Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 4, 1974:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Chicken Thief
Season 2, episode 6 W: Richard Carr D: Ralph Senensky With Robert Donner (Yancy Tucker), Cissy Wellman (Jane Aspen), Merie Earle (Maude Gormley), Meg Wyllie (Mrs. Potter), Richard O'Brien (Charlie Potter), David Moody (Floyd Carter), Charles Kuenstle (Mr. Kilgare), Dorothy Meyer (Mrs. Blankfort). John-Boy's conscience troubles him when he catches a boy stealing chickens and he can't decide whether to report it. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] Chopper One [Reg]: The Hijacking
Season 1, episode 12 W: Robert I. Holt D: John Peyser With Nick Nolte (Bob), Art Lund (Travers), Darleen Carr (Rissa), George Sawaya. Officers Burdick and Foley search for mobsters who hijacked a gasoline fuel truck.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 1 With Ed Sullivan, Lucille Ball, The Osmond Brothers. The second season opens. Highlight skit features Flip and his guests in a take-off on the "Peanuts" comic strip. Sullivan "sings and dances" to "Strangers in the Night". The Osmonds sing "Just Like A Yo-Yo". In other features, Flip and Miss Ball are in a skit that takes place at a drive-in restaurant, where Geraldine (Hot Pants) Jones replaces a regular carhop. Miss Ball is the front end of Jo-Jo, the dancing horse, while Flip is the complaining tail end. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1971)
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| [ABC 8:30] Firehouse [Reg]: The Watches Of The Night
Season 1, episode 12 W: Jean Holloway With Lisa Lu (Mrs. Song), Rudi Gernreich (Fashion House Propietor). Captain Ryerson and his men battle a blaze in a slum apartment, then rescue partygoers when a top dress designer's opening night fashion celebration is marred by fire. Rudy Gernreich, designer of the topless bathing suit, makes a cameo appearance.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Dr. Max (1974)
W: Robert L. Joseph D: James Goldstone With Lee J. Cobb, Janet Ward, Robert Lipton, David Sheiner, Katherine Helmond, Sorrell Booke, Granville Van Dusen, John Lehne. An irascible but compassionate inner-city physician's concern for his patients sometimes puts him in conflict with with his own family. Pilot for a series.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Cenotaph (1)
Season 2, episode 22 W: William Kelley D: Richard Lang With Nancy Kwan (Mayli Ho), Stefan Gierasch (Lane McBurney / Kai Tong), Michael Pataki (Buskirk), Robert Ridgley (Whipple), Ned Romero (Lame Dog), Ed Bakey (Bloom), Ivan Naranjo (Tall Pot), Milton Parsons (Rev. Stekel), Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Stekel), Don Hanmer (Jaffe), James Weatherill (Merton). Caine meets a Scotsman who has hijacked a gold-transporting stagecoach to haul an enormous box that he claims is his dead Sioux wife's coffin.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Murder By One
Season 7, episode 2 W: Sy Salkowitz, David Vowell D: Alexander Singer With Clu Gulager (Frank), Mary Ure (Liz), Herb Edelman (David Wollens), Michael Baseleon (Davis). After officer Fran Belding learns the teenage son of her divorcee friend has been fatally shot, the chief goes into action. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Before I Die
Season 2, episode 4 W: Albert Ruben D: William Hale With Leslie Nielsen (John Connor), Ray Danton (Al Royce), Joanne Linville (Rosemary), James Wainwright (Murray Shindler), Paul Cavonis (Capiello), Tony Epper (Renfro), John Himes (Judge). A dedicated policeman who learns that he is dying because of an inoperable aneurism decides to take the law into his own hands and kill a syndicate boss. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Loyal Opposition
Democratic party spokesmen and NBC News discuss recent activities of the party -- leadership changes, future plans and attitudes toward administration policy. Appearing on the program are Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts; Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington; Rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Robert Strauss, chairman of the Democratic Natl. Committee; Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, and Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers.
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| [CBS 10:30] NBA Basketball
Milwaukee Bucks at Los Angeles Lakers in a playoff game. Pat Summerall, Elgin Baylor and Rod Hundley report.
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