Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 26, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 46 - The Sonny & Cher Years (Part 1)
Season 3, episode 3 With Dick Clark, Chuck Berry, Edd Byrnes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Valli, Bobby Vinton, The Four Seasons. The Bonos and their guests recreate the rock 'n' roll years of the '60s. Highlights are Cher's "Bang, Bang", Jerry's "Great Balls of Fire", Chuck's "Reelin' and Rockin'", and "Walk Like a Man" by the Four Seasons. Skits and blackouts focus on Batman, Sunset Strip, Hell's Angels, and Sonny and Cher's wedding night.
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| [ABC 8:00] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice [Reg]: Can I Help It If She's Crazy About Me?
Season 1, episode 1 W: David Lloyd D: Rick Edelstein With Rick Hurst, Lloyd Kino, Bill Walker, Mabel Anderson, Henry Jones. Debut of a situation comedy about the generation gap between adults. Robert Urich and Anne Archer star as an aware, "with-it" couple in their late 20s, and David Spielberg and Anita Gillette star as a more cautious, conservative couple in their mid 30s.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Foothill Division: Mac's Boots
Season 6, episode 3 W: Leo Gordon D: Christian I. Nyby II With Rod Cameron (Henry Komac), Joe Kapp (Johnny Bearkiller), Jack De Mave (Walt Jeffries), Don 'Red' Barry (Mr. Hobbs), Army Archerd (Reporter). The Wild West still seems alive as Malloy and Reed take to the hills on horseback to track thieves.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Hijack! (1973)
W: Michael Kelly, James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin D: Leonard Horn With David Janssen, Keenan Wynn, Tom Tully, Lee Purcell, Jeanette Nolan, William Schallert, Ron Feinberg. A pair of first-rate truck drivers, commissioned to haul a top-secret cargo from Los Angeles to Houston, are challenged by ruthless hijacking attempts along the way by men who will stop at nothing to prevent delivery.
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| [NBC 8:30] Bob Hope Special [special]
With Ann-Margret, John Denver, Bobby Riggs, The Jackson Five. Bob and Ann-Margret spoof "Tennis Battle of the Sexes". Denver meets his long-lost twin brother Irwin Idaho (Bob). Ann-Margret is featured in the production, "Harlem".
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: Hounds Of Hell
Season 3, episode 4 W: Jack Turley D: Lawrence Dobkin With Jim McMullan (David Harrison), Geoffrey Deuel (Kenny Harrison), Joel Fabiani (Carl Blessing), Ford Rainey (Mr. Taylor), Bill Zuckert (Father), Nancy Priddy (Mrs. Blessing). The aftermath of a Vietnam "fragging" incident, in which an Army officer became a paralytic, finds two survivors of his company becoming victims of fatal dog attacks and another survivor asking Cannon to solve the mystery.
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| [NBC 9:30] Faraday And Company [Reg]: Say Hello To A Dead Man
Season 1, episode 1 W: Ken Pettus D: Gary Nelson With Ruth Roman (Paula Sanford), Howard Duff (Clark Sanford), Craig Stevens (Thorpe), David Wayne (Branigan), Liam Dunn (Skinner), Richard Drout Miller (Andrews), Victor Mohica (Polleti), Jim Connell (Finley), Percy Rodrigues (Ambassador). Frank Faraday escapes from a small, isolated South American jungle prison where he had been held without trial for 25 years. He seeks revenge against the murderer of his former partner and also learns that a 27-year-old son he didn't know he had now operates a private detective agency. In the first episode, Faraday returns to a world he never knew -- TV, miniskirts, long-haired youths and new technology.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dan August [Reg]: The Assassin
Season 1, episode 16 W: Mel Goldberg D: Gene Nelson With John Beck (Steve Phipps), Carolyn Jones (Margo Davis), Gary Collins (Larry Edwards), Charles MacCauley, Hal Baylor, Bill Erwin, Joan Hackett (Nancy Williams). As Santa Luisa police chief Untermeyer goes to the aid of a panicked friend, an unseen rifleman knocks him down and kills her. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/14/1971)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: The Pool House
Season 3, episode 3 W: Edward DeBlasio D: James Sheldon With Sheree North (Evelyn Knight), Mark Hamill (Steve Knight), Lisa Eilbacher (Judy), Nan Martin (Dorothy Holden), Arthur Franz (Laird Holden), Pat Harrington Jr. (Charlie Giannetta). A 16-year-old girl is found murdered and all evidence points to her high school boyfriend. Both the boy and his mother claim he's innocent and Marshall, a family friend, takes the case but finds the evidence rather incriminating.
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