Prime-time network TV listings for Friday April 20, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Horton Hears A Who! [special]
W: Theodor Geisel D: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam With Hans Conried, June Foray, Chuck Jones. The heroic, couplet-spouting elephant whose actions in support of his philosophy that "a person is a person no matter how small", fights for the Whoville inhabitants' right to life when they are threatened with extinction because of their size. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: The Show Must Go On?
Season 4, episode 7 W: Harry Winkler D: Jack Donohue With Allan Melvin (Sam Franklin), Barbara Morrison (Mrs. Tuttle), Brandy Carson (Woman), Frank DeVol (Father), Karen Foulkes (Muriel), Bonnie Ludeka (Daughter). Marcia talks her mother into appearing with her in the high school family frolics. Once Carol agrees, Greg comes home with a request that Mike also perform in the show. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Tooth Or Consequences
Season 2, episode 5 W: Adell Stevenson D: Peter Baldwin With Sid McCoy (Dentist #1), Hal England (Dentist #2), Ella Edwards (Receptionist), Ray Oliver (Hypnotist). When Fred Sanford gets a toothache, he insists that Lamont find a white dentist to treat him. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1972)
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| [CBS 8:30] Movie: Oklahoma! (1955)
W: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig D: Fred Zinnemann With Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Albert, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore, J.C. Flippen, Barbara Lawrence. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical -- an American folk story about a cowboy hero and a farm-girl heroine. She is young and uncertain and torn between her confused feelings for handsome Corley and Jud, a rough and surly farmhand.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Ain't Love Grand?
Season 3, episode 10 W: William Bickley D: Herb Wallerstein With Anthony Geary (Greg Houser), Ta-Tanisha (Mary Lou Trimper). Laurie meets an older childhood friend on the tennis court and he shows up for their first date wearing a clerical collar. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1972)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: Little Boy Flu
Season 1, episode 2 With Melendy Britt (Claire Wells), Evan Williams (Scott), Harry Williams (Al Wells). A woman asks Dr. Jamison by phone to give her son a "favorable sick diagnosis" and to forbid him to accompany his father on a sailing trip. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/22/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: Mr. Wrong
Season 4, episode 13 W: Martin Donovan D: Leslie H. Martinson With John Davey, Bernie Kopell, James Daughton (George). An eccentric new teacher who has no trouble attracting students to his class flunks as Alice Johnson's new suitor. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1972)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ghost Story [Reg]: Bad Connection
Season 1, episode 4 W: John McGreevey D: Walter Doniger With Karen Black (Barbara Sanders), Michael Tolan (Keith Newton), Kaz Garas (Phil Briggs), James A. Watson Jr. (Sgt. Appleton), Skip Homeier (Steve), Med Flory (Ed Talbot), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Prescott), Sandra Deel (Angie), Ellen Geer (Marian), Curt Conway (Mr. Prescott). A telephone operator is pursued by the voice and an apparition of her killed-in-action husband when she plans to remarry. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/6/1972)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Gloria, Hallelujah
Season 3, episode 1 W: Rick Mittleman D: Garry Marshall With Elinor Donahue (Miriam Welby), Janis Hansen (Gloria). The TV version of Neil Simon's stage hit starts a third season. In this episode an admittedly lonely Oscar signs up with a computer dating agency, using an alias. His date is a surprise. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/15/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bobby Darin Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 12 With Carol Lawrence, Pat Buttram, Bill Withers. Bobby sings "Get Me to the Church on Time", "Shiloh", "Guys and Dolls" and "Come Rain or Come Shine". The cast sings a medley based on Paul Williams' "An Old-Fashioned Love Song".
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