Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 31, 1972:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	My World And Welcome To It: Child's Play (R)	Horton Hears A Who! (R)	Movie: Promise Her Anything (1965)
ABC	1972 Olympic Games
NBC	NBC Adventure Theater: Four Kings (R)		Ironside: The Professionals (R)		The Bobby Darin Amusement Co.

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] My World And Welcome To It [Reg]: Child's Play
Season 1, episode 26
W: Carl Kleinschmitt D: John Rich
With Olive Dunbar (Ruth Jensen), Marc Winters (Harry Jensen), Roberta Carroll (Miss Dalrymple). After criticizing a friend for the same thing, John Monroe gets guilt feelings for forgetting a picnic date with daughter Lydia. (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 3/9/1970)

[ABC 8:00] 1972 Olympic Games Scheduled: Track and field, boxing, gymnastics, rowing, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling.

[NBC 8:00] NBC Adventure Theater: Four Kings
With Peter Falk, Susan Strasberg. A group of volunteers from U.S. penitentiaries go on a dangerous mission to Germany during World War II. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/4/1971)

[CBS 8:30] Horton Hears A Who! [special]
W: Theodor Geisel D: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam
With Hans Conried, June Foray, Chuck Jones. Animated special in which the rhyme-scheming pachyderm returns to rescue the Seussian inhabitants of Whoville. (Repeat program)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Promise Her Anything (1965)
W: William Peter Blatty D: Arthur Hiller
With Leslie Caron, Warren Beatty, Bob Cummings, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Asa Maynor, Keenan Wynn. A widow seeking a proper husband and a good father for her baby moves into a Greenwich Village brownstone where she plans to conduct her campaign to marry her handsome pediatrician-psychiatrist boss, who's officially listed as the sixth most eligible bachelor in the nation.

[NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Professionals
Season 5, episode 3
W: Sy Salkowitz D: Don Weis
With Johnny Seven (Carl Reese), Lynette Mettey (Vera), James Drury (Al Young), Michael Lerner (Joe Yarby). Chief Ironside calls on Inspector Reese to pose as an out-of-town visitor in a scheme to crack a ring of credit card thieves. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/28/1971)

[NBC 10:00] The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. [Reg]
With Florence Henderson, Pat Paulsen. Highlights: Bobby sings "That's All" and "The Work Song"; Paulsen, in a skit, shows the effects of too much acupuncture treatment; Miss Henderson sings "I Believe in Music"; Bobby appears as "Dusty the Poet"; Bobby and Florence team in "Happy Together".