Prime-time network TV listings for Monday October 1, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Boy And The Sinner
Season 19, episode 4 W: Hal Sitowitz D: Bernard McEveety With Warren Vanders (Otis Miller), John Crawford (Hugh Eaton), Ken Lynch (Jess Bradman), Read Morgan (Jack Beaver), Hal Baylor (Boomer), Victor Izay (Bull), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Travers), Ron Moody (Noah Beal), Vincent Van Patten (Colby Eaton). A drunken beggar accepts an offer to stake a false land claim in exchange for whiskey, but a young neighbor boy befriends him and gives him some hope for the future to put his life in jeopardy when he decides to go against his promise.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Frozen Smoke
Season 2, episode 4 W: Robert I. Holt D: Harry Falk With Walter Brooke (Karl Halley), John Travolta (Eddie Halley), Scott Jacoby (Tim Halley), Sally Carter (Mrs. Potter), Judy Farrell (Ruth Skidmore), Annette O'Toole (Pregnant Woman), Charles Shull (John Skidmore), Kristen Gipson (Saundra Potter). While assigned to the juvenile detail, rookies Terry Webster and Willie Gillis witness a 16-year-old boy beating another boy over the alleged theft of a bicycle, with tragic results.
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| [NBC 8:00] Lotsa Luck [Reg]: Stanley And The Librarian
Season 1, episode 4 W: Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore D: Alan Rafkin With Jackie Joseph (Librarian). Stanley Belmont learns you can't judge a book by its cover when he takes a librarian to an adult movie.
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| [NBC 8:30] Diana [Reg]: If No One Answers, That's Me
Season 1, episode 4 W: Lisa David, Laura Dean D: Robert Moore With Barbara Barrie (Norma Brodnik), David Sheiner (Norman Brodnik), Mark Gordon (Horensky). The telephone becomes a big problem for Diana when she misses an important call that would have consummated a business deal, receives a series of obscene phone calls, and has an inept policeman come to the house to investigate.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy, The Wealthy Widow
Season 6, episode 4 W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin With Ed McMahon (Ed McCallister), Henry Beckman (Truck Driver), Sid Gould (Telephone Man), Tommy Farrell (Bank Teller). A bank vice president does television commercials for his bank and becomes the central figure in Lucy's plan to get a loan for Harry's faltering business.
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| [ABC 9:00] ABC Monday Night Football
Atlanta Falcons vs. Detroit Lions at Tiger Stadium, Detroit. Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell report.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Doctors' Wives (1971)
W: Daniel Taradash D: George Schaefer With Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Carroll O'Connor, Rachel Roberts, Janice Rule, Richard Anderson, John Colicos. While playing poker at a posh country club in Southern California, a promiscuous wife of a doctor announces to four other wives that she intends to have an affair with each of their husbands to find out why men stray. The result ends in murder and much self-analysis by the wives as to what is wrong with each of their marriages.
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| [CBS 9:30] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: Dick In Deutsch
Season 3, episode 4 D: George Tyne With Sorrell Booke (Otto), Bea Silvern (Helga), Harold Gould (Kurt). After Dick receives a letter saying that he is wanted in a legal action in Germany, he explains to the Richardsons how a free trip won in a raffle turned into a disaster.
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| [CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Impasse
Season 5, episode 4 W: Barry Oringer D: Vincent Sherman With Lois Nettleton (Dr. Claymor), Jamie Smith-Jackson (Tobi), Tim Matheson (Sam Miller), Nick Nolte (Lou). A psychiatrist is enlisted by Dr. Gannon for his treatment of a critically ill cardiac patient, a lovely young college girl with a wish to die.
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