Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday July 4, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Ghost Story
Season 2, episode 22 W: Nigel McKeand D: Ralph Waite With Wilford Brimley (Horace), Kristopher Marquis (Luke), James Gammon (Zack Rosswell). John-Boy obtains a "spirit board" which is reputed to tell the future. When the board appears to be delivering mysterious messages, the children, forbidden to play with it, become intrigued by its powers. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1974)
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| [ABC 8:00] Chopper One [Reg]: The Drop
Season 1, episode 6 W: Don Balluck D: Phil Bondelli With William Windom (Marklund), Jamie Smith-Jackson (Jennifer), Lew Brown (Detective Saunders), John Quade (Brandt), Ross Elliott (Dr. Doyle). The teenage daughter of a wealthy doctor is abducted and taken to a mountain hideway by the father of a patient of the doctor's who died. Instead of dropping ransom money as ordered, Don parachutes in to hunt for the girl. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] Dean Martin's Comedy World [Reg]
With Rodney Dangerfield, Jud Strunk, Lonnie Shorr, Mark Russell, Morecambe and Wise.
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| [ABC 8:30] Firehouse [Reg]: Randall's Pride
Season 1, episode 11 W: Booker Bradshaw, David P. Lewis, Fenton Hobart Jr. With John Gruber (Mitch), Charlotte Stewart (Bobbie), Roger Davis (Farrell). Capt. Ryerson and his men save a girl who has driven her car over a cliff, then rush to a stable fire threatening to destroy valuable racehorses. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/28/1974)
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| [CBS 9:00] Applause [special]
W: Betty Comden, Adolph Green D: Ron Field, Bill Foster With Lauren Bacall, Penny Fuller, Robert Mandan, Sarah Marshall, Larry Hagman, Harvey Evans, Rod McLennan. The TV adaptation of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical based on the 1950 movie "All About Eve". A veteran Broadway star befriends an aspiring actress only to discover that she's out to succeed her. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Elixir
Season 2, episode 11 W: A. Martin Zweiback D: Walter Doniger With Diana Muldaur (Theodora), David Canary (Frank Grogan), Don Megowan (Quinn), Matt Clark (Niebo), Richard Caine (Wade Grogan), Walter Barnes (Sheriff), Henry Wills (Joe), Gary Eppler (Billy). A beautiful woman's independence, a crippled man's love for her and a jealous suitor provide a dangerous challenge to Caine. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/20/1973)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Armageddon Gang
Season 7, episode 5 W: Larry Brody D: Russ Mayberry With Laurence Haddon (Colonel McAdams), Joseph Campanella (Whitney), Hildy Brooks (Ellie), Tom Stewart, Ted Hartley, Ramon Bieri. When a top-security scientist disappears, Ironside zeroes in on the man's co-worker and and wife. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/11/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Death And The Favored Few
Season 2, episode 23 W: Gene L. Coon D: Virgil Vogel With Greg Mullavey (John Reed), Rosemary Murphy (Etta Randolph), Harold Gould (Joseph Francis), Leslie Charleson (Joanna Reed), Lester Fletcher (Terrence Aubrey). After a notorious society columnist is murdered, police learn he made more money for what he withheld from publication than for what he did print. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1974)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Stars And Stripes Show [special]
With Bob Hope, Dionne Warwick, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Mike Curb Congregation, Ricky Stegall, Miss America of 1974, The Les Brown Band, The Westchester Wranglerettes, The Texas Boys' Choir. The sixth annual presentation staged by the Oklahoma City Assn. of Broadcasters at the Myriad Convention Center.
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