Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 4, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Theft
Season 2, episode 4 W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Harry Harris With Noble Willingham (Mr. Denton), Vern Rowe (Dodge Evanhauer), Diana Webster (Mrs. Claybourne), Janit Baldwin (Amelia Claybourne), Davis Roberts (Dewey), Dennis Dugan (Stewart Lee Claybourne). John Walton is accused of theft under mysterious circumstances, but he refuses to defend himself. After he had repaired a refrigerator for a wealthy woman, she discovered two ancient silver Paul Revere goblets missing.
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| [ABC 8:00] Toma [Reg]: The Oberon Contract
Season 1, episode 1 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Jeannot Szwarc With Philip Michael Thomas (Sam), Sonny Shields (McCloskey), Martin Sheen (Eddie Siatti), Ken Sansom (Adrian Fellows), Wyman Pendleton (Rocco Birrell), Dennis McCarthy (Councilman Oberon), Caesar Cordova (Hector Portaz), Tiffany Bolling (Sheri Anderson), Joe Santos (Jake Ricci). A series based on the life and career of police Det. David Toma, whose unorthodox methods of investigation won him national fame. In the first show, an ex-convict friend of Toma's is arrested for the murder of a city councilman.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 3 With Ralph Edwards, Richard Pryor, Bobby Sandler. Geraldine is a surprised guest on Edwards' "This Is Your Life". Other highlights include a routine about wealth, Flip and Pryor as trapeze performers, and tricks with a lariat.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Wild Bunch (1969)
W: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah D: Sam Peckinpah With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Strother Martin, Ben Johnson. A group of border ruffians and Pancho Villa's rebels tangle with corrupt law and order officials in Southern Texas in 1913.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Assassin
Season 2, episode 2 W: Spooner Glass, Daniel Ullman D: Richard Lang With Dana Elcar (Noah Jones), Nobu McCarthy (Mrs. Swan), James Keach (Abe Jones), William Glover (Swan), Robert Ito (Blacksmith), Beverly Kushida (Akiko), Wayne Storm (Barlow), Phil Chambers (Mackey), Wayne Foster (Carey). Caine, in saving the life of a man ambushed by an unknown killer, is suspected of being a hired assassin. He also discovers himself to be the object of affection of a half-Japanese, half-English girl.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Fragile Is The House Of Cards
Season 7, episode 4 W: Sy Salkowitz D: Don Weis With Noah Keen (Dr. Corwin), Lorraine Gary (Ellen Wills), James Olson (David Wills), Sandra De Bruin (Martha Billings). Racing the clock, Ironside and his aides try to find an unconscious man on an unknown boat that's filling with water.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Before I Die
Season 2, episode 4 W: Albert Ruben D: William Hale With Leslie Nielsen (John Connor), Ray Danton (Al Royce), Joanne Linville (Rosemary), James Wainwright (Murray Shindler), Paul Cavonis (Capiello), Tony Epper (Renfro), John Himes (Judge). A dedicated policeman who learns that he is dying because of an inoperable aneurism decides to take the law into his own hands and kill a syndicate boss.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Follies [Reg]
With Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Cassidy, Robert Goulet, Arte Johnson, Lola Falana. Highlights: a jive version of the Snow White story; Goulet sings a medley from "Fiddler on the Roof"; Arte meets another "little old lady" on the park bench.
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