Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 23, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tom Sawyer [special]
W: Jean Holloway D: James Neilson With Josh Albee, Buddy Ebsen, Jane Wyatt, Jeff Tyler, Vic Morrow, Karen Pearson, John McGiver. The Mark Twain classic about a mischievous lad who, along with his friend Huckleberry Finn, witnesses a midnight cemetery murder by Injun Joe and takes an oath of silence.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: A Room At The Top
Season 4, episode 23 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Lloyd Schwartz With Chris Beaumont (Hank Carter). Both Greg and Marcia want to use the attic for a private room, then both try to move up there at the same time.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: By The Numbers
Season 2, episode 1 W: Terry Ryan D: Peter Baldwin With Beah Richards (Aunt Ethel), David Moses (Robber). The second season starts with Fred wanting to place a bet after having a "special dream", but son Lamont refuses to allow it. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/15/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Diary Of A Mad Millionaire
Season 3, episode 24 W: Steve Zacharias, Michael Leeson D: Lou Antonio With John Astin (Sidney Rose), Jim Antonio (Merl Pearson), Sari Price (Woman). A multi-millionaire recluse hires the Partridges to perform for an audience of one -- himself.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: My Son, The Strange One
Season 1, episode 23 D: Howard Morris A hard-nosed Army sergeant falls on his egg-filled face after he seeks help for a problem that doesn't exist when he thinks his son is a sissy.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: You Don't Know Me, He Said
Season 4, episode 8 W: Douglas Day Stewart D: Seymour Robbie With Chip Hand (Carey), Charles Martin Smith, Bob Kramer (Luke). When Pete Dixon prods a student into applying himself more in his studies, the former "A" pupil confides in his teacher that he has leukemia. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1972)
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| [NBC 9:00] Circle Of Fear [Reg]: The Ghost Of Potter's Field
Season 2, episode 8 W: Bill S. Ballinger D: Don McDougall With Gary Conway (John Walsh), Louise Sorel (Nisa King), Tab Hunter (Bob Herrick), Phillip Pine (Dolf Ellis), Myron Healey (Detective Maloney), Pat Harrington Jr. (Mark Riceman), William Boyett (Foreman), Robert Mandan (Ted Murray), Paul Winchell (Carlson). A magazine writer goes to potter's field to research a story and is then plagued by a ghostly likeness that attempts to take over his body and personality.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: Genesis II (1973)
W: Gene Roddenberry D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodrigues, Harvey Jason, Titos Vandis, Lynne Marta, Majel Barrett, Leon Askin, Liam Dunn. Pilot film about a space scientist buried alive in a natural disaster and discovered by other scientists in the 22nd century.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: The Murray Who Came To Dinner
Season 3, episode 23 W: Ron Friedman D: Jerry Paris With Jane Dulo (Mimi Greshler), Patty Regan (Chi-Chi Caballero), Barbara Daitch (Lu-Lu La Verne). When Murray's wife ejects him from his home, Felix invites him to share his and Oscar's apartment. Oscar soon complains that three's a crowd -- especially when one of them is a cop working the night shift.
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Sensuous Twin W: Roy Kammerman D: Leslie H. Martinson With Sandra Dee (Joan / Bonnie Galloway), Jed Allan (Al), Joshua Bryant (Harold / Lester), Roddy McDowall (Marvin). A sedate boy discovers that his girl has a split personality. 2. Love And The Know-It-All W: Peggy Elliott D: Charles R. Rondeau With Jack Cassidy (Frank), Anita Gillette (Estelle), Allison McKay (Carol). A wife concocts an elaborate plan to prove to her husband that he's not infallible. 3. Love And The Perfect Wife W: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly D: Charles R. Rondeau With Phyllis Davis (Mary), Jack Burns, Angus Duncan (John Stone), Jim Parker (Narrator), Avery Schreiber. An exacting man goes in search of the girl of his dreams. 4. Love And The Triple Threat With Warren Berlinger (Roger / Louie), Joan Van Ark (Alice), Christopher Connelly (Sam Bishop). In trying to ward off a girl who wants to marry him, a man gets a friend to play bizarre family members.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bobby Darin Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 8 With Sid Caesar, Jackie Joseph, Dusty Springfield, The Persuasions. In addition to Caesar's comic business as a French waiter in a skit with Miss Joseph, highlights are the songs. Bobby's numbers include "Some People", "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Climb Every Mountain". Dusty solos "The Magnificent Sanctuary Band" and also duets with Bobby for "Baby, I Need Your Lovin'".
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