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Wednesday October 18, 1972
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Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 18, 1972:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Carol Burnett Show Medical Center: Betrayed Cannon: The Predators
ABC The Paul Lynde Show: How To Be Unhappy, Though Poor TV Movie: A Great American Tragedy (1972) The Julie Andrews Hour
NBC World Series Baseball
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[CBS 8:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 6

With Cass Elliot, Joel Grey.
The cast takes part in a spoof of foreign films. In other skits, Harvey Korman, Joel and Lyle Waggoner masquerade as puppy dogs in a pet shop window showing off for potential buyers; Carol plays the wife of a political candidate appearing on a TV interview show. Joel and the Ernie Flatt dancers perform in a production, "Me and Julio".

[ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: How To Be Unhappy, Though Poor
Season 1, episode 6
W: Phil Sharp   D: George Tyne

With Herb Voland (T.J. McNish), Holly Irving, Cliff Norton.
Paul Simms has a few days off and in order to get his genius son-in-law out of the house -- and hopefully into a job -- tells him he's been fired. Howie immediately becomes so busy putting the household on a tight budget that he hasn't time for job hunting.

[NBC 8:00] World Series Baseball
Cincinnati Reds at Oakland A's.

[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: A Great American Tragedy (1972)
W: Caryl Ledner   D: J. Lee Thompson

With George Kennedy, Vera Miles, William Windom, Kevin McCarthy, Natalie Trundy, Sallie Shockley.
A veteran aerospace engineer, after 20 years on the job, is suddenly among the unemployed. He's confident he can quickly find another job, but soon learns some frightening truths about his occupation as the weeks stretch out and the family savings dwindle away.

[CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Betrayed
Season 4, episode 6
W: Bill Stratton   D: Richard Benedict

With Ayn Ruymen (Denny), Joyce Van Patten (Paula Eckhart), Charles Aidman (Ross Eckhart), Geraldine Page (Mary Ellen Davis), Martin E. Brooks (Lt. Samuels).
A well-meaning hospital aide locks her teenage daughter away from the world because of the girl's wild, animal-like behavior. When Dr. Gannon discovers this he takes the child in for treatment and, through blood tests, begins to believe the girl is not her child.

[CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Predators
Season 2, episode 6
W: Arthur Heinemann   D: George McCowan

With Pamela Franklin (Cindy McBain), Phyllis Thaxter (Rita McBain), Robert Pine (Ward Beerman), Victor Millan (Sheriff Lopez), Ruben Moreno (Miguel), Eddie Firestone (Buck Hamlin), David Sheiner (Leo Jannine).
A prosperous sheep rancher hires Cannon to clear her when she is charged with negligence in the death of a young Mexican alien who dies in a deadly coyote trap.

[ABC 10:00] The Julie Andrews Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 6

With Steve Lawrence.
Steve joins Julie and Rich Little as the Marx Brothers and turn the stage into a shambles. Also Julie sings a salute to Libras, of which she is one. Steve and Julie appear in another scene as Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. They also sing a tribute to Oscar-losing songs. The final sequence is a comedy sketch about an English pub during World War II.


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