Prime-time network TV listings for Friday September 1, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] O'Hara, U.S. Treasury [Reg]: Operation: Smoke Screen
Season 1, episode 22 W: Dan Ullman D: James Neilson With Don Stroud (Willie Smth), Leslie Parrish (Olga), Jack Ging (Arthur Harlan), Carl Ballantine (Doc Ellery), Norman Fell (Leo Walsh), Paul Picerni (Bill Clark), Len Wayland (Walter Land). Agent O'Hara goes to school to learn the trade and then hires on as a dealer in a desert casino, all for the purpose of trying to get evidence of income tax evasion against a tycoon. (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 3/10/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] 1972 Olympic Games
Scheduled: Track and field, basketball, boxing, gymnastics, swimming, diving and volleyball.
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| [NBC 8:30] Preseason Football
NBC's third preseason game matches the Baltimore Colts and Detroit Lions in Tampa, Fla. Johnny Unitas, now 39 but healthy, tries to lead his Colts back into contention. They were the class of the AFC last season in defense. The short passing game and running of Norm Bulaich and Tom Matte and Don Nottingham are pluses. Greg Landry has attained star status with the Lions at quarterback. Earl McCullough is off the injury list and Steve Owens and Altie Taylor are strong runners. Curt Gowdy, Al DeRogatis report.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: On The Double (1961)
W: Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson D: Melville Shavelson With Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Margaret Rutherford, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Diana Dors, Jesse White, Gregory Walcott, Allan Cuthbertson. British intelligence persuades a timid American GI to impersonate England's foremost general whom the Nazis are trying to kill.
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