Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 16, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The New Perry Mason [Reg]: The Case Of The Horoscope Homicide
Season 1, episode 1 W: Orville H. Hampton D: Leo Penn With Ruth Hussey (Corrine Warner), Peter Mark Richman (Junius), Fionnuala Flanagan (Nancy Addison), Sorrell Booke (Milo Vernon), Robert Mandan (Anthony Brewer), Brett Somers (Gertrude Lake), Harvey Fisher (Colley Clemmons), Victor Millan (Judge). Monte Markham stars in this latest version of Erle Stanley Gardner's courtroom hero. Tonight, Perry Mason defends a distraught woman accused of murdering her astrologer husband, a conniving star gazer whose forecasts controlled the fortune of a cosmetics tycoon.
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| [ABC 7:30] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Big Job
Season 9, episode 1 W: Robert M. Young D: Don Medford With Richard Anderson (Paul Higgins), Charles Knox Robinson (Bartlett), Mark Gordon (Gabe Williman), Marj Dusay (Mrs. Higgins), Paul Fix (G.G. Farrell), Hank Stohl (Executive), Laird Stuart (Kurt), Tim Herbert (Lerner). The ninth season kicks off as the FBI must rely on computers to turn up suspects in the skillfully planned multi-million dollar robbery of an armored car firm by three men.
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Barefoot Executive (1)
Season 20, episode 1 W: Bernie Kahn, Lila Garrett, Stewart Billett D: Robert Butler With Kurt Russell (Steve Post), Harry Morgan (E.J. Crampton), Joe Flynn (Francis Wilbanks), Heather North (Jen). The story of an unusual chimpanzee who has the uncanny knack of picking top-rated shows for a third-rate network.
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| [CBS 8:30] Mannix [Reg]: The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress
Season 7, episode 1 W: Ben Roberts, Dan Ullman D: Alf Kjellin With Joan Van Ark (Jennifer Crane), Robert Brown (Robert Foreman), Alfred Ryder (Emory Davis), Ron Nyman (Charlie), Paul Lukather (Gerald Stockton), Duke Howard (Doctor). The seventh season opens as Joe Mannix tries to save a girl whose murder has been forseen by a clairvoyant, and becomes so involved in the case that his own life is in danger as well.
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| [ABC 8:30] Movie: The Detective (1968)
W: Abby Mann D: Gordon Douglas With Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Lloyd Bochner, William Windom, Tony Musante, Robert Duvall. Based on Roderick Thorp's best-seller about the day-to-day work of a tough policeman who tracks down a killer, discovers his wife has been unfaithful, and becomes involved in government corruption while investigating an alleged suicide.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Very First Glen Campbell TV Special [special]
With Burt Reynolds, The Smothers Brothers, Sonny and Cher. Glen Campbell hosts an hour-long comedy-variety special taped in London. Among the many highlights are Campbell soloing "Everybody's Talkin'", "Bring Back My Yesterday" and "I Knew Jesus"; Reynolds, Tom Smothers and Campbell appear in a sketch about a seemingly square conventioneer; and Campbell performs "Dueling Banjos" with Carl Jackson.
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| [CBS 9:30] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Blind Terror
Season 2, episode 1 W: Robert M. Young D: Walter Grauman With Belinda Montgomery (Amy Partridge), Christopher Stone (Eric Rome), Patricia Smith (Ellen Cleveland), Dabney Coleman (Paul Cleveland), Stephen Coit (Dr. Maier), Peggy McCay (Mrs. Benedict), Robert Doyle (Argus Selby), Richard Bull (Mr. Strader), Kathleen O'Malley (Mrs. Selby). The second season begins as Barnaby finds the key to a young woman's disappearance locked away in the memory of an amnesia victim -- who lost her sight as well as her memory after witnessing a terrible crime.
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| [NBC 9:30] Steve And Eydie - On Stage [special]
With Sergio Mendes and Brasil '77, Lucille Ball. An hour-long musical-variety program taped at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Highlights include Steve and Eydie singing "A Man and a Woman" in front of the hotel's famous waterfall; Sergio Mendes and his group perform "Where Is The Love"; and Lucy performs in a comedy sketch entitled "Nobody Noticed".
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