Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 23, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The New Perry Mason [Reg]: The Case Of The Prodigal Prophet
Season 1, episode 2 W: Gerry Day D: Robert Day With Beverly Garland (Laura Lee), Dana Elcar (Dory Strong), Richard Hatch (Christopher Baxter), Brett Somers (Gertrude Lake), Whit Bissell (Judge), Candy Clark (Julie Potter), Felton Perry (Marty Tatum), Med Flory, Arch Whiting (Joe Hackett). Perry Mason becomes the first man at the scene of a crime and is forced by circumstances to become a witness for the prosecution's case against his own client.
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| [ABC 7:30] Movie: Funny Girl (1968)
W: Isobel Lennart D: William Wyler With Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon. Based on the long-running Broadway hit following musical comedy star Fanny Brice from her beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York, through her triumphs with the Ziegfeld Follies, to her final breakup with Nicky Arnstein, the man she loves. Jule Styne and Bob Merrill wrote the score, which includes "People".
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Barefoot Executive (2)
Season 20, episode 2 W: Bernie Kahn, Lila Garrett, Stewart Billett D: Robert Butler With Kurt Russell (Steve Post), Harry Morgan (E.J. Crampton), Wally Cox (Mertons), Joe Flynn (Wilbanks), Heather North (Jen). The conclusion of the two-part comedy finds television page Steve Post's TV rating prediction success is short-lived when his secret source of information, Raffles the chimp, is discovered.
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| [CBS 8:30] Mannix [Reg]: A Way To Dusty Death
Season 7, episode 2 W: Herb Meadow D: Sutton Roley With Howard Duff (Chief Harry Dekken), George Skaff (Noah Harturian), Anthony Elridge (Danny Durian), Len Wayland (Jake Durian), Janis Paige (Georgia Durian), Donna Baccala (Joyce Ferraro), Anthony Geary (Eddie Dekken), Dan White (Steve), June Whitley Taylor (Miss Navarro). Detective Joe Mannix searches for a youth who has mysteriously vanished en route home from prison, and encounters hostility in a small town during his investigation.
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| [NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Lovely But Lethal
Season 3, episode 1 W: Jackson Gillis D: Jeannot Szwarc With Vera Miles (Viveca Scott), Martin Sheen (Karl Lessing), Vincent Price (David Lang), Sian Barbara Allen (Shirley Blaine), Fred Draper (Dr. Murcheson), Gino Conforti (Ferdy). The third season begins as a cosmetics queen murders a young chemist to recover a beauty formula, and leads Columbo through an investigation that uncovers a fierce battle for cosmetics industry supremacy involving lying, stealing and industrial espionage.
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| [CBS 9:30] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Death Leap
Season 2, episode 2 W: Ben Masselink D: Seymour Robbie With Tim O'Connor (Peter Harris), Stuart Nisbet (Coroner), Brooke Bundy (Miss Dorsey), Ramon Bieri (Lt. Hager), Susan Howard (Sandra Harris), Jonathan Lippe (Ed), Reta Shaw (Flo), James McCallion (Eddie), William Bramley (Mike), Ben Frank (Frank Tilton). Barnaby investigates a daring jewel robbery that seems tied to a man's suicidal leap from an office building.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC News Special
An examination of the rapidly growing school bus industry; controversial because of experts' charges that school buses are poorly designed and badly built.
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