Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 3, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 33
Season 2, episode 14 With Jean Stapleton, Lyle Waggoner. The Bono Awards are presented: "The most embarrassing couple on the Newlywed Game"; "The show best liked by the President"; "The longest running TV show in history"; "The worst deal made on Let's Make a Deal". Cher plays superstar Gloria Majestic, Sonny is her leading man Norman Klieglight, and Miss Stapleton is her biggest fan, Jean Terrific, in a musical-comedy spoof. Cher sings "Love Song", joins Sonny for "Love Grows" and "I Can See Clearly Now".
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: The Bare Facts
Season 1, episode 16 W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: George Tyne With Henry Jones (Judge), Richard X. Slattery (Sullivan), Wade Graham (Waiter). Paul's campaign for presidency of the city's bar association on a public decency platform is imperiled when a bar owner buys a nude portrait of his daughter, Barbara.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: O'Brien's Stand
Season 5, episode 7 W: Jeffrey Lewis D: Lawrence Doheny With Lillian Bronson (Mrs. O'Brien), Carlos Romero (Sergeant Ruben Sanchez), Murray MacLeod (Fred Hiller), Myron Healey (James Nelson). Pete Malloy's apartment house manager pickets the police department for failure to capture a purse snatcher. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] Royal Gala Variety Performance [special]
With Liza Minnelli, Lily Tomlin, The Osmonds, Des O'Connor, Roger Moore. In the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of England, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin cohost an entertainment show for charity. The program was taped at London's Palladium before members of the royal family to raise funds for the British Olympic team last year. Highlights: Liza sings "Cabaret" and "Maybe This Time"; Lily does her Ernestine and little Edith characterizations; the Osmonds sing a medley, including "Somewhere" and "Is Anything Out There?"; Rowan and Martin do a takeoff on a newscast.
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| [NBC 8:30] Madigan [Reg]: The Lisbon Beat
Season 1, episode 4 D: Boris Sagal With Marcia Fox (Woman), Weston Gavin (Jake Pressley), Peter Vaughan (Bleak), David de Keyser (Ribeiro). When a young woman decoys Madigan in Lisbon, a dangerous prisoner he is escorting back to New York is taken from him.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Question Of Guilt
Season 4, episode 16 W: Larry Brody, Jack Guss D: Michael Caffey With Brenda Scott (Lyla Tillberg), Charlotte Stewart (Bobbie), Shelly Novack (J.K. Ruttman), Aldine King (Wanda), Bettye Ackerman (Nurse Marsh). Dr. Gannon battles opposition at the hospital to enroll a talented but bitter woman convict in his halfway house medical training program.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Hard Rock Roller Coaster
Season 2, episode 15 W: Meyer Dolinsky D: Charles S. Dubin With Fritz Weaver (Raymond Thurston), Charlotte Stewart (Dawn), John Vernon (Ross McClintock), William Hansen (Bellman), Kathryn Reynolds (Lt. Rea Eller), William Sargent (Lt. Driscoll), Kelly Thordsen (Carl), Greg Mullavey (Lee). A posh art dealer calls on Frank Cannon to determine the identity of a mysterious amnesiac who reportedly had stumbled into his art gallery after suffering a beating.
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| [ABC 10:00] Alan King Looks Back In Anger [special]
W: Bob Ellison, Alan King, Herb Sargent et al D: Kenneth Johnson With Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Jack Weston, Johnny Brown, Larry Storch, Rona Barrett, Nancy Dussault, The Joy People. Alan King takes a rueful retrospective view of the past year. Highlights: the Presidential campaign ("Doing the Watergate Tap"); product packaging; sex therapy clinics; recall of defective cars.
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: Let Us Prey
Season 1, episode 13 W: Don Balluck D: Russ Mayberry With Diana Hyland (Anjanette Shanaghan), Albert Paulsen (Henry Danzig), Mike De Anda (Fuentes), Walter Friegel (Richter), Charles Picerni (Kittering), Clyde McLeod (Surgeon). Nick Bianco is hired to find a missing jetsetter whom he once dated and jilted. He walks into a trap from which there seems no escape.
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