Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 30, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Flashback: Mike Meets Archie
Season 2, episode 5 W: Phil Mishkin, Rob Reiner D: John Rich While celebrating Mike and Gloria's first wedding anniversary, the Stivics and Bunkers recall the traumatic day when Mike first met his reluctant future father-in-law. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Year The Walls Came Down
ABC News correspondents from around the world review the important overseas news events of 1972, a year, according to news chief Thomas H. Wolf, "that saw the geopolitical walls come down between formerly conflicting cultures, economies and ideologies". Frank Reynolds anchors the program from 10 of the network's news bureaus abroad.
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| [NBC 8:00] King Orange Jamboree Parade [special]
Anita Bryant and Joe Garagiola cohost the 37th annual parade along Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, Fla. The theme of the parade that precedes the Orange Bowl game on New Year's Day is "Land of Dreams". Theme-decorated floats, bands from various sections of the country, and specialty groups perform along the three-mile route.
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| [CBS 8:30] Bridget Loves Bernie [Reg]: Wake Up, We're Getting Married Today
Season 1, episode 3 W: Don Nelson, Arthur Alsberg With Gregory Morton (Rabbi Golden). Bridget and Bernie agree to their parents' wish to be remarried in a religious ceremony, but it's not all that easy since one is Jewish and the other Catholic. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Good-Time News
Season 3, episode 1 W: James L. Brooks, Allan Burns D: Hal Cooper With John Amos (Gordy Howard), Robert Hogan (Jack Stoneham), Patrick Campbell (Bartender). The third season starts with Lou Grant being bypassed by the station manager for the 6 p.m. news spot. Mary gets the assignment and plunges ahead with bold plans for giving the show a lighter, more informal look. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: 45 Minutes From Home
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert I. Holt D: Walter Grauman With William Windom (Russell Rankin), Jacqueline Scott (Emily Rankin), Jo Ann Harris (Lita Brewer), Stephen Oliver (Bret Wilson), Robert Hogan (Tom Garver), John Lasell (Clark), Dick Van Patten (Johnny Collins). A salesman in San Francisco for a convention becomes a murder suspect when he picks up an attractive hitchhiker. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/7/1972)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Mouse On The Moon (1963)
W: Michael Pertwee D: Richard Lester With Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Cribbins, Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, David Kossoff, June Ritchie. The Grand Duchy of Fenwick launches a rocket powered by explosive wine that precipitates a space competition between the U.S. and Russia.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Fly The Unfriendly Skies
Season 1, episode 1 W: David Davis, Lorenzo Music D: Jay Sandrich With Noam Pitlik (Victor Gianelli), Patricia Smith (Margaret Hoover), Penny Marshall (Stewardess), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman). Debut of a situation comedy starring Newhart as a Chicago psychologist who is quite capable of aiding his patients but has difficulty facing problems in his own life. Suzanne Pleshette costars as his wife. In the first episode, Bob's "fear of flying" workshop gets a new member when Emily accepts his invitation to travel with the group by plane to New York and has to admit that she, too, is a "white knuckle" flyer. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 4 With Steve Lawrence, Paul Sand. Highlights: a movie spoof, "Petrified Forest"; Lawrence sings "In the Wee Small Hours"; Carol and company perform as "the very friendly news team". (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Sixth Sense [Reg]: Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death
Season 2, episode 2 W: Jonathan Stone D: John Newland With Kelly Jean Peters (Lori), Scott Hylands (Jason), David Ladd (Paul), Martine Bartlett (Carrie), Lenore Kasdorf (Karen), Anne Lockhart (Diana Fairchild), Joan Crawford (Joan Fairchild). A woman becomes lost while traveling alone. Seeking help at dusk, she comes to an isolated house inhabited by practitioners of black magic. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1972)
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