Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 18, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] O'Hara, U.S. Treasury [Reg]: Operation: Time-Fuse
Season 1, episode 5 W: William P. McGivern D: Lawrence Dobkin With Sam Edwards (Oscar Sims), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Adams), Paul Petersen (Fred Cope), Kevin Coughlin (Jackson Croft), Vince Howard (Ed Monroe), Kenneth Washington (Marv Dixon), James Wainwright (Dave Shaw), Sian Barbara Allen (Sheridan Lee), Warner Anderson (Harley Buchanan). Agent O'Hara poses as a drifter in an effort to join a small band of flower children in the desert to learn where in a nearby metropolis they've planted a bomb. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: The Big Bet
Season 3, episode 18 W: Elroy Schwartz D: Earl Bellamy With Hope Sherwood (Rachel). Bobby and Greg make a bet, with the loser having to do everything the winner says for a week. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Movie: The 25th Hour (1967)
W: Francois Boyer, Wolf Mankowitz, Henri Verneuil D: Henri Verneuil With Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Michael Redgrave, Gregoire Aslan, Marcel Dallo. The outbreak of war forces a Rumanian peasant off his farm and into forced labor, alternately as a prisoner of the Russians, the Germans and the Americans.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Promise Her Anything, But Give Her A Punch
Season 2, episode 21 W: Dale McRaven D: Bob Claver With Patti Cohoon (Gloria Hickey). Danny confides to his mother that when he's around a certain girl he gets an overwhelming urge to punch her in the arm. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)
W: Melville Shavelson D: Melville Shavelson With Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino, Brian Donlevy, Gary Collins. In 1944, a U.S. Army captain and a radio operator pose as priests to find out why the Germans are violating their "open city" declaration in Rome.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: We Hold These Truths. . .
Season 3, episode 18 W: Joyce Perry, Stephen Kandel D: Leslie H. Martinson With Fritz Weaver, Harry Holcombe, Mike De Anda, Sacha Berger, Jane Actman, Sandy McPeak, Ta-Tanisha (Pam). Am overzealous candidate for citizenship destroys the political artwork of one of Alice's students because he feels it degrades the United States. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1972)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: The Odd Couple Meet Their Host
Season 2, episode 10 W: Bill Idelson, Harvey Miller D: Hal Cooper With David Steinberg (Himself), Frank Corsentino (Harvey Scholnik). After Felix induces Oscar to appear on a popular talk show, hosted by comic David Steinberg, his roommate gives a riotous account of Felix's prissiness. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/19/1971)
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Newscasters W: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen D: Marc Daniels With Carol Wayne (Karen Joy), Kenneth Mars (Darby Digby), John Astin (Rex Bickers), Reva Rose (Thelma Digby), Sid Melton (Jerry), Ruta Lee (Louise Freeman), Lillian Hayman (Gloria), Carol Worthington (Mrs. MacAdoo), Carl Ballantine (Chicken Little). Two small town newsmen battle for position when they learn that a beautiful new program director from New York is in town monitoring their show. 2. Love And The Happy Days W: Garry Marshall D: Gary Nelson With Marion Ross (Marion Cunningham), Peggy Rea (Aunt Bessie), Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham), Tannis G. Montgomery (Arlene Nestrock), Susan Neher (Joanie Cunningham), Ric Carrott (Chuck Cunningham), Anson Williams (Potsie), Harold Gould (Howard Cunningham), Jackie Coogan (Uncle Harold), Sheila Jo Guthrie (Corrine Delarosa), Ed Cambridge (Mr. Dickerson), Ronda Copland (Teresa), Nellie Burt (Grandma), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Nestrock). During what is sometimes called the simple and uncomplicated time of the early 1950s, a young man falls in love for the first time and his family gets the neighborhood's first black-and-white TV set.
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