Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 24, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] My World And Welcome To It [Reg]: The Mea Culpa Bit
Season 1, episode 23 W: Bill Manhoff D: John Rich With Stuart Margolin (Arthur Charles), Milton Selzer (Dr. Gray). It seems everybody wants to take the blame when John Monroe chases daughter Lydia out of the study and she breaks her arm. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/16/1970)
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| [ABC 8:00] Kid Power [special]
Preview of a new children's animated series, based on the "Wee Pals" cartoon strip by Morrie Turner. It concerns a neighborhood where kids from various ethnic backgrounds live.
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC Adventure Theater: The Loving Cup
With Lee Marvin, Polly Bergen, Patrick O'Neal. A woman's husband is willing to sacrifice their marriage in his obsession to win the America's Cup yacht race. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] My Three Sons [Reg]: TV Triplets
Season 12, episode 13 W: George Tibbles D: Earl Bellamy With Bob Hastings (Jack Lorning), Michael Dante (Perry Perigrine), Jon Lormer (Blake Willerson). Katie's triplets are selected to appear in a TV commercial, but the boys won't hold still for the camera. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/13/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] Three Dog Night. . . Night [special]
With Roberta Flack. The Grammy Award-winning group host and perform in their first network special. The seven-man group perform their hits, including "Seven Separate Fools".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Apache Uprising (1966)
W: Max Lamb, Harry Sanford D: R.G. Springsteen With Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, John Russell, Gene Evans, Lon Chaney Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, DeForest Kelley, Don 'Red' Barry. A pair of frontiersmen, after escaping an Indian attack, try to convince a Cavalry captain that the area is full of Apaches on the warpath.
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| [ABC 9:00] Julie! [special]
Julie Andrews, who debuts in a new variety series Sept. 13 on ABC, is the subject of a cinema-verite documentary. It's a study of her private life, filmed during a seven-week period leading up to the taping of her first show. Highlights include Julie with her family, husband Blake Edwards and their three children at home and at a beach barbeque; Julie organizing her time as wife, mother, actress; working out a dance routine; making up and performing as Eliza Doolittle, the role she originated in "My Fair Lady".
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: A Man Named Arno
Season 5, episode 24 W: Helen McAvity D: Chris Christenberry With Thomas A. Geas (Moratta), Nico Minardos (Ken Griffin), Aldine King (Peggy Alexander), Woodrow Parfrey (Walter Dolan), Anne Francis (Angela Moratta), Howard Lees (Victor Arno), Louisa Moritz (Bonnie), Karen Bouchard (Kitty Ornell). Chief Ironside combines a drug investigation with a search for a missing man -- a possible suicide. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/9/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Victim In Shadows
Season 1, episode 18 With Stefanie Powers (Beth Whitaker), Lou Frizzell (Sam Miller), Kirk Mee (Ross Schiller), Joan Hotchkis (Marian Corby), Rick Nelson (Gar Kellerman). When police refuse to arrest a man who forced a woman at knifepoint to submit to him, she files a civil suit against her attacker. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/27/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. [Reg]
With Carl Reiner, Claudine Longet. The cast takes part in a production number, "Strangers in the Night". Darin solos "Higher and Higher".
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