Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 22, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 17
Season 1, episode 17 With Sandy Duncan, Burt Reynolds. Duncan displays her versatility as she sings and dances in a five-minute "super" commercial. Also highlighting the hour is a Roaring '20s opera, "The Gypsy Doodle", in which a gypsy king comes to a gypsy camp to choose a wife. His choice is between two adopted sisters -- one cute and sweet (Sandy), the other a siren (Cher). Cher joins Sonny for "Got to Get You Into My Life", "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "My World Is Empty Without You". (Repeat program, originally aired 3/6/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Love Thy Neighbor [Reg]: The Grass Is Always Greener
Season 1, episode 8 With Jed Allan (Detective Palmer). The discovery of a suspicious-looking weed in the Wilsons' back yard causes panic when Ferguson identifies it as marijuana.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: The Surprise
Season 5, episode 9 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Dennis Donnelly With Don Stroud (Bert Stanley), Felton Perry (Floyd Sinclair), John Goddard (Paul), Victor Campos (Officer Benson), William Wellman Jr. (Officer Snyder), Sam Edwards (Suspect). All through the day's investigation of commercial burglaries, Malloy tells Reed that he knows the other officers are planning to give him a surprise party, and he doesn't really want one. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Goodnight, My Love (1972)
W: Peter Hyams D: Peter Hyams With Barbara Bain, Richard Boone, Victor Buono, Michael Dunn, Gianni Russo, John Quade, Luke Andreas, Don Calfa. A pair of unlikely private eyes are hired to find the missing boyfriend of a blonde, but the case develops into a deadly search for missing syndicate money.
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| [NBC 8:30] Madigan [Reg]: The Manhattan Beat
Season 1, episode 1 W: Roland Wolpert D: Alex March With Tony Lo Bianco (Joe Lakka), Jennifer Harmon (Janet Lakka), James J. Sloyan (Tommy Lakka), Michael Vale, Antonio Rey. The second of a trilogy series in this time slot stars Richard Widmark, making his series debut, as a New York City police detective, a role he created in the 1968 movie of the same title. In the first episode, he's asked to break in a new detective, a recent college graduate. Before the day is over, his rookie partner faces his first real police situation. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Dan August [Reg]: The Worst Crime
Season 1, episode 20 W: Richard Landau D: Gerald Mayer With Barney Phillips (Mike Golden), Sal Mineo (Mort Downes), Fernando Lamas (Tony Storm), Tom Troupe (Horace Fallon), Ellen Corby (Agnes Oakes), Paul Hampton (Wally Pierson), Jerry Douglas (Stan Palmer), Carol Daniels (Laurie White), Stephen Mines (Tracer), Marilyn Chris (Waitress), Dale Tarter (Lab Technician). Enraged by the murder of a shy girl in a public park, Det. August orders a round-up of all known sexual offenders. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/11/1971)
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Catch Me If You Can
Season 2, episode 22 W: Douglas Day Stewart D: William Hale With William Sargent (Lt. Barry Driscoll), Dana Wynter (Dr. Deedra Pace), Anthony Zerbe (Ralph Hooper), Kate Hawley (Betty), Jay W. MacIntosh (Mrs. Talbot), Jack Riley (Programmer), Florida Friebus (Julie McElroy). Frank Cannon gets a strange request from an admitted mass murderer: Stop him before he commits another crime. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Some People In A Park
Season 2, episode 21 With Brooke Bundy (Amy), Collin Wilcox (Mrs. Madovan), Roger Davis (Vince Engen), Pat Harrington Jr. (D.A. Charlie Giannetta). A woman who was seen running from a Santa Barbara park where her friend, an airline pilot, was found dead, is charged with murder. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: The Adonis File
Season 1, episode 9 W: Jack Turley D: Joseph Pevney With Deanna Lund (Linda Harte), Bill Bixby (Mark Elliott), G.D. Spradlin (Stephen Ackerman), Victoria George (Anne Delaware), Brenda Benet (Carol Lesko), Philip Bourneuf (Mr. Kinser), Robert Carson (Mr. Hartley), John Warburton (Mr. Thomas), Peggy Walton (Sandra Elliott). Hugh Lockwood is hired to solve a kidnapping but becomes suspicious of the setup, which involves a television celebrity running for office. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1972)
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