Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 6, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Appointment With Destiny: Cortez And Montezuma - The Conquest Of An Empire [special]
W: Robert Guenette D: Robert Guenette With Aurora Clavel, Martin LaSalle, Enrique Lucerno. First of this season's dramatic re-enactments of historical events focuses on a conflict between the last great civilization of the ancient world and the growing power of 16th century Europe. It resulted in a confrontation between Spain's Hernando Cortez and Emperor Montezuma on the plains of Mexico. Lorne Greene narrates.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: An Affair To Forget
Season 1, episode 12 W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: George Tyne With Jo Anne Worley (Fay), Thelma Carpenter (Thelma). A woman who left her husband shows up at the Simms home at 2 a.m. and asks Paul to handle her divorce.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Chaser
Season 5, episode 11 W: Leo Gordon D: Dennis Donnelly With Bruce Gordon (Mike Dehner), Marie Windsor (Jenny), Burt Mustin (Mr. Reardon), Sandra Gould (Woman), Hilly Hicks (Timmy Colton), Chris Graham (Wally Lembeck), Gary Van Ormand (Harold Farrow). Officers Malloy and Reed, aided by a tip from a waitress, question a private investigator who outsmarts himself.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Julie Andrews Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 12 With the Smothers Brothers, Jack Cassidy. Production features center around the circus and the Gay 90s. Julie and Jack spoof the hazards of marriage. Rich Little does impressions of Truman Capote and Carol Channing. The cast performs numbers from Gilbert and Sullivan.
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| [NBC 8:30] Cool Million [Reg]: The Abduction Of Baynard Barnes
Season 1, episode 4 D: Barry Shear With Barry Sullivan (Baynard Barnes), Danielle de Metz (Michelle DuBois), Sharon Gless (Sandy Sherwood), Nico Minardos (Mano Kavalaris), Carlos Romero (Raoul Padilla), Jane Axell (Heidi). A millionaire recluse is kidnapped and $10 million ransom is demanded. Jefferson Keyes is asked to find the victim and bring him back without paying the ransom.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: No Way Out
Season 4, episode 13 W: Martin Zweiback D: Richard Benedict With Lois Nettleton (Dr. Amy Todd), Nico Minardos (Rubio Sandoval), Scott Jacoby (Tony Ivers), Will Geer (Coughlin). An ailing woman doctor is asked by her millionaire suitor to give up her career just at a time an elderly patient insists on her for surgery.
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| [ABC 9:30] Flight Of Apollo 17 - Last Voyage To The Moon
The last of America's planned Apollo space missions is scheduled to get underway today at Cape Kennedy. If weather and technical countdown procedures are favorable, the Saturn V rocket bearing astronauts Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt is due to liftoff at approximately 6:53 PM, the first nighttime launching in the Apollo series. Lunar landing is scheduled Monday at noon; moon walks later Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; lunar liftoff Thursday and splashdown due Tuesday, Dec. 19.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Dead Samaritan
Season 2, episode 12 W: Stephen Kandel D: Jerry Jameson With Arlene Golonka (B.J. Franklin), David Hedison (Bell), Michael Whitney (Beau), Dean Harens (Tony Nevins), Barbara Babcock (Ruth Gardner), William Sargent (Lt. Driscoll). An aspiring actress becomes the tool in a complicated plot to take over a vast real estate empire which results in the death of its millionaire owner.
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: A Honeymoon To Kill
Season 1, episode 11 W: S.S. Schweitzer D: Russ Mayberry With Luciana Paluzzi (Carla Lucchese Whitfield), Rudy Solari (Luigi Lucchese), Antoinette Bower (Contessa Penny Lucchese), Gary Clarke (Julian Whitfield), George Coulouris (Carmine Lucchese), Peter Bromilow (Stuart Upson). An heiress flees, then vanishes somewhere in Europe when somebody tries to kill her on her wedding day. C.R. Grover is assigned to locate the girl.
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