Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 31, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Cradle
Season 2, episode 20 W: Joanna Lee D: Ralph Senensky With Victor Izay (Dr. Vance), Merie Earle (Maude Gormley), Nora Marlowe (Mrs. Brimmer), Adrienne Marden (Mrs. Breckenridge). Olivia discovers that she is going to have a baby just when she has taken on a selling job to help out with the family's finances.
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| [ABC 8:00] Chopper One [Reg]: The Bust-Out
Season 1, episode 3 W: Don Balluck D: Phil Bondelli With Eddie Firestone, Victor Argo, Antony Carbone, Michael Ansara, Vince Howard (Officer), Jackie Russell. The chopper is commandeered at gunpoint when Gil and Don answer an emergency call.
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| [NBC 8:00] In Search Of Ancient Mysteries [special]
The possiblilty that ancient astronauts from outer space not only visited but colonized the earth is explored. Some of the places to be shown and discussed include Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes, the ruins of Tiahjanaco and the Gate of the Sun with its mysterious sun god, the Great Stone of Sayhuite, Sacasayhuarnan, the underwater wall off the island of Bimini in the Caribbean, the Bermuda Triangle, English hillside carvings and the primitive drawings in the rocks of Inyo County, Calif. Rod Serling narrates. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:30] Firehouse [Reg]: The Hottest Place In Town
Season 1, episode 3 W: Booker Bradshaw, David P. Lewis D: James B. Clark With Howard Hesseman (Hanley). While the men of Company 23 are putting out a night club fire, their stationhouse is being robbed.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
W: Tracy Keenan Wynn D: John Korty With Cicely Tyson, Barbara Cheney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Valerie O'Dell, Michael Murphy, Rod Perry, Thalmus Rasulala, Bill Walker, Collin Wilcox, David Hooks, Joel Fluellen, Will Hare. The story of a former slave who lived to participate in the birth of Civil Rights movement. At 110 years of age, Miss Pittman's life spanned a century of change.
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| [ABC 9:00] Primal Man: The Battle For Dominance [special]
The second in a four-part series tracing man's behavioral patterns takes up the study of when early man was forced to hunt for his own food.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Terror On Grant Avenue
Season 7, episode 16 W: Arthur Rowe D: Arnold Laven With Benson Fong (Wing), Mako (Phil), Irene Tsu (Laure), Frank Michael Liu (Billy). Chinatown becomes the chief's beat when one of the town's elders is fatally karate-chopped in an alley scuffle.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Crossfire
Season 2, episode 18 W: Jerry McNeely D: William Hale With Celeste Holm (Mrs. Shaninger), Nick Nolte (Capt. Melder), Pamela Franklin (Peggy Dunnigan). When a college professor is killed by a sniper, Dets. Stone and Keller discover they have a cunning plot on their hands.
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| [NBC 10:00] Music Country U.S.A.
Season 1, episode 3 With Charlie Rich, Jerry Reed, Diana Trask, George Jones, Rex Allen. Ray Stevens hosts and Rex Allen narrates 17 country music acts.
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