Prime-time network TV listings for Friday September 15, 1972:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour: Show 20		Movie: Around The World In 80 Days (1956), part two
ABC	Brady Kids Meet ABC Saturday Superstars	The Partridge Family: This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went To Market	Room 222: A Little Flyer On The Market	The Odd Couple: Gloria, Hallelujah	Love, American Style
NBC	Sanford And Son: By The Numbers	The Little People: Tonsils For Two	Ghost Story: The Dead We Leave Behind		Banyon: The Decent Thing To Do

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[CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 20
Season 2, episode 1
With The Jackson 5, Ronald Reagan, Larry Storch, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Howard Keel. Musical-comedy series begins a second season with the husband-wife singing team. Regulars returning are Ted Zeigler, Peter Cullen, Freeman King, Murray Langston and Steve Martin. Tonight, Keel joins Sonny and Cher in an opera spoof, "Return to Son of Commercialis Americanus. . . Revisited". In a new season of the Vamps segment, Cher plays Cleopatra, Siam's Miss Anna and Sadie Thompson, with Sonny as Marc Antony and the King of Siam, Storch as Julius Caesar, and Hyde-White as Sir Francis Winchester.

[ABC 8:00] Brady Kids Meet ABC Saturday Superstars [special]
With Billy Barty, Charlie Callas, Billie Hayes. Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, Barry Williams, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland - the Brady kids from the series - take a magical trip inside a TV set for an advance look at the network's new Saturday morning children's shows.

[NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: By The Numbers
Season 2, episode 1
W: Terry Ryan D: Peter Baldwin
With Beah Richards (Aunt Ethel), David Moses (Robber). The second season starts with Fred wanting to place a bet after having a "special dream", but son Lamont refuses to allow it.

[ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: This Male Chauvinist Piggy Went To Market
Season 3, episode 1
W: Dale McRaven D: Richard Kinon
With James C. Gordon (Goose Weller). Series begins a third season with a school experiment in role-playing leading to a contest between Keith and Laurie. The family sings "God Bless You, Girl".

[NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: Tonsils For Two
Season 1, episode 1
With Benton Sen (Jimmy). Comedy-drama series about a pediatrician and his family living in Hawaii. Brian Keith, who starred in the long-running Family Affair series, plays Dr. Sean Jamison. Keith's wife, Victoria Young, is a cast regular as his Hawaiian nurse-receptionist. In the first episode, Dr. Jamison is tricked into having his tonsils removed.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Around The World In 80 Days (1956), part two
W: James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman D: Michael Anderson
With David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich, John Gielgud, Red Skelton. Story of the epic journey in 1872 of an intrepid adventurer who, with his butler, sets out from his London club to win a wager.

[ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: A Little Flyer On The Market
Season 4, episode 1
W: John McGreevey D: Charles R. Rondeau
With Linda Morrow (Teacher), Jim Poyner (Paul), Sarah Fankboner (Angie). The fourth season opens with Pete Dixon giving his class a project on the stock market and, with an inadvertent assist from student instructor Alice Johnson, the students decide to try to double the school gift money in the market.

[NBC 9:00] Ghost Story [Reg]: The Dead We Leave Behind
Season 1, episode 1
W: Robert Specht D: Paul Stanley
With Jason Robards (Elliot Brent), Jack Kelly (Harrington), Burr Smidt (Jud), John McLiam (Titus Paul), Stella Stevens (Joanna Brent). A weekly anthology series of contemporary tales of the occult, with emphasis on everyday people into whose lives the bizarre is introduced. Sebastian Cabot hosts in the role of Winston Essex. In the premiere drama, a forest ranger is troubled by the ghosts of his recently murdered wife and her lover.

[ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Gloria, Hallelujah
Season 3, episode 1
W: Rick Mittleman D: Garry Marshall
With Elinor Donahue (Miriam Welby), Janis Hansen (Gloria). The TV version of Neil Simon's stage hit starts a third season. In this episode an admittedly lonely Oscar signs up with a computer dating agency, using an alias. His date is a surprise.

[ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Sensuous Twin
W: Roy Kammerman D: Leslie H. Martinson
With Sandra Dee (Joan / Bonnie Galloway), Jed Allan (Al), Joshua Bryant (Harold / Lester), Roddy McDowall (Marvin).
A sedate boy discovers that his girl has a split personality.

2. Love And The Know-It-All
W: Peggy Elliott D: Charles R. Rondeau
With Jack Cassidy (Frank), Anita Gillette (Estelle), Allison McKay (Carol).
A wife concocts an elaborate plan to prove to her husband that he's not infallible.

3. Love And The Perfect Wife
W: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly D: Charles R. Rondeau
With Phyllis Davis (Mary), Jack Burns, Angus Duncan (John Stone), Jim Parker (Narrator), Avery Schreiber.
An exacting man goes in search of the girl of his dreams.

4. Love And The Triple Threat
With Warren Berlinger (Roger / Louie), Joan Van Ark (Alice), Christopher Connelly (Sam Bishop).
In trying to ward off a girl who wants to marry him, a man gets a friend to play bizarre family members.

[NBC 10:00] Banyon [Reg]: The Decent Thing To Do
Season 1, episode 1
W: William P. McGivern D: Ralph Senensky
With Collin Wilcox (Ella Fisher), Frank Aletter (John Garvey), Marlyn Mason (Maggie Starr), Sarah Kennedy (Suzie), Peter White (Ross Vincent). The hard times of the 1930s form the background for a series about the adventures of a private detective. Robert Forster stars as Miles Banyon and Joan Blondell and Richard Jaeckel have continuing roles. In the first episode, Banyon discounts an official ruling of suicide and suspects murder when a client is found dead.