Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 2, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Maude [Reg]: The Convention
Season 1, episode 14 W: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf D: Bill Hobin Maude accompanies Walter to an out-of-town business convention where they find themselves trapped in a shoddy, run-down motel when their reservations are misplaced.
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: Scalpel, Sponge, Typewriter
Season 1, episode 15 W: Joseph Bonaduce D: Oscar Rudolph With Olive Dunbar (Miss Llewellen), J.H. Lawrence (Dr. Clark), Bill Zuckert (Dr. Spitzer), Jerry Rush (Dr. Blake), Lawrence Casey (Dr. McPartland), Richard X. Slattery (Jerome), Bernie Kopell (Harold Lefkowitz). Lefkowitz, the orderly, becomes editor of the hospital newspaper and causes chaos to ensue with his gossip column full of blind items.
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| [NBC 8:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Witness
Season 14, episode 14 W: Joel Murcott, Arthur Heinemann D: Lewis Allen With Sam Jarvis (Buford), William Wintersole (Frank Schulte), Dick Ryal (Will Reilly), Shirley O'Hara (Ella Peterson), David McLean (Sheriff Touhy), Sally Kemp (Kate Fallon), Larry Finley (Sam), Ross Elliott (Harvey Walters), Byron Mabe (Louis Gardner), Mark Allen (Barnes), Stephen Nathan (Oscar Hammer). Candy is accused of murdering a woman and stealing a large sum of money -- and the only witness is nowhere to be found.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: The Child Stealers
Season 5, episode 14 W: Larry Brody D: Corey Allen With Richard Hatch (Gar), Richard Anderson (Goodman), Meg Foster (Nina), Jack Hogan (Mr. Empson), Norman duPont (Mr. Mills), Bernard Ching (HPD Officer), Brooks Almy (Mrs. Empson), Ken Mitchell (Tom Parker), Jan Sterling (Mrs. Mills). An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street, but McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for the ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Firehouse (1973)
W: Frank Cucci D: Alex March With Richard Roundtree, Vince Edwards, Andrew Duggan, Richard Jaeckel, Michael Lerner, Paul Le Mat, Val Avery. Conflict erupts within the close-knit Engine Company 23 of a big city fire department when a black recruit and an angry white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Bold Ones: The New Doctors [Reg]: A Terminal Career
Season 4, episode 13 W: Alvin Sapinsley D: Joel Oliansky With Michael Constantine (Charlie Milaney), Susan Howard (Dr. Claudia Schaeffer), Ida Lupino (Dr. Marie Menzies), Patrick Culliton (Dr. Grunwald), Bill Zuckert (Man), Stack Pierce (Mr. Williams). A young woman doctor must decide whether to devote her life to research on a lonely island or pursue a more normal career at Craig Institute, including a romance with Dr. Hunter.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: The 500 Pound Jerk (1973)
W: James S. Henerson D: William Kronick With Alex Karras, James Franciscus, Hope Lange, Howard Cosell. A big-city ad man hopes to turn a gentle hillbilly giant into an Olympic weightlifting champion, but his plans go awry when the weightlifter falls in love with a Russian Olympic gymnast during the games.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: A More Exciting Case
Season 4, episode 15 With Jessica Walter (Marion Lawrence), James Callahan (Allen Lawrence), Charles Drake. Following a hysterectomy, a woman takes an overdose of pills. She claims it was an accident, but Dr. Welby and her husband believe otherwise.
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| [NBC 10:00] First Tuesday
The effects of the invasion of the waters off New England by large fleets of Russian and other foreign fishing vessels are examined in one portion of the program. Correspondent Garrick Utley interviews Gloucester fishermen, who claim they are being driven from their traditional grounds off the coast and that the waters are being fished out by the larger and better-equipped foreign vessels.
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