Friday March 16, 1973
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Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 16, 1973:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine Ed Sullivan's Broadway Lily Tomlin Show
ABC The Brady Bunch: You Can't Win 'Em All The Partridge Family: The Selling Of The Partridges Acts of Love - And Other Comedies Love, American Style (R) New Hopes For Health
NBC Sanford And Son: Rated X NHL Hockey


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[CBS 8:00] The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine [special]
With Teresa Graves, Bill Cosby, Cass Elliot, Norm Crosby, Ted Knight, Keye Luke, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers. The Trotters return in a half-hour version of their recent "Popcorn Machine" special.

[ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: You Can't Win 'Em All
Season 4, episode 22
W: Lois Hire   D: Jack Donohue

With Edward Knight (Monty Marshall), Vicki Schreck (Woodside Girl #1), Tracey M. Lee (Woodside Girl #2), Claudio Martinez (Woodside Boy), Harlen Carraher (Clinton Boy), Miyoshi Williams (Clinton Girl). Bobby and Cindy are picked to be tested for an appearance on a children's TV show.

[NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Rated X
Season 2, episode 24
W: Ilunga Adell   D: Peter Baldwin

With Cal Wilson (Guard), Jack DeLeon (Director), Ralph James (Producer), Kelly Thordsen (Police Lieutenant), Leo G. Morrell (Detective). Fred and Lamont almost become stars in an X-rated movie until they are faced with the "naked truth".

[CBS 8:30] Ed Sullivan's Broadway [special]
With Ethel Merman, Julie Harris, Frank Sinatra, Gwen Verdon, Jack Cassidy, Michele Lee, Marilyn Michaels, Cyril Richard, Artie Shaw, Neil Simon. Sullivan hosts a program offering a look, past and present, at the entertainment area he has covered during his 40-year career as newspaperman and TV personality. Various guest stars appear in production numbers, interviews or film clips.

[ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: The Selling Of The Partridges
Season 3, episode 23
W: Steve Zacharias, Michael Leeson   D: Lee Philips

With Holly Near (Phyllis Goldberg), Jason Wingreen (Principal), David Dominguez (Ted), Bobby Kramer (Myron). Laurie agrees to serve as campaign manager for Phyllis Goldberg, running for student body president, then learns that brother Keith is Phyllis' opponent.

[NBC 8:30] NHL Hockey Boston Bruins at Detroit Red Wings.

[ABC 9:00] Acts of Love - And Other Comedies [special]
With Jean Stapleton, Art Garfunkel, Gene Wilder, Joseph Bologna. Marlo Thomas stars in her first comedy special. Marlo plays six different women, in familiar situations, as they stumble toward love.

[CBS 10:00] Lily Tomlin Show [special]
With Richard Crenna, Nancy Dussault, Richard Pryor. Lily Tomlin, of Laugh-In fame, stars in her first comedy-variety special with a series of sketches and monologues featuring a number of the characters created by Miss Tomlin. Lily solos as telephone operator Ernestine and little girl Edith Ann. Wirh Pryor as a drunk, Lily is the Tasteful Lady trapped in an elevator. With her other guests in skits, Lily is the average housewife testing detergents; gives advice to a young couple on their first date; is an old piano player in a cocktail lounge; and is a wife "fired" by her husband.

[ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1.   Love And The Country Girl
With Bridget Hanley (Christine), Pat Buttram (Pappy), Bill Daily (Donald Baxter), Erica Hagen (Wanda June), Shug Fisher (Abner).  
A salesman wins a poker game and discovers the prize is the right to wed the farmer's daughter.

2.   Love And Dear Old Mom And Dad
W: Frank Buxton   D: James Sheldon

With Roger Bowen (Bill / Dad), Hal England (Mike), Audrey Meadows (Eve / Harriet / Mom).  
A couple are given proof that men do tend to marry girls "just like the one that married dear old Dad".

[ABC 10:30] New Hopes For Health ABC science editor Jules Bergman hosts this program which deals with health care and its availability to the people who need it.

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