Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 11, 1973:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Fire
Season 1, episode 16 W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Harry Harris With Mariclare Costello (Miss Hunter), Laurie Prange (Lois May Bascomb), Richard Bradford (Lutie Bascomb), Mark Montgomery (Addison), Teddy Wilson (Hawthorne Dooley), Scott McCarter (Beaumont), Lisa Eilbacher (Jeanette), Nancy Jeris (Mother). Lutie Bascomb accuses the Waltons' mountain school of teaching atheism and threatens to cause trouble for the teacher.
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[ABC 8:00] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: 500 Million Years Beneath The Sea
Cousteau's second documentary of the season is a search for the legendary chambered nautilus -- a living fossil -- off New Caledonia in the Pacific, and a study of some effects of pollution on marine life.
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[NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 16 With Andy Griffith, Roscoe Lee Browne, Curtis Mayfield. In one skit Flip, as Marvin Lattimer, who was educated in the streets, is a contestant on a quiz show called Buzz-Off, hosted by Griffith. In a spoof on used car commercials, Flip plays Monty Mo City. His two assistants are Cal Calico (Griffith), who has a pet bird and plays guitar; and Tony Marquee (Browne), an unemployed Shakesperian actor. Flip, as Rev. Leroy, disputes the saying, "One monkey don't stop no show".
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[CBS 9:00] Movie: The Gypsy Moths (1969)
W: William Hanley D: John Frankenheimer With Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, William Windom, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North. Three skydivers arrive at a small Kansas town where one of them was born and raised. They are unsure of the impact their visit will have upon their individual lives.
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[ABC 9:00] Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo
Italian filmmaker Antonioni and his crew spent five weeks in 1972 traveling throughout China, and tonight ABC News presents highlights picked from more than 100 hours of film he shot in major cities and the rural countryside. The lifestyle of the People's Republic of China unfolds in contrasting sequences. Antonioni was the first Westerner ever to visit, much less to film, the people in many rural areas of China. Of particular interest to Antonioni were the children and young people of China engaged in a variety of activities including an intricate and life-like puppet show, an exhibition of gymnasts and acrobats performing the manual labor required of all the able-bodied. Antonioni narrates.
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[NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: A Special Person
Season 6, episode 15 W: Ramona Chase, Frank Chase D: Jeffrey Hayden With Barry Sullivan (Howard Jamison), Melendy Britt (Rona Mason), Sandy Baron (Wayne Dorian), Leslie Charleson (Nikki Jamison), Robert Viharo (Joey Galardo). The chief investigates a murder attempt which occurs during a swinging party on the palatial estate of a girlie-type magazine editor.
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[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 16 With Bob Newhart. In skits, Dean and Bob discuss obscene phone calls and the value of marriage license tests. Dom DeLuise does his TV cook routine. Dean sings "My Kind of Girl" and "It Just Happens That Way".
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