Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 29, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Edith Finds An Old Man
Season 4, episode 3 W: Michael Ross, Bernie West D: Bob Lahendro, John Rich With Burt Mustin (Justin Quigley), Ruth McDevitt (Jo). Trouble starts in the Bunker house when the family finds an 82-year-old, pajama-clad stranger in their living room.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Beethoven, Brahms And Partridge
Season 4, episode 3 W: Dale McRaven D: Charles R. Rondeau With Ricky Segall (Ricky Stevens), Barbara Sigel (Rachel Weston), Harold Gould (Walter Yost). Keith, influenced by a pretty girl with an interest in serious music, writes a concerto for performance by the junior college orchestra.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Old Engine
Season 3, episode 2 W: Preston Wood D: Christian I. Nyby II With Ross Elliott (Harvey), Raymond Mayo (Fred), Laurette Spang (Sally), Lorraine Baptist (Receptionist), Regina Parton (Harriet), Ann Doran (Hannah), Michael Conrad (Bob Hurley). Paramedics Gage & DeSoto buy a junked 1932 fire engine and endure kidding at the station and hospital. Later, they rescue a pill victim who tries to leap from a building, treat a heart attack victim and help rescue a fireman who fell through a roof.
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| [CBS 8:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Radar's Report
Season 2, episode 3 W: Laurence Marks D: Jackie Cooper With Allan Arbus (Sidney Freedman), Joan Van Ark (Lt. Erica Johnson). The all-knowing Radar uses his unusual powers of observation to chronicle a detailed report of recent happenings.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Runaway! (1973)
W: Gerald DiPego D: David Lowell Rich With Ben Johnson, Ben Murphy, Ed Nelson, Darleen Carr, Lee H. Montgomery, Martin Milner, Vera Miles. The lives of 200 people hang in the balance in a battle between man and machine as railroad officials and passengers struggle to stop a runaway ski train hurtling down a mountain.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Rhoda's Sister Gets Married
Season 4, episode 3 W: Karyl Geld D: Jerry Belson With Nancy Walker (Ida Morgenstern), Harold Gould (Martin Morgenstern), Liberty Williams (Debbie Morgenstern), Brett Somers (Aunt Rose). Rhoda and Mary fly to New York for the wedding of Rhoda's younger sister, but the credibility gap between Rhoda and her mother widens.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: $ (1971)
W: Richard Brooks D: Richard Brooks With Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Frobe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady, Arthur Brauss. After installing a sophisticated surveillance system in a large Hamburg, Germany, bank, a security expert, capitalizing on his inside information, decides to rob the bank. His target: three safety deposit boxes all belonging to criminals.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Backlash
Season 2, episode 3 W: Susan Silver D: George Tyne With Michael Conrad (Mr. Trevesco), Claudette Nevins. Instead of being waited on hand and foot on their Mexican vacation as she had planned, Emily ends up doing the serving after Bob throws his back out.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 3 With Gloria Swanson. Charlie Chaplin (Gloria) meets the charwoman; the elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her; a man (Lyle) is having an affair and his mistress (Vicki) is telling all on a radio call-in show to which his unsuspecting wife (Carol) is listening.
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| [ABC 10:00] Griff [Reg]: The Framing Of Billy The Kid
Season 1, episode 1 W: Kenneth Johnson D: Lou Antonio With Nick Nolte (Billy Randolph), Robert Webber (Alan Gilbert), Susan Howard (Evan Sands), Norman Alden (Hank Jenkins), Philip Michael Thomas (Eddie Marshall), Janice Lynde (Lynette). Lorne Greene returns to TV as Wade Griffin, private investigator. He is a veteran police detective, 30 years on the force, who opens an office near a college campus. In the first episode, Griff is hired to clear a pro football star accused of murdering a dope pusher.
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