Sunday May 26, 1974
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Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday May 26, 1974:


7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Apple's Way: The Zoo (R) Mannix: Desert Run (R) Barnaby Jones: Venus As In Flytrap (R)  
ABC The F.B.I.: The Betrayal (R) Indianapolis 500  
NBC Wonderful World Of Disney: The Whiz Kid And The Mystery At Riverton (2) (R) Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem (R) NBC Reports  


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[CBS 7:30] Apple's Way [Reg]: The Zoo
Season 1, episode 3
W: Peter Beagle   D: Nick Webster

With Wayne Heffley (Tom), Robert Gooden (Doug Clark), Jay Varela (Moffatt). When George Apple finds animals being mistreated at a tacky roadside zoo, he swings into action at Cathy's insistence and takes the whole menagerie home with him.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/24/1974)

[ABC 7:30] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Betrayal
Season 9, episode 15
W: S.S. Schweitzer   D: William Wiard

With Michael Tolan (Frankie Geller), Emile Meyer (Iron Mike), James Olson (Carl Stovich), Suzann Arnold (Valerie), Alan Oppenheimer (Gordon Frisch), Robert Quarry (Price). After breaking out of prison, a man demands money that the organization owes him, but the mob has a deadlier payoff in mind.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1974)

[NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Whiz Kid And The Mystery At Riverton (2)
Season 20, episode 13
W: Herman Groves   D: Tom Leetch

With Kim Richards (Daffy Fernald), Hal Smith (Ed Haskins), Eric Shea (Alvin Fernald), Edward Andrews (Mayor Massey), John Fiedler (Charles Blackburn), Lonny Chapman (Fred Benson), Clay O'Brien (Shoie), Ted Gehring (Doyle Reager), Larry J. Blake (Police Chief), Norman Bartold (Sam Preston), Judson Pratt (Sergeant O'Halloran), Claude Johnson (Mr. Fernald), Bebe Kelly (Mrs. Fernald), Maudie Prickett (Mrs. Hundley), George O'Hanlon Sr. (Herb Evans), Molly Dodd (Mrs. Blake), Dick Wilson (Mr. Hodges). A teenager wins the city government essay contest to become mayor for a day and exposes some corrupt city officials.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/13/1974)

[CBS 8:30] Mannix [Reg]: Desert Run
Season 7, episode 6
W: Arthur Weiss, John Meredyth Lucas   D: Leslie H. Martinson

With Jeanette Nolan (Granny Foster), James B. Sikking (Sketchley), John Doucette (Ward Gillis), Kenneth Tobey (Ted Bailey), Pamela McMyler (Jenny Bailey), Bert Kramer (Mark Slocum), Bill Vint (Willie Gillis), Charles Dierkop (Frank), Karen Huston (Sandy), Ford Rainey (Reverend Walker), Carol Lawson (Mrs. Slocum), Mark Lenard (Hal), Debbie Lytton (Ellie), Don McGovern (Blake). Joe Mannix's search for a missing plane and its pilot leads to a nightmarish struggle for life in a ghost town in the Rockies.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/21/1973)

[ABC 8:30] Indianapolis 500 Delayed coverage of this auto racing classic, which took place earlier today at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Gordon Johncock is the defending champion of last year's rain-shortened event. Chris Schenkel, Jim McKay, Chris Economacki, Bill Flemming report.

[NBC 8:30] Columbo [Reg]: Mind Over Mayhem
Season 3, episode 6
W: Steven Bochco, Dean Hargrove   D: Alf Kjellin

With Jose Ferrer (Dr. Marshall Cahill), Jessica Walter (Margaret Nichols), Lew Ayres (Prof. Howard Nichols), Robert Walker Jr. (Neil Cahill), Lee H. Montgomery (Steve Spelberg), Lou Wagner (Ross), Arthur Batanides (Murph), Charles Macaulay (Farnsworth), John Zaremba (Coroner), William Bryant (Fields), Bert Holland (Whitehead), Jefferson Kibbee (Jeff). The head of a think tank kills a fellow doctor who had threatened to expose the man's son as having plagiarized a scientific theory from a deceased colleague.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/10/1974)

[CBS 9:30] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Venus As In Flytrap
Season 2, episode 14
W: Robert Heverly   D: Corey Allen

With Ed Nelson (Larry Kinner), Jessica Walter (Brooke Leighton), Jack Ging (Dr. Reston), Bettye Ackerman (Margery Kinner), Robert F. Simon (Mr. Strand), Olive Dunbar (Katherine), Carol Lawson (Mrs. Nelson), Mario Machado (Talk Show Host), Joseph Mell (Veterinarian), Bonnie Ebsen (Secretary). A well-known women's lib leader and an equally famous "male chauvinist" writer carry on a public feud and private love affair, resulting in the mysterious death of the author's crippled wife.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/6/1974)

[NBC 10:00] NBC Reports Drs. Arthur Kornberg, Joshua Lederberg and Salvador Luria, three Nobel Prize-winning scientists, express their views on the fight to conquer cancer, and the war-within-a-war toward the financing of research.

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