Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 23, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 33
Season 2, episode 14 With Jean Stapleton, Lyle Waggoner. The Bono Awards are presented: "The most embarrassing couple on the Newlywed Game"; "The show best liked by the President"; "The longest running TV show in history"; "The worst deal made on Let's Make a Deal". Cher plays superstar Gloria Majestic, Sonny is her leading man Norman Klieglight, and Miss Stapleton is her biggest fan, Jean Terrific, in a musical-comedy spoof. Cher sings "Love Song", joins Sonny for "Love Grows" and "I Can See Clearly Now". (Repeat program, originally aired 1/3/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: Whose Lib?
Season 1, episode 10 W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: Ernest Losso With Barbara Rhoades (Eve), Herb Voland (T.J. McNish). Paul 's hopes for a gorgeous girl as vacation replacement for his secretary fade when son-in-law Howie applies for the job. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Lost And Found
Season 5, episode 4 W: Michael Donovan D: Dennis Donnelly With Robert Fuller (Dr. Kelly Brackett), Julie London (Nurse Dixie McCall), Bobby Troup (Dr. Joe Early), Randolph Mantooth (Paramedic John Gage), Kevin Tighe (Paramedic Roy DeSoto), Elaine Giftos (Kathy Stephens), Fred Holliday (Jay Simmons), Nancy King (Mary Simmons), Kirby Furlong (Jimmy Simmons), Chanin Hale (Irma Baker), Diane Sherry (Sheri Baker), Milton Frome (Milton Saywer). Officers Malloy and Reed rush a 6-year-old boy, the victim of a diabetic seizure, to Rampart Hospital, where he's placed under the care of Dr. Brackett and Nurse McCall. Then they return to the medical center with a girl who threatened suicide. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: The Spiral Staircase (1946)
W: Mel Dinelli D: Robert Siodmak With Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Elsa Lanchester. Suspense chiller about a deaf-mute servant girl stalked by an unknown serial killer who is eliminating women with "afflictions".
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: Terror Times Two
Season 2, episode 4 W: Gloria Goldsmith D: Ron Winston With Andrew Duggan (Frank Carstairs), Martin E. Brooks (District Attorney), Alan Manson (Eddie), Celeste Yarnell (Miss Jones), Noble Willingham (Sheriff), Charlotte Stewart (Sheila), Larry Hovis (O'Day). Commissioner McMillan is abducted and replaced with an identical double -- the likeness even fooling his wife, Sally -- for the purpose of killing a witness against an underworld kingpin. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Dan August [Reg]: Trackdown
Season 1, episode 22 W: Rick Husky D: Jerry Jameson With Julie Mannix (Chris Stafford), Karl Swenson (Aubrey Burnett), Gordon DeVol (Terry Stafford), John Bedford (Hunter), Nancy Fisher (Stephanie Paton), Michael Pataki (Eddie Downs), Stewart Moss (Darryl York). Det. August hunts the killers of his close friend, who was gunned down while trying to prevent a holdup at the fairgrounds. The thieves -- three men and a woman -- masqueraded as hospital personnel and fled the scene in a stolen ambulance. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/25/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Moving Target
Season 2, episode 17 W: Worley Thorne D: Lawrence Dobkin With Susan Oliver (Jill Thorsen), Richard Carlson (Jay Archibald), Gordon Pinsent (Philip Trask), Charles Bateman (Lt. Tarcher), Tom Kennedy (Tommy Corbin), Richard Roat (Harold Pacquin), Keith Andes (A.R. Benning). A nationally known photographer finds Cannon a reluctant party to protecting her boyfriend's life when she reveals his name: a highly publicized author of a fictitious "autobiography" of one of the nation's wealthiest men. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Five Will Get You Six
Season 2, episode 7 W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Harry Falk With Russell Johnson (Assistant D.A. Grant), William Shatner (Gary Saugus), Eileen Baral (Doreen Saugus), Richard X. Slattery (Stuart Runier), Nate Esformes (Mike Escobedo), Sam Jaffe (Henry Noll), Sandra Smith (Linda Saugus), Bill Quinn (Judge). Charged with perjury, a frightened loan shark victim kills the usurer's strong-arm man and is charged with murder. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/26/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: Short Circuit
Season 1, episode 3 W: Leslie Stevens D: Allen Reisner With Mary Ann Mobley (Lelia Moen), Jeff Corey (Dr. Karl Moen). Doug McClure makes his debut in the role of C.R. Grover, who is assigned to stop a scientific genius from destroying the mission control center which he helped construct. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1972)
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