Prime-time network TV listings for Friday May 26, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] O'Hara, U.S. Treasury [Reg]: Operation: Spread
Season 1, episode 8 W: Richard Carlson D: Alan Crosland With Jo Anne Meredith (Janet Bryce), Larry Pennell (Agent Wade), Mel Scott (Agent Donaldson), Judson Pratt (Forman), Robert Colbert (Alan Bryce), Peter Brown (Agent Herron), Ella Edwards (Mary Smith), Morgan Jones (Agent Jones), Whit Bissell (Magistrate), Kenneth Tobey (Colonel Phillips), John Sebastian (Man), Harry Lewis (Jack), David Brian (The Big Guy). When a professional sports bettor's wife tells O'Hara that her husband may be a tax evader, he expects to find a network of such evaders attached to organized crime. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/5/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: The Personality Kid
Season 3, episode 6 W: Ben Starr D: Oscar Rudolph With Sheri Cowart (Kathy), Monica Ramirez (Kyle), Margie De Meyer (Judy), Karen Peters (Susie). Peter's wallflower status at a friend's party convinces him he needs a new image. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1971)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: We Were Robbed
Season 1, episode 6 W: Aaron Ruben D: Coby Ruskin With Hal Williams (Officer Smith), Noam Pitlik (Officer Swanhauser), Jenny Sullivan (Lady Interviewer). After he accidentally breaks his son's porcelain and glass collection, Fred hides the debris and claims they were robbed. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Whatever Happened To Moby Dick?
Season 2, episode 6 W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: E.W. Swackhamer With Howard Cosell (Himself), Bert Convy (Dr. Whelander), Dub Taylor (Flicker), George O'Hanlon Sr. (Bear Man). Howard Cosell, ABC sports commentator, uses his probing interview technique to help the family strike a blow for the preservation of whales. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1971)
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| [NBC 8:30] Chronolog
The Texas Rangers are profiled in one segment of NBC's monthly magazine. Tom Pettit reports that the Rangers, long a staple in Hollywood westerns, in 1823 were really a private army to make Texas safe for colonizing. Today they stand as America's oldest law-enforcement agency. They have an elite group of 82 men who work as criminal investigators, often assigned to assist local law enforcement agencies in the state's rural areas.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Paper Man (1971)
W: James Buchanan, Ronald Austin D: Walter Grauman With Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, Tina Chen, Elliott Street, James Olson. A computer error in issuing a credit card plunges a group of college students into an intricate scheme that leaves three of them dead.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: Dixon's Raiders
Season 3, episode 10 W: Jerry Mayer D: William Wiard With Ivor Francis (Mr. Dragen), June Dayton, Greg Mabrey, Maidie Norman, Robert Casper (Mr. Wisegarten), Jane Actman. Pete Dixon's class decides to investigate how the taxpayers' money is spent at Whitman High. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/19/1971)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Murray The Fink
Season 2, episode 7 W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield D: Jay Sandrich With Garry Walberg (Speed), Larry Gelman (Vinnie), Richard Stahl (Cop), George O'Hanlon Sr. (Drunk), Curt Conway (Judge). When Murray arrests his poker playing friends for gambling, Oscar tells the judge that Murray was playing cards with them. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/29/1971)
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Lady Athlete W: Woody Kling D: Howard Morris With Michael Callan, Tina Louise (Wilma), Bernard Fox (Oliver), Kathleen Freeman (Commissar). A socialistic country's determination to win an international athletic event causes a comedy of errors. 2. Love And The Single Sister With Judy Carne (Diana), Bill Daily (Larry), Kristina Holland (Beatrice), Will Hutchins (Will), Dick Yarmy (Carl), Alice Borden (Lois). A girl who's been jilted by her boyfriend visits her sister and brother-in-law and creates havoc in their house. 3. Love And The Lady Killers W: Skip Webster D: Harry Harris With Carol Wayne, Lloyd Battista, Jack Burns, Richard X. Slattery. Two businessmen pretend they had a wild time with their new employee, until the pretty but very staid girl decides to date a client. 4. Love And The New Size 8 D: Jack Arnold With Shelley Fabares, Alex Henteloff. A fat girl returns from a health spa with a beautiful new figure -- and her romance takes a turn for the worse.
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| [CBS 10:30] The Don Rickles Show [Reg]: The Moo Cow Child
Season 1, episode 5 With Edward Andrews (Crawford), M. Emmet Walsh (Kingston). Over Don's objections, his daughter is selected by one of his clients to star in a milk commercial to be directed by a young avant-garde filmmaker, with the Robinsons' kitchen as the location. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/11/1972)
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