Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 28, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Calucci's Department [Reg]: Calucci's Raison D'Etre
Season 1, episode 11 W: Joseph Bologna, Renee Taylor Gonzales decides there must be more to life than the office routine and quits his job. This leads to Calucci questioning the mening of his own life. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Mail Order Hero
Season 5, episode 2 W: Martin A. Ragaway D: Bruce Bilson With Joe Namath (Himself), Eric Woods (Tom), Kerry MacLane (Eric), Larry Michaels (Burt), Tim Herbert (Herb). Bobby lies to his friends, telling them that Joe Namath drops by for dinner with the Bradys when he's in town. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1973)
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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. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1973)
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| [CBS 8:30] Roll Out [Reg]: Honor Truck
Season 1, episode 11 W: Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller D: Hollingsworth Morse An incentive program, initiated hopefully to curb a rash of vehicle maintenance troubles, leads to scheming and sabotage among the drivers of the Red Ball Express.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: That Was No Lady
Season 4, episode 4 W: Lee Kalcheim D: Jerry Belson With Patricia Harty (Melanie Metcalf), Alex Karras (Jake Metcalf), Johnny Silver (Coach). A short-tempered gridiron giant learns that Felix has been dating his wife. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1973)
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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. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Rockefellers
One of America's most famous families is the subject of a candid look. Each of the four surviving Rockefeller brothers - Nelson, Laurence, John and David - is interviewed by Walter Cronkite about their family, activities and philosophies.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: MPG
Season 5, episode 13 W: Leonard Stadd, Arlene Stadd D: Charles R. Rondeau With David Alan Bailey (Henry), Scott Colomby (Marvin). The competition becomes explosive when Walt Whitman High absorbs the crack automotive team from a rival school damaged in an earthquake.
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| [NBC 9:00] Needles And Pins [Reg]: A Girl Has A Right
Season 1, episode 10 W: Karyl Geld D: Hy Averback Sonia has a romance with "menswear from San Francisco" but before she can resign to move west, Nathan, Wendy and her other colleagues point out the pitfalls. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 9:30] Adam's Rib [Reg]: Too Many Cooks
Season 1, episode 12 W: Jane-Howard Hammerstein D: Gary Nelson With Cathey Paine, Candice Rialson, Barbette Tweed, Roland Winters (Judge), Lurene Tuttle. Amanda's plan to show Adam that while she enjoys cooking, he shouldn't take it for granted, backfires when he unexpectedly brings a judge home. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 9:30] The Brian Keith Show [Reg]: The Camp Doctor
Season 2, episode 12 D: Earl Bellamy With Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Josephine Pagud (Mrs. Pahali), Jane Page Goo (Mary), Don 'Lance' Over (Uncle Bob), Abigail Nohara (Mrs. Kukahiko). Dr. Jamison responds to a sick call at a camp and is shocked to discover it's a nudist colony.
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And Carmen Lopez W: Ed Scharlach, Douglas Tibbles D: Hollingsworth Morse With Fabian Gregory Cordova (Carlos Jr.), George McCallister (Brian), William Schallert (Louis), Vito Scotti (Alejandro Sanchez), Mina Vasquez (Alicia), Carmen Zapata (Carmen Lopez), Barbara Baxley (Marie Muncie), Vincent Van Patten (Bobby). Love is in the air for a family's housemaid. 2. Love And The Cover W: Jerry Rannow, Greg Strangis D: Joshua Shelley With Beth Howland (Rita), Doc Severinsen (Rollo), Ben Hammer (Mr. Gip), Danny Wells (Fred), Phoebe Noel (Charlotte). An undercover spy reveals to his wife that he has been using her as a cover for the last five years. 3. Love And The Cryin' Cowboy W: Peggy Elliott D: James Sheldon With Lonnie Shorr (Homer), Joseph Sirola (Alvin), Mel Tillis (Cleyon Potts), Lisa Todd (Earlane), Diana Trask (April Ann). A country western singer can only write hit songs after he has been dumped.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC News Special Edition
An examination of the life style of a new breed of tycoon - the supertanker owner. Despite the energy crisis, the owners of the world's largest supertankers - the biggest moving object ever made by man - have no trouble filling them up with 127 million gallons of oil and making millions doing it. The tankers are a quarter-mile in length (as long as four football fields). Owner of the largest is Ravi Tikkoo, a Karmhiri Brahmin. Edwin Newman narrates.
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