Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday March 13, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] We Live With Elephants [special]
A filmed account of the five-year study by Scottish scientist Ian Douglas-Hamilton and his family, who have been living among 500 elephants dwelling in the Manyara Preserve in the Rife Valley, Tanzania. David Niven narrates.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Cowboys [Reg]: The Accused
Season 1, episode 6 W: John Hawkins, Jon Sevorg D: William Witney With Walter Brooke (Reager), Robert Contreras (Julio), Felipe Turich (Adolfo), John McKee (Foley), Ian Wolfe (Padre). The Longhorn cowboys enlist the aid of an apple-loving horse named Pickpocket to try to break up a ring of horse thieves and clear the name of a poor Mexican family.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Clinic On Eighteenth Street
Season 6, episode 24 W: Joseph Calvelli D: Jack Webb With Ed Nelson (Abe Strayhorn), Frank Sinatra Jr. (Gino Bardi), Dick Haymes (Dr. Gantman), Virginia Gregg (Miss Brown), Sharon Gless (Lynn Carmichael), Virginia Vincent (Marion Fenton), Dawn Lyn (Maggie Fenton), Kenneth Tobey (Don Bates), Burt Mustin (Jud Peterson), Rose Ann Deel (Maddie), Len Wayland (Art Wilson). Tonight's episode is a special program developed as a pilot for a potential new series. The body of a man wearing an "oscillator belt" prompts an investigation into medical fraud when examination proves he died from diabetic shock.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Hanged Man (1974)
W: Ken Trevey D: Michael Caffey With Steve Forrest, Cameron Mitchell, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger, Will Geer, Barbara Luna, Rafael Campos, Brendon Boone. A former gunslinger is unjustly hanged and dies, yet he returns to life hours later as a mystical and mysterious avenger fighting for justice in the old west. Pilot movie for a series.
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| [NBC 8:30] TV Movie: The Execution Of Private Slovik (1974)
W: Richard Levinson, William Link D: Lamont Johnson With Martin Sheen, Mariclare Costello, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Warren Kemmerling, Charles Haid, Matt Clark, Ben Hammer. The true story of Eddie Slovik, who during World War II became the only American serviceman executed for desertion since the Civil War.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: Triangle Of Terror
Season 3, episode 24 W: Carey Wilber D: George McCowan With Dana Wynter (Kathy Ackers), Lloyd Bochner (Conrad Ackers), Thalmus Rasulala (Chief Constable), Don Knight (Walter Lavelle). An heiress suspects the apparent suicide of her multi-millionaire father on a British Caribbean protectorate is in reality a homicide.
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| [CBS 10:00] Kojak [Reg]: Requiem For A Cop
Season 1, episode 6 W: Jack Laird D: Gary Nelson With Bruce Kirby (Al Vine), Louise Latham (Madge Donnelly), Michael Margotta (Jack Donnelly), James Luisi (Officer Alessi), Joey Aresco (Sammy), Curt Conway (Father Duggan), John Sylvester White (Chief Copeland), Robert Brubaker (Deputy Commissioner Cowan), Dan Seymour (Broen), Joseph George (Sergeant Dobieski), John Pickard (Tom Donnelly), Gil Serna (Sandro). Kojak has 48 hours to clear the name of a slain veteran police officer suspected of being on the take, or his old colleague will receive last rites and be buried with dishonor. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/28/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] Doc Elliot [Reg]: The Gold Mine
Season 1, episode 10 W: Sandor Stern, John Kingsbridge D: Robert Totten With Merle Haggard (Owen Henderson), Heidi Vaughn (Laura Shea), Edith Atwater (Emma Johnson), Karl Swenson (Mike Shea), Hoke Howell (Sam), Ken Mayer (Ford). A tough, independent miner has gold fever and is sure of a strike.
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