Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 4, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour [Reg]
Season 4, episode 14 With Totie Fields, Dom DeLuise, The Osmonds. Comedy highlights feature Totie as a cheerleader, an airline stewardess, a bunny and a ballerina, and DeLuise as knife thrower Dominick the Great.
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| [ABC 7:30] The Mod Squad [Reg]: I Am My Brother's Keeper
Season 4, episode 15 W: James Schmerer D: Jerry Jameson With Linda Marsh (Betty Ayres), Guy Stockwell (Milton Shermer), Jack Ging (Dave Derman), John Kerr (Dr. Freilich), Betty Lynn (Nurse Kearny). Linc and Julie race against time to find Pete who, while investigating undercover the slaying on the docks of a union member, has suffered a brain injury after being run down by a car which killed his contact.
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| [NBC 7:30] Sarge [Reg]: An Accident Waiting To Happen
Season 1, episode 13 With Robert Sampson (Father Burke), Susan Oliver (Fran Bavarian), Billy Green Bush (Cy Bronson). Questioning the circumstances under which a man was killed when struck by a car driven by Father Burke, Sarge sets out to prove his fellow priest innocent of manslaughter.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Bait Once, Bait Twice
Season 4, episode 15 W: Will Lorin D: Alf Kjellin With Norman duPont (Howard Miller), James Olson (Bart Mariss), Loretta Swit (Betty Landers), Malachi Throne (Barry Bonamo). The case against a large illegal gambling operation is almost destroyed when the distraught girlfriend of a key witness attempts suicide and it leads to his murder.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Gidget Gets Married (1972)
W: John McGreevey D: E.W. Swackhamer With Monie Ellis, Michael Burns, Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Corrine Camacho, Macdonald Carey, Elinor Donahue, Paul Lynde. America's oldest teenager and her longtime finacee Jeff finally get married and no sooner are they settled in their new home than the bride begins to rally the neighbors against community conformity, which gets her husband in trouble with the boss.
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| [NBC 8:30] Man Is My Name [special]
NBC launches a Tuesday night series of one-of-a-kind specials with a study of primitive tribesmen. Produced, directed and photographed by Pierre D. Gaisseau, winner of an Academy Award for the documentary film "The Sky Above, the Mud Below", assisted by his son, Nicholas, the hour focuses on the reactions to such products of civilization such as cameras, canned food and transistor radios of a village still at the stone age level of development. Early in 1970, Gaisseau, his son and a small detachment of Indonesian army personnel parachuted into the West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea) village peopled by friendly but cannibalistic natives. Robert Dryden is the narrator.
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| [CBS 9:30] Cannon [Reg]: Devil's Playground
Season 1, episode 15 W: Ken Trevey D: Marvin Chomsky With Daniel J. Travanti (Doyle Hoffner), Martin Sheen (Jerry Warton), Collin Wilcox (Phyllis Langley). A crippled former motorcycle officer enlists Cannon in his vendetta to uncover the supposedly dead hoodlum responsible for the injury that finished his career.
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| [NBC 9:30] Nichols [Reg]: Eddie Joe
Season 1, episode 15 W: William Wood, Frank Pierson D: John Badham With Warren Vanders (Pel DeCarlo), James Daris (Curtiss), Paul Winfield (Eddie Joe), Lou Frizzell (Warden), Scatman Crothers (Jack), Jester Hairston (Melville), Eric Laneuville (Stove Boy). A New Orleans jazz funeral scene staged and performed by Dixieland great Joe Darinsbourg highlights tonight's episode in which Nichols helps the local chef escape a posse after he's disclosed to be an escaped murderer.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: The Basic Moment (1)
Season 3, episode 15 W: Jerry McNeely D: Marc Daniels With Christine Belford (Sandy Wells), Richard Van Vleet (Ray Wells), Michele Lee (Katie Wells), Berkeley Harris (Glenn Weckner), Sherry Bain (Evy Weckner). Dr. Welby's daughter, Sandy, who has been living in South America since her marriage, returns home to have an abortion because she fears her baby will be deformed due to possible exposure to rubella. However, her husband believes there's a deep-seated psychological reason for her reluctance to become a mother.
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