Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday March 9, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Will Rogers' U.S.A. [special]
James Whitmore, with few props and no makeup, brings to life the essential spirit of the legendary American humorist. The special is a condensed version of his one-man show, now in its second national tour of theaters. All material utilized on the program is taken from the spoken and written words of Rogers, who was killed in a plane crash in 1935. The performance was taped at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: Dreadful Sorry, Clementine
Season 2, episode 10 W: Glen A. Larson, John Thomas James D: Barry Shear With Keenan Wynn (Horace Wingate), Rudy Vallee (Winford Fletcher), Jackie Coogan (Crawford), Don Ameche (Diamond Jim Guffy), Sally Field (Clementine Hale). Sally Field joins the cast in a recurring role as Clementine Hale, a lovable rogue type. Because she is the only person possessing a picture of Heyes and Curry, she's a major threat to their amnesty hopes. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/18/1971)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 25 With Lee Marvin, Ruth Buzzi, The Chi-Lites. In a feature skit, Ruth plays her Gladys Ormphby character, with Lee a disinterested bench sitter and Flip a park cop. Marvin also plays poker with Flip and appears as adviser Cromwell to Wilson's King Henry VIII during an audition for wife No. 4. Flip, Lee and Ruth sing "Ding Dong Daddy" and the Chi-Lites perform their latest hit, "Have You Seen Her?".
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| [CBS 9:00] CBS News Special Report - Busing
An examination of the problems, political and personal, which have arisen surrounding the questions of busing children to school, focusing on the experience of three cities. Roger Mudd is anchorman, with correspondents Robert Schakne and Terry Drinkwater reporting on-the-scene. The cities are Pontiac, Mich., where violence has erupted over the issue; Richmond, Va., where a radical busing law has caused dissention, and Pasadena, Calif., which has tackled the problem fairly peacefully.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: The Way Of The Intercepting Fist
Season 1, episode 1 W: Stirling Silliphant D: Don McDougall With Bruce Lee (Li Tsung), Lou Gossett Jr. (Sgt. Cory), John Milford (Jim Bolte), Johnny Haymer (Harv), Brett Pearson (Pete), Del Monroe (Gunman), Bruce Kirby (Truck Driver), Ray Galvin (Jessie), Eugene Peterson (Arvin). James Franciscus returns to TV in a weekly series as Michael Longstreet, a blind insurance investigator who lost his sight through a bombing that caused his wife's death. His handicap does not preclude his functioning as a top investigator. In the first episode, he is asked by his chief, Duke Paige, to break up a ring of hijackers working the New Orleans docks. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1971)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: A Man Named Arno
Season 5, episode 24 W: Helen McAvity D: Chris Christenberry With Thomas A. Geas (Moratta), Nico Minardos (Ken Griffin), Aldine King (Peggy Alexander), Woodrow Parfrey (Walter Dolan), Anne Francis (Angela Moratta), Howard Lees (Victor Arno), Louisa Moritz (Bonnie), Karen Bouchard (Kitty Ornell). Chief Ironside combines a drug investigation with a search for a missing man -- a possible suicide.
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| [CBS 10:00] Back From China
With Charles Collingwood as anchorman, the four CBS correspondents -- Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Dan Rather and Richard Kalb -- who covered the President's trip to China discuss their assessment and recollections of the trip.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: A Lonely Stretch Of Beach
Season 1, episode 2 With Cindy Eilbacher (Valerie Pruitt), Michael Tolan (Alex Kasparian), Lorraine Gary (Norma Pruitt). Marshall and his associate defend a school teacher charged with molesting one of his pupils. Their belief in the man's innocence is strained when an examining psychiatrist asserts there's no doubt that the child had been molested. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 24 With Phil Silvers, Dom DeLuise. Comedy highlights: Dean and DeLuise present a modern version of Julius Caesar's assassination; Dean and Silvers play schoolboys who find a vital part of their education has been omitted; and Silvers plays a cemetery plot salesman. Dean sings "Release Me" and "Red Sails in the Sunset".
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