Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 29, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Scavengers
Season 16, episode 10 W: Jim Byrnes D: Robert Totten With Robert Totten, Roy Jenson (Rath), Link Wyler (Logan), James Almanzar (Ogana), Eddie Little Sky (Scarface), Steve Raines (Driver), Victor Izay (Barkeep), Henry Wise (Livery Man), Cicely Tyson (Rachel Biggs), Yaphet Kotto (Piney Biggs), Slim Pickens (Colley), Jere Fields (Merilee Biggs), Victor Holchak (Lieutenant). A hungry wanderer's heroic boasts place the lives of innocent Indians in jeopardy. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/16/1970)
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| [ABC 8:00] Oceans - The Silent Crisis
This ABC News Inquiry Special focuses on the creeping spectre of pollution on the life-sustaining waters of the earth's surface. The program demonstrates the consequences of man's fouling of the seas, from footage of Japanese victims of mercury poisoning to a variety of new diseases with a direct relationship to water pollution. Frank Reynolds provides the narration.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #115
Season 5, episode 23 W: Allan Katz, Don Reo D: Mark Warren With John Wayne, Carol Channing, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jo Ann Pflug, Steve Allen, Gene Hackman, Terry-Thomas. Jo Ann guests in a segment chronicling the world's most interrupted bath, and appears as a secretary, a bellhop and in the Mod World's look at sex and marriage; then she joins a hippie commune. John Wayne reads poetry and the cast celebrates St. Patrick's Day. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/13/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And The Little Old Lady
Season 4, episode 17 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin With Helen Hayes (Kathleen Brady), Hank Brandt (Detective Muldoon). Kathleen Brady, a penniless lady, comes to the Unique Employment Agency in search of a job. Lucy, who persuades her to become her house guest for a few days, begins to worry when Kathleen gets $5,000 from Uncle Harry for a deed to some property in Ireland. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/3/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Fireball 500 (1966)
W: William Asher, Leo Townsend D: William Asher With Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian, Julie Parrish, Chill Wills, Harvey Lembeck. A stock car driver wins a race against a local hero, along with the admiration of his girlfriend.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Singing Nun (1966)
W: Sally Benson, John Furia D: Henry Koster With Debbie Reynolds, Greer Garson, Ricardo Montalban, Agnes Moorehead, Katharine Ross, Chad Everett. The story of a Belgian Dominican nun with a gift for music, who records an album and is forced to choose between a career and the religious life.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Whodunnit, Doris?
Season 4, episode 14 W: Gary Belkin D: Marc Daniels With Charles Nelson Reilly (Ralph Mantley), Cliff Norton (Harry Miller), Ken Lynch (Detective Broder), Walter Sande (Head Santa). Doris Martin's nose for news sets her up to become the second victim of a Santa-disguised killer. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] Summit Highlights
Highlights of President Nixon's meeting with Soviet officials.
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