Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday April 1, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: Sobriety Test
Season 2, episode 4 W: Martin Cohan D: Bill Persky With Sarah Jane Miller (Mavis), Bernie Kopell (Jackson). Dick's concern over his ratings and a fight with his wife lead Bernie to a wild idea for the show -- a drunk-driving test on television. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/8/1972)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Call It Courage
Season 19, episode 20 W: Ben Masselink D: Roy Edward Disney With Don Ho (Narrator), Evan Temarii (Mafatu). An adventure of a young boy who sets out to sea to prove his courage, and becomes stranded on a deserted island forced to learn the laws of nature and the uncivilized.
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| [CBS 8:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Larry Gelbart D: Gene Reynolds With John Orchard (Ugly John), Timothy Brown (Spearchucker Jones), Odessa Cleveland (Ginger), Patrick Adiarte (Ho-Jon), Karen Philipp (Lt. Maria 'Dish' Schneider), Linda Meiklejohn (Nurse Scorch), Laura Miller (Knocko), Bruno Kirby (Pvt. Boone), George Morgan (Father Mulcahy). The TV offshoot from the successful movie about three irreverent combat surgeons in Korea, whose dedication to duty is surpassed only by their love for fun and games. Tonight, Hawkeye and Trapper John arrange for a company party that will send a young Korean houseboy to medical school. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Loper Gambit
Season 8, episode 26 W: Robert M. Young D: Philip Abbott With Tom Lowell (Kirk Ticerman), Robert F. Lyons (Ronald Loper), Leslie Charleson (Ginny Wyatt), Elliott Street (Elgin Ring), Dallas Mitchell (Lee Burroughs). A brilliant, bitter young man enlists the aid of his girlfriend and a lifelong friend to kidnap the son of a wealthy rancher.
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| [CBS 8:30] Mannix [Reg]: Cry Silence
Season 6, episode 2 W: Ed Waters, Oliver Crawford D: Alf Kjellin With Anthony Zerbe (James Conway), Len Wayland (Rev. Moresby), James Nusser (Charlie), Geoffrey Lewis (Jonathan Morrison), Stacy Keach Sr. (Father Frank Lawler), Joe Maross (Ira Welch), Fay Spain (Mrs. Welch), Hersha Parady (Receptionist). Before he relinquished his vows, Father Jim Conway heard the confession of a man who hired a killer to murder his girlfriend. Although the former priest insists he would never reveal what he heard, attempts are made on his life. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1972)
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: Two Dollars On Trouble To Win
Season 2, episode 7 W: Burt Prelutsky D: Gary Nelson With William Demarest (Cyrus McPhee), Murray Matheson (Angus McPhee), Jackie Coogan (Howard Sparks), Barbara Rhoades (Darlene Marsnak), Lou Wagner (Willie Marsnak), Rafael Campos (Abel Mendoza), Robert Donner (Price), John Astin (Sykes). Someone is trying to scare Sally McMillan's adopted uncle into a heart attack, and she and Commissioner McMillan are puzzled as to who it might be.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Grand Slam (1967)
W: Marcello Coscia, Marcello Fondato, Jose de la Loma D: Giuliano Montaldo With Edward G. Robinson, Janet Leigh, Adolfo Celi, Klaus Kinski, George Rigaud, Robert Hoffman. A retired professor with a school in Rio de Janeiro flies to New York to visit an old friend who operates a nightclub, asking for help in executing a daring jewel heist during a carnival.
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| [CBS 9:30] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Sing A Song Of Murder
Season 1, episode 9 W: Martin Roth, Lou Shaw D: Virgil Vogel With Jackie Coogan (Phil Rooney), Arlene Golonka (Sue Paige), Heidi Vaughn (Gloria Vickers), Jonathan Lippe (Mr. Smith), Paul Lambert (Earl Samson), Judy Strangis (April Dayton), Dan Tobin (Karl Ludwig), Andy Kim (Rick Michaels), Michael DeLano (Pool Repairman). A couple of small-time show business managers try to cash in on the accidental killing of a rock superstar by hatching a high-priced kidnap plot.
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| [NBC 10:00] Escape [Reg]: Walk South
Season 1, episode 4 With John Ericson, James Gregory (General Trebner), James McEachin, Charlene Wong (Korean Girl). During the war, a U.S. Congressman is shot down and blinded behind enemy lines in Korea. He is befriended by an orphan girl and heads for what he believes are the American lines. (Last show of the series.)
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