Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 10, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 5, episode 9 With Nanette Fabray, Mel Torme. In a spoof of Busby Berkeley movies, "43rd Street", Carol plays an unknown chorus girl who gets her big chance on Broadway. Nanette and Carol play very expectant mothers at a laundry. Torme sings "We've Only Just Begun". (Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: Happy Birthday To You
Season 3, episode 8 W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bill Bixby With Ned York (Alex). Norman doesn't want the surprise birthday party Tom and Eddie are planning for him. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1971)
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Radical (1)
Season 4, episode 4 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Oscar Rudolph With Robert Conrad (Deputy D.A. Paul Ryan), John Davis Chandler (Robin Saydo), Hal Baylor (Tom Gray), Robert Dowdell (Sgt. Wade), John Kroger (Officer Moore), Frank Ferguson (Fred Tibbles). In the first of a two-part episode that concludes on "The D.A" on Thursday, Deputy Ryan joins officers Malloy and Reed in pursuit of a youth who is a suspected revolutionary. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/6/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Smith Family [Reg]: My Mother, The Star
Season 2, episode 20 D: Herschel Daugherty With Patience Cleveland (Martha), Yvonne White (Robin), Monty Margetts, Selette Cole (Laura). Chad's assignment to a series of robberies keeps him on a lengthy stakeout while wife Betty is busy as the PTA talent show chairman.
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| [NBC 8:30] McCloud [Reg]: Top Of The World, Ma!
Season 2, episode 2 W: Peter Allan Fields D: Alex March With Bo Svenson (Bubba White), Robert Webber (Jack Faraday), Stefanie Powers (Jackie Dawn), Joan Blondell (Ernestine White), Vincent Gardenia (Barney Sweetwater), Milton Selzer (Flynn), Val Avery (Gruber), Bill Fletcher (Larry), Ed Peck (Bartender). On a day that McCloud is assigned the car theft detail, he follows a football player driving a stolen car and is led into the middle of New York's big crime syndicate. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Circle Of Power
Season 3, episode 6 W: Alvin Boretz D: Paul Stanley With Barry Sullivan (Dr. Sangford), Michael Burns (Carl Harris), Jessica Walter (Dr. Carrie Benson). Dr. Gannon becomes suspicious when an ailing surgeon tries to block the promotion for a woman resident he has trained as his "hands", to perform operations he can no longer do himself. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/20/1971)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine [Reg]
Season 0, episode 1 With Art Carney, Lonnie Shorr, Skiles and Henderson, The Honey Cone. British comic Marty Feldman stars in a pilot for a comedy-variety series. In skits and blackouts, Art and Marty are plastic pilots of a child's toy plane; Marty is a boxing referee who is determined that one fighter will win; Jo Ann, Art and Marty take part in a Great Moment From History: the discovery of men's suspenders. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1972)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Persuaders [Reg]: A Home Of One's Own
Season 1, episode 10 W: Terry Nation D: James Hill With Hannah Gordon (Lucy), John Ronane (Rupert Hathaway), Leon Greene (Abel Gaunt), Michael Sheard (Walden), Michael Wynne (Policeman), Talfryn Thomas (Poacher). Danny buys a broken-down cottage which the locals say is haunted, and then he finds a body in the well. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/4/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: What Happened To Sunday?
Season 4, episode 15 W: Frank Telford D: Paul Krasny With Larry Watson (Gerber), Todd Mason (Parking Attendant), Fred Beir (J. Lester Vail), Katherine Woodville (Vera Rawlins), Milton Selzer (Lt. Maury Strauss), Francine York (Gloria), Georgine Darcy (Billie), Vince Howard (Doctor), J. Pat O'Malley (Bartender), Joe E. Tata (Gas Station Attendant), Ralph Montgomery (Old Man), Don Edwards (Heavy), Patty Elder (Blonde). Joe Mannix suffers from amnesia and can't remember why an attempt was made on his life or who did it. The one thing he does recall is seeing the girl he was with being thrown from a balcony. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/9/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. The Dark Boy W: Halsted Welles D: John Astin With Gale Sondergaard (Abigail Moore), Steven Lorange (Edward Robb), Michael Laird (Joel Robb), Hope Summers (Lettie Moore), Michael Baseleon (Tom Robb), Elizabeth Hartman (Judith Timm), Ted Foulkes (Fourth Grader). Despite warnings, a woman takes the newly available position of school teacher at a rural community and immediately begins seeing the ghost of a small black boy. 2. Keep in Touch - We'll Think Of Something W: Gene Kearney D: Gene Kearney With Alex Cord (Erik Sutton), Joanna Pettet (Claire Foster), Mike Robelo (Chauffeur), David Morick (Officer Hruska), Paul Trinka (Motorcycle Cop), Richard O'Brien (Sgt. Joe Brice). A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.
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