Prime-time network TV listings for Friday September 14, 1973:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Calucci's Department [Reg]: The $80 Heist
Season 1, episode 1 W: Joseph Bologna, Renee Taylor D: Burt Brinckerhoff James Coco, Broadway veteran, stars as the head of a state unemployment office staffed by a number of bureaucratic eccentrics. In the opening episode, after $80 he has collected from the staff is stolen, Calucci plays detective to find the culprit.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Adios, Johnny Bravo
Season 5, episode 1 W: Joanna Lee D: Jerry London With Claudia Jennings (Tami Cutler), Jeff Davis (Hal Barton), Paul Cavonis (Buddy Berkman). The fifth season starts. Greg is picked to become a rock star, but the agent doesn't want all the Bradys.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Lamont As Othello
Season 3, episode 1 W: Ilunga Adell D: Peter Baldwin With Maureen Arthur (Marilyn), Jack Manning (Mr. O'Neill), Anne Driscoll (Mrs. O'Neill). The third season starts. In the first episode, Lamont nearly gives his dad a real heart attack when the old man sees him choking a white woman.
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| [CBS 8:30] Movie: Planet Of The Apes (1968)
W: Michael Wilson, Rod Serling D: Franklin Schaffner With Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly, Woodrow Parfrey, Norman Burton, Wright King. Transported 2,000 years through time, four astronauts crash-land on an unidentified planet. They encounter a strange civilization where man is regarded as a brute to be controlled and contained.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Gloria Moves In
Season 4, episode 1 W: Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz D: Garry Marshall With Larry Gelman (Vinnie), Janis Hansen (Gloria), Archie Hahn (Roger), Garry Walberg (Speed), Ogden Talbot (Bellboy). The fourth season starts. Felix invites his former wife to share the apartment while her house is being painted. Oscar and his poker-playing pals check into a hotel for their game, while Felix hopes that being alone with Gloria may lead to a reconciliation.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Girl With Something Extra [Reg]: Sally On My Mind
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bernard Slade D: Bob Claver Romantic comedy about a young married couple facing all the typical problems of newlyweds -- plus one. She has extrasensory perception. In the first show, the bridegroom is shaken by the newly found knowledge of his bride's uncanny knack for reading minds.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: If You've Got The Hammer, I've Got The Thumb
Season 5, episode 1 W: Stephen Kandel D: Charles R. Rondeau With Mark Hamill (Matt Evans), Phil Carey (Benjamin Evans), Arthur Peterson, Barry Cahill, Roger Jacobs. The fifth season starts. In the first episode, a new student who has been brought up in the Sierras doesn't adapt too well to urban life.
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| [NBC 9:00] NFL Players Awards Show
With Cloris Leachman, Telly Savalas, Jack Klugman, Lloyd Haynes, David Janssen, Alex Karras, Don Shula. Peter Falk and Buddy Hackett cohost an entertainment program honoring outstanding players of the 1972 pro foootball season.
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| [ABC 9:30] Adam's Rib [Reg]: Illegal Aid
Season 1, episode 1 W: Peter Stone D: Peter H. Hunt With Daniel Keough (Man in Bar), Celia Milius (Francis), John Holland (Judge McElroy), Howard Caine (Hunnicutt), Peter Forster (Assistant D.A.), Edward Winter (Kip Kipple). A romantic comedy about contemporary marriage, based on the characters in the 1949 movie of the same name that starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Ken Howard and Blythe Danner, both Broadway actors, make their series debuts as the husband-wife attorneys. He is an assistant DA; she is a junior partner in a legal firm. In the first episode the Bonners get involved in proving a point, that it's all right for a man to pick up a girl, but not the other way around.
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Footlight Fiancee With Hans Conried (Dexter Graymont), Will Mackenzie (Benjamin Nishmann), Zohra Lampert (Monica Louise Terry). At the Wa-Wa Sissa Summer Playhouse, a reknowned actor/director is forced to hire the niece of his backer. 2. Love And The Teller's Tale W: Lynne Farr D: William Wiard With Ken Berry, Penny Fuller. A banker is trapped in a vault with a mousy teller. 3. Love And The Swinging Surgeon With Phyllis Davis, Martin Sheen. A surgeon with roving hands is on a date with a prim miss. 4. Love And The Plane Fantasy W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff D: Lee Philips With Gary Burghoff, James Gregory, Barbara Rhoades, Barbara Rucker. A man discovers love at first sight during a flight to San Francisco.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]: Roast Of Ronald Reagan
With Don Rickles, Jonathan Winters, Mark Spitz, Corbett Monica, Phyllis Diller, Pat Henry, Edward Andrews, Audrey Meadows, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge. The ninth season starts. The emphasis will be more on comedy with two or three standup comedians as guests. One segment of each show will be a "roasting" of a famous personality. Gov. Ronald Reagan is the initial "roastee".
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