walker), Booth Colman (Rand), Lieux Dressler (Susie), Rusty Lane (Sheriff Buckley), Tom McFadden (Luke). Festus Haggin is arrested and forced to stand trial as a murderer named Frank Eaton. Festus is further endangered by Eaton's wife, who identifies him as the husband she thought was dead.
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| [ABC 8:00] Champions [special]
John H. Secondari produced and narrates this worldwide behind-the-scenes look at young amateur athletes - all Olympic Games hopefuls. Among those included in this sports portrait are American figure skater Janet Lynn and female runner Cheryl Toussaint, Kenya long-distance runner Kipchoge Keino, the world champion girls' volleyball team of Japan, Australian swimmer Michael Wenden and Yugoslavian gymnasts Miroslav Cerar and Janis Brodnik.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #114
Season 5, episode 22 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With Debbie Reynolds, Dick Cavett, Johnny Cash, Jack Carter, Charlie Callas, Burt Mustin, Queenie Smith. Debbie, a former "Miss Burbank", turns up as a gum-chewing waitress and a punch-throwing housewife, and sings and dances in the production number "You're Doing the Charleston". The show also takes a Mod World look at the literary scene and sends a Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award winging off to Congress.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Flip Go Legit
Season 4, episode 1 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin With Flip Wilson (Himself), Kim Hamilton (Office Manager). Star-struck Lucy wangles a job as one of Wilson's office girls, then pleads with him to join her, Kim and Uncle Harry in a little theater production of "Gone With the Wind". (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1971)
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Delphi Bureau (1972)
W: Sam Rolfe D: Paul Wendkos With Laurence Luckinbill, Celeste Holm, Joanna Pettet, Dean Jagger, Bob Crane, Bradford Dillman, Cameron Mitchell, David Sheiner. Suspense tale about a goverment agent with a photographic memory assigned to solve the disappearance of a fleet of Air Force planes. Pilot movie for the TV series.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: I Thank A Fool (1962)
W: Karl Tunberg D: Robert Stevens With Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Cyril Cusack, Diane Cilento, Laurence Naismith. A doctor, after a two-year imprisonment for euthanasia, finds herself employed as companion-nurse to the schizophrenic wife of the man who prosecuted her.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: There's A Horse Thief In Every Family Tree
Season 4, episode 24 W: Phil Sharp D: Norman Tokar With Robert Emhardt (Nesbitt Townsend), Sandy Kenyon (Randolph), Harriet MacGibbon (Helen Townsend), Ceil Cabot (Cook). Doris becomes a scapegoat after she writes an article about a horsethief-ancestor of a prominent San Francisco family.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 17
Season 1, episode 17 With Sandy Duncan, Burt Reynolds. Duncan displays her versatility as she sings and dances in a five-minute "super" commercial. Also highlighting the hour is a Roaring '20s opera, "The Gypsy Doodle", in which a gypsy king comes to a gypsy camp to choose a wife. His choice is between two adopted sisters -- one cute and sweet (Sandy), the other a siren (Cher). Cher joins Sonny for "Got to Get You Into My Life", "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "My World Is Empty Without You".
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