Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday June 7, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 With Jean Stapleton, Moms Mabley. Broadway performers Melba Moore ("Purlie") and Clifton Davis ("Two Gentlemen of Verona") costar in a five-week musical comedy series replacing Carol Burnett. Against avant-garde settings representing an apartment house, the music and comedy springs from the relationships among the residents. Miss Stapleton takes part in two numbers, "Rock Steady" and "I Met Him in Boston". Regulars in the New York-produced series include Timmy Rogers, Ron Carey, Dick Libertini and Liz Torres.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: We Love Annie
Season 3, episode 23 W: James Komack D: James Komack With Jon Breakfield (Jeff), Yvonne Wilder (Kathy), Jerry Stiller (Mr. Landon), Anne Meara (Annie). Tom subscribes to a phone answering service and the chief operator arrives to take care of Eddie when he catches cold. (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Mary Hong Loves Tommy Chen
Season 4, episode 19 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: James Neilson With Keye Luke (Sing Hong), Virginia Ann Lee (Mary Hong), Edward Faulkner (Sgt. Powers), Robert Patten (Det. Speer), Foster Brooks (Mr. Allen), Jo Anne Worley (Juju Perrin). The Chinese community faces a new menace from young hoodlums who call themselves Chung Nings (Chinese Youth) and Malloy and Reed become involved when an undercover officer is shot. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/9/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Smith Family [Reg]: Father-In-Law
Season 2, episode 24 D: Herschel Daugherty With Tim Matheson (Mark), Tim Graham (Steve), Jonathan Lippe (John). Chad and Betty are at first pleased when daughter Cindy becomes romantically involved with a clean-cut youth who plans a law enforcement career, but then change their minds. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: Death Is A Seven Point Favorite
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert Lewin, S.L. Bernard, Adam Edwards D: John Astin With Don Stroud (Billy Benton), Andrew Duggan (Harlan Royce), John Anderson (Sandy King), Peter Bonerz (George Harvard), Jackie Coogan (Lowball), Larry Pennell (Vic Whelan), Don Ross (Brady). Members of a pro football team become suspects to a murder when an autographed ball becomes a clue. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Shock! (1)
Season 3, episode 15 W: Don Brinkley D: Paul Stanley With John Larch (Victor Crayton), Robert F. Lyons (David Crayton), Glenn Corbett (Phil Dorsey), Sheree North (Karen Porter), Vera Miles (Nora Crayton), Frank Campanella (Lt. Berger), Miko Mayama (Yoshiko Toma). Gannon gets entangled in the affairs of an ailing tycoon who sets the stage for his own murder through cruelty to his wife, coldness to his son and his romantic overtures to his nurse. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/29/1971)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine [Reg]
Season 1, episode 2 With Roger Moore, Marsha Hunt, Tom Paxton. In skits, Marty has trouble with a pay phone booth, assists a famous concert pianist and plots the D-Day invasion. Marsha Hunt sings "Freaks and Heroes". Roger Moore plays the male lead in a way-out Swedish flick.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Persuaders [Reg]: The Time And The Place
Season 1, episode 7 W: Michael Pertwee D: Roger Moore With Ian Hendry (Lord Croxley), Anna Palk (Marie), Patricia O'Connell (Ryder). Wilde and Sinclair become embroiled in political intrigue when they try to help a girl whose car is not working and then discover a body in the roadside bushes. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Catspaw
Season 5, episode 13 W: Frank Telford D: Harry Harvey, Jr. With Woodrow Parfrey (Marty Davis), Vincent Beck (Frankie West), Joseph V. Perry (Eddie Mixus), Armando Silvestre (Sergeant Rivas), Joanna Phillips (Diana Devore), Jean Lebouvier (Mrs. Ellis), Vic Tayback (Stark). When a private eye hired to investigate a blackmailer is murdered, Joe Mannix enters the case. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. The Different Ones W: Rod Serling D: John Meredyth Lucas With Dana Andrews (Paul Koch), Jon Korkes (Victor Koch). A father agrees to send his misfit son to another planet in accordance with the Federal Conformity Act of 1993. 2. Tell David... W: Gerald Sanford D: Jeff Corey With Sandra Dee (Ann Bolt), Jared Martin (Tony Bolt/David Blessington), Chris Patrick (David Bolt), Anne Randall (Julie), Francoise Ruggieri (Yvonne), Jan Shutan (Jane Blessington), Jenny Sullivan (Pat Blessington). A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. 3. Logoda's Heads W: Robert Bloch D: Jeannot Szwarc With Denise Nicholas (Kyro), Brock Peters (Logoda), Albert Popwell (Sgt. Imo), Zara Cully (Emba), Patrick Macnee (Major Crosby), Roger E. Mosley (Askari), Tim Matheson (Henley). Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.
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