Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 2, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 39
Season 2, episode 20 With Danny Thomas, Kerry Ann Wells (Miss Universe of 1972), The Lettermen. The cast spoofs Hope-Crosby movies in "Road to Sirocco". Danny plays a French manservant to Cher and joins Sonny's stooging for Cher's version of Lucretia Borgia, Sadie Thompson and the Bride of Frankenstein. Sonny bumbles about in a bit with Miss Universe and Cher caps the hour with a rendition of "How Long Has This Been Going On?". (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: To Wed Or Not To Wed
Season 1, episode 8 W: Budd Grossman D: Ernest Losso With Jerry Stiller (Barney Dickerson), Anne Meara (Grace Dickerson), Chuck McCann (Minister). Paul learns that the marriage of his daughter to Howie is invalid due to a technicality. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Dirt Duel
Season 5, episode 1 W: Michael Donovan D: Carl Barth With Micky Dolenz (Oiler), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. McKay), Keith Taylor (Mouse), Edd Byrnes (Skinner). Officers Malloy and Reed start their fifth season by getting unexpected help in their pursuit of two purse snatchers on motorcycles. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: The Paradine Case (1947)
W: David O. Selznick D: Alfred Hitchcock With Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Charles Coburn, Leo G. Carroll. A happily married London attorney falls in love with his client who is charged with murder.
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| [NBC 8:30] Cool Million [Reg]: Assault On Gavaloni
Season 1, episode 3 D: John Badham With Pamela Franklin (Holly Hamilton), Ilka Chase (Victoria Chambers), Nehemiah Persoff (Karinakis), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Englishman), John Abbott (Sir Godwyn). Jefferson Keyes manages to get aboard the yacht of a millionaire to retrieve a valuable painting his client sold. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Fallen
Season 4, episode 8 With Fred Beir (Dr. Belfield), Peter Haskell (Jimmy), Lee Purcell (Liza), George Tobias (Kabakov), Eugene Peterson (Dr. Weller). When a flamboyant traveling photographer promises a critically ill girl he will take her on his next trip, she wants to delay badly needed surgery to go with him. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Endangered Species
Season 2, episode 13 W: Del Reisman D: Robert Douglas With Carl Betz (Arthur Bellamy), Andrew Duggan (Williams Coates Sr.), Katherine Justice (Liza Carter), Neva Patterson (Judge Cable), Olan Soule (Westerveld). Frank Cannon is hired by an old friend, a boat builder, to clear him of charges in the apparent hunting-accident death of his son. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: The First Day Of Your Life
Season 2, episode 11 D: Lou Antonio With Wayne Newton (Sam Stephens), Melissa Murphy (Kelley Stephens), Madeleine Sherwood (Nurse Struther), Walter Brooke (Dr. Martin). A philosophy instructor is charged with the murder of his abnormal newborn son when the child is found lifeless, his incubator oxygen supply having been shut off. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] All-Star Swing Festival [special]
With Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman and his quartet, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Joe Williams, Dave Brubeck quartet. Doc Severinsen hosts a program of music made up of the most popular songs of the jazz and swing era. (Repeat program)
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