Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 20, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Mayor Daley, A Study In Power
A profile of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley and the political machine he has engineered for nearly 40 years. Charles Kuralt narrates.
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| [ABC 8:00] Apollo 16 Mission
Scheduled: Lunar walk.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 7 With the Smothers Brothers, Melba Moore. City slicker Freddie Johnson (Flip) tries to charm a small-town girl (Melba Moore); the Smothers Brothers portray two deacons in Rev. Leroy's (Flip) church. Songs include "Hair", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "I Talk to the Trees". (Repeat program, originally aired 10/28/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Season 2, episode 1 W: Glen A. Larson D: Barry Shear With Slim Pickens (Sheriff Whitaker), Robert Morse (Fred Philpotts), Earl Holliman (Wheat), Walter Brennan (Silky O'Sullivan), Belinda Montgomery (Penelope Roach), Henry Jones (Judge), Dennis Fimple (Kyle), Paul Fix (Tom Hansen), Frank Maxwell (Defense Attorney), Vaughn Taylor (Willis), Amzie Strickland (Miss Buckley). Western-adventure which debuted last January as a replacement series begins its first full season. Heyes and Curry's hope of winning amnesty for their past crimes is in jeopardy when they discover a youth has been posing as the notorious Kid Curry -- and in that guise he's been convicted of murder. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Interlude (1968)
W: Lee Langley, Hugh Leonard D: Kevin Billington With Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Bernard Kay, John Cleese. A world-famous symphony conductor, though married and the father of two young children, suddenly finds himself in love with a newspaperwoman.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Murder Impromptu
Season 5, episode 8 W: Max Hodge D: Don Weis With Roddy McDowall (Jamie Shannon), Joey Forman (Lennie Blake), Barbara Rush (Marcia Connell). A vicious member of a San Francisco improvisational theater group is murdered during a performance with Chief Ironside in the audience. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/2/1971)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Nothing Personal
Season 1, episode 9 D: Lou Antonio With Gary Collins (Andy Taylor), Kathryn Hays (Lori Phillips), Tom Troupe (Colby Phillips), Felton Perry (Pete Hughes). Jess Brandon brings a libel suit against a newspaper sports writer who accuses him of having been involved in a gambling scandal as a professional football player. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/11/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 1 With Art Carney, Richard Castellano, Petula Clark, Liberace. Martin begins his seventh season. Weekly regulars include Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, Marian Mercer and the Ding-A-Ling Sisters. Tonight's highlights: Carney and Liberace spoof hot-pants; the cast kids about national budgetary problems and what could happen if brides carried warranties. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1971)
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