Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday March 15, 1973:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Carnival
Season 1, episode 2 W: Nigel McKeand D: Alf Kjellin With Gino Conforti (Pete Harris), Billy Barty (Tommy), Barbara Davis (Belle), Arthur Peterson (Homer Ferguson), Cindy Eilbacher (Martha Rose Coverdale), Jay Ripley (Sam Holden). A touring carnival folds when the manager and snake charmer's wife abscond with the receipts, leaving the entertainers stranded. They take up residence in the Waltons' barn. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Yesterday's Ashes
Season 5, episode 3 W: Skip Webster D: Richard Newton With Ivor Francis (Dr. Forrester), Robert Pine (Jay Turner), Jo Ann Harris (Sue Fielding), Rudy Challenger (Dr. Gordon), Nino Candido (Jerry Vincent). The squad witnesses a shoplifting at a jewelry store by a badly-scarred woman who jumps in front of her boyfriend's gun to save Pete's life. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/28/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 25 With Don Knotts, Richard Pryor, Jean Pace, Oscar Brown Jr. Turning to pantomime, Flip uses his guests in a silent movie sketch, and plays a movie producer who confers with writer Pryor in his hotel room while waiter Knotts listens in under the impression that the men are planning a murder. The team of Pryor and Wilson also go into the taxi business with a rickshaw, and Oscar and his wife Jane sing "Dat Dere", "The Snake" and "Afro Blues".
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| [CBS 9:00] Applause [special]
W: Betty Comden, Adolph Green D: Ron Field, Bill Foster With Lauren Bacall, Penny Fuller, Robert Mandan, Sarah Marshall, Larry Hagman, Harvey Evans, Rod McLennan. A special TV version of the Broadway musical based on the 1950 movie "All About Eve". Taped in London, the musical, which won four Tonys in all, takes advantage of TV mobility by including outdoor segments. Miss Bacall plays a Broadway star who, after befriending an aspiring actress, discovers the girl has the heart of a vulture and is scheming to succeed her.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: Alethea
Season 1, episode 10 W: William Kelley D: John Badham With Jodie Foster (Alethea Ingram), Kenneth Tobey (Sheriff Ingram), Byron Mabe (Cranch), William Mims (Jezdale), Frank Wilcox (Judge Moon), Charles Tyner (Larrabee), Khigh Dhiegh (Shang Tzu), Lee Lampert (Tork Wittner), R.L. Armstrong (Clancy Pratt), Regis Cordic (Stoddard), William Vaughan (Sampler Harte), Alex Henteloff (Abner Tutt), Bob Bralver (Crowder). Caine goes man-hunting to teach the truth to a little girl who thinks she has saved him from the gallows by lying.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Best Laid Plans
Season 6, episode 22 W: David P. Harmon D: Daniel Haller With Don Stroud (Travers), Rafael Campos (Quinto), Frederic Downs (Gerald Darrow), Whit Bissell (Walter Eustace), Frank Marth (Bolton), Peggy Feury (Mrs. Gracey), Nate Esformes (Marco). Visiting his bank manager on personal business, Robert Ironside is caught in the middle of a bank robbery. A snag develops when the getaway car is late in arriving.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: The Albatross
Season 1, episode 24 W: Cliff Gould, John Wilder D: Robert Day With Ed Nelson (Robert Hobbes), Kaz Garas (Artis Pierce), Douglas Fowley (Hobbes Sr.), John Kerr (O'Brien). The suspect in the brutal killing of a teenage youth is released when the defense contends his hearing loss prevented him from being made aware of his rights. The youth's father then formulates a plan for revenge.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 24 With Joseph Campanella, Ruth Buzzi.
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