Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 11, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Roots
Season 2, episode 5 W: Sheldon Stark D: Philip Leacock With Hal Williams (Harley Foster), Lynn Hamilton (Verdie Foster), Noble Willingham (Mr. Denton), Erin Blunt (Jody Foster). Widow Verdie Foster asks John-Boy to help her persuade an itinerant fruit picker to settle down and marry her.
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| [ABC 8:00] Toma [Reg]: Ambush On 7th Avenue
Season 1, episode 2 With Geoffrey Deuel (Donald Harkness / Larry Tabscot), Victor Arnold, Claire Brennan, Roy Jenson, Vic Vallaro. While investigating a gangland killing, Toma is given the added responsiblility of a university student observer whose interest in the case proves to be more than academic.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 4 With Redd Foxx, Helen Reddy, Joan Rivers.
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| [CBS 9:00] Jackie Gleason Special [special]
With Art Carney, Gary Merrill, Sheila MacRae, Jane Kean, The June Taylor Dancers. Jackie hosts his first special in three seasons. Highlights include a "Honeymooners" skit and a 1930s production number.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Chalice
Season 2, episode 3 W: William Kelley D: Jerry Thorpe With William Smith (Luther Staggers), Gilbert Roland (Padre Braganza), Lee Paul (Gilchrist), Charles Dierkop (Traphagen), Pepe Serna (Los Vidrios), Victor Millan (Padre Benito), Victor Arco (Diaz), Stafford Repp (Father Clancy), Steve Chambers (Kunkel), Rick Hurst (Tubbs), Clay Tanner (U.S. Marshal). Honoring a dying Franciscan priest's request to find and return a stolen chalice, Caine crosses paths with a vengeful man.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Armageddon Gang
Season 7, episode 5 W: Larry Brody D: Russ Mayberry With Laurence Haddon (Colonel McAdams), Joseph Campanella (Whitney), Hildy Brooks (Ellie), Tom Stewart, Ted Hartley, Ramon Bieri. When a top-security scientist disappears, Ironside zeroes in on the man's co-worker and and wife.
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| [CBS 10:00] A Boy Named Terry Egan [special]
D: Isaac Kleinerman The battle of a 9-year-old boy and his family against infantile autism, the baffling emotional disorder.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Going Home
Season 2, episode 5 W: Jack B. Sowards D: Robert Day With Milton Selzer (Eugene Beal), Arch Johnson (Caretaker at Alcatraz), Tom Bosley (Eddie Coughlin), Sheree North (Donna Coughlin), Brad Savage (Martin Coughlin). Dets. Stone and Keller hunt a bumbling thief before the mob gets him for holding up one of its numbers drops.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Follies [Reg]
With Sammy Davis Jr., Ken Berry, Joey Heatherton, Wayne Newton, Mickey Rooney.
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