Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 17, 1972:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Miss Black Teenage America Beauty Pageant	My Three Sons: Bad Day For Steve (R)	Movie: Duffy (1968)
ABC	Jud Strunk Show		Plimpton! The Great Quarterback Sneak (R)		The Untamed Earth	Pre-Convention Special
NBC	NBC Adventure Theater: Double Jeopardy (R)		Ironside: Achilles' Heel (R)		The Bobby Darin Amusement Co.

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Comedy

Program details:

[CBS 8:00] Miss Black Teenage America Beauty Pageant [special]

[ABC 8:00] Jud Strunk Show [special]
With Andy Griffith, Alice Ghostley, Tina Cole, Jack Burns, Louis Nye. Comedian-singer Jud Strunk hosts an hour of comedy and music.

[NBC 8:00] NBC Adventure Theater: Double Jeopardy
With Lauren Bacall, Jack Kelly, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tom Poston. Identical twin sisters are suspected of murder by a persistent private eye. (Repeat program, originally aired 7/31/1971)

[CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: Bad Day For Steve
Season 12, episode 18
W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy
With John Gallaudet (Bob Anderson), Betty Anne Rees (Janet Ingram), Volney Howard IV (Little Boy). Steve suddenly becomes accident-prone, perhaps as an indirect result of young Ernie's class project on how phases of the moon affect people's behavior. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/24/1972)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Duffy (1968)
W: Harry Joe Brown Jr. D: Robert Parrish
With James Coburn, James Mason, Susannah York, James Fox, John Alderton, Guy Deghy. An adventurous American decides to accept an offer to commit a robbery, with his share of the loot to include a beautiful girl.

[ABC 9:00] Plimpton! The Great Quarterback Sneak [special] Repeat of the special in which George Plimpton, the unquenchable amateur, works out with the Baltimore Colts and gets a crack at playing quarterback against the Detroit Lions. (Repeat program)

[NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Achilles' Heel
Season 5, episode 22
W: Frank Telford D: Raymond Burr
With William Windom (Judge Van Buren), Rick Lenz (Larry Van Buren), Angel Tompkins (Candy Delmar), Johnny Seven (Lt. Carl Reese), Bill Fletcher (Ellis Stark), Val Avery, Henry Beckman (Durand), Ian Wolfe (Sam), Hilly Hicks (Otis Williams). The Chief becomes involved with the dilemma facing a respected jurist, whose decision against a gangland figure accused of income tax evasion can ruin the life of his son. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1972)

[ABC 10:00] The Untamed Earth Study of natural disasters and what it will take to protect citizens from the onslaughts of nature. To date, 1972 has had the heaviest rain in decades, combined with hurricanes, flash floods, dam failures and tornados and has killed more than 500 persons, left thousands homeless and caused more than $2 billion in damages. Jules Bergman narrates.

[NBC 10:00] The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. [Reg]
With Donald O'Connor, Dionne Warwick, Phil Ford, Mimi Hines. Dionne and Bobby appear in a skit, "All Alone by the Telephone"; Phil, Mimi and Donald appear in "The Puppetman"; Dionne sings "This Girl's in Love With You"; Bobby sings "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".

[ABC 10:30] Pre-Convention Special Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner profile the key people of President Nixon's campaign for re-election; Vice President Spiro Agnew is interviewed in Alaska.