Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday March 7, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 41
Season 2, episode 22 With John Byner. In skits, Byner plays hip disc jockey Ralph Martini, a theatrical manager pushing a young singer, and a priest attempting to protect Cher from the devil. Cher sings "What's It All About, Alfie?" and teams with Sonny on "Personality" and "Crocodile Rock".
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: Togetherness
Season 1, episode 25 W: Barry E. Blitzer D: Ernest Losso With James Gregory (T.R. Scott), Sean Kelly (Mark). Paul's attempt to have a family day becomes a disaster instead of his hoped-for plot to promote togetherness.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Anatomy Of A 415
Season 5, episode 22 W: Jeff Kanter D: Dennis Donnelly With Jed Allan (John Spencer), Milton Frome (Arthur Cosgrove), Norm Crosby (Don Simpson), Eve Brent (Helen Spencer), Jean Allison (Louise Spencer), Jimmy Cross (Oliver Durkson), Christopher Gardner (Larry Spencer). Officers Malloy and Reed receive several calls to the same home on a disturbing the peace complaint which culminates in tragedy for a family.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Six Million Dollar Man [Reg]: The Six Million Dollar Man
Season 0, episode 1 W: Henri Simoun D: Richard Irving With Barbara Anderson (Jean Manners), Darren McGavin (Oliver Spencer), Charles Knox Robinson (Prisoner), Ivor Barry (Geraldton), Dorothy Green (Mrs. McKay), George Wallace (General), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Ashburn), Maurice Sherbanee (Nudaylah), Olan Soule (Saltillo). The first pilot movie for the series, from 1973. A test pilot, all but killed in a crash, is remade into a superhuman being and learns to function with mechanical arms and legs.
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| [NBC 8:30] Bob Hope Special [special]
With Phil Harris, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain. As this year's "King of Bacchus" for the New Orleans Mardi Gras, Bob Hope presides over the annual parade (filmed March 1-4). Taking part in the parade are 22 animated floats, 20 marching bands, plus several rhythm units. The theme of this year's parade is "Bacchus Goes to the Movies".
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| [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. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1972)
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| [NBC 9:30] Movie: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1973)
W: Sherman Yellen D: David Winters With Kirk Douglas, Michael Redgrave, Susan Hampshire, Susan George, Donald Pleasence, Stanley Holloway, Judi Bowker. An original musical version of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic about a London physician who, in 1886, suffered self-inflicted agony in his efforts to aid the mentally ill. Music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, Mel Mendell and Norman Sachs.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Catch Me If You Can
Season 2, episode 22 W: Douglas Day Stewart D: William Hale With William Sargent (Lt. Barry Driscoll), Dana Wynter (Dr. Deedra Pace), Anthony Zerbe (Ralph Hooper), Kate Hawley (Betty), Jay W. MacIntosh (Mrs. Talbot), Jack Riley (Programmer), Florida Friebus (Julie McElroy). Frank Cannon gets a strange request from an admitted mass murderer: Stop him before he commits another crime.
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Final Semester
Season 2, episode 22 With Diana Hyland (Lita Coleman), Fred Beir (Ross Coleman), Russell Wiggins (Barry Meadows), William Smithers (Mark Wade), Jennifer Salt (Joannie Ellis), O.J. Simpson (Simms). A college basketball star is accused of murdering a professor he had found with his girlfriend.
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