Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday March 14, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Car
Season 2, episode 25 W: Chris Andrews D: Philip Leacock With Ed Lauter (Hyder Rudge), Bonnie Bartlett (Martha), Paul Sorenson (Higgins). Hyder Rudge offers a car he no longer needs to John-Boy in exchange for a roof repair job and then refuses to keep his promise.
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| [ABC 8:00] Chopper One [Reg]: Killing Time
Season 1, episode 9 W: John T. Dugan D: Richard Newton With Norman Alden (Fleck), Danna Hansen (Ruth), Frank Marth (Sanford), Lloyd Bochner (Pike), Philip Chapin (Bremmer). Mitch's wife is kidnapped by syndicate gunmen planning to assassinate an anti-crime crusader who is running for governor.
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| [NBC 8:00] The World You Never See [special]
Marvels of nature not normally seen by the naked eye are featured in a documentary on micro-photography narrated by Hugh Downs. Seven British specialists who make up the Oxford Scientific Film Unit overcame the limitations of the human eye by using specially designed equipment and employing such aids as time-lapse photography and "cold" lighting (artificial). Among the sequences: organisms in a drop of water; feeding habits of mosquitos; bees in flight; development of a chicken embryo and the spawning of trout.
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| [ABC 8:30] Firehouse [Reg]: No Way Out
Season 1, episode 9 W: Robert Pirosh D: Christian Nyby With Tammy Harrington (Ellie), Woodrow Parfrey (Barber). Capt. Ryerson and his men save a youth from being buried alive and fight a laundry fire.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Birds Of Prey (1973)
W: Robert Boris D: William A. Graham With David Janssen, Ralph Meeker, Elayne Heilveil, Harry Kiekas, Sam Dawson. A robbery-kidnapping kicks off a daring and dangerous copter cat-and-mouse chase through the city skyways and narrow mountain passes, when a World War II pilot sees a copter carry off three armed men and a girl taken hostage in an armored car holdup.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Arrogant Dragon
Season 2, episode 20 W: Katharyn Michaelian, Michael Michaelian D: Richard Lang With Richard Loo (Wu Chang), James Hong (Men Han), Clyde Kusatsu, Yuki Shimada (Bandit), Jocelyne Lew (Kem), Edward Walsh (Jake), Dalton Leong (Sun Lai), Tommy Lee (Apothecary), Nathan Jung (Dark Rider), Russ Grieve (Man), Arthur Song (Tong Member), Hubert Wing (Chi). An old man seeking to leave a deadly Tong looks to Caine for a way of escape.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Riddle At 24,000
Season 7, episode 22 W: Lane Slate, Ken Kolb D: Don Weis With Desi Arnaz (Dr. Juan Domingo), Linda Foster (Big Sue), L.Q. Jones (Cardiff), Patricia Smith (Laura Blaine), Michael Richardson (Denny), Dolores Dorn (Mrs. Wescott), Ralph Meeker (Wescott), Kelly Thordsen (Airport Manager). When Ironside visits his friend Dr. Domingo he finds him disturbed, having just returned from the local airport. Domingo explains that a couple took off in their private plane with the husband at the controls, but when they returned, the wife was at the controls and her husband was dead. (Pilot for a new series,)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Death And The Favored Few
Season 2, episode 23 W: Gene L. Coon D: Virgil Vogel With Greg Mullavey (John Reed), Rosemary Murphy (Etta Randolph), Harold Gould (Joseph Francis), Leslie Charleson (Joanna Reed), Lester Fletcher (Terrence Aubrey). After a notorious society columnist is murdered, police learn he made more money for what he withheld from publication than for what he did print.
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| [NBC 10:00] Music Country U.S.A.
Season 1, episode 9 With Donna Fargo, Tom T. Hall, Buck Owens, Ray Stevens. Wayne Newton hosts and opens the location-oriented show with "Take Me Home, Country Roads", followed by Donna Fargo's rendition of "Hot Diggity Dog" and Tom T. Hall with "Back When We Were Young".
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