Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 30, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Mexican Connection
Repeat of a first-person account of the trafficking of an estimated $1 billion a year in illicit drugs between Mexico and the United States. Jay McMullen reports. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] 1972 Olympic Games
Scheduled: Basketball, boxing, gymnastics, swimming, diving, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Wednesday Warrior
Season 4, episode 24 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: James Neilson With Kathleen Lloyd (Tawnia Baker), Steve Franken (Albert Porter), Chuck Bowman (Det. Edwards), Jason Wingreen (Suspect), James Oliver (Norm Mitchell), Wink Roberts (Derek), Dale Johnson (Harvey Mortenson). Malloy and Reed are concerned over a young reservist who draws a salty officer for his first partner and then becomes involved in a bizarre robbery investigation. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/15/1972)
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: Til Death Do Us Part
Season 1, episode 6 W: Oliver Hailey D: Robert Michael Lewis With Lawrence Pressman (Peter Jordan), Samantha Jones (Loretta), Ned Wertimer (Harry), Linda Watkins (Emily Hull), Alice Nunn (Mrs. Maxwell). The McMillans are home alone celebrating Sally's birthday when they discover that every sharp object in the house is missing, and that they are sealed in their own home -- with lethal gas pouring in. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/16/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Conflict
Season 3, episode 24 W: Stephen Kandel D: Vincent Sherman With Shelly Novack (Nick Belasco), Tisha Sterling (Dr. Maggie Craig), Chris Robinson (Ted Broder), Martin E. Brooks (Lt. Samuels), Ayn Ruymen (Connie Belasco). An assaulted co-ed points out a campus teacher as her attacker, setting off a chain reaction that involves the career of his fiancee, a brilliant woman intern. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] Mannix [Reg]: Cry Pigeon
Season 5, episode 19 W: Donn Mullally D: Reza Badiyi With John Colicos (Duke Benedict), Barry Sullivan (Victor Fortune), Corinne Camacho (Maria Fortune), Joseph Hindy (Mark Fortune), Pat Renella (Braden), Richard Devon (Lee Martisse). A battle for power between rival ganglords threatens to break into open warfare with Joe Mannix in the middle. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]
1. The Caterpillar W: Rod Serling D: Jeannot Szwarc With Laurence Harvey (Stephen Macy), Joanna Pettet (Rhona Warwick), Don Knight (Tommy Robinson), John Williams (Doctor), Tom Helmore (John Warwick). A frustrated man living in Borneo finds a young wife irresistable and decides to eliminate her husband. 2. Little Girl Lost W: Stanford Whitmore D: Timothy Galfas With Ed Nelson (Tom Burke), Ivor Francis (Dr. Cottrell), Nelson Cuevas (Waiter), Sandy Ward (Irate Man), John Lasell (Colonel Hawes), William Windom (Professor Putman). Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.
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