Prime-time network TV listings for Monday September 11, 1972:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The River (1)
Season 18, episode 1 W: Jack Miller D: Herb Wallerstein With Jack Elam (Pierre Audubon), Miriam Colon (Paullette Duvalier), Slim Pickens (Charlie Utter). The 18th season begins with the tale of a hard-riding gang of outlaws trying to regain the spoils from a series of robberies, forcing Matt Dillon into dangerous situations as he attempts to track them down.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Concrete Valley, Neon Sky
Season 1, episode 1 W: Hal Sitowitz D: Michael Caffey With Hilly Hicks (Benny), William Elliott (Truck), Shelly Novack (Cody), David Roya (Ace), Ian Sandor (Eric The Red), Reid Cruickshanks (Officer). The debut of a series about a trio of police recruits with a new approach to law enforcement. Tonight's story centers on rookie Willie Gillis, who returns to his old neighborhood to help thwart a confrontation between gangs, and ends up with an attempted murder charge against him when one of the gang leaders is shot.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #117
Season 6, episode 1 W: Allan Katz D: Bill Foster With Jill St. John, John Wayne, Isaac Hayes, Martin Milner, Kent McCord. The sixth season begins with new cast members Patti Deutsch, Sarah Kennedy, Donna Jean Young, Brian Bressler, Jud Strunk, ventriloquist Willie Tyler, Todd Bass and the Beautiful Downtown Beaties joining the regulars. Tonight's edition features John Wayne in roles as a barroom brawler, foxhole fighter and a huge blue bunny.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy's Big Break
Season 5, episode 1 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin With Lloyd Bridges (Dr. Murray), Alan Oppenheimer (Dr. Parker), Mary Wickes (Nurse Ogilvy), June Whitley Taylor (Mrs. Foster). The fifth season begins with Lucy trying to lure a handsome doctor to her bedside when she's hospitalized with a broken leg.
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| [ABC 9:00] 1972 Olympic Games
Closing ceremonies.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Anderson Tapes (1971)
W: Frank Pierson D: Sidney Lumet With Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Alan King, Ralph Meeker, Christopher Walken, Val Avery, Dick Anthony Williams, Garrett Morris, Conrad Bain, Margaret Hamilton, Richard B. Shull. The suspenseful story of an ex-convict's planning and execution of a daring robbery, involving wire-tapping, tapes and other means of electronic surveillance.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: No More Advice ... Please
Season 5, episode 1 W: Laurence Marks D: Marc Daniels With Peter Lawford (Dr. Peter Lawrence), Don Chastain (Eric Stewart), Luis de Cordova (Jules). The fifth season begins with Dr. Lawrence seeing his seemingly solid romance with Doris threatened by an anthropology professor who has written a best-selling novel.
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| [CBS 10:00] The New Bill Cosby Show: Our First Show
Season 1, episode 1 With Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte. New comedy-variety show with Bill Cosby, in his third television series, with cast regulars Lola Falana, Susan Tolsky and Foster Brooks. Tonight's outing features Poitier as the devil; Belafonte, Poitier and Cosby eating dinner at a plush soul food restaurant; a "Black Militant Chorus"; and Belafonte singing "Tone the Bell Easy".
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