Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday February 28, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 40
Season 2, episode 21 With Don Adams. In the musical comedy skit, "Hollywood Hospital", Adams plays Dr. Spectacular, assisted by Cher's Dr. Gorgeous, in which the two perform surgery on Sonny, who wants to be a handsome singer. The trio also poke fun at health foods, White House events and high food bills. Cher mimics charcters from "Lost Horizon" and solos "Never Been to Spain".
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: Barbara Goes Home To Mother
Season 1, episode 24 W: Sumner A. Long D: Jerry London With Jerry Stiller (Barney Dickerson), Anne Meara (Grace Dickerson). Barbara leaves Howie after a fight, but Paul's joy about the split is dampened when "going home" for her means moving across the hall and forcing him to sleep on the couch.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: A Fool And His Money
Season 5, episode 21 W: Webb Richard Marris D: Sam C. Freedle With Regis Toomey (Billy Heckman), Lurene Tuttle (Mary O'Ryan), David White (J.T. McGrath), Don 'Red' Barry (Wino), Ken Renard (Jimmy Lee). Officer Malloy's day is marked by dodging bullets -- when he goes after a sniper in a parking building -- and advice on how to spend $10,000 he won in a contest.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: You'll Never See Me Again (1973)
W: William Wood, Gerald DiPego D: Jeannot Szwarc With David Hartman, Joseph Campanella, Jane Wyatt, Ralph Meeker, Jess Walton. When a young wife mysteriously disappears after a quarrel with her husband, a search uncovers evidence which implicates him as her murderer.
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| [NBC 8:30] Madigan [Reg]: The Park Avenue Beat
Season 1, episode 6 W: Peter Allen Fields D: Alex March With John Larch (Max Bennerman), Rae Allen (Verna Bennerman), Charles Cioffi (Albert Chaney), David Spielberg (Joe Lido), William Roerick (Harry Zifkin), Sally Gracie (Eloise), Val Avery (Augie). Madigan gets word that his old friend and ex-partner -- who was kicked off the police force after killing a surrendering criminal who he mistakenly thought had murdered his partner -- has taken on a job as a paid killer. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Vortex
Season 4, episode 24 With Nancy Priddy (Sue), Fred Beir (Dr. Belfield), Jim Backus (Dr. Danvers), Elayne Heilveil (Jill). A hospital efficiency expert tries to force the retirement of an elderly surgeon who is treating the daughter of the woman Dr. Lochner wants to marry.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Seventh Grave
Season 2, episode 21 W: E. Arthur Kean D: John Badham With Barry Nelson (Guy Quigley), Shelley Duvall (Liz Christie), Jeff Donnell (Mrs. Holt), Lou Frizzell (Lou Shain), Robert Donner (Police Chief Boyden), Eldon Quick (Thomas Pittman), Laura Rose (Emma). A rural newspaper editor hires Frank Cannon to unearth evidence he believes will connect a power in the community to a series of killings. When his investigation fails to find anything new, Cannon calls in an expert crime technician to check out inconsistencies in local police lab work.
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| [ABC 10:00] Burt Bacharach - Opus No. 3 [special]
With Peter Ustinov, Stevie Wonder, Bette Midler, Gilbert O'Sullivan. Bacharach hosts his third variety sepcial. Ustinov takes on the guise of Ludwig Van Beethoven to discuss today's music with Bacharach. In honor of the great composer, Bacharach plays his classic "Moonlight Sonata". Musical highlights: Wonder sings "Alfie" and "Superstition"; Miss Midler sings "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "Superstar"; O'Sullivan performs "Out of the Question".
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: The Mattson Papers
Season 1, episode 19 W: S.S. Schweitzer, Don Balluck D: William Wiard With Terry Carter (Hawley Mattson), Nancy Wilson (Sugar Francis), Tim O'Connor (Paul Kleinschmidt), Cameron Mitchell (Chief Garrett), John Kerr (Senator Gordon), Ivor Francis (De Marigny), Jeff Morrow (MacEadie), Richard Lepore (Campbell), Don Pedro Colley (Earl Forbus), Ella Edwards (Lenore Mattson), Robert F. Hoy (Mullins), Terry Leonard (Burke), Ty Henderson (Tom), Tony Epper (Crawford). Agent Bianco trails a missing sports figure who fears for his life because of his suspected involvement with an international crime syndicate.
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