Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday February 25, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: The Power Of The Bleep
Season 2, episode 21 With Tom Richards (Mailman). Dick, angered over the blatant way his show is censored, resigns -- in a dramatic on-the-air blow for free speech.
|
| [NBC 7:30] Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus Highlights [special]
A visit to the circus with Lorne Greene, highlighting the wide variety of entertainment available for all, and focusing on the unique animal acts of Gunther Gebel-Williams. Other excitements include juggler Gran Picaso who performs with Ping Pong balls which come out of his mouth; lion tamer Wolfgang Holzmair who carries a full-grown lion on his shoulders; plus chimps, high wire acts and a three-ring teeterboard act.
|
| [CBS 8:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Army-Navy Game
Season 1, episode 20 W: Sid Dorfman D: Gene Reynolds With Bobbie Mitchell (Nurse Mason), Alan Manson (Col. Hersh), John A. Zee (Commander Sturner), Sheila Lauritsen (Nurse Hardy), John Orchard (Ugly John). The MASH football pool and the entire unit's concentration on the Army-Navy game broadcast are shattered by an artillery barrage, climaxed by an unexploded bomb which lands in the middle of the compound.
|
| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Detonator
Season 8, episode 22 W: Calvin Clements D: Seymour Robbie With Richard Jordan (Alex Tanner), Meredith MacRae (Ruth Benson), Tim O'Connor (Albert Dirks), Roger Perry (Will Sanders), Anne Seymour (Mrs. Benson), John Considine (Bob Roberts), Adrienne Marden, John Qualen. A nightclub manager hires a professional killer to dispose of a prosecutor who once put him behind bars, but the underworld organization orders him to call off the job or be killed himself.
|
| [CBS 8:30] Mannix [Reg]: To Quote A Dead Man
Season 6, episode 22 W: Robert W. Lenski D: Michael O'Herlihy With Lloyd Bochner (Burt Sands), Barbara Babcock (Ellen West), David Wayne (Boston), Peggy Rea (Ruby), Sam Edwards (Hobo), Byron Mabe (Biddie), Brendan Dillon (Gully), Maurice Marsac (Marcel), Seamon Glass (Big Hobo), Keith Walker (Barney), Jonathan Lippe (Backus). A harmless hobo mysteriously becomes the target for assassination each time he wears a colorful patchwork coat, and Mannix becomes intrigued enough to investigate.
|
| [NBC 8:30] Country Music Hit Parade [special]
With Anne Murray, Donna Fargo, Eddy Arnold, Loretta Lynn, Lynn Anderson, Charlie McCoy. Tennessee Ernie Ford hosts a salute to the hit parade of country music, emanating from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. Songs will include hits made famous by the performers themselves, and a menagerie of songs popularized by other artists throughout this past year.
|
| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Paint Your Wagon (1969)
W: Alan Jay Lerner D: Joshua Logan With Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Tom Ligon. Earthy tale of the California gold rush days and two partners who battle and feud over a woman -- who is married to both of them.
|
| [CBS 9:30] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Sunday-Doomsday
Season 1, episode 4 W: Morton Fine, David Friedkin D: Michael Caffey With Gary Lockwood (Howard Lee), Corinne Camacho (Bonnie Lee), Vince Howard (Lt. Joe Taylor), Jeff Donnell (Janet Gossett), Lynn Hamilton (Laura Padget), Mia Bendixsen (Chris Lee), Conlan Carter (Roger Gossett), Jon Cedar (Danny Gernreich). A former convict sends Barnaby and Betty a series of morbid threatening letters and gifts announcing Barnaby's death.
|
| [NBC 9:30] Presenting Jack Lemmon [special]
With Diahann Carroll, Cass Elliot, Johnny Mathis, Doc Severinsen, Dinah Shore. A musical-fantasy salute to composer Harold Arlen (who makes a rare television appearance) with Jack Lemmon and guests romping through some of Arlen's best-remembered songs. Highlights include Arlen and Lemmon at the piano to play and sing "Over the Rainbow"; Severinsen performs "I Love a Parade"; Mathis and Lemmon sing "Get Happy" and "I've Got the World on a String"; a cast medley of songs that include "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues", "My Shining Hour" and "If I Only Had a Brain".
|