Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 13, 1972:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine [special]
With Bill Cosby, Norm Crosby, Dom DeLuise, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers. The world-renowned basketball stars and Teresa Graves star in a comedy-variety program. In addition to basketball magic on the court, several Trotters display their prowess as dancers, singers, impressionists, comedians and actors.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: Martha's Last Hurrah
Season 1, episode 13 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: George Tyne With Charlotte Rae (Aunt Charlotte), David White (Mayor Scofield), Jack DeLeon (Police Officer). Martha, campaigning for a women's lib candidate for the city council, asks a male passerby for "a couple of dollars for a really great woman" and is arrested for soliciting.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Hot Spell
Season 5, episode 12 W: Leo Gordon D: Lawrence Doheny With John Lance (Dave), Joel Fluellen (Oren Johnson), Lynn Cartwright (Clare Evans), Scatman Crothers (George Strother), Leo Gordon (Carl Carney), Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. (Fred Tosca), Russell Wiggins (Jerry Bannerman). Malloy and Reed look for a missing cyclist and become suspicious of a front-yard sale.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Julie Andrews Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 13 With Keith Michell, Tony Randall. Mitchell, who played Henry VIII in the Emmy-winning PBS series, teams with Julie in a takeoff on old English Music Hall entertainment. The cast also salutes writer-composer Noel Coward. Mitchell sings "Impossible Dream". Julie sings "If Love Were All".
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: Terror Times Two
Season 2, episode 4 W: Gloria Goldsmith D: Ron Winston With Andrew Duggan (Frank Carstairs), Martin E. Brooks (District Attorney), Alan Manson (Eddie), Celeste Yarnell (Miss Jones), Noble Willingham (Sheriff), Charlotte Stewart (Sheila), Larry Hovis (O'Day). Commissioner McMillan is abducted and replaced with an identical double -- the likeness even fooling his wife, Sally -- for the purpose of killing a witness against an underworld kingpin.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: A Game For One Player
Season 4, episode 14 W: Stephen Kandel D: Earl Bellamy With Sandy Ward (Gifford), Jessica Walter (Susan), Robert Foxworth (Pete DeCarta), Justin Trader (Beeman), Jay Varela (Lorimer), Patricia Harty (Abby), Tom Hallick (Ed Talley), Norman Alden (Roczak). One of the hospital medics is overwhelmed by guilt when a friend who subbed for him on an emergency call is killed by a sniper.
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| [ABC 9:30] Apollo 17
Coverage of the moon walk.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Endangered Species
Season 2, episode 13 W: Del Reisman D: Robert Douglas With Carl Betz (Arthur Bellamy), Andrew Duggan (Williams Coates Sr.), Katherine Justice (Liza Carter), Neva Patterson (Judge Cable), Olan Soule (Westerveld). Frank Cannon is hired by an old friend, a boat builder, to clear him of charges in the apparent hunting-accident death of his son.
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| [NBC 10:00] Apollo 17
Coverage of the moon walk.
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