Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday February 8, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Deed
Season 1, episode 20 W: James Menzies D: Vincent Sherman With Robert Donner (Yancy Tucker), Garry Walberg (Will Guffy), Jenny Sullivan (Cissy Brubaker), Shirley O'Hara (Mrs. Vandenberg), Robert Karnes (Mr. Moffatt), Russ Grieve (Police Sergeant), Seamon Glass (Bartender), Randall Carver (Morty Vandenberg), Lew Brown (Mr. Tinker). A lumber company seizes the mountain as unregistered land and although the Waltons have owned it since 1796 they are unable to prove their claim.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Mod Squad [Reg]: Scion Of Death
Season 5, episode 20 W: Robert Schlitt, Skip Webster D: Daniel Haller With Ross Elliott (Sam Brodie), Julie Adams (Nancy Ryan), Don Porter (Walter Ryan), Mitzi Hoag (Cora Brodie), Richard Rowley (Danny Ryan), Larry Golden (Woody Samuels), Dennis Dugan (Chris Norton). The teenage son of a newspaper publisher is kidnapped and held hostage by an embittered ex-employee.
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| [NBC 8:00] Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
[Episode pre-empted.]
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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 Mexican revolution in 1917, an American millionaire offers to pay four soldiers of fortune $1,000 each to rescue his kidnapped Mexican wife from a guerrilla bandit.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Soul Is The Warrior
Season 1, episode 6 W: Ron Bishop D: Richard Lang With Jim Davis (Walker), Pat Hingle (Sheriff Thoms), Shelly Novack (Breck Rankin), John Doucette (Ed Rankin), Robert Foulk (Moss), Les Lannom (Billy Thoms), Robin Raymond (Molly), E.A. Sirianni (Wide Ed), Norman Leavitt (Burt Proctor). Caine's quest to meet his half-brother Danny leads him to a ranch where his sibling once worked, and plunges the priest into a confrontation with a tyrant.
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| [NBC 9:00] Bob Hope Special [special]
With Jack Benny, Don Rickles, Tony Randall, Jerry Colonna, Red Buttons, Jan Murray, Jack Carter, Wally Cox, Danny Thomas, George Foreman. Bob plays a mad scientist who is behind the world's energy crisis and intends to hold the world for ransom at 10 cents a head after he corners the energy supply.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: A Room With A View
Season 1, episode 19 W: Cliff Gould, Del Reisman D: Walter Grauman With Steve Forrest (Abby Gold), Michael Strong (Art Stiles), Richard Anderson (Hoyt Llewellyn), Shirley Knight (Mary Rae Dortmunder), Betty Anne Rees (Angela Chaffee), Norman Alden (Sgt. Healy), Eddie Ryder (Frankie Chaffee), Sandy Kenyon (Roy Chaffee). A triggerman romances a schoolteacher in order to use her apartment as a stakeout for his "contract".
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Follies [special]
With Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Griffith, Mickey Rooney, Connie Stevens, John Davidson. Guest entertainers perform in a theatrical setting, complete with curtains and a pit orchestra. Davis sings "For Once in My Life"; a spoof of life in King Arthur's court; Griffith plays Rudyard Kipling's Briton, with Davis as Gunga Din. Rooney is a zany doctor. This program was a pilot for the series which debuted in September, 1973.
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