Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 3, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] 60 Minutes
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Bobby's Hero
Season 4, episode 17 W: Michael Morris D: Leslie H. Martinson With Burt Mustin (Jethroe Collins), Richard Carlyle (Mr. Hillary), Gordon DeVol (Jesse James), Ruth Anson (Miss Perry). Bobby upsets his parents and teachers when he makes a hero of Jesse James. Mike tries to change his son's opinion of the western outlaw by exposing the truth about Jesse. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1973)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Home Sweet Home For The Aged
Season 2, episode 21 W: Aaron Ruben D: Peter Baldwin With Burt Mustin (Mr. Malloy), Maida Severn (Miss Ecker), Cha-Cha Hogan (Old Man). Fred is caught in a series of amusing but frustrating situations when he becomes a resident of a senior citizens' home. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/16/1973)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Myrna's Debut
Season 3, episode 17 W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield D: Jerry Paris With Ralph Manza (Tony Magucci), Bella Bruck (Aunt Lucille), Bob Hastings (Happy Greshler), Inga Neilsen (Miss Jensen), Arthur Batanides (Nino Babaloni). Felix persuades Oscar to release his secretary so she can have her fling at a show-business career. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1973)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: The Bestest Doctor In The Whole Wide World
Season 1, episode 18 D: Brian Keith With Steven Hague (Alfred Landis), Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Gloria Nakea (Joan Wilson). Dr. Jamison, against his better judgement, stars in a movie being made by one of his little patients for a school project, and a comedic madhouse ensues. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] On The Road With Charles Kuralt [special]
CBS correspondent Kuralt has spent the last six years or so wandering over back roads, looking for signs and remnants of individualism. He finds them in places such as Sopchoppi, Fla., where worm grunting is one of the leisure sports, or Surry County, Va., where Kuralt comes upon a man of 83 whose 13 acre-garden has been planted for the benefit of any traveler who comes along.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: Pardon Me, Your Apathy Is Showing
Season 4, episode 15 W: John McGreevey D: Charles R. Rondeau With Barry Livingston (Nick), Frank Maxwell (Franklin), Mimi Saffian (Nancy). Trouble erupts between students, teachers and parents when it's learned that a Communist is to speak at Walt Whitman High. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1973)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Alamo (1960), part two
W: James Edward Grant D: John Wayne With John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Linda Cristal, Chill Wills, Joan O'Brien, Patrick Wayne, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle. Conclusion of the epic drama, culminating the United States' war with Mexico, finds the hopelessly outnumbered Texas band led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie standing valiantly against the forces of Gen. Santa Anna of Mexico.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Corner Bar [Reg]: Father's Day
Season 2, episode 1 The series returns with two new stars. Anne Meara and Eugene Roche costar as owners of a neighborhood saloon in a big city. In tonight's episode, the tavern's co-owner, Frank Ryan (Roche), is astonished and overjoyed when a young Korean walks in and identifies himself as his son -- the product of a romance during the Korean war.
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| [CBS 10:00] CBS News Report
Recent developments in the Watergate hearings.
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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