Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 21, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Carnival
Season 1, episode 2 W: Nigel McKeand D: Alf Kjellin With Gino Conforti (Pete Harris), Billy Barty (Tommy), Barbara Davis (Belle), Arthur Peterson (Homer Ferguson), Cindy Eilbacher (Martha Rose Coverdale), Jay Ripley (Sam Holden). A touring carnival folds when the manager and snake charmer's wife abscond with the receipts, leaving the entertainers stranded. They take up residence in the Waltons' barn.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: The Thunder Makers
Season 5, episode 2 W: Jack Turley D: Jerry Jameson With John McLiam (Sam), Bobby Sherman (Buddy Farragut), Paul Carr (Danny Johnson), Frank Ramirez (Chico), John Lasell (Clinton Farragut), Steve Chambers (Buzz). The son of a construction company owner joins up with a motorcycle gang and plots to fake a payroll robbery of his dad's firm, but the gang has other ideas.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 2 With Tim Conway, The 5th Dimension. In skits, Geraldine Jones gets a visit from the Ravon Lady (Conway) while a notorious criminal in disguise is on the loose; the President (Conway) gets more help from his cleanup man (Flip); the Rev. Leroy kibitzes a poker game on a train. The 5th Dimension sings "I Didn't Get to Sleep Last Night".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Professionals (1966)
W: Richard Brooks D: Richard Brooks With Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Bellamy, Woody Strode, Joe DeSantis. After the 1917 revolution in Mexico, an American millionaire offers to pay four soldiers of fortune $1,000 each to rescue his kidnapped Mexican wife from the guerrilla bandit leader.
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| [ABC 9:00] Jigsaw [Reg]: Hard Time
Season 1, episode 1 With Pernell Roberts (Sgt. Gustafson), Jim Davis (Capt. Mort Stone), Catherine Burns (Lily Blaydon), Reid Smith (Jimmy Blaydon), Tom Reese. A trilogy adventure series, "The Men", starts with the segment dealing with police work, in particular the activities of a bureau of missing persons. James Wainwright stars as Lt. Frank Dain. In the first episode he searches for an itinerant author who has been reported missing by his publisher.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Savage Sentry
Season 6, episode 2 W: William Douglas Lansford D: Don Weis With John Davey (Trainer), Jessica Rains (Martha Lane), Gary Wood (Charles Barnes), Gilbert Green (Andre Jardin), Mariclare Costello (Mary Ellen Wells), Dana Elcar (Buckner), Bo Svenson (Taggert), Anthony Zerbe (Dunlap). The chief undertakes a course in professional dog training when previously efficient guard dogs fail to attack jewel robbers on the premises they guard.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Lines From An Angry Book
Season 2, episode 2 D: Lou Antonio With Pat Harrington Jr. (D.A. Charlie Giannetta), Julie Sommars (Jill Peniman), Andrew Duggan (Clifford Wedekind), Kim Hunter (Faye Danner), Kathleen Lloyd (Natalie Banks). A woman college professor is accused of the murder of a student with whom she was having an affair. Marshall, defending her, receives an anonymous note concerning a diary kept by the dead youth.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 2 With Barbara Feldon, Lloyd Bridges, Anna Moffo. In a skit, Dean discovers there's now a tax on love-making when he visits auditor Barbara. Miss Moffo sings "Daughter of the Regiment". Bridges joins Miss Moffo in a "Today and Yesterday" medley. Dean sings "The Small Exception of Me". The Ding-a-Lings do "That Old Black Magic".
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