Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday June 28, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 4 With Cloris Leachman.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Super [Reg]: The Automated Super
Season 1, episode 2 W: Carl Gottlieb Joe Girelli loses his job as super in the tenement and things look bad -- until the tenants rebel.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Citizens All
Season 4, episode 14 W: Leo Gordon D: James Neilson With Vic Perrin (Everett Jones), Jo Anne Meredith (Laura Thomas), Myron Healey (Warren Jarvey), John Gallaudet (Jason Walters), Hampton Fancher (Ray). Malloy and Reed arrest a pair of phony money passers, catch an armed robbery suspect in action and settle a disturbance. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Corner Bar [Reg]: Flanagan's Wake
Season 1, episode 2 Harry the bartender is asked to fulfill the dying wish of an old customer who passed on: hold a wake in the tavern.
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| [NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Murder By The Book
Season 1, episode 1 W: Steven Bocho D: Steven Spielberg With Rosemary Forsyth (Joanna Ferris), Martin Milner (Jim Ferris), Jack Cassidy (Ken Franklin), Lynette Mettey (Gloria), Barbara Colby (Lilly La Sanka). Peter Falk stars in the premiere of Columbo, one of three rotating mystery dramas (with McCloud and McMillan and Wife). Columbo is a colorful police lieutenant whose disheveled and lackadaisical approach masks a finely-tuned mind to the mores of criminals. Tonight, a mystery writer plans a "perfect crime" with his ex-partner as the target. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/15/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Confession
Season 3, episode 23 W: Don Brinkley D: Al C. Ward With Ida Lupino (Marion McKinnon), Howard Duff (Matt McKinnon), Meg Foster (Carol McKinnon), James Shigeta (Dr. Osaka). A hard-driving politician angrily opposes additional heart surgery for his daughter and demands that Dr. Lochner take Dr. Gannon off the case. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine [Reg]
Season 1, episode 6 With Orson Welles, Thelma Houston. In one segment, Welles is a circus ringmaster putting a group of tuxedoed bankers through their paces, then he narrates a documentary on a dying species -- the British aristocrat. Marty tries to solve an almost "perfect crime".
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| [ABC 9:30] ABC Comedy Hour: The Kopykats
With Ed Sullivan. The show features impressions by Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, George Kirby and Marilyn Michaels. In a spoof of "All in the Family", George plays Archie and Marilyn plays Edith. Rich Little does Joseph Cotten and Frank Gorshin plays Peter Falk in a take-off on "Columbo". (Repeat program, originally aired 2/9/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: A Button For General D
Season 5, episode 10 W: Ernie Frankel D: Reza Badiyi With Joanna Pettet (Cindy Warren), Irene Tedrow (Sara Dawes), David Sheiner (Gerald Sanford), Ross Hagen (Krebs), Hal Lynch (Monty Dawes), Jack Donner (Norton). A girl singer is kidnapped by a gang who believe she knows where a fortune is hidden. Mannix enters the case when he gets a clue to the whereabouts of both girl and money. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. The Waiting Room W: Rod Serling D: Jeannot Szwarc With Larry Watson (Max Auburn), Steve Forrest (Sam Dichter), Buddy Ebsen (Dr. Soames), Gilbert Roland (Bartender), Albert Salmi (Joe Bristol), Lex Barker (Charlie McKinley). A gunfighter rides past a hanging figure, then enters a bar where poker-playing occupants know about his past, present and future. 2. Last Rites For A Dead Druid W: Alvin Sapinsley D: Jeannot Szwarc With Janya Braunt (Marta), Ned Glass (Bernstein), Bill Bixby (Bruce Tarraday), Carol Lynley (Jenny Tarraday), Donna Douglas (Mildred McVane). When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.
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