Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 8, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 13
Season 1, episode 13 With Mike Connors, Jean Stapleton. The guest stars join Sonny and Cher in spoofs of daytime television serials and election campaigns. Cher solos "Body and Soul" and duets "People Gotta Be Free" with Sonny. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Thicker Than Water [Reg]: The Mourning After
Season 1, episode 9 D: Jerry Paris With Joy Harmon (Girl). Ernie is pressured into agreeing to stay with Jonas so that Nellie can go out on a blind date with Walter's friend Robert Lewis. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Beast
Season 5, episode 17 W: Kenneth Johnson D: Robert M. Leeds With Donna Douglas (Nina Draper), Lennie Weinrib (Tony), Marty Ingels (David Harwood), John Gallaudet (Ralph Peterson), Lenore Stevens (Casey Marshall), Todd Martin (Gus Osgood), Alberto Morin (John Mendoza). Malloy and Reed have a patrol that's a combination of beauty and the beast. The beauty is a woman who reports a prowler and the "beast" is a continually malfunctioning vehicle they are forced to drive. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1973)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: A Cold Night's Death (1972)
W: Christopher Knopf D: Jerrold Freedman With Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne. Two men isolated in a snowbound mountain laboratory to study the effects of altitude on monkeys become the victims of a terrifying experiment.
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| [NBC 8:30] Madigan [Reg]: The Park Avenue Beat
Season 1, episode 6 W: Peter Allen Fields D: Alex March With John Larch (Max Bennerman), Rae Allen (Verna Bennerman), Charles Cioffi (Albert Chaney), David Spielberg (Joe Lido), William Roerick (Harry Zifkin), Sally Gracie (Eloise), Val Avery (Augie). Madigan gets word that his old friend and ex-partner -- who was kicked off the police force after killing a surrendering criminal who he mistakenly thought had murdered his partner -- has taken on a job as a paid killer. (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] Dan August [Reg]: Murder By Proxy
Season 1, episode 1 W: Robert C. Dennis D: George McCowan With Diana Muldaur (Elizabeth), Burr DeBenning, Anne Francis (Nina Porter), Roger Perry, Milton Selzer, Ford Rainey. Dramatic adventures of a detective-lieutenant in the homicide division of a small coastal city in California. He works in his hometown and is personally acquainted with many of its people who represent a cross-section of ethnic, social and economic groups. In this episode the body of an auto racer is found inside a car at the bottom of a shallow lake. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Press Pass To The Slammer
Season 2, episode 23 W: Meyer Dolinsky D: Leo Penn With Marlyn Mason (Molly Sawyer), Ron Hayes (Harry Gibbons), Stuart Margolin (Roger Henry), Oscar Beregi Jr. (Van Hagen), Geoffrey Horne (U.S. Attorney), Hank Brandt (Howie Bennett), Lane Bradford (Walt Morgan), Hanna Hertelendy (Natasha Mosoroff), John Zaremba (Judge Holcomb), Harrison Page (Dennis Martin). A woman reporter, an old friend of Frank Cannon, asks the private eye to come to her rescue when she faces a contempt of court charge for not revealing her source of information in a story involving a gangland figure's death. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Final Semester
Season 2, episode 22 With Diana Hyland (Lita Coleman), Fred Beir (Ross Coleman), Russell Wiggins (Barry Meadows), William Smithers (Mark Wade), Jennifer Salt (Joannie Ellis), O.J. Simpson (Simms). A college basketball star is accused of murdering a professor he had found with his girlfriend. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: The Clayton Lewis Document
Season 1, episode 17 W: Norman Hudis D: William Wiard With Craig Stevens (Clayton Lewis), Julie Adams (Jeanette Lewis), Rhonda Fleming (Arlene Morrison), Don Gordon (Alex Nevin), Anthony James (Alfred Barnworth), Ahna Capri (Pam Perry), Bob Bralver (Mackeson). A fashionable Washington, D.C., hostess becomes involved in a blackmail scheme that poses a threat to worldwide disarmament talks. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1973)
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