Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 11, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Cowtown Hustler
Season 19, episode 22 W: Jim Byrnes D: Gunnar Hellstrom With Jack Albertson (Moses Darby), Henry Beckman (Thaddius McKay), Jonathan Lippe (Dave Rope), John Davis Chandler (Willie Tomsen), Robert Swan (Cox), Chuck Hicks (Turner), Dabbs Greer (Joe Bean), Richard O'Brien (Adam Kearney), Lew Brown (Beeton). A high-stakes match gives an aging down-and-out pool player the chance to regain his self-respect -- but at the risk of killing his partner who bet against him.
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| [ABC 8:00] Free To Be. . . You And Me [special]
With Alan Alda, Harry Belafonte, Mel Brooks, Dick Cavett, Rita Coolidge, Billy DeWolfe, Roberta Flack, Rosey Grier, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Jackson, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Morse, The New Seekers, Tommy Smothers, Cicely Tyson, The Voices of East Harlem, Dionne Warwick. An hour-long special of comedy, music, animation and dance with Marlo Thomas and guests. The stars are seen or heard in stories and songs, celebrating the show's theme: that youngsters should be free to express their own uniqueness.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Magician [Reg]: The Vanishing Lady
Season 1, episode 2 W: Harold Livingston D: Marvin Chomsky With Todd Crespi (Dennis Pomeroy), Amanda McBroom (Julie Carter), Peter Brown (Ray Weaver), John Karlen (Jim Russell), Lilyan Chauvin (Anna), Byron Mabe (Eddie Tarlow), Ramon Bieri (Lt. Corcoran), Lenore Kasdorf (Jane Roberts), Craig Morton (Sgt. Drake). Anthony Blake gets involved in a kidnapping case when a lady singer who appears on the bill with him in Las Vegas is held for ransom. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/9/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Where Is My Wandering Mother Tonight?
Season 6, episode 23 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Jack Donohue With Jack Donohue (Dirty Jack), Brian Cutler (Brian), Cindy Barnes (Cindy). Feeling sorry for herself, Lucy wangles an invitation to spend the weekend with daughter Kim, but discovers that her presence is dampening Kim's plans for a romantic evening with her boyfriend.
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| [ABC 9:00] John Denver Show [special]
With David Carradine, Lily Tomlin, James Whitmore. The folk-country music performer appears in his first network special. Highlights include Denver signing "Rocky Mountain High", "Take Me Home, Country Roads", and "Eagle and the Hawk"; Kung Fu's Carradine joins Denver for a song; Ms. Tomlin appears as "The Fame Fairy"; Whitmore performs a segment of his acclaimed impression of Will Rogers.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Change Of Habit (1969)
W: James Lee, S.S. Schweitzer, Eric Bercovici D: William Graham With Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot, Edward Asner, Regis Toomey, Leora Dana, Robert Emhart. Three nuns return to everyday dress in a social-work experiment and are assigned to a ghetto clinic to assist a young doctor.
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| [CBS 9:30] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: We Met At Mama Lombardi's
Season 3, episode 23 W: Carl Reiner, Mark Elias, Frank Shaw D: Bud Molin With Frank Campanella (Dominic). Dick tries on a fake mustache and it causes Max to recall their first meeting many years before -- where Max was trying to date Jenny and Dick was being deliberately obnoxious to both of them. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Conspirators
Season 5, episode 21 W: Don Brinkley D: Earl Bellamy With Kay Lenz (Kitty), Joey Aresco (Leo Rivers), Nick Nolte (Tank), John David Carson (Alex), Ian Sander (Ziggy), Barbara Colby (Mrs. Polumbo). After a young rape victim identifies her attacker, the girl's street-gang friends gain vengeance, thereby dumping a seriously injured patient into Joe Gannon's hands.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Man From Independence [special]
W: Edward DeBlasio D: Jack Smight With Robert Vaughn, Arthur Kennedy, June Dayton, Martha Scott, Russell Johnson, Ronne Troup. Dramatization of the life of the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. The story centers around the year 1929, when Truman's judgeship in Independence, Mo. put him in conflict with a political boss.
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