Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday May 15, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Maude [Reg]: The Grass Story
Season 1, episode 12 W: Gordon Farr, Arnold Kane D: Bill Hobin With Brian Morrison (Phillip Traynor), Frank Campanella (Police Sergeant), Elisabeth Fraser (Lorraine), Robert Ball (Tomato Dealer), Keith Taylor (Jeff). When one of the teenagers on the block is busted by the police for marijuana possession, Maude Findlay heads a group to keep the kid out of jail, with predictable results. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/5/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: Good Luck, Lefkowitz
Season 1, episode 7 W: Sheldon Keller D: Jerry London With Bernie Kopell (Harold Lefkowitz), Robert Nichols (Dr. Baker), Michael Fox (General), John Lawrence (Guard), Jayne Meadows (Miss Brandon). Dr. Noland gets a reportedly jinxed orderly a job at Capital General Hospital and the accidents start happening with mysterious regularity. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/24/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: Company Of Killers (1971)
W: E. Jack Neuman D: Jerry Thorpe With Van Johnson, Ray Milland, John Saxon, Susan Oliver, Brian Kelly, Clu Gulager, Diana Lynn. A hired assassin is on the loose in a city, hired to kill a multimillionaire, but soon discovers a contract has been put out on his own life.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: The Clock Struck Twelve
Season 5, episode 12 W: Anthony Lawrence D: Ron Winston With Manu Tupou (Abraham Maleha), David 'Lippy' Espinda (Kaua Maleha), Beau Van Den Ecker (Ellsworth), Patrick Adiarte (David), Henry Bal (Samuel), Cris Callow (Mary Ann), Jaudon Kamealii (Aiko), J. E. Jim McInerney (Superintendent), Javer Bowden (Mrs. Maleha), Frances Asher (Judy). A series of bomb threats follows the arrest of a band of Hawaiian vigilantes, and McGarrett is assigned to preserve security and ensure an orderly trial. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/5/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Women In Chains (1972)
W: Rita Lakin D: Bernard Kowalski With Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton, Jessica Walter, John Larch. Two parole officers, suspicious of rumors of brutal treatment at a women's prison, decide to investigate themselves by entering the prison as inmates. They soon learn firsthand that the rumors are true.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: The Family Rico (1972)
W: David Karp D: Paul Wendkos With Ben Gazzara, Jack Carter, Dane Clark, James Farentino, Sal Mineo, Leif Erickson, Jo Van Fleet, Sian Barbara Allen, John Marley, John Randolph, Michael Anderson Jr. The story of underworld pressures of a crime syndicate chief, torn by love for his younger brother who runs out on a job, and by his own power in the organization.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Unto The Next Generation
Season 4, episode 12 W: Jerome Ross D: Russ Mayberry With Shelley Morrison (Mrs. Sobel), Harvey Fisher (Dan Sobel), Jess Walton (Naomi Sobel), Alan Oppenheimer (Art Sobel), Ann Summers (Dr. O'Connor), Lionel Ames (Cantor). A young couple who lose their baby to a rare disease which occurs only in infants of Jewish origin are afraid to have another child when it is learned the wife is pregnant again. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/5/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] America: The More Abundant Life [special]
For the wrapup of his series, host Alistair Cooke examines the extent to which the country has or hasn't realized the promise of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to achieve "the more abundant life". Cooke sees the mosaic of neon lights, bumper to bumper automobiles and air pollution. He visits a commune established in Indiana in 1825.
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