Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 20, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Cleavus
Season 16, episode 21 W: Donald Koplowitz, Richard D. Scott D: Vincent McEveety With Robert Totten (Cleavus Lukens), Henry Wise (Waiter), Arthur Hunnicutt (Uriah Spessard), William Challee (Baylock), Robert Cornthwaite (Clerk), Robert B. Williams (Woody). A world-weary traveler accidentally kills a prospector then takes his mule and gold. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/15/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: The Unsinkable Sea Otter
An hour devoted to a look at the sea otter which, although making a comeback after near annihilation, now faces a second brush with extinction from small boat traffic and oil spills. The program also touches on the current battle between divers and conservationists. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #116
Season 5, episode 24 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With Charles Nelson Reilly, Jean Stapleton, Sandy Duncan, Joe Namath, Jo Ann Pflug, Roman Gabriel, Vida Blue, Bill Russell, Doug Sanders, Willie Shoemaker, Sugar Ray Robinson. Tonight's edition features a "Mod World Look at the Automobile" with Charles Nelson Reilly as a used car salesman. Lily Tomlin and Ruth Buzzi appear as "The Lolly Sisters" while introducing the news, and Miss Buzzi dreams of being married to Ben Franklin. Miss Stapleton and Dan Rowan team in a sketch featuring several variations of that important moment in home life when the man sits down to dinner and the woman serves it.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Harry's Italian Bombshell
Season 4, episode 3 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin With Sid Gould (Mr. Ferguson), Vanda Barra (Saleslady), Kaye Ballard (Donna), Herbie Faye (Burglar), Emile Autuori (Alfredo Colucci). Uncle Harry's long-lost girlfriend is set to arrive from Italy, an event that sets Harry on a crash shape-up program. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1971)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Caper Of The Golden Bulls (1967)
W: David Moessinger, Ed Waters D: Russell Rouse With Stephen Boyd, Yvette Mimieux, Giovanna Raffi, Walter Slezak, Vito Scotti, Clifton James, Arnold Moss, Jay Novello, Henry Beckman, Leon Askin. Action tale of an altruistic band of bank robbers called back together for the heist of a Pamplona bank during the annual running of the bulls.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Banacek (1972)
W: Anthony Wilson D: Jack Smight With George Peppard, Christine Belford, Ed Nelson, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson, Russell Wiggins, George Murdock, Ralph Manza, Charles Knox Robinson. An urbane private eye vies with an attractive female insurance investigator to locate an armored car carrying a gold shipment. Pilot movie for the TV series.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: When In Rome, Don't
Season 4, episode 3 W: Richard Powell D: Jerry London With Cesare Danova (Carlo Benadetti), Dick Patterson (Albert), Ryan MacDonald (Clerk), Lew Palter (Pietro). While in Rome on a short vacation, Doris falls in love with an Italian artist and is heartbroken when the romance is mysteriously ended. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 19 - Season Finale
Season 1, episode 19 With Merv Griffin, Georgina Rizk (Miss Universe). Highlights: a Russian opera spoof with Merv and Sonny vying for Cher. Sonny plays a musical tribute to daughter Chastity with "For Once in My Life"; Cher solos "The Way of Love" and delivers "Brand New Key" using special animation effects.
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