Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 8, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Maude [Reg]: Maude's Guest
Season 2, episode 16 W: Alan J. Levitt D: Hal Cooper With Brian Morrison (Phillip Traynor), Tamu Blackwell (Francie Potter). Maude's flawed liberalism bubbles to the surface once more as she decides it would be a lovely gesture to invite a black child from the ghetto to live with them for two weeks.
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: Operation Mercy
Season 2, episode 13 W: Michael Morris D: William Asher With Kim Richards (Little Girl), Ann Barter (Marge), Ricky Segall (Marvin), Milton Selzer (Margolies). Dr. Mercy becomes a patient in the children's ward.
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| [NBC 8:00] Chase [Reg]: Right To An Attorney
Season 1, episode 13 W: James Basler D: Alan Crosland Jr. With Andrew Robinson (Paul Kendra), Warren Stevens (Dan Marcus), Virginia Gregg (Customer), Olan Soule (Clerk), Les Lannom (Ron Whitsett). The wrong suspect in a robbery turns out to be the man who puts Capt. Reddick on the trail of a drug-dealing attorney.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: One Born Every Minute
Season 6, episode 17 W: Alvin Sapinsley D: Charles S. Dubin With Ed Flanders (Joe Connors), Lynette Mettey (Cindy Imala), Tommy Fujiwara (Sunada), Douglas Mossman (Elfidio), Jimmy Borges (Big Mardo), Patricia Herman (Natalie Maguire), John Stalker (Alex Anderson), Mitch Mitchell (Hotel Manager), Michael Strong (Harry Maguire), Peter Carew (George Heller), Connie Sawyer (Sylvia Heller). Bunco artists employ a beautiful girl as their come-on, but the con game seems to go awry when one of the victims plunges to his death from a hotel skyscraper.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Death Squad (1974)
W: Ronald Austin, James D. Buchanan D: Harry Falk With Robert Forster, Melvyn Douglas, Michelle Phillips, Claude Akins, Kenneth Tobey, George Murdock, Dennis Patrick, Stephen Young. An ex-cop is hired to uncover a renegade policeman suspected of gangland-style killings, but the hunter becomes the hunted.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Magician [Reg]: Shattered Image
Season 1, episode 10 W: Richard Hesse D: Michael O'Herlihy With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Joseph Campanella (Frank Mitchell), Leslie Parrish (Lydia), Ed Gilbert (Larry Malone), Wesley Lau (Capt. Gottschalk), Tara Talboy (Paula Mitchell). In an effort to help a little girl whose father is wanted for the slaying of a leading gangster, Anthony Blake works things out with the police and thwarts the gangsters through the use of a magic trick whereby the little girl disappears and reappears in a flash of fire.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: Nightmare (1974)
W: David Wiltse D: William Hale With Richard Crenna, Patty Duke, Vic Morrow, Peter Bromilow, Arch Johnson, Arlene Golonka, Richard Schaal. A suspense drama about a Manhattan apartment dweller who believes he has witnessed a crime and reluctantly becomes involved in investigating his own story, thereby making himself and his fiancee the target of a series of terrifying adventures.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: A Full Life
Season 5, episode 15 W: Lee Oscar Bloomgarden D: Nicholas Colasanto With Richard Basehart (Professor Kirkcastle), Murray MacLeod (Cecil Kirkcastle), Phyllis Thaxter (Kate Tannahill), Milton Selzer (Dr. Mazer), Jack Hogan (Dr. Haskins), Donald Mantooth (Student). After an elderly scientist returns from the jungles, he learns that he has contracted malaria and that his grandson will not follow in his footsteps. Dr. Welby enlists a tough nurse to rekindle his enthusiasm for life.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Story [Reg]: Chain Of Command
Season 1, episode 11 W: Mort Fine D: Leo Penn With Edmond O'Brien (Frank Modeer), Stuart Whitman (Capt. Steve Calvino), Patty McCormack (Marie Hall), Burr DeBenning (Sergeant Harper), Antony Carbone (Detective Evans), Sally Carter (Janice Magill), Charles McGraw (Lt. Mears), Marc Alaimo (Police Officer), Bert Kramer (Officer Lampert), Jerry Ayres (Officer Kilda), Rockne Tarkington (Leonard Gardner), Ed Bernard (Sergeant Collins). A tense drama about a suspected cop-killing conspiracy that could erupt into full-scale war between trigger-happy police and members of a hostile black community.
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