Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 4, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Me And The Chimp [Reg]: Mike's Day With Buttons
Season 1, episode 1 D: Alan Rafkin With Reta Shaw, Eddie Quillan, Dick Wilson. Debut of a comedy series about a successful dentist, his wife, two children and a "live-in" chimpanzee with a talent for trouble. In the first show Dr. Mike Reynolds decides to get better acquainted with with Buttons the chimp, and makes the mistake of taking him along to his office to clear up some paper work. A nervous society woman shows up for some emergency dental treatment. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/13/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: How To Rob A Bank In One Hard Lesson
Season 2, episode 2 W: David Moessinger D: Alexander Singer With Jack Cassidy (Harry Wagner), Greg Mullavey (Deputy Lee Harper), Karen Machon (Lorraine), Joanna Barnes (Janet Judson). Heyes is forced to engineer a bank robbery to save Curry, who is being held captive by two women. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1971)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 13 With Petula Clark, Roy Clark, Redd Foxx. Flip introduces the world's sharpest cowboy, Leroy Rogers. In other skits, Flip is the director of a TV commercial for the he-man and Clark is a football player hired to be the actor; Flip plays a poor nightclub comic plagued by a funnier heckler (Foxx). Miss Clark sings "What Love Is About". (Repeat program, originally aired 12/16/1971)
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Polly The Pigeon
Season 12, episode 6 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Earl Bellamy With Dave Ketchum (Milton Baxter). A door-to-door salesman induces Polly to host a dinner party where he prepares the dinner as a chance to demonstrate his wares. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Apache Uprising (1966)
W: Max Lamb, Harry Sanford D: R.G. Springsteen With Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Gene Evans, Lon Chaney Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, DeForest Kelley, Don 'Red' Barry. A pair of frontiersmen, after escaping an Indian attack, try to convince a Cavalry captain that the area is full of Apaches on the warpath.
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| [ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: This Little Piggy Went To Marquette
Season 1, episode 11 W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Charles S. Dubin With Madlyn Rhue (Kim Anderson), Barry Sullivan (Jordan Anderson), Michael Strong (Max Jackowitz), Lloyd Gough (Dr. Kenbrook), Larry Pennell (Ward Blakeman), Ted Gehring (Marty Thorpe), Anne Barton (Mrs. Jackowitz). Mike Longstreet is called on to find the people responsible for the disappearance of more than 30 "piggy-back" trailers. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/2/1971)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Dear Fran
Season 5, episode 9 W: Edward DeBlasio D: Don Weis With Victor Holchak (Ralph Broderick), Christine Belford (Sue Broderick), Anthony James (Neighbor), M. Emmet Walsh (Telegraph Clerk), Peggy Rea (Landlady), James B. Sikking (Officer). Officer Fran Belding is stricken with grief by the apparent suicide of a cousin, until strange events lead her to believe he's still alive. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1971)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Legacy Of Fear
Season 1, episode 1 With Pat Harrington Jr. (Charlie Gianetta), Marian McCargo (Marion Lerman), Glenn Corbett (Jerry Woods), Dane Clark (Ivan Bock), Richard Eastham (Philip Lerman), Darby Hinton (Tom Woods). Arthur Hill has the title role in a series about an attorney in Santa Barbara; Lee Majors plays his associate. Tonight. Marshall defends a tennis pro who is charged with the attempted murder of a writer working on an expose involving him. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 23 With Jonathan Winters. Winters meanders through an old attic filled with bric-a-brac, which he uses as springboards for his improvisations. In the Lane household segment, a crisis arises with the impending arrival of kittens. Martin sings "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". (Repeat program, originally aired 3/2/1972)
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