Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 9, 1974:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Braggart
Season 2, episode 8 W: Richard Fielder D: Jack Shea With Michael McGreevey (Hobart Shank), Cindy Eilbacher (Martha Rose Coverdale), Tami Bula (Marcia Woolery), Richard X. Slattery (Clyde Harroway). An egotistical young baseball pitcher with hopes for a professional career invites himself to stay with the Waltons, but his compulsion to show everyone how great he is proves his undoing. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] Chopper One [Reg]: Strain Of Innocence
Season 1, episode 2 W: Robert I. Holt D: E.W. Swackhamer With James Luisi (Eddie), James Daughton (Phil Collins), Laurie Prange (Janie Hall), Dabbs Greer (Motel Manager), Rosanne Katon (Cashier). A pregnant girl whom Don has befriended, who is being held in a holdup, goes into labor and gives birth as the helicopter rushes her to the hospital. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 1 With Jack Benny, Pearl Bailey, The Muppets. Flip opens his third season. In skits, Flip plays a TV floor manager who has to cope with Benny's desire to pad his part in a commercial as well as Pearl's penchant for taking over the camera; Flip and Pearl play a married couple whose poor financial situation forces them to take in a boarder; Flip appears as hard-boiled newsman Stafford Cripps. The Muppets do a sketch called "The Dance Palace". Miss Bailey sings "It Only Takes a Moment". (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] Firehouse [Reg]: Strike, Spare And Burn
Season 1, episode 7 W: Charles A. McDaniel, Fenton Hobart Jr. With Richard X. Slattery (Ben), J. Pat O'Malley (Richards), Luana Anders (Dawn). Capt. Ryerson and his men respond to a fire in an old theater building where a vault filled with explosive nitrate film threatens the entire neighborhood. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1974)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The McKenzie Break (1970)
W: William Norton D: Lamont Johnson With Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Patrick O'Connell. World War II drama in which an Irish intelligence agent is put in charge of a British prison in Scotland to prevent an escape by captured Germans.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Spirit Helper
Season 2, episode 6 W: John T. Dugan D: Walter Doniger With Bo Svenson (Pike), Scott Hylands (Saunders), Don Johnson (Nashebo), James A. Watson Jr. (Diego). Caine attempts to teach the futility of revenge to a young Indian boy whose mother has been kidnapped by Comancheros. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1973)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Double-Edged Corner
Season 7, episode 11 W: Richard Landau D: David Friedkin With Albert Salmi (Matt), Nick Ferrari (Art), Arnold Williams (Hugo), Allen Garfield (Baxter), Clare Nono (Angel), Nancy Malone (Harriet), Lisa Gerritsen (Nancy), Morris Buchanan (Felix), Paul Lichtman (Augie). Baffled by a $100,000 heist during which two men were killed, Ironside resorts to a paid informer. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/6/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Shield Of Honor
Season 2, episode 10 W: D.C. Fontana D: Eric Till With John Kerr (O'Brien), Robert Foxworth (Ted Cullen), Mariette Hartley (Officer McCormick), Ayn Ruymen (Liza Cullen), Peter Mark Richman (Vince Bondini), Gary Vinson (Hallock), Reuben Collins (Tanner). Dets. Stone and Keller investigate a murder they suspect was set up by one of their own -- a policeman. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] Music Country U.S.A.
Season 1, episode 7 With Dick Martin, Nipsey Russell, George Burns, Donna Fargo, Tom T. Hall, Doug Kershaw, Dionne Warwick, Lynn Anderson, Mac Davis. Jerry Reed hosts. One of the show's highlights involves Russell, Burns and Martin trying out their favorite country songs. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1974)
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