Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday March 28, 1973:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (R)	The Selfish Giant	Mitzi. . . The First Time		Appointment With Destiny: Peary's Race For The North Pole
ABC	The Paul Lynde Show: Whiz Kid Sizzles As Quiz Fizzles (R)	Movie: Ruby Gentry (1952)			Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law: Lines From An Angry Book (R)
NBC	Adam-12: Training Wheels (R)	Madigan: The Midtown Beat (R)			Search: Suffer My Child

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[CBS 8:00] Dr. Seuss' The Lorax [special] Repeat of Theodor Geisel's animated program which won the Zagreb International Animation Film Festival Award in 1972. Eddie Albert narrates the tale of a typical Seussian character, the Lorax, who speaks out for ecology. (Repeat program)

[ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: Whiz Kid Sizzles As Quiz Fizzles
Season 1, episode 2
W: Ed Jurist D: William Asher
With Herb Voland (J.J. McNish), Anson Williams (Jimmy), Roy Rowan (Emcee), Jonathan Daly (Bill). Paul Simms' encyclopedic-minded son-in-law goes on a television quiz show, hoping to earn enough money for him and his wife Barbara to move into their own apartment. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1972)

[NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Training Wheels
Season 5, episode 5
W: Michael Donovan D: Paul Landres
With Walt Davis (Sgt. Smith), Ann Doran (Martha), Tom Bellin (Dallas Andrews), Paul Gleason (Instructor Chuck Williams), Fred Stromsoe (Suspect), Walt Davis (Sgt. Smith). Malloy and Reed, much to their chagrin, are assigned new type vehicles in an experiment to catch car accessory thieves. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/11/1972)

[CBS 8:30] The Selfish Giant [special]
W: Peter Sander D: Peter Sander
With Paul Hecht. An animated adaptation of Oscar Wilde's short story about an icy-hearted giant's growth in human understanding.

[ABC 8:30] Movie: Ruby Gentry (1952)
W: Silvia Richards D: King Vidor
With Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Josephine Hutchinson, Tom Tully, Barney Phillips, James Anderson. A luckless woman, born on the wrong side of the tracks in a status-conscious town, falls in love with the worthless son of a once-prominent family. She seeks revenge on an elaborate scale when he decides to marry a more respectable female of the community.

[NBC 8:30] Madigan [Reg]: The Midtown Beat
Season 1, episode 2
W: William P. McGivern D: Jack Smight
With Nathan George, Marlene Warfield, Dennis Hines (Busboy), Robert Moore, Cab Calloway (Doc Pizer), Joyce Walker, Charles Durning (Sidney Balinger). A party attended by a wealthy man and hoodlums with whom he is trying to gain influence is held up by a teenager. Det. Madigan's investigation ranges from Manhattan penthouses to Harlem. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1972)

[CBS 9:00] Mitzi. . . The First Time [special]
W: Jerry Mayer, Stanley Ralph Ross D: John Moffitt
With Mike Connors, Ken Berry, Dan Dailey. Mitzi Gaynor stars in a music-and-comedy variety program featuring a montage of sketches depicting "first times for everything" -- first love, first dance, wedding night, first grandchild.

[CBS 10:00] Appointment With Destiny: Peary's Race For The North Pole [special]
W: Theodore Strauss D: Robert Guenette The second Wolper documentary of the season chronicles one man's lifelong obsession to place his personal hallmark on the Pole, the last great undiscovered goal. Robert Edwin Peary achieved success on April 6, 1909, after 23 years of struggle, disappointment and dedication, but then learned someone else had stolen his glory. Lorne Greene narrates.

[ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Lines From An Angry Book
Season 2, episode 2
D: Lou Antonio
With Pat Harrington Jr. (D.A. Charlie Giannetta), Julie Sommars (Jill Peniman), Andrew Duggan (Clifford Wedekind), Kim Hunter (Faye Danner), Kathleen Lloyd (Natalie Banks). A woman college professor is accused of the murder of a student with whom she was having an affair. Marshall, defending her, receives an anonymous note concerning a diary kept by the dead youth. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1972)

[NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: Suffer My Child
Season 1, episode 22
W: Norman Hudis D: Russ Mayberry
With Mel Ferrer (John Rickman II), Dianne Hull (Tracy), Paul Mantee (Sam Field), Dabney Coleman (Elliott Desmond), Byron Morrow (Martin Honer), Donna Baccala (Lynne Wheatley), Orwin Harvey (Ken Castle). In trying to locate the daughter of an industrial tycoon who has mysteriously disappeared, Lockwood uncovers a strange twist to what appears to be a kidnap plot.