Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 16, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The David Steinberg Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5 With Jack Burns, Avery Schreiber, Carol Wayne, Della Reese. Comedy highlights: Steinberg and guests compare techniques in picking up a girl; psychiatry in prison; a spoof of life in pre-Communist Russia. Della sings "Cabaret", "Never Can Say Goodbye". Steinberg sings "Things My Grandfather Taught Me". (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Super [Reg]: The Fat Gap
Season 1, episode 9 W: Ardell Sheridan, Robert E. Hodge Joe goes on a diet in order to recapture his youthful image, but finds he has a fat chance of succeeding.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Who Won?
Season 4, episode 22 W: Michael Donovan D: James Neilson With Murray MacLeod (Spider Watson), Neil Moran (Fat Charlie), Jerome Sheldon (Donny Simmons), Dick Clark (J. Benson). Malloy and Reed, working with young hot rodders, are stymied by a theft and on-street racing just as they're about to get a track owner's cooperation. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Corner Bar [Reg]: The Navy Reunion
Season 1, episode 9 With Huntz Hall. Harry the bartender gets to reminiscing about his Navy comrades, when in walks his old buddy Sparky Schnauzer, now a "real estate salesman".
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| [NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Lady In Waiting
Season 1, episode 5 W: Steven Bochco D: Norman Lloyd With Leslie Nielsen (Peter Hamilton), Richard Anderson (Bryce Chadwick), Jessie Royce Landis (Mother Chadwick), Susan Clark (Beth Chadwick), Barbara Rhoades (Hostess), Garry Walberg (Detective), Jon Lormer (Hearing Officer), Richard Bull (Detective), Joel Fluellen (Charles). Det. Columbo investigates a murder brought about when a brother and sister quarrel over a corporation. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/15/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Terror
Season 3, episode 18 W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman With Larry Blyden (Dr. Lieber), Kathleen Lloyd (Angela Corelli), Tony De Costa (Khalid), Anthony Caruso (Zanarek), Georg Stanford Brown (Dr. James). A case of bubonic plague sends Dr. Gannon and a public health doctor on an all-out search for the source of infection to head off an epidemic of the disease. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine [Reg]
Season 1, episode 4 With Godfrey Cambridge, Thelma Houston. In skits, Marty is a bank robber who is so polite that he waits in line; a tree surgeon par excellence; a trapped traveler in Customs; a soldier with an unusual weapon. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 9:30] An Echo Of Anger [special]
This hour covers the issues that separate strip miners of coal and groups who charge the method is destroying the environment and damaging homes, farms and streams.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Only One Death To A Customer
Season 3, episode 20 W: John Meredyth Lucas D: Michael O'Herlihy With Loretta Swit (Dorothy Harker), Erik Holland (Frank Bauer), John Pearce (Parker), Neil Russell (Larry Hammond), Frank Christi (Bradshaw), Garry Walberg (Corey), Jonathan Kidd (Medical Examiner). Within a period of 24 hours, three attempts are made on Joe Mannix's life, and the only man with a motive is found dead. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1970)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. The House W: Rod Serling D: John Astin With Joanna Pettet (Elaine Latimer), Paul Richards (Peugot), Almira Sessions (Old Woman), Jan Burrell (Nurse), Steve Franken (Dr. Mitchell). A former sanitarium patient discovers a house she has known all her life -- but never dared enter -- in a recurring dream. 2. Certain Shadows On The Wall W: Rod Serling D: Jeff Corey With Louis Hayward (Stephen Brigham), Agnes Moorehead (Emma Brigham), Rachel Roberts (Rebecca Brigham), Grayson Hall (Ann Brigham). An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.
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| [ABC 10:30] Black Serviceman - Don't Call Me Boy!
Frank Reynolds looks into the black-white friction apparent in the Armed Forces today and the steps being taken to ease them.
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