Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 3, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 14 With Steve Lawrence, Dick Martin. In another salute to Hollywood's Academy Awards, Martin plays a schoolboy who gets all of Carol's sympathy in a spoof of "Tea and Sympathy", and Lawrence plays a down-on-his-luck writer who meets a fading star (Carol). Lawrence sings "Losing My Mind". (Repeat program, originally aired 12/29/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] Life Around Us: Survival In The Sea [special]
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Million Dollar Buff
Season 4, episode 2 W: Leo Gordon D: James Neilson With Lindsay Wagner (Jenny Carson), Leo Gordon (Jennings Thornton), Lynn Cartwright (Thief), Ed Begley Jr. (Bud), Dennis McCarthy (Dave Walbrook), Lewis Charles (Joe Rawls), George Sawaya (Bandit). While attending a routine patrol, including the arrest of an attractive jewel thief, Malloy and Reed are badgered by a millionaire police buff who manages to get to the scene of police calls ahead of them. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/22/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] NBA Playoffs
New York Knicks vs. Los Angeles Lakers.
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| [NBC 8:30] Hallmark Hall Of Fame: The Price [special]
W: Arthur Miller D: George Schaefer With George C. Scott, Barry Sullivan, Colleen Dewhurst, David Burns. A gathering to dispose of old furniture housed in a dusty room of a Manhattan brownstone leads to a bitter confrontation between two estranged brothers, one a policeman, the other a wealthy surgeon. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Martyr
Season 3, episode 9 With Paul Stewart (Dr. Holmby), Jo Van Fleet (Margaret), Michael Larrain (Frank). By refusing surgery which could free her from a wheelchair, a woman executive tries to force her son to take care of her. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/10/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Days Beyond Recall
Season 5, episode 6 W: Robert Pirosh D: Jud Taylor With Douglas Henderson (Philip Crane), Vic Morrow (Eric Latimer), Elizabeth Allen (Westy Wescott), Geoffrey Lewis (Ernest), Mike Mazurki (Kony), Liam Dunn (Brock), Peter Hobbs (Ollie Packer), Karl Lukas (Bartender), Johnny Silver (Stacey), Bill Quinn (Doctor), Don McGovern (Rennick). Joe Mannix, hired by an alcoholic who wants to be saved from skid row, soon learns that the man is not revealing his true identity. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/20/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. House - With Ghost W: Gene Kearney D: Gene Kearney With Alan Napier (Doctor), Eric Christmas (Chichester), Trisha Noble (Sherry), Bernard Fox (Canby), Jo Anne Worley (Iris Travers), Bob Crane (Ellis Travers). A man plots to get rid of his wife so he can get her money and run off with his girlfriend. 2. A Midnight Visit To The Neighborhood Blood Bank W: Jack Laird D: William Hale With Victor Buono (Vampire), Journey Laird (Victim). A Count Dracula blackout. 3. Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator W: Rod Serling D: Jerrold Freedman With Forrest Tucker (Stringfellow), Murray Hamilton (Snyder), Lou Frizzell (Man), Don Pedro Colley (Rolpho). An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises restored health -- or a resurrection -- to a poor farmer's dying daughter. 4. Hell's Bells W: Theodore J. Flicker D: Theodore J. Flicker With Gene Kearney (Third Demon), Jack Laird (Second Demon), Hank Worden (The Bore), Jody Gilbert (Fat Lady), Ceil Cabot (Mrs. Tourist), John J. Fox (Mr. Tourist), Theodore J. Flicker (The Devil), John Astin (Randy Miller). A recent initiate is surprised to find Hell a little tame for his liking.
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