Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday July 5, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Boy From The C.C.C.
Season 1, episode 8 W: William Welch D: Harry Harris With Michael Rupert (Gino). A homeless young man is taken in by the Waltons when he's found starving in the woods, but then he betrays the family's trust. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/2/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] The First And Essential Freedom
ABC News takes a comprehensive look at the freedoms of the press guaranteed by the first Amendment of the Constitution. The Watergate affair has renewed many Americans' confidence in the nation's news media. But the press, television and radio news remain under fire from various institutions - governmental and otherwise - which would like to restrain their first amendment rights. This program examines the extent of first amendment freedoms today and the attempts to curb them, placing the issues in historical perspective from pre-Constitution times through the 20th century presidential administrations. Frank Reynolds and Sam Donaldson narrate.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Helen Reddy Show
Season 1, episode 2 With George Carlin, Kenny Rankin, The Temptations, Cicely Tyson.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Man Who Died Twice (1973)
W: Jackson Gillis D: Joseph Sargent With Stuart Whitman, Brigitte Fossey, Severn Darden, Jeremy Slate, Bernard Lee. Upset by the death of his wife and bitterly ashamed of having forged a number of "masterpeices" for an unscrupulous art dealer, an American artist, believed dead, tries to live quiety in Spain.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: King Of The Mountain
Season 1, episode 1 W: Herman Miller D: Jerry Thorpe With John Saxon (Raven), Brandon Cruz (Peter Gideon), Mills Watson (Turpin), Ken Lynch (Percy McCoy), Gary McLarty (Frank McCoy), Paul Harper (Amos), Mark Allen (Postmaster), Ivy Bethune (Jennie McCoy), Larry Finley (Blacksmith), Lara Parker (Amy Allender), Robert F. Hoy (Curry McCoy). David Carradine stars as Caine, a Chinese-American fugitive working on the American frontier of the 1870s. In the first of three dramas this season, Caine befriends a young boy whose father was killed by Indians. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1972)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: A Special Person
Season 6, episode 15 W: Ramona Chase, Frank Chase D: Jeffrey Hayden With Barry Sullivan (Howard Jamison), Melendy Britt (Rona Mason), Sandy Baron (Wayne Dorian), Leslie Charleson (Nikki Jamison), Robert Viharo (Joey Galardo). The chief investigates a murder attempt which occurs during a swinging party on the palatial estate of a girlie-type magazine editor. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/11/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Hall Of Mirrors
Season 1, episode 7 W: Walter Black D: Arthur H. Nadel With A Martinez (Rafael Diaz), David Soul (Jim Martin), Priscilla Garcia (Juanita Diaz), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Martinez), Shelly Novack (Johnson), Valentin de Vargas (Emilio Loza), Armand Alzamora (Officer Cruz). Stone sets out to discover why a young Mexican detective seems to be absolutely convinced of a Chicano murder suspect's guilt for no apparent reason. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1972)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 27 With Peter Sellers, Phyllis McGuire. Sellers and Dean take part in skits titled "Elephants" and "Cat Burglar". Dean sings "Just Say I Love Her". Phyllis sings "Something Big" with Dean. The cast takes part in the finale, "Meet Me in St. Louis". (Repeat program, originally aired 4/5/1973)
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