Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 29, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] John Byner Comedy Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5 With Ted Knight, Teresa Graves. Highlights include Byner as a priest and satires on "The Godfather" and soap operas; Knight and Byner in a duet farce, "Baby Face"; Miss Graves sings "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me". (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 7:30] 1972 Olympic Games
Scheduled: Basketball, boxing, gymnastics, rowing, swimming, diving, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
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| [NBC 7:30] Bonanza [Reg]: Queen High
Season 10, episode 11 W: Michael Fessier D: Leon Benson With Ken Drake (Sam Jacks), Celeste Yarnall (Katie Kelly), Sandor Szabo (Ludwig), Paul Lambert (Miles Renfro), Dabney Coleman (Ivar Peterson), Edward Schaaf (Beggs). Joe and Candy win an ore-processing mill in a poker game and attempt to break the monopoly of their opposition. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/1/1968)
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Bait Once, Bait Twice
Season 4, episode 15 W: Will Lorin D: Alf Kjellin With Norman duPont (Howard Miller), James Olson (Bart Mariss), Loretta Swit (Betty Landers), Malachi Throne (Barry Bonamo). The case against a large illegal gambling operation is almost destroyed when the distraught girlfriend of a key witness attempts suicide and it leads to his murder. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/4/1972)
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| [NBC 8:30] Growing Up In Prison
The story of 29-year-old Carol Fugate, who has spent over half her life in prison following her conviction as an accessory to first degree murder at the age of 14. Floyd Kalber narrates.
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| [CBS 9:30] Cannon [Reg]: The Torch
Season 1, episode 22 W: James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin D: Michael O'Herlihy With Anthony Zerbe (Doc Immelman), Larry Blyden (Phil Dobson), Richard Carlson (Owen McMahon), Sheila Wells (Annie McMahon). To clear his client's father, suspected of setting fire to his own cleaning plant, a blaze in which his wife died, Cannon begins tracking down arsonists. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/29/1972)
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| [NBC 9:30] Star Spangled Boots [special]
With Doc Severinsen, Barbara McNair, Chet Atkins. Country-western recording artist Boots Randolph hosts this musical-variety special taped in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring musical selections interspersed with skits spoofing the upcoming Presidential elections. Highlights include a Randolph-Atkins duet of "Amazing Grace"; Severinsen singing and playing the trumpet in "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"; and a cast rendition of favorite gospel songs.
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