Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 12, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Waste (1)
Season 17, episode 3 W: Jim Byrnes D: Vincent McEveety With Ellen Burstyn (Amy Waters), Johnny Whitaker (Willie Hubbard), Ruth Roman (Maggie Blaisedell), Jeremy Slate (Ben Rodman). Matt Dillon delays his pursuit of an outlaw to help a young boy search for his mother. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau: The Singing Whale
Capt. Cousteau and his crew begin their search for the migrating humpback whales in the West Indies, studying the animals' strange music-like system of communication, and a leaping ability that baffles scientists. After locating the whales' breeding ground, Capt. Cousteau begins his study with a female pup, at birth over 15 feet in length.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #140
Season 6, episode 24 W: Allan Katz D: Bill Foster With Sammy Davis Jr., Jo Anne Worley, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Goulet, Rip Taylor. Gen. Bull Right (Dan Rowan) marries off his son; Ernestine phones the author of the phony Howard Hughes biography; The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award boomerangs. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Meets The Burtons
Season 3, episode 1 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Jerry Paris With Vanda Barra (Fan), Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Brooks Williams, Cliff Norton, Army Archerd, James Bacon, Marilyn Beck, Joan Crosby, Joyce Haber, Dick Kleiner, Morton Moss, Robert Rose, Vernon Scott, Cecil Smith. Richard Burton, trying to sneak his wife's famous $1.5 million diamond ring (used in the filming) to a jeweler, dresses as a plumber and is caught by Lucy, who insists he fix the office's plumbing. Ensuing mishaps find Lucy with the diamond stuck on her finger. Ten nationally known journalists appear in cameos. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1970)
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| [ABC 9:00] Old Faithful [special]
W: Ann Elder, Larry Hovis, Al Kasha D: Jorn Winther With Zero Mostel, Burgess Meredith, Jill St. John, Jason Robards, Bobby Sherman, Joey Heatherton, Sammy Davis Jr. An original comedy with music starring Zero Mostel as an aging but faithful park ranger who has been assigned to arrange for a record-setting weekend attendance at Yellowstone National Park. Musical highlights include Mostel singing "Old Faithful"; "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" with Robards and Miss St. John; and "The Road I Took to You" sung by Miss Heatherton.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Best Man (1964)
W: Gore Vidal D: Franklin Schaffner With Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Ann Sothern, Lee Tracy, Kevin McCarthy, Gene Raymond. Two top contenders for their party's presidential nomination -- one principled, the other ruthless -- use whatever means necessary to gain the ex-President's endorsement.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Byline. . . Alias Doris
Season 5, episode 24 W: Laurence Marks D: William Wiard With Joey Forman (Scotty), Paul Fix (Senator Bergson), Ceil Cabot (Melissa Murphy), Louise Lewis (Mrs. Bergson). One of Doris Martin's fellow staff writers on the magazine craftily manages to use Doris' talent to reap journalistic glory for himself. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 10:00] The New Bill Cosby Show
Season 1, episode 12 With Mark Spitz, Ike Turner, Tina Turner, Roosevelt Grier. Cosby opens with a monologue comparing Spitz's swimming feats to his own; Spitz plays a pro football rookie with a mental hangup; Ike and Tina Turner perform "Let Me Take You Higher" and "Let Me Into Your Mind". (Repeat program, originally aired 12/4/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Making Good In America
ABC News correspondent Howard K. Smith examines the pursuit of success "American-style" in the city, on campus and in the countryside at representative locations across the country. Among the diverse personalities espousing their views on how the United States should be run are board chairmen, politicians, rebels, philosophers, conformists and hustlers; all with the definitive answer as to what represents success in America today.
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