Monday April 2, 1973
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Monday April 2, 1973:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Gunsmoke: Sarah (R) Here's Lucy: Lucy And Lawrence Welk (R) American Film Institute Salute To John Ford
ABC The Rookies: The Commitment (R) Movie: A Lovely Way To Die (1968)
NBC Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Episode #124 (R) Movie: The Subject Was Roses (1968)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Sarah
Season 18, episode 6
W: Calvin Clements   D: Gunnar Hellstrom

With Anthony Caruso (Pappy Quinn), Jonathan Lippe (Sonny), Anne Francis (Sarah), Michael Lane (Digby), John Orchard (Taylor), Kay E. Kuter (Warren), Larry Duran (Vesco), Ronald Manning (Engels), Rex Holman (Ed), George Keymas (Deering). Matt Dillon rides into an outlaw sanctuary and meets an old flame who asks him to join her outlaw husband's gang.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1972)

[ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: The Commitment
Season 1, episode 4
W: Hoke Howell, Rance Howard   D: Michael Caffey

With Darleen Carr (Nancy Leigh), Bo Svenson (Bud Reeves), Dal Jenkins (Vester Bronson), Vic Tayback (Gus Caldwell), Virginia Capers (Mrs. Gibson), Arlene Golonka (Clerk), Dabbs Greer (Studio Guard), Amzie Strickland (Nurse), John Zaremba (Doctor). The refreshment stand at a playground baseball game is robbed and rookie cop Willie GIllis, who had been acting as umpire, is shot in the back and paralyzed by one of the ghoulishly masked robbers.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1972)

[NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #124
Season 6, episode 8
W: Allan Katz   D: Bill Foster

With Charles Nelson Reilly, Mike Connors, Totie Fields. Connors guests as a dentist, a nearsighted bank robber and a dancing Rudolph Valentino; the cast salutes "The Roaring 20s".
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1972)

[CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy And Lawrence Welk
Season 2, episode 18
W: Martin A. Ragway   D: Herbert Kenwith

With Vivian Vance (Vivian Jones), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis), Lawrence Welk (Himself), Nancy Howard (Secretary). Vivian Jones arrives in Hollywood and expects Lucy to make good her promise to arrange a dinner date with Lawrence Welk.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/19/1970)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: A Lovely Way To Die (1968)
W: A.J. Russell   D: David Lowell Rich

With Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Sharon Farrell. A former New York City policeman suddenly becomes embroiled in a mysterious case of murder that soon compounds itself in other murders as the case is being tried.

[NBC 9:00] Movie: The Subject Was Roses (1968)
W: Frank D. Gilroy   D: Ulu Grosbard

With Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon. Film treatment of Frank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a young man home from the war, who becomes disillusioned as he slowly becomes aware of the discord between his parents and is forced to make a decision as to whether he should stay or leave home.

[CBS 9:30] American Film Institute Salute To John Ford [special]
With John Wayne, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Henry Fonda (Filmed appearance). A 90-minute special honoring the six-time Academy Award-winning director, taped at a dinner tendered Ford by the American Film Institute at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Charlton Heston, chairman of the board of trustees at the Institute, will emcee, followed by some of the top stars in Hollywood who owe a great deal of their success to the 78-year-old director. Also included will be a selection of scenes from many of Ford's great films compiled by director Peter Bogdanovich and the presentation to Ford of the Institute's first annual award for lifetime achievement in film-making.

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