Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 18, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: To Ride A Yeller Horse
Season 19, episode 23 W: Calvin Clements D: Vincent McEveety With Louise Latham (Joan Shepherd), Herb Vigran (Judge Brooker), Kathleen Cody (Anna May), Simon Scott (Mr. Rogers), Parker Stevenson (Steven Rogers), Elizabeth Harrower (Mrs. O'Rourke), Thomas Leopold (Chester), John Reilly (Orlo). An ambitious mother doesn't consider either Newly O'Brien or a neighboring farmer a suitable suitor for her daughter, and provokes them into a fight which almost leads to tragedy.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Death Watch
Season 2, episode 23 W: Alvin Boretz, Hal Sitowitz D: Philip Leacock With Anthony Zerbe (Ralph Sneed), Paul Jenkins (Towers), Bridget Hanley (Arlene Talbot), Paul Smith (Lou Talbot), Keith Atkinson (Dr. Miller), Victoria Carroll (Dr. Ramsey). Willie becomes gravely ill after giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an an ex-convict -- who promptly disappears. The convict has viral meningitis, and the possibility of an epidemic puts the police force to work searching for him.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Magician [Reg]: The Illusion Of The Lethal Playthings
Season 1, episode 19 W: Larry Brody D: Jack Arnold With Joseph Sirola (Dominick), Louis Hayward (Millotson), Joanna Miles (Maggie Jones), Scott Hylands (Hal Millotson), Simon Scott (Jackson Wyndham), Richard O'Brien (Lt. Hoyt), Ivor Francis (Thomas Donald). A dibolical toy maker tries to dive-bomb Anthony Blake with an ammo-loaded model airplane.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy Fights The System
Season 6, episode 24 W: Bob O'Brien D: Jack Donohue With Eddie Quillan (Mr. Jackson), Vanda Barra (Diner), Sid Gould (Diner), Larry J. Blake (Franklin), Mary Treen (Mary Winters), Jack Collins (Harvey Stevens), John J. Fox (Charlie), Ernest Sarracino (Tony). Lucy starts a campaign for recognition of older-but-employable people after an aging waitress applies at the employment agency. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Z (1969)
W: Jorge Semprun D: Konstantinos Gavras With Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Denner, Jacques Perrin, Pierre Dux. Costa-Gavras' Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Film) political drama about a left-wing legislator who ignores threats against his life to speak out against the militaristic regime of his Mediterranean country. When he is murdered, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while the government attempts a cover-up.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Call Me Bwana (1963)
W: Nate Monaster, Mort Lachman, Johanna Harwood D: Gordon Douglas With Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Arnold Palmer, Lionel Jeffries. A phony Africa expert is tapped to go into the heart of the jungle to bring back a missing space capsule -- encountering resistance from a foreign power that also wants the capsule.
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| [CBS 9:30] American Film Institue Salute To James Cagney [special]
With Jack Lemmon, Mae Clarke, Doris Day, Frank Gorshin, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, Cicely Tyson, John Wayne. Frank Sintara hosts a tribute to James Cagney, highlighted by the presentation of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award for Cagney's contribution to American film. Also featured will be clips from some of Cagney's films.
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