Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 17, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Maude [Reg]: The Ticket
Season 1, episode 6 W: Erik Tarloff D: Bill Hobin With Louis Guss (Bailiff), Vincent Gardenia (Judge Motorman), Jon Korkes (Officer Cosgrove). Maude is given a speeding ticket by an eager young traffic officer. She takes him home and treats him to cookies and milk. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/17/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: Operation Fastball
Season 1, episode 2 W: Michael Morris D: William Asher With Mwako Cumbuka (Mudcat), J.H. Lawrence (Dr. Spencer), John Gallaudet (Almont), Ketty Lester (Nurse Ferguson), Milt Kamen (Anderson), Edward Platt (Bradley). Dr. Jerry Noland performs an unauthorized operation to help a young pitcher during a staff investigation of the hospital. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Movie: The Hired Hand (1971)
W: Alan Sharp D: Peter Fonda With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden. Three itinerant cowboys have their dream of going to California abruptly interrupted when they stop in a desolate New Mexico town and one of them is sadistically gunned down by a town merchant.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Cloth Of Gold
Season 4, episode 20 W: Bennett Foster D: Michael O'Herlihy With Jason Evers (Wallis), Ray Danton (Fred Akamai Loy), Jay Robinson (Ralph Mingo), William Valentine (Jack Manoa), Shannan Kincaid (Eadie), Arte McCullough (Nakamura), John Hunt (Dr. Pell). The Five-O team is positive that two partners of businessman Wallis were murdered, but can't discover the origin of a mysterious poison. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Screaming Woman (1972)
W: Merwin Gerard D: Jack Smight With Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Walter Pidgeon, Ed Nelson, Laraine Stephens, Alexandra Hay, Charles Knox Robinson. A Gothic horror story of a former mental patient who discovers a woman buried alive on her sprawling estate, but can't get anyone to believe she is not just imagining it.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: The Strangers In 7A (1972)
W: Eric Roth D: Paul Wendkos With Andy Griffith, Ida Lupino, Michael Brandon, Susanne Hildur, James A. Watson Jr., Tim McIntire. An apartment superintendent is unwittingly drawn into a gang's bizarre plan for a daring robbery.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: House Of Mirrors
Season 4, episode 5 W: Joanna Lee D: Leo Penn With Patrick O'Neal (Dr. Peterson), Brenda Vaccaro (Marilyn Hoffman), Robert F. Simon (Dr. Graham), Leigh Christian (Jeanne), Steve Sherman (Bobby Peterson), Byron Morrow (Dr. Goldsmith), Mitch Carter (Henderson). A pathologist planning to remarry to give his son a mother is told by Dr. Welby he must have serious surgery and must examine his motives before the operation. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] Upon This Rock [special]
A tour of St. Peter's Basilica, highlighted by a closeup of many of its art treasures - including the Pieta. Sir Ralph Richardson, Dirk Bogarde, Dame Edith Evans and Orson Welles (as the voice of Michelangelo) serve as host-guide-narrators of such masterpieces as Michelangelo's Dome and Pieta; views of the necropolis beneath the church and the bones of St. Peter; a view of Pope Paul VI celebrating mass; and historical exceprts from many of those associated with the Basilica.
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