Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 28, 1972:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Whatever Happened To '72?
Walter Cronkite and a group of junior high school students take an innovative look at the top news stories of the past year. During one segment the students, all from Evanston, Ill. (a suburb of Chicago), will select what they consider to be the epic news events of 1972 from choices given them by CBS News. Then they will make their own selections. Also included is a report of top news choices of young people from other areas in the world. Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Roger Mudd and Douglas Edwards narrate the film and news stories.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: The Thunder Makers
Season 5, episode 2 W: Jack Turley D: Jerry Jameson With John McLiam (Sam), Bobby Sherman (Buddy Farragut), Paul Carr (Danny Johnson), Frank Ramirez (Chico), John Lasell (Clinton Farragut), Steve Chambers (Buzz). The son of a construction company owner joins up with a motorcycle gang and plots to fake a payroll robbery of his dad's firm, but the gang has other ideas. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 13 With Petula Clark, Roy Clark, Redd Foxx. Flip introduces the world's sharpest cowboy, Leroy Rogers. In other skits, Flip is the director of a TV commercial for the he-man and Clark is a football player hired to be the actor; Flip plays a poor nightclub comic plagued by a funnier heckler (Foxx). Miss Clark sings "What Love Is About". (Repeat program, originally aired 12/16/1971)
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| [CBS 9:00] J.T. [special]
W: Jane Wagner D: Robert M. Young With Kevin Hooks, Ja'net DuBois, Theresa Merritt, Michael Gorrin, Olga Fabian. Repeat of the Peabody Award-winning drama that first appeared on the Children's Film Festival series. Kevin Hooks plays a shy youngster living in Harlem who, but for the sake of a one-eyed alley cat, would be a juvenile delinquent. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 9:00] Life, Health And The American Woman
Repeat of a documentary examining the unique medical and health problems faced by women. Patricia Neal, who overcame a near-fatal series of strokes seven years ago, narrates the program which was originally titled "Life, Death and the American Woman". Medical facts reveal that the American woman is more susceptible to certain health hazards than most women elsewhere in the world, yet she stands a greater chance of survival through early detection of the symptoms than do her counterparts.
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Savage Sentry
Season 6, episode 2 W: William Douglas Lansford D: Don Weis With John Davey (Trainer), Jessica Rains (Martha Lane), Gary Wood (Charles Barnes), Gilbert Green (Andre Jardin), Mariclare Costello (Mary Ellen Wells), Dana Elcar (Buckner), Bo Svenson (Taggert), Anthony Zerbe (Dunlap). The chief undertakes a course in professional dog training when previously efficient guard dogs fail to attack jewel robbers on the premises they guard. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Elusive Peace
A review of the attempts to attain peace in Indochina since Henry Kissinger made his "peace is at hand" statement on Oct. 26, through the time of his announcement Dec. 16 that a "just and fair" peace had not been reached, and developments beyond. CBS News' chief foreign correspondent, Charles Collingwood, will anchor the program. Correspondents Dan Rather and Marvin Kalb will report from Washington, and correspondent Bernard Kalb will report from Vietnam.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Hour Of Judgment
Season 2, episode 4 With Pat Harrington Jr. (D.A. Charlie Giannetta), Lew Ayres (Bennett Hamilton), Paul Burke (Dr. Clayton Kerr), Kaz Garas (Dr. Eric Chandler), Donald Woods (Judge), Percy Rodrigues (Dr. Lawrence Dole). Marshall's friend, the head of a hospital, is a suspect in the death of a millionaire's financial secretary who opposed a generous gift to the medical establishment. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 14 With Ernest Borgnine, O.C. Smith. In the feature skit, "The Heist", Ernie and Dom DeLuise are burglars holding up liquor store owner Dean. In the barber shop, Dean and guests talk about Hollywood. DeLuise performs as the great "knife thrower".
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