Thursday April 25, 1974
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 25, 1974:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: The Odyssey (R) Movie: Springfield Rifle (1952)
ABC Chopper One: The Boy Who Cried Wolf (R) Firehouse: Trapped (R) Kung Fu: The Well (R) The Paper Prison - Your Government Records
NBC The Flip Wilson Show (R) Ironside: The Hidden Man (R) Music Country U.S.A. (R)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Odyssey
Season 2, episode 2
W: Joanna Lee   D: Jack Shea

With Victor Izay (Dr. Vance), Sissy Spacek (Sarah Simmonds), Allyn Ann McLerie (Mrs. Simmonds), Frances E. Williams (Granny Ketcham). John-Boy seeks the privacy of an abandoned cabin to continue his writing and finds a pregnant woman hiding there.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1973)

[ABC 8:00] Chopper One [Reg]: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Season 1, episode 4
W: Sy Salkowitz   D: Bruce Bilson

With Dave Morick, Lawrence Montaigne, Mitzi Hoag (Mother), Michael-James Wixted (David). An invalid ham radio operator disrupts the department with false emergency calls.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1974)

[NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 22

With Rich Little, Ed McMahon, Bill Withers, Cicely Tyson. Featured skit is a spoof of the Tonight Show with Rich Little doing his impersonation of Johnny Carson. Other highlights include Oscar nominee Cicely reciting "When Malindy Sings" from Broadway's "A Hand Is on the Gate", Little's impersonations of various singers, two songs by Bill Withers, and Wilson's character, good old Marvin Lattimer.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1973)

[ABC 8:30] Firehouse [Reg]: Trapped
Season 1, episode 4
W: S.S. Schweitzer

With Robert Donley (Scola), Joaquin Martinez (Keegan), Joe Di Reda (Mike Stenock), Don Dubbins (Mills), Karen Carlson (Diane Harding). After saving a man's new dump truck from fire, Capt. Ryerson and his men rush to a tunnel project endangered by high gas levels.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1974)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Springfield Rifle (1952)
W: Charles Marquis Warren, Frank Davis   D: Andre DeToth

With Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, Lon Chaney Jr., Paul Kelly, Philip Carey, Alan Hale Jr., David Brian, Martin Milner. Major Lex Kearney becomes the North's first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who's behind the theft of Union cavalry horses in Colorado during the Civil War.

[ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Well
Season 2, episode 1
W: Kittridge Barton   D: Jerry Thorpe

With Tim McIntire (Mitch), Hal Williams (Caleb Brown), Mae Mercer (Elizabeth Brown), Ta-Ronce Allen (Juliet Brown), George Spell (Daniel Brown), Robert Karnes (Parkes), Chuck Hayward (Drifter), Jane Lambert (Bess Hawkins). A former slave's distrust of everyone provides a challenge to Caine's philosophy after he is nursed back to health by the black man's family, only to face a vengeful deputy sheriff.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1973)

[NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Hidden Man
Season 7, episode 10
W: James Doherty, William Gordon   D: Don Weis

With Zalman King (Gregory), Harold J. Stone (Babe), Cliff Potts (Mike), Warren Kemmerling, James Gregory (Tony). Ironside tries to help a "slain" policeman's soldier-son find his father before a jailed hoodlum's revenge-crazed son can find the ex-GI.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/29/1973)

[ABC 10:00] The Paper Prison - Your Government Records ABC News investigates the use and abuse of billions of pieces of information amassed by government agencies across the country on ordinary Americans. FBI Director Clarence Kelley and Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) are interviewed.

[NBC 10:00] Music Country U.S.A.
Season 1, episode 6

With Rocky Graziano, Ted Knight, Joey Bishop, Dizzy Dean, Jerry Reed, Johnny Duncan, Mac Wiseman, Lynn Anderson. Donna Fargo hosts.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1974)

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