Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday December 5, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Maude [Reg]: The Grass Story
Season 1, episode 12 W: Gordon Farr, Arnold Kane D: Bill Hobin With Brian Morrison (Phillip Traynor), Frank Campanella (Police Sergeant), Elisabeth Fraser (Lorraine), Robert Ball (Tomato Dealer), Keith Taylor (Jeff). When one of the teenagers on the block is busted by the police for marijuana possession, Maude Findlay heads a group to keep the kid out of jail, with predictable results.
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: The Spy
Season 1, episode 12 W: Bill Davenport, Charles Tannen D: Charles R. Rondeau With Parley Baer (Duncan), Larry Storch (Norman), Edward Andrews, Dorothy Meyer (Admissions Clerk), Gerald York (Dr. Allen). The staff suspects that the hospital board has planted someone to spy on Campanelli when a mysterious patient begins recording his version of hospital conditions.
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| [NBC 8:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Sound Of Sadness
Season 14, episode 11 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Caines), Harry Holcombe (Dr. Martin), John Randolph (Mr. Dawson), Carol Lawson (Mrs. Holcombe), Penelope Gillette (Mrs. Farmer), Dan Ferrone (Mr. Holcombe), Jack Albertson (Jonathan May), Timothy Marshall (Robbie), Marty McCall (Tim). When two young brothers learn they will not be adopted together because one of them does not speak, they run away and are given shelter by a lonely, elderly man who promises to temporarily keep their secret.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: The Clock Struck Twelve
Season 5, episode 12 W: Anthony Lawrence D: Ron Winston With Manu Tupou (Abraham Maleha), David 'Lippy' Espinda (Kaua Maleha), Beau Van Den Ecker (Ellsworth), Patrick Adiarte (David), Henry Bal (Samuel), Cris Callow (Mary Ann), Jaudon Kamealii (Aiko), J. E. Jim McInerney (Superintendent), Javer Bowden (Mrs. Maleha), Frances Asher (Judy). A series of bomb threats follows the arrest of a band of Hawaiian vigilantes, and McGarrett is assigned to preserve security and ensure an orderly trial.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Couple Takes A Wife (1972)
W: Susan Silver D: Jerry Paris With Bill Bixby, Paula Prentiss, Valerie Perrine, Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, Myrna Loy, Larry Storch. An attractive young woman, hired by a working couple to take care of the domestic chores, turns the household upside down by taking a very personal interest in her job.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: A Purge Of Madness
Season 4, episode 10 W: Lionel E. Siegel D: Marvin Chomsky With Milton Berle (Dr. Cormack), Ross Martin (Harry Burke), Mariette Hartley (Helen Burke), L.Q. Jones (Dr. Dietrich), Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Burrowski). A schoolteacher goes berzerk in his classroom and then seeks psychosurgery to curb his temper. Dr. Craig faces a controversial decision because opponents of the procedure charge it changes the subject's personality.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: A War Of Children (1972)
W: James Costigan D: George Schaefer With Vivien Merchant, Jenny Agutter, Danny Figgis, John Ronane. An original James Costigan drama detailing the complete disintegration of a family of the 1970s unintentionally involved in a conflict seeded in the 1170 Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Unto The Next Generation
Season 4, episode 12 W: Jerome Ross D: Russ Mayberry With Shelley Morrison (Mrs. Sobel), Harvey Fisher (Dan Sobel), Jess Walton (Naomi Sobel), Alan Oppenheimer (Art Sobel), Ann Summers (Dr. O'Connor), Lionel Ames (Cantor). A young couple who lose their baby to a rare disease which occurs only in infants of Jewish origin are afraid to have another child when it is learned the wife is pregnant again.
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| [NBC 10:00] First Tuesday
A rare look at a branch of one of the Western World's richest and most influential dynasties -- the celebrated House of Rothschild. NBC news correspondent Edwin Newman visits with the Baron and Baroness Philippe de Rothschild in a filmed description of 20th century life at its most luxurious as well as illuminating the history of the Rothschild banking family and its impact then and now on the Western World. Also, the story of New York attorney Herbert Itkin, undercover agent for the CIA and FBI.
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