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Wednesday July 5, 1972
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Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday July 5, 1972:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show Medical Center: Awakening (R) Mannix: To Draw The Lightning (R)
ABC The Super: The Matchmaker The Corner Bar: Quarantine The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine ABC Comedy Hour: The Kopykats (R)  
NBC Adam-12: The Ferret (R) McMillan And Wife: The Face Of Murder (R) Night Gallery (R)
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[CBS 8:00] Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5

With Nancy Wilson.

[ABC 8:00] The Super [Reg]: The Matchmaker
Season 1, episode 3
W: Phil Mishkin, Rob Reiner

Joe Girelli decides it's high time his brother Frankie should marry and settle down and arranges a date for him with Mrs. Stein's niece.

[NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Ferret
Season 4, episode 6
W: Stephen J. Cannell   D: Alan Crosland Jr.

With Russ Conway (Curtis Atherton), Steve Franken (The Ferret), Don Pedro Colley (T. Leeland Sabeth), Jordan Rhodes (Larry Dent), James Bacon (William Spence), Alma Platt (Lady).
Officers Malloy and Reed must find an elusive saboteur who conducts a destructive one-man anti-pollution campaign.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1971)

[ABC 8:30] The Corner Bar [Reg]: Quarantine
Season 1, episode 3

With Steve DeLucca (Health Official), Betty Walker (Henrietta).

[NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: The Face Of Murder
Season 1, episode 5
W: Oliver Hailey   D: Hy Averback

With Claude Akins (Freddie O'Neal), Edward Andrews (Carter Mayerling), Hazel Court (Frances Mayerling), Jon Cypher (John Thomas Clark), Richard Deacon (Peter Childs), Marj Dusay (Eloise Simms), Cliff Osmond (Bull), Dick Wilson (Simon Mehlin), Stafford Repp (Boris Potter).
A master jewel thief, who hasn't been active in 10 years, resumes committing robberies during social parties and manages to elude Commissioner McMillan.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1972)

[CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Awakening
Season 3, episode 22
W: Robert M. Young   D: Earl Bellamy

With Barbara Rush (Judy MacMurdy), Craig Stevens (Dr. David MacMurdy), Eugene Peterson (Dr. Whittaker), Jack Ging (Ward Field), Jane Dulo (Nurse Murphy).
A doctor who awakens after three years in a coma faces the critical problems of the time lapse, including a wife who blames him for the auto crash which killed their child. He then begins to lose interest in his own recovery.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1972)

[ABC 9:00] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine [Reg]
Season 1, episode 10

With Randy Newman.
Highlights: a man in a post office buying stamps according to flavor; Marty, in peglegs, singing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"; a photographer's demands for "just one more" drives his subject up the wall; Barbara Feldon sings "Come Together".

[ABC 9:30] ABC Comedy Hour: The Kopykats
With Raymond Burr.
Regular impressionists include Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, George Kirby, Marilyn Michaels. Burr, as Perry Mason, faces a judge who looks like Dean Martin (Frank), and cross-examines Laugh-In's Gladys (Marilyn). In a music segment, Rich Little plays Johnny Cash, George Kirby is Ray Charles and Fred Travalena is Glen Campbell.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1972)

[CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: To Draw The Lightning
Season 5, episode 22
W: Ed Adamson   D: Don McDougall

With Fred Beir (Alan Diedrich), Joan Hotchkis (Irene Gifford), Steve Ihnat (Lt. Larry Gifford), Julie Parrish (Ellen Frazier), Victor Millan (Lt. Mendez), Eddie Firestone (Archie Preston), J. Pat O'Malley (Lou Weldman), Michael Bell (Bob Greer), Charles Picerni (Danny Constantine).
When a police officer kills a man against whom he was known to hold a grudge, the department suspends him despite his insistence that the killing was not planned. He then asks Mannix to investigate, but later insists that Joe withdraw from the case.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1972)

[NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1.   Deliveries In The Rear
W: Rod Serling   D: Jeff Corey

With Cornel Wilde (Dr. John Fletcher), Rosemary Forsyth (Barbara Bennett), Walter Burke (Jameson), Gerald McRaney (Tuttle), Marjorie Bennett (Old Woman), Ian Wolfe (Dillingham), Peter Brocco (Dr. Shockman), Larry D. Mann (Hannify), Peter Whitney (Grave Robber), John Maddison (Grave Robber).  
A turn-of-the-century surgeon in need of cadavers never asks questions of his suppliers.

2.   Stop Killing Me
W: Jack Laird   D: Jeannot Szwarc

With James Gregory (Sgt. Bevelow), Geraldine Page (Frances Turchin).  
Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police.

3.   Dead Weight
W: Jack Laird   D: Timothy Galfas

With Bobby Darin (Landau), Jack Albertson (Bullivant), James Metropole (Delivery Boy).  
A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.


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