Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 3, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] It Takes A Lot Of Love [special]
Chad Everett narrates a program about the special kind of devotion existing between people and their pets. Highlights include a visit with naturalist Dorothy Richards, who raises beavers; a look at New Jersey's Aranwood, a super-plush hotel for dogs; and a visit to a Missouri mental health facility where an Irish setter provides loving therapy for emotionally disturbed youngsters. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Corbey
Season 5, episode 8 W: Jack Turley D: Richard Newton With Simon Scott (Chief Metcalf), Nehemiah Persoff (Nick Master), Mitchell Silberman (Corbey Johnson), Eddie Ryder (Tipper Saxon), Jean Byron (Laura Johnson). Capt. Greer is framed by a gang leader who is trying to find the son of his brother, who was killed in a shootout. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/2/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 12 With Tony Randall, Dionne Warwick, Jack Burns, Avery Schreiber. Flip plays his window washer character, Marvin, who barges in on a meeting between big businessmen Randall, Burns and Schreiber. Tony and Flip team up for a satire on record-selling TV commercials. In another segment, Burns plays a psychiatrist treating Schreiber, who thinks he's a balloon. Miss Warwick sings "Daydreaming" and "Anyone Who Had A Heart". (Repeat program, originally aired 12/7/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Hot Millions (1968)
W: Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov D: Eric Till With Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley, Cesar Romero. Having been "caught" by a computer, a thief serves his time and then uses a computer to pull off a bigger heist.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Ancient Warrior
Season 1, episode 15 W: A. Martin Zweiback D: Robert Butler With Will Geer (Judge Marcus), Chief Dan George (Ancient Warrior), Kenneth O'Brien (Arlo), Denver Pyle (Mayor Simms), Victor French (Sheriff Pool), G.D. Spradlin (Lucas Bass), William Katt (Andy), Clay Turner (Ty), Bucklind Beery (Gil), Richard Young (Vern), Gary Busey (Josh). Caine helps a dying Indian return to his native valley for burial and creates consternation in an embittered western town.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Nightmare Trip
Season 6, episode 7 W: Richard Landau D: Raymond Burr With Bill Fletcher (Wolf), Steve Sandor (Dale Madigan), Kevin Dobson (Marine), Rudy Solari (Buckner), Bill Williams (Dacker), Jonathan Lippe (Tony Watts), Jack Ging (Dewey), Don Stroud (Caine), Paul Carr (Det. Sgt. Tulley), John Goddard (Sgt. Andy Badger), James McCallion (Walker), Dan Barton (Ephren), Frank Michael Liu (Benjy Davis), J.H. Lawrence (Fixer), Vic Vallaro (Sgt. Richards), Casey King (Danny Badger), George Conrad (Ownie Karp). The chief's assistant, Det. Sgt. Ed Brown, is robbed of his credentials during a visit to Los Angeles and then conceals his identity to learn what an arrest is like for an innocent person. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: The First Day Of Forever
Season 1, episode 3 W: Robert W. Lenski D: Walter Grauman With Janice Rule (Beverly Landau), James Olson (Lorin Graham), Joby Baker (Jamie Lane), Ken Lynch (Howard Joslin). When a no-longer-young prostitute, a target for a psychopath, is taken into protective custody, Keller's disgust for her profession changes to respect for the woman. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] Saga Of Sonora [special]
With Vince Edwards, Zero Mostel, Jill St. John, Lesley Warren, George Gobel, Carl Ballantine, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, plus cameos by Cass Elliot, Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Sam Jaffe, George Kirby, Frankie Avalon. A musical-comedy spoof of Westerns, hosted by Don Adams.
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