Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 15, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: We're Having A Heat Wave
Season 4, episode 1 W: Don Nicholl D: Bob Lahendro, John Rich With Vincent Gardenia (Frank Lorenzo), Betty Garrett (Irene Lorenzo), Mel Stewart (Henry Jefferson), Victor Argo (Mr. Estrada). The fourth season starts with Betty Garrett and Vincent Gardenia joining the cast as the Bunkers' newest neighbors, Frank and Irene Lorenzo. In the first show, Archie learns the house next door is for sale and embarks on a campaign to keep "undesirables" out of the neighborhood.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Hate Thy Neighbor
Season 4, episode 1 W: George Tibbles, William Bickley D: Richard Kinon With Ricky Segall (Ricky Stevens), Nita Talbot (Doris Stevens), Ronne Troup (Donna Stevens), Teddy Wilson (Officer Mulvaney). Noise pollution is the issue as the musical Partridges face professional ruin in the fourth season opener. Seems the new next door neighbor doesn't dig pop music and has installed a new kind of sound barrier -- the law.
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| [NBC 8:00] America Goes Public [special]
With Steve Allen, Ed Ames, Paul Anka, Bea Arthur, Edward Asner, Jim Backus, Henny Backus, Warren Beatty, Milton Berle, Jackie Cooper, John Davidson, Henry Fonda, Lorne Greene, Rosey Grier, Joey Heatherton, David Janssen, Sheldon Leonard, Bill Macy, Carl Reiner, Barry Sullivan, Leslie Uggams, Dick Van Dyke, Andy Williams, The 5th Dimenson, Sam Ervin, Alan Cranston, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, John Tunney. NBC preempts regular prime time programming for the second Democratic National Telethon. The 7-hour program features entertainment celebrities and a number of political figures. The telethon will have a political convention atmosphere, complete with speaker's rostrum, banners, flags, signs, with the audience seated behind state placards. Segments include "People to People Press Conference" (Democratic senators answering phone-in questions) and Steve Allen's "Meeting of the Minds" historic sketches.
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| [CBS 8:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Divided We Stand
Season 2, episode 1 W: Larry Gelbart D: Jackie Cooper With Bobbie Mitchell (Nurse Marshall), Herb Voland (Gen. Clayton), Linda Meiklejohn (Scorch), Odessa Cleveland (Ginger), Anthony Holland (Capt. Hildebrand), Lesley Evans (Nurse Bryan). The second season begins. The Korea-based combat surgeons come under the scrutiny of a psychiatrist when an Army general fears that the 4077th unit may be suffering from battle fatigue and should be broken up.
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: Irma La Douce (1963)
W: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond D: Billy Wilder With Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Herschel Bernardi, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney, Howard McNear, Cliff Osmond. Screen version of the Broadway musical comedy about a Parisian "lady of the evening" who relies on the kindness of strangers, a fallen gendarme who loves her and a chief of police with an illegal interest in her illegal profession.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Lars Affair
Season 4, episode 1 W: Ed Weinberger D: Jay Sandrich With Betty White (Sue Ann Nivens). The fourth season starts. Mary's neighbor Phyllis discovers that her dermatologist-husband is having an affair with the star of the Happy Homemaker show and demands Mary's help.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Last TV Show
Season 2, episode 1 W: Charlotte Brown D: Jay Sandrich With Renee Lippin (Michelle Nardo), John Fiedler (Mr. Peterson), Noam Pitlik (Mr. Gianelli), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman), Don Dandridge (Floor Manager). The second season starts as Bob's every fear is realized when his therapy group insists that he accept an invitation for the group to conduct one of its weekly sessions on TV.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 1 With Jim Nabors. The seventh season starts and Jim Nabors is once again Carol's first guest. In skits, Carol and Roger (Harvey Korman) move into a new high-rise apartment; Nabors joins in spoofs of TV series "Yung Fool" and "Black Archie". Carol sings "Come Back to Me". Nabors sings "And I Love You So".
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