Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 17, 1973:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] National Geographic Society Special: Strange Creatures Of The Night [special]
A study of bats, vampires, frogs and other creatures that thrive on darkness and "see" through echo location.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: P.S. I Loathe You
Season 1, episode 18 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Jack Donohue With James Gregory (T.R. Scott), Neva Patterson (Edna Scott), Dick Wilson (George), Frank Campanella (Bernie). Paul Simms vents his hostility toward a senior law partner by writing a letter which he does not intend to mail -- but the dry cleaner does.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Clear With A Civilian (2)
Season 5, episode 15 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Dennis Donnelly With Rose Marie (Jean Wagner), Juanita Moore (Commissioner Dixon), Burt Mustin (Fred Tiller), Anthony Eldridge (Roy Wilson), Claudio Martinez (John Hagen), William Wellman Jr. (Officer Snyder), Cay Forester (Diane Stanley), Michael Bonita (John Benjamin). Malloy and Reed are assigned to take the new woman police commissioner on night watch patrol. In the process they check out a wino, prevent a street riot and chase a deaf youth who stole a car.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Female Artillery (1973)
W: Bud Freeman D: Marvin Chomsky With Dennis Weaver, Ida Lupino, Sally Ann Howes, Linda Evans, Lee H. Montgomery, Albert Salmi, Nina Foch. A rugged outlaw and a wagon train of bawdy frontier women become unlikely combatants when they are forced to make a stand together against a murderous gang at an abandoned cavalry fort.
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| [NBC 8:30] Bob Hope Christmas Special [special]
With Redd Foxx, Lola Falana, Roman Gabriel, Fran Jeffries, Rudy Cardenas, Belinda Green (Miss World), Ingeborg Sorensen (Miss Norway-World), 11 American beauty contest winners, Les Brown and his band. Bob Hope hosts highlights of his 22nd and final overseas tour to entertain American service personnel. The troupe performed in the Aleutians, Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam, Guam, and aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway in the South Pacific.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: End Of The Line
Season 4, episode 18 With Parley Baer (Farraday), Dean Jagger (Boomerang Stargel), John Ritter (Ronnie), Lynne Marta (Daphne), Jeanette Nolan (Juliet). A circus high-wire performer is hurt a fall and wants to quit but learns her grandfather, owner of the circus, is counting on her act to get his struggling troupe into the bigtime.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Death Of A Stone Seahorse
Season 2, episode 16 W: Anthony Lawrence D: William Wiard With Keith Charles (Paul Bridges), Don Eitner (Capt. Bart Weller), Malachi Throne (Lt. Norris), Sondra Locke (Trish), Tim O'Connor, David Soul. A marine institute director hires Cannon to locate and clear a girl who is suspected of killing a prominent biologist.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Sometimes Tough Is Good
Season 2, episode 16 With Guy Stockwell (John Borden), Jennifer Hill (Paula Varni), Michael Parks (Ollie Gregson), Jeffrey Pomerantz (Brewster), John Zaremba (Judge), Beverly Garland (Mrs. Varni), Eduard Franz (Dr. Lewis), Martine Bartlett (Mary Gregson). Marshall seeks to free a client imprisoned for a sex crime on the testimony of a disturbed girl. Arthur Hill's daughter, Jenny, makes her acting debut in this episode.
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| [NBC 10:00] Cole Porter In Paris [special]
With Diahann Carroll, Connie Stevens, Louis Jourdan, Twiggy, Charles Aznavour. Perry Como hosts a musical-variety show with guests who perform 40 Cole Porter songs composed for Broadway shows and movies.
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