Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 29, 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] Love Thy Neighbor [Reg]: Take Two And Hit To Right
Season 1, episode 9 With Richard Williams (Otis). Recuperating from injuries received in a softball game, Charlie thinks Ferguson is replacing him at work with a black man.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Anatomy Of A 415
Season 5, episode 22 W: Jeff Kanter D: Dennis Donnelly With Jed Allan (John Spencer), Milton Frome (Arthur Cosgrove), Norm Crosby (Don Simpson), Eve Brent (Helen Spencer), Jean Allison (Louise Spencer), Jimmy Cross (Oliver Durkson), Christopher Gardner (Larry Spencer). Officers Malloy and Reed receive several calls to the same home on a disturbing the peace complaint which culminates in tragedy for a family. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1973)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: A Great American Tragedy (1972)
W: Caryl Ledner D: J. Lee Thompson With George Kennedy, Vera Miles, William Windom, Kevin McCarthy, Natalie Trundy, Sallie Shockley. A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job.
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| [NBC 8:30] Banacek [Reg]: The Greatest Collection Of Them All
Season 1, episode 7 W: Theodore J. Flicker D: George McCowan With George Murdock (Cavanaugh), Penny Marshall (Receptionist), Mike Farrell (Jason Trotter), Penny Fuller (Gloria Hamilton), Barbara Stuart (Sailor), David Spielberg (Wendell Church), John Hoyt (Dr. Shelby), Eugene Troobnick (Norm Katz), Garry Walberg (Lt. Warsaw), Gene Dynarski (Ben Wheeler), Robert DoQui (Sgt. Flynn), John Gilgreen (Jim), George Brenlin (Tom Davis), Lloyd Gough (Alan Trotter), Arch Johnson (Larry Casey). A fortune in paintings, billed as the world's greatest collection of French Impressionists, is stolen en route from New York to Boston. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] Dan August [Reg]: In The Eyes Of God
Season 1, episode 5 W: Barry Trivers D: Harvey Hart With Steven Benson (Paramedic), James Best (Wiley), Donna Mills, Bradford Dillman (Matthew Costa). Dan August's investigation into the attempted murder of an elderly priest leads to a young priest who recently renounced his vows -- and a possible link to a series of brutal ice pick slayings. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/21/1970)
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: A Long Way Down
Season 2, episode 7 W: Stephen Kandel D: George McCowan With Rosemary Murphy (Nurse), Lawrence Cook (Janniver), James A. Watson Jr. (Dr. Simon Grant), Ned Romero (Lt. Ben), Dana Elcar (Mr. Ryan), Sandy Kenyon (Matt Seaver), Victor Campos (Mike Duran), Tracy Reed (Bonnie Davis). A nurse supervisor is a key figure in a hospital drug theft case. Cannon is hired to clear a chief suspect but the case becomes complicated when an orderly is found dead. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Seed Of Doubt
Season 2, episode 17 D: Lou Antonio With Martin Sheen (Colby Arnold), Jess Walton (Sheila Arnold), John McLiam (Dr. Harding). Marshall defends his niece accused of adultery by her husband because her son was conceived by artificial insemination. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: The Mattson Papers
Season 1, episode 19 W: S.S. Schweitzer, Don Balluck D: William Wiard With Terry Carter (Hawley Mattson), Nancy Wilson (Sugar Francis), Tim O'Connor (Paul Kleinschmidt), Cameron Mitchell (Chief Garrett), John Kerr (Senator Gordon), Ivor Francis (De Marigny), Jeff Morrow (MacEadie), Richard Lepore (Campbell), Don Pedro Colley (Earl Forbus), Ella Edwards (Lenore Mattson), Robert F. Hoy (Mullins), Terry Leonard (Burke), Ty Henderson (Tom), Tony Epper (Crawford). Agent Bianco trails a missing sports figure who fears for his life because of his suspected involvement with an international crime syndicate. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1973)
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