Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 12, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: The Bunkers And The Swingers
Season 3, episode 7 W: Lee Kalcheim, Michael Ross, Bernie West D: John Rich, Bob Lahendro With Vincent Gardenia (Curtis Rempley), Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson), Rue McClanahan (Ruth Rempley). Mike and Gloria are embarrassed to tell Edith that the ad she answered for a pen pal is really one for "swingers", who then decide to drop in for a visit. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/28/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Here We Go Again [Reg]: When You're Second, You Try Harder
Season 1, episode 3 With Keith Rogers (Girlfriend), Larry Hovis (Pool Man). Facing his crucial 40th birthday, Richard challenges Jerry to a tennis match. Wife Susan talks Jerry into throwing the match. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1973)
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Trainee
Season 2, episode 8 W: Jim Owens D: Declan Donnelly With Lillian Lehman (Carol Williams), Iris Korn (Old Lady), Anthony Eldridge (Larry Gamble), Wynn Irwin (George Robinson), Ron Henriquez (Sailor), Charles H. Gray (Chief Sorenson), Jackie Coogan (Junkyard Owner). A former Vietnam medic joins the fire department and volunteers for training, but his mistakes nearly cause a tragic death. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/11/1972)
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| [CBS 8:30] Bridget Loves Bernie [Reg]: Greener Pastures
Season 1, episode 24 W: Rick Mittleman Bernie is offered a job as a reporter in Rhode Island, but everyone has mixed emotions about him leaving New York. (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 3/3/1973)
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| [ABC 8:30] A Touch Of Grace [Reg]: The Weekend
Season 1, episode 2 With John Fiedler (Desk Clerk). Grace shocks her daughter by going off for a weekend with her gentleman friend, Herbert. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/27/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Just Around The Corner
Season 3, episode 7 W: Steve Pritzker D: Jay Sandrich With Nanette Fabray (Dottie Richards), Bill Quinn (Walter Richards). Mary's parents move to Minneapolis from their small town to be near their daughter, but they move too close for comfort. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/28/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Strauss Family: Schanni
Season 1, episode 2 W: Anthony Skene D: David Giles With Eric Wolfe, Stuart Wilson, Anne Stallybrass. In the second episode, Johann Strauss, the Waltz King of Vienna, is challenged for that title by his son.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Elmer Gantry (1960)
W: Richard Brooks D: Richard Brooks With Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Dean Jagger, Edward Andrews, Patti Page, John McIntire. A drunk and dissolute traveling salesman stumbles on a revival meeting and sees a chance to make a fortune. Winner of three Academy Awards.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Father Knows Worst
Season 1, episode 7 W: Jay Tarses, Tom Patchett D: Alan Rafkin With Moosie Drier (Howie Borden), Janice Carroll (Waitress), Kit Smythe (Lady Patient), Alice Borden (Lois Borden). Howard, whose divorce settlement includes two weekends a month with his son, is sure the boy doesn't really like him. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 7 With Tim Conway, Pearl Bailey. Nora Desmond is offered a bug spray TV commercial; the oldest living galley slave (Tim) makes trouble for his partner (Harvey Korman); a murderer (Carol) wants a rabid lawyer (Tim) to defend her. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Assignment Vienna [Reg]: Queen's Gambit
Season 1, episode 3 W: D.C. Fontana D: Paul Stanley With Anne Francis (Aline Masterson), Robert F. Lyons (Prince Hohlenberg), Joby Baker (Russell), Arthur Brauss (Keitner), Peter Wajda (Fritz). Agent Webster is hired by a beautiful woman to recover the priceless royal crown of Bosnia. The jewels were stolen from a representative of a New York museum outside Vienna's Hofburg Museum, and its return can be purchased for the sum of $200,000. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1972)
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