Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 4, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Actress
Season 1, episode 15 W: William Bast D: Vincent Sherman With Pippa Scott (Alvira Drummond), Ray Sutton (Rex McKay), Dorothy Neumann (Fanny Tatum). A famous actress is left stranded in Walton's Mountain when her limousine breaks down and she's left without funds. John-Boy invites her home for dinner.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Run, Lincoln, Run
Season 5, episode 16 W: Donald L. Stewart D: Leonard Horn With Elliott Street (Krause), Stefan Gierasch (Edmund Glendon), Emily Yancy (Ruth Henderson), James A. Watson Jr. (Herb Henderson), June Dayton (Mrs. Milton), Taylor Lacher (Marty Farrell). A friend of Linc's who is in the clutches of loan sharks is forced to set up Linc for elimination to save his kidnapped wife.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 3, episode 15 With Jim Nabors, Barbara McNair, James Coco. Flip, as swinger Freddie Johnson, goes into a greeting card store to get a card for one girl and ends up making love to another girl. Flip also introduces a new character, little Leroy, 12-year-old cub scout, who is taken into the woods by scoutmaster Nabors to earn merit badges. Miss McNair sings "Sweetest Sounds".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Sand Pebbles (1966), part one
W: Robert Anderson D: Robert Wise With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Maryat Andriana, Mako, Larry Gates, Charles Robinson, Simon Oakland. Post-World War I China is fought over by war lords and foreign "treaty powers", and an American gunboat is caught in the midst of the turmoil.
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| [ABC 9:00] Assignment Vienna [Reg]: Soldier Of Fortune
Season 1, episode 5 W: Gene L. Coon D: Bruce Kessler With Joseph Campanella (Frank Gort), Lynne Marta (Helen), Moses Gunn (Basamumbo), Joachim Hansen (Gundarson). When professional soldier Frank Gort arrives in Vienna, Jake Webster suspects he has unfinished business with a deposed premier.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Ollinger's Last Case
Season 6, episode 14 W: Frank Telford D: Don Weis With Loretta Swit (Sally Pearson), Kenneth Mars (Adam Bronson), Albert Salmi (Bill Eaton), Mills Watson (Deputy Davis), Joseph Kaufman (Sam Madden), William Bramley (Bert Martin), Warren Kemmerling (Sheriff Healy). The chief sends Ed Brown to learn why residents of a fishing village -- who have persecuted a retired policeman friend of Ironside's -- refuse to cooperate in an investigation of his death.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: An Often And Familiar Ghost
Season 2, episode 15 W: Edward J. Lakso D: John Badham With Lou Gossett Jr. (Lt. Fellows), Aldine King (Ellen Mills), Gabriel Dell (Hanks). Black detective Lt. Carl Fellows, suspended from duty pending a coroner's inquest, claims he was framed on charges he attacked a group outside a bar, killing one man.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 15 With Gene Kelly. In one skit, "Make Love Not War", Gene and Dean are soldiers who use unusual ammunition. Subject matter in the barbershop is "Fidelity". Comic Steve Landesberg does a monologue. Gene and Dean sing "There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder" and view clips from Gene's 1945 movie "Anchors Aweigh".
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