Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday January 16, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Funny Papers [special]
With Raquel Welch, Carroll O'Connor, Jane Connell. Slightly satiric sketches based on comic-strip characters from "Little Orphan Annie", Terry and the Pirates", "Brenda Starr" and "Willie and Joe".
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| [NBC 7:30] The Mysterious Spring - Africa's Mzima [special]
Naturalist and wildlife photographer Alan Root and his wife, Joan, spent nearly 6 months camped near the spring called Mzima in Kenya's Tsavo National Park to film this special. Cliff Robertson as off-camera narrator describes how nature maintains a delicate balance between living creatures and their food supply in a region unspoiled by man.
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| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), part one
W: Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson D: David Lean With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne. Story of a Japanese prison camp in the Burmese jungle.
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| [ABC 8:00] The F.B.I. [Reg]: The Break-Up
Season 7, episode 17 W: Ed Waters D: Virgil Vogel With Jerry Ayres (Todd Rawson), Donna Mills (Bernice Rawson), Charles Cioffi (Verne Dupre). A bank bandit wants to go straight, but his wife and a big-time operator persuade him to rob a posh jewelry store while Inspector Erskine picks up the trail.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Jimmy Stewart Show [Reg]: The Quarterback Ache
Season 1, episode 17 W: Hal Kanter, Steve Barker D: Ezra Stone With Richard Annis (Karpopolis), Jack Somack (Coach Wylie), Jerry Hausner (Dr. Scully), Marilyn Rogers (Susie), Willis Bouchey (Phineas Cobb). Everyone on campus joins in the campaign to help the overweight star quarterback of the football team lose 10 pounds.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: In Harm's Way (1965), part one
W: Wendell Mayes D: Otto Preminger With John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss. A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bonanza [Reg]: The Saddle Stiff
Season 13, episode 17 W: Samuel A. Peeples, John Hawkins D: William F. Claxton With Buddy Ebsen (Cactus Murphy), Henry Wills (Yokum), Don Collier (Paul Walker), Hal Riddle (Tiller), Jay W. MacIntosh (Sally), Charles H. Gray (Cass Beckenridge), Richard Farnsworth (Tate). A hired hand's criticism of Ben Cartwright poses an unusual challenge to the cattle empire.
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| [CBS 9:30] Cade's County [Reg]: One Small Acceptable Death
Season 1, episode 14 W: Michael Gleason D: Irving J. Moore With David Wayne (Harley), William Smithers (William Courtney), Michael Baseleon (Max Galt), Mike Road (District Attorney Forbes), S. John Launer, Sid Grossfield (Bryce Ackerman), James McCallion. A wino has trouble convincing the district attorney that he saw his friend killed, until Cade begins an investigation.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bold Ones: The Lawyers [Reg]: The Long Morning After (2)
Season 3, episode 9 W: Douglas Heyes D: Douglas Heyes With John Milford (Lt. Hewitt), Pat Hingle (Gen. Sternwood), Anne Helm (Maggie Lewis), Pamela McMyler (Linda Sternwood), Robert Corff (Brother Bartholomew), Bill Quinn (Howard Marks), Patricia Barry (Marian Sternwood), James Wainwright (Bill Stillman). Neil Darrell is still determined to prove Gen. Sternwood guilty of murder, but the evidence he finds leads to another source.
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