Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 28, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Calf
Season 1, episode 3 W: Jim Byrnes D: Harry Harris With Leonard Stone (George Anderson). John Walton's children are unhappy when he insists he must sell their baby calf because he needs the money to buy a new axle for his truck.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Yesterday's Ashes
Season 5, episode 3 W: Skip Webster D: Richard Newton With Ivor Francis (Dr. Forrester), Robert Pine (Jay Turner), Jo Ann Harris (Sue Fielding), Rudy Challenger (Dr. Gordon), Nino Candido (Jerry Vincent). The squad witnesses a shoplifting at a jewelry store by a badly-scarred woman who jumps in front of her boyfriend's gun to save Pete's life.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 3 With Don Knotts, Melba Moore, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. Knotts plays a frightened customer of barber Wilson; Knotts is back in the law enforcement business as a fish and game warden who enters Charley's (Flip) diner. Miss Moore sings "Don't Rain on My Parade".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Mackenna's Gold (1969)
W: Carl Foreman D: J. Lee Thompson With Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Kennan Wynn, Julie Newmar, Ted Cassidy, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Edward G. Robinson, Eli Wallach. As the Apache Indians stage an uprising, 17 men and four women, all but one sharing a greed for gold, seek out a legendary lost canyon in the Southwest during the 1870s.
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| [ABC 9:00] Assignment Vienna [Reg]: The Last Target
Season 1, episode 1 W: Eric Bercovici, Jerry Ludwig D: Paul Krasny With Leslie Nielsen (Floyd Macklin), Belinda Montgomery (Julie Hayes). The second part of "The Men" trilogy stars Robert Conrad as the proprietor of a tavern in Austria who is called upon to work with international agencies fighting crime. In the first episode, he is asked to protect his boss from a man who escaped from prison and seeks revenge.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Programmed For Panic
Season 6, episode 3 W: Adrian Spies D: Daniel Petrie With Russell Johnson (Martin Luca), James Gregory (TV host), Maggie Malooly (Rhoda Luca). The chief is aided by a talk show host in trapping the killer of a girl. Interviews with apartment dwellers near the park where the girl was murdered are used to reconstruct the night of the crime.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Libel Is A Dirty Word
Season 2, episode 3 With Louise Sorel (Julie Shaw), John Davidson (Rev. Shaw), Sharon Gless (Penny Collins), Michael Witney (Carl Collins), William Schallert (Walter Dale). Attorney Marshall defends a reverend accused of wife-swapping and swimming in the nude.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 3 With Eve Arden, Fess Parker, Lynn Anderson. In a skit, Eve plays a school teacher who continues "instructing" when she gets home to husband Dean; Fess and Eve, in a Western spoof, await the arrival of Big Bad John (Dean) in a saloon. Miss Anderson sings "Stand By Your Man" and a flower medley with Dean.
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