Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday March 27, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Maude [Reg]: Love And Marriage
Season 1, episode 7 W: Budd Grossman D: Bill Hobin With Frank Aletter (George Snyder). Maude and Walter learn that Carol is remarrying. While Walter takes it in stride, Maude considers it a dangerous affront to her position as her daughter's best friend. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/24/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: Gorilla My Dreams
Season 1, episode 26 W: Joseph Bonaduce, Betty Bonaduce D: Oscar Rudolph With Bernard Fox (Sturges), Bartine Zane (Old Lady), Roger Bowen (Dr. Lippincott), Janos Prohaska (Gorilla), Jerry Fogel (Ulmer), Herbert Rudley (Hanson). A gorilla pining for her zookeeper, a patient at Capital General, is admitted to the hospital.
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| [NBC 8:00] Keep U.S. Beautiful [special]
With Ruth Buzzi, Tim Conway, Sandy Duncan, Lena Horne, Don Knotts, The Jim Henson Muppets. A song and comedy special hosted by Raymond Burr, dealing with the ecology issue. Highlights include the Muppets dancing around as trash; Conway in a parody of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"; Don Knotts does his nervous routine as he puts down environmentalists in a lecture to a group of Boy Scouts; Miss Horne sings "When I Look Into Your Eyes"; and Miss Duncan plays a young girl looking for romance.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: The Jinn Who Clears The Way
Season 5, episode 5 W: John D.F. Black D: Harry Falk With Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat), Soon-Teck Oh (Tom Wong), Danny Kamekona (Carl Tu), Robert Witthans (Lt. Commander George Smallitt), Howard Gottschalk (Colonel Cole), Mitch Mitchell (Parker), Ted Scott (Sims), C.K. Huang (Wo Sun Wong), Joe Moore (MP Captain), Andy Ichiki (George Wong), Don Baker (CIA Agent). Wo Fat is suspected of being behind the theft of a mobile ICBM device, and McGarrett with other top officials must stop him from selling it off to the highest bidder. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: No Place To Run (1972)
W: James G. Hirsch D: Delbert Mann With Herschel Bernardi, Stefanie Powers, Larry Hagman, Tom Bosley, Scott Jacoby, Neville Brand, Wesley Lau. When a boy's foster parents are killed and the authorities threaten to prevent his grandfather from gaining custody, the pair decide to run away together.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Presents: The Gillette Cavalcade Of Champions [special]
John Wayne, Sammy Davis Jr. and Fred MacMurray will join Bob as award presenters to outstanding athletes in seven different categories. Film footage of the nominees' performance will highlight the program -- the categories being professional basketball, baseball and golf, amateur sports and women professionals.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: Footsteps (1972)
W: Alvin Sargent, Robert E. Thompson D: Paul Wendkos With Richard Crenna, Joanna Pettet, Forrest Tucker, Clu Gulager, Ned Beatty, Beah Richards, Mary Murphy, Bill Overton, Allen Garfield. A win-at-all-costs coach is hired to whip a small college team into shape as an assistant, but it soon becomes evident that the ambitious head coach will have no one else taking the credit for the team's improvement.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: He Could Sell Iceboxes To Eskimos
Season 4, episode 6 W: Adrian Spies D: Hollingsworth Morse With Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Ramsey), Jack Haley (Ned Ramsey), Sharon Farrell (Cecile Ramsey), Marion Ross (Dr. Cartwright), Dawn Lyn (Sheila), Shirley O'Hara (Miss Harris). An aging salesman is given a new chance at life by Dr. Welby following a stroke, when he is reunited with his estranged wife and daughter whom he deserted years before. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/17/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] Academy Awards [special]
With Rock Hudson, Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston. Live telecast of the 45th annual Oscar Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, emanating from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. The program will be divided into four segments, each with a different master of ceremonies. A number of top stars will be on hand as presenters. Leading the nomination parade for this year are the films "The Godfather", "Cabaret" and "The Poseidon Adventure". Tributes to Walt Disney and Edward G. Robinson are also featured.
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