Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 16, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie And The Editorial
Season 3, episode 1 W: George Arthur Bloom, Don Nicholl D: Norman Campbell With Mike Evans (Lionel Jefferson), Sorrell Booke (Lyle Bennett), Val Bisoglio (Gangster), Diane Sommerfield (Judy). The third season gets underway. Archie, after arguing about a TV editorial favoring gun control, is cornered by Mike and talked into going to the station and demanding equal time for his opposing views.
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The Long Chase
Season 3, episode 1 W: John Thomas James D: Alexander Singer With J.D. Cannon (Harry Briscoe), Larry Storch (Mugs McGeehu), Frank Sinatra Jr. (Deputy Wermser), George Keymas (Hank Silvers), James Drury (Sheriff Tankersley), Jon Lormer (Proprietor). The third season begins. Heyes and Curry are captured by a determined posse. They are helped to escape by their old friend, Det. Harry Briscoe, who says he is taking them in.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Decision
Season 2, episode 1 W: Preston Wood D: Christian Nyby With Jim Turley (Charles Phillips), Jessica Rains (Edna), Lloyd Bochner (Dr. Sunderland), Willard Sage (Dr. Eccles). The second season starts with paramedic DeSoto making a medical decision on his own and Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall clashing with a doctor who opposes the whole paramedic program.
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| [CBS 8:30] Bridget Loves Bernie [Reg]: Bridget Loves Bernie
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bernard Slade D: Richard Kinon With Ivor Barry (Charles). A contemporary comedy-drama series about a young couple who fall in love and marry despite their diverse backgrounds. In the first episode, it's a case of love at first sight as a struggling writer with a Jewish background meets the daughter from a wealthy Irish Catholic family.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Good-Time News
Season 3, episode 1 W: James L. Brooks, Allan Burns D: Hal Cooper With John Amos (Gordy Howard), Robert Hogan (Jack Stoneham), Patrick Campbell (Bartender). The third season starts with Lou Grant being bypassed by the station manager for the 6 p.m. news spot. Mary gets the assignment and plunges ahead with bold plans for giving the show a lighter, more informal look.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: The Streets Of San Francisco
Season 1, episode 1 W: Edward Hume, Eugene Price, Carolyn Weston D: Walter Grauman With Robert Wagner (David J. Farr), Tom Bosley (Satetti), Kim Darby (Holly Jean Berry), Edward Andrews (Joe Caswell), Lawrence Dobkin (Gregory Praxas). A dramatic series about police work in the Bay City, with Karl Malden making his debut in a series playing a veteran policeman. In the first episode, the body of a pretty girl is found floating in the bay. Attached to her necklace is the card of a swinging attorney. When questioned he reveals the names of several suspects.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
W: Stirling Silliphant D: Norman Jewison With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, William Schallert, Beah Richards, Larry Gates, Matt Clark, Larry D. Mann, Arthur Malet. On a hot night in a small Mississippi town, a policeman discovers the body of a local industrialist. A few hours later he arrests a black man who is charged with the murder and subjected to bigoted, insolent questioning.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Fly The Unfriendly Skies
Season 1, episode 1 W: David Davis, Lorenzo Music D: Jay Sandrich With Noam Pitlik (Victor Gianelli), Patricia Smith (Margaret Hoover), Penny Marshall (Stewardess), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman). Debut of a situation comedy starring Newhart as a Chicago psychologist who is quite capable of aiding his patients but has difficulty facing problems in his own life. Suzanne Pleshette costars as his wife. In the first episode, Bob's "fear of flying" workshop gets a new member when Emily accepts his invitation to travel with the group by plane to New York and has to admit that she, too, is a "white knuckle" flyer.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: Break!
Season 7, episode 1 W: Samuel Roeca, James L. Henderson D: Paul Krasny With Carl Betz (Dutch Krebbs), Robert Conrad (Press Allen), Robert Mandan (Tim Sharkey). The seventh season begins with Jim Phelps taking on the guise of a hot-shot pool hustler in order to break up an illegal gambling operation. Barbara Anderson, formerly of Ironside, makes her first of six guest appearances as a parolee who teams with the IMF group.
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