Tuesday August 8, 1972
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 8, 1972:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS John Byner Comedy Hour Hawaii Five-O: The Ninety-Second War (2) (R) Cannon: Cain's Mark (R)  
ABC The Mod Squad: Feet Of Clay (R) Kung Fu: The Way Of The Tiger, The Sign Of The Dragon Marcus Welby, M.D.: Tender Comrade (R)
NBC Democratic National Committee NBC Action Playhouse: The Fatal Mistake (R) London Bridge Special (R)  


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Program details:



[CBS 7:30] John Byner Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 2

With James Farentino, Gloria Loring. Highlights include a series of blackout sketches with cast regulars; Miss Loring sings "Where You Lead"; Byner and Farentino warble "Hurray for a Bald-Headed Woman" and "Penniless Sons".

[ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Feet Of Clay
Season 4, episode 14
W: Don Ingalls   D: Don Taylor

With Desi Arnaz Jr. (Vincent Emory), Kevin Dobson (Howie), Robert Donner (Emory), Wayne Storm (Morgan), Gary Dubin (Scooter Emory), Alan Oppenheimer (Bob Ross), Jerry Davis (Ruben). A deaf-mute's heroism in a warehouse fire brings attempts on his life.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/14/1971)

[NBC 7:30] Democratic National Committee Live coverage from Washington, D.C.

[CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: The Ninety-Second War (2)
Season 4, episode 17
W: John D.F. Black   D: Bob Sweeney

With Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat), Dana Wynter (Claudine), Donald Pleasence (Hans Vogler), Tim O'Connor (Jonathan Kaye), Roger C. Carmel (Misha Toptegan). A deathbed statement by an exact double of McGarrett reveals that framing the lawman is only one phase of a plot by spymaster Wo Fat.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/18/1972)

[ABC 8:30] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Way Of The Tiger, The Sign Of The Dragon
Season 0, episode 1
W: Ed Spielman, Howard Friedlander   D: Jerry Thorpe

With Barry Sullivan (Dillon), Albert Salmi (Raif), Wayne Maunder (McKay), Benson Fong (Han Fei), Richard Loo (Master Sun), Roy Jenson (Fuller), Robert Ito (Fong). In the 19th century, an orphan of a Chinese-American marriage is schooled at a Shaolin monastery in China, learning philosophy and self-defense. Later, he is forced to flee and comes to the American West with a price on his head from the Chinese government, and must face bounty hunters as well as agents of the Emperor who are determined to kill him. Pilot for the series.

[NBC 8:30] NBC Action Playhouse: The Fatal Mistake
Season 4, episode 10
W: Jacques Gillies, Oscar Millard

With Arthur Hill (Donald Hammond), Roddy McDowall (Harry Carlin), Marge Redmond (Nancy Hammond), Alice Rawlings (Julia Hammond), Michael Wilding (Maj. Tucker), Laurence Naismith (Gordon Knight). A London suburbanite lives with his wife and daughter in a manner outwardly normal except for two things: his hobby is raising reptiles and he is visited regularly by a blackmailer.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1966)

[CBS 9:30] Cannon [Reg]: Cain's Mark
Season 1, episode 23
W: George Bellak   D: Don Taylor

With Bradford Dillman (Dick Alexander), Carmen Mathews (Mrs. Alexander), David Birney (Terry Alexander), Dana Elcar (Sam), Tom Drake (Bill Penski). Cannon's investigation into the disappearance of the younger brother of a wealthy manufacturer turns into what may be the discovery of a large-scale illegal arms operation.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1972)

[NBC 9:30] London Bridge Special [special]
With Tom Jones, Jennifer O'Neill, Kirk Douglas. A musical-fantasy encore focusing on the transplant of historic London Bridge to the shores of Lake Havasu in Arizona.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Tender Comrade
Season 3, episode 1
W: Edward DeBlasio   D: David Lowell Rich

With Diana Muldaur (Ann Rolf), Pernell Roberts (Roger Bentley), Clint Howard (Kimmy Rolf), Carmen Zapata (Carmela), Dawn Lyn (Andrea Rolf), Francis De Sales (Dr. Stanley). Medical series enters its third season. A beautiful widow finds that she must undergo a mastectomy just as she plans to marry again.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1971)

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