Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday December 31, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Anna And The King [Reg]: Serana
Season 1, episode 13 W: Les Pine, Tina Pine D: Jeff Corey The issue of women's rights confronts the King when his 13-year-old daughter rebels at the marriage her father has planned for her and announces she wants to be a schoolteacher like Mrs. Owens. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: One Day At Beetle Rock
Season 14, episode 8 A day in the lives of a variety of wild creatures that inhabit a part of the High Sierras. Among them are a weasel and her brood, a lizard, a deer mouse, Sierra grouse, coyote, a black bear and her cubs and a buck deer that is a sentry for all the other animals. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/19/1967)
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| [CBS 8:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Chief Surgeon Who?
Season 1, episode 4 W: Larry Gelbart D: E.W. Swackhamer With Linda Meiklejohn (Scorch), Odessa Cleveland (Ginger), John Orchard (Ugly John), Timothy Brown (Spearchucker), Jack Riley (Captain Kaplan), Sorrell Booke (General Barker), Robert Gooden (Pvt. Boone). Hawkeye is promoted to chief surgeon over executive officer Frank Burns, and the repercussions bring General Barker in to investigate the situation. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/8/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: Edge Of Desperation
Season 8, episode 2 W: Mark Weingart D: Arnold Laven With Michael Tolan (Alan Graves), Karen Carlson (Dana Evans), Kent Smith (Elwood Hayes), Jacqueline Scott (Joan Graves), Anthony Costello (Lee Payne). A businessman arranges for his own kidnapping, and uses the ransom money from his wealthy father in-law to start a new life with a younger woman, whom the FBI has been trailing since his disappearance. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1972)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Sandy Duncan Show [Reg]: Dream A Little Recurring Dream Of Me
Season 2, episode 13 W: Earl Barret, Arne Sultan With Cesare Danova (Monet), Marge Redmond (Dr. Howard). Sandy meets her "dream man" when she confronts a handsome college professor who appears in her recurring nightmare whispering various words in French and falling into her arms.
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: An Elementary Case Of Murder
Season 1, episode 7 W: Brad Radnitz, Paul Mason D: Robert Michael Lewis With Barbara McNair (Lee Richards), Michael Ansara (Ben Matthews), Jack Carter (Cunningham), Bobby Troup (Errol Wilson), Martin E. Brooks (Deputy D.A. Chapman), Selma Diamond (Gas Station Attendant), Byron Morrow (Dr. Jackson), Herb Armstrong (Officer Fred). From out of commissioner McMillan's past comes a plea for help from an old sweetheart, who is charged with murdering her husband. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: The Great Prestoni
Season 2, episode 3 With Tom Richards (Officer), Arthur Batanides (Burglar), Hal Williams (Burglar). After being tied up and locked in his 11th floor office by two burglars, Dick Preston uses all of his ingenuity -- and some extra acrobatics -- in an effort to escape. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] Sugar Bowl Football
Oklahoma (10-1) vs. Penn State (10-1) at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson report.
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| [CBS 9:30] Mannix [Reg]: Nightshade
Season 5, episode 15 W: Martin Roth D: Reza Badiyi With Patricia McAneny (Cecil Porter), Joseph Reale (Joey Brite), Mary Burnett (Ella Holland), Jesse White (Sam Westlake), Milton Berle (Danny Brite), Frank Hotchkiss (Greg Westlake). When a close friend of Mannix's, a private investigator, is murdered, Joe is intrigued to learn that he was working for a comedian who refuses to discuss the mysterious case. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/29/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] Night Gallery [Reg]: The Return Of The Sorcerer
Season 3, episode 1 W: Halsted Welles D: Jeannot Szwarc With Bill Bixby (Noel Evans), Tisha Sterling (Fern), Vincent Price (John Carnby). A man answers an ad placed by a sorcerer who is desperate to know the meaning of an ancient Arabic manuscript passage over which two previous translators quit. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1972)
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