Prime-time network TV listings for Monday January 1, 1973:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Arizona Midnight
Season 18, episode 15 W: Dudley Bromley D: Irving J. Moore With Billy Curtis (Arizona), Mills Watson (Fred), Ken Mayer (Ed), Stanley Clements (Red), Sadye Powell (Beatrice). A midget cowboy arrives in Dodge City astride a giant horse, with a tall tale of turning himself into an elephant when the moon is full.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: The Informant
Season 1, episode 3 W: Robert I. Holt D: Leonard Horn With Joe Kapp (Big John), Kaz Garas (Twofer), Henry V. Brown Jr. (Jimmy Carter), Margaret Avery (Marly Walker), Ian Wolfe (Calvin Elliott), Sara Seeger (Judge), James B. Sikking (Defense Attorney), Lew Brown (Prosecutor). A routine traffic check starts Jimmy Carter on a high speed getaway attempt and puts Terry and Willie on the trail of a fur smuggling ring. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Orange Bowl
Nebraska (8-2-1) vs. Notre Dame (8-2) from the Orange Bowl in Miami.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Is Really In A Pickle
Season 5, episode 15 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin With Dick Patterson (Steve Thompson). Lucy's still-mending leg costs her the chance to play a dancing pickle in a television commercial until she comes up with a unique solution to her employment dilemma.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Incident In San Francisco (1971)
W: Robert Dozier D: Don Medford With Christopher Connelly, Richard Kiley, Dean Jagger, Tim O'Connor, John Marley, Leslie Nielsen, Ruth Roman, Phyllis Thaxter. A crusading young newspaper reporter tries to prove the innocence of an accused murderer, involving himself with underworld figures and the wrath of his two editors.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Follow That Dog
Season 5, episode 14 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: William Wiard With Bruce Gordon (Mr. Benedict), Paul Stewart (George Cantrell), Joseph Ruskin (Harry), Jack Griffin (Mr. Adams), James B. Sikking (Detective Charles), John Stephenson (Detective Douglas), Dave Morick (Frank). A stranger makes an astounding offer to Doris Martin -- he'll pay $10,000 if she will babysit with his small terrier for two weeks while he is out of town. When Doris accepts, she becomes the target of crooks.
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| [CBS 10:00] The New Bill Cosby Show
Season 1, episode 14 With Pearl Bailey. Pearl sings "Put Your Hand in the Hand" and plays a nun who encounters one of her former students (Cosby) in a bank to pull a stickup. Other highlights include Foster Brooks' announcement that he's headed for the network presidency; Cosby in a monologue about a Mother's Day disaster.
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