Prime-time network TV listings for Monday January 8, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Homecoming
Season 18, episode 16 W: Calvin Clements D: Gunnar Hellstrom With Robert Pratt (Raymond Wilson), Richard Kelton (Rick Wilson), Ivy Jones (Martha Beal), Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Bronson), Stuart Margolin (John Mophet), Lurene Tuttle (Anna Wilson), Lynn Marta (Prudence). Two outlaw brothers return to Dodge City to visit their dying mother and threaten to take Kitty and Doc as hostages to ensure their safe escape across the border to Mexico.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Tarnished Idol
Season 1, episode 15 W: Skip Webster D: Gene Nelson With Radames Pera (Mickey), Norman Alden (Davey Ryan), Lou Antonio (Jay Warfield), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Fabiano), John Crawford (Sgt. Hughes), Al Checco (Bartender), Jerome Guardino (Joe Fabiano). Willie Gillis' efforts to get a crippled young man to walk again are spoiled when Willie is blamed for the death of the boy's brother.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #131
Season 6, episode 15 W: Allan Katz D: Bill Foster With Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, Martin Milner, Kent McCord. Rickles guests as Moishe the faith-healer who cures cast members, as 40-year-old Baby Spanky and as himself, the Sultan of Insult. The cast salutes good manners. Other highlights include Adam 12's Martin Milner and Kent McCord in their radio car, and a Three Musketeers segment with Charlie Callas, Richard Dawson and Dennis Allen.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Goes On Her Last Blind Date
Season 5, episode 16 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin With Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Sam), Don Knotts (Ben Fletcher), Ralph James (Luigi). Uncle Harry's country cousin meets Lucy on a blind date and tries to charm her with the verses he writes for greeting cards.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: 5 Card Stud (1968)
W: Marguerite Roberts D: Henry Hathaway With Dean Martin, Inger Stevens, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Justice, John Anderson. A mystery on the old prairie with the casual Martin chasing the badmen, while keeping an eye on the beautiful proprietress of a tonsorial parlor.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Set This Town On Fire (1973)
W: Roy Huggins D: David Lowell Rich With Chuck Connors, Carl Betz, Lynda Day George, Charles Robinson, John Anderson, Jeff Corey, Paul Fix, Nancy Malone. A newspaper publisher must explore his own conscience when he develops doubts over his own testimony which sent a politician to jail for manslaughter.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: The Hoax
Season 5, episode 15 W: Laurence Marks D: Lee Philips With Andy Griffith (Mitch Folger), Ryan MacDonald (James Waterhouse), Ceil Cabot (Actress), Read Morgan (George), Alan DeWitt (John), David Frank (Ozzie). A glib operator of a Hollywood talent agency and acting school promises to lead Doris Martin to a lucrative career as an actress.
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| [CBS 10:00] Nixon: The Next Four Years
Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Daniel Schorr and Eric Sevareid discuss their predictions for how the next four years will go in terms of the Vietnam conflict, the economy and the future of Nixon's strained relationship with the press.
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