Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday November 5, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The Jackson Five Show [special]
With Jo Anne Worley, Johnny Brown. The popular Motown singing group stars in its first television special. The group performs many of their hits including "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Ben". Other highlights include Brown as a television elf and impersonating various celebrities.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: High Flying Spy (3)
Season 19, episode 6 With Stuart Whitman (Professor Lowe), Darren McGavin (John Forrest), Vincent Van Patten (Davey), Andrew Prine (Lt. Thomas). Balloonists Lowe and Forrest are forced down behind enemy lines and Lowe is captured. Forrest manages to free him, but must make an important decision with his own life when important Union documents are urgently needed at headquarters.
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| [CBS 8:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Bananas, Crackers And Nuts
Season 1, episode 7 W: Burt Styler D: Bruce Bilson With Marcia Strassman (Nurse Margie Cutler), Odessa Cleveland (Ginger), Stuart Margolin (Capt. Sherman). It appears that Hawkeye has finally flipped when he rejects the advances of Nurse Cutler, develops some rather eccentric eating habits, and seems to have developed a strong attachment to Major Frank Burns.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: A Game Of Chess
Season 8, episode 8 W: Warren Duff, Mark Weingart D: Philip Leacock With Patrick O'Neal (Howard Raymond), David Frankham (Sterling Grant), George Nader (Alex Rydel), Alfred Ryder (Nickolaus Kessler), Charlotte Stewart (Helen Sims). Inspector Erskine impersonates Dr. Alex Rydel, a blind foreign scientist, in a move to prevent the sale of secret U.S. plans to a foreign power.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Sandy Duncan Show [Reg]: The Seven Hour Itch
Season 2, episode 7 W: Earl Barret, Arne Sultan D: George Tyne With Bob Hastings (Director). Opportunity comes knocking at Sandy's door when she's selected to be the Bubbles Galore girl in a commercial for a new bubble bath that has one unpleasant side effect -- she's allergic to it.
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| [NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: The Most Crucial Game
Season 2, episode 3 W: John T. Dugan D: Jeremy Kagan With Robert Culp (Paul Hanlon), Dean Jagger (Walter Cannell), James Gregory (Coach Rizzo), Valerie Harper (Eve Babcock), Susan Howard (Shirley Wagner), Dean Stockwell (Eric Wagner), Val Avery (Ralph Dobbs), Richard Stahl (Mr. Fremont). With the aid of electronics, a man sets up an alibi to cover his absence from a football game and a murder. Columbo's investigation runs the gamut from the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, to a lady of the evening who mistakes him for a client.
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| [CBS 9:00] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: The Game
Season 2, episode 7 With Suzanne Pelsang (Contestant). Bernie comes up with a game show he is sure will be a winner for the network, if he can only sell the idea.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Von Ryan's Express (1965)
W: Wendell Mayes, Joseph Landon D: Mark Robson With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carra, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni, Edward Mulhare, James Brolin. Sprawling World War II drama of a U.S. colonel assigned to commando raids on Germans in Italy at the close of the war.
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| [CBS 9:30] Mannix [Reg]: The Upside Down Penny
Season 6, episode 8 W: Robert W. Lenski D: Arthur Marks With Frank Marth (Harry Crawford), Patricia McAneny (Jackie Miller), Stanley Kamel (John 'Gemini' Boling), Richard Bakalyan (Eberle). When Joe Mannix agrees to help a 12-year-old boy track down his lost stamp collection, he doesn't realize he will soon stumble upon a multi-million dollar swindle.
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]: The Ring With The Red Velvet Ropes
Season 3, episode 6 W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Jeannot Szwarc With Gary Lockwood (Jim Figg), Chuck Connors (Roderick Blanco), Joan Van Ark (Sandra Blanco), Ralph Manza (Max), Charles Davis (Hayes), Ji-Tu Cumbuka (Big Dan Anger), James Bacon (2nd Reporter), Frankie Van (Referee). The new heavyweight boxing champion of the world is suddenly faced with an unscheduled fight against a supernatural challenger.
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