Prime-time network TV listings for Monday April 24, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Appointment With Destiny: The Surrender At Appomattox [special]
This is the fifth program in David Wolper's series reenacting important historical events. Hal Holbrook narrates the hour-long program which chronicles the final, desperate days of the Civil War and delves into the inner conflicts of two generals on the eve of that climactic meeting at Appomattox Courthouse, Va., on April 9, 1865. The special is presented in newsreel-documentary fashion.
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| [ABC 8:00] Who Do You Think You Are?: An Essay On Church Architecture [special]
ABC News correspondent Harry Reasoner explores the microcosm of religious buildings from the earliest days of man to the present. He offers his observations on both the people who constructed them and the people who pray in them.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #108
Season 5, episode 16 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With Charles Nelson Reilly, Henny Youngman, James Coco, Fannie Flagg, Mort Sahl. Tonight's edition features a "Mod World Look at New York". Mort Sahl, in his Laugh-In debut, ad-libs answers to a "press conference" by the cast. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] Can You Go Home Again?
ABC News correspondent Frank Reynolds focuses on the recent hearings on amnesty held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practices and Procedures with interviews and statements both pro and con on the issue of amnesty for those who left the country to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Her All-Nun Band
Season 4, episode 8 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin With Mary Wickes (Sister Paula Carter), Lew Parker (Mr. Adams), Freddy Martin (Himself). Lucy sets out to help Harry hire a band for a hospital benefit. Orchestra leader Freddy Martin (and Mrs. Martin) and the Remnants, a pop music group composed of six nuns of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (Kan.) appear on tonight's program. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1971)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: A Time For Killing (1967)
W: Halsted Welles D: Phil Karlson With Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, Max Baer Jr., Paul Petersen, Richard X. Slattery, Harrison Ford, Timothy Carey. A Confederate army captain kidnaps an Union officer's fiancee in the final days of the Civil War.
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| [NBC 9:00] Triple Play '72 [special]
"Wednesday Night Out": Story of three couples who examine their prejudices when a black female doctor responds to an emergency call. Stars Jim Hutton, Kathleen Nolan, Pat Harrington, Brenda Benet. "Call Holme": Arte Johnson plays an eccentric detective, Fabian Holme, the man of many disguises, as he investigates the murder of a wealthy industrialist. Also stars Arlene Golonka, Linda Cristal, Noel Harrison. "Keeping Up With the Joneses": The story of a white couple (Warren Berlinger and Pat Finley) and a black couple (John Amos and Teresa Graves) who share a New York brownstone apartment.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: The Albatross
Season 4, episode 8 W: Arthur Julian D: Irving J. Moore With Van Johnson (Charlie Webb), Felice Orlandi (Antoine), Sabrina Scharf (Valerie Becker), Paul Sorensen (Bartender). Doris' seafaring cousin Charlie involves her in international espionage. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1971)
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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". (Repeat program, originally aired 3/6/1972)
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