Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 3, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Awakening
Season 2, episode 16 W: Joanna Lee D: Lee Philips With David Doremus (G.W. Haynes), Victor Izay (Dr. Vance), James Carroll Jordan (Kevin Sturgess). Grandma's 68th birthday is approaching and although her hearing is failing, causing problems of communication with the rest of the family, she indignantly refuses to admit it or face the fact that she is getting old.
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| [ABC 8:00] Toma [Reg]: Stakeout
Season 1, episode 4 W: Roy Huggins D: Nicholas Colasanto With Skye Aubrey (Shirley Whittaker), Jared Martin (Lenny Phillips), Don Gordon (Alex Keever), Oscar DeGruy (Buzz), James V. Christy (Plainclothesman), David Toma (Market Manager). Despite a warning from the inspector, Toma takes on a partner to help keep track of an attractive young woman who may lead him to a multi-million dollar stash of cocaine. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1973)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 14 With Ted Knight, 9-year-old Phillip Paley (the youngest winner of a black belt in karate), The Pointer Sisters, Tim Kiley (Flip's director). Knight joins Flip in a newsroom sketch and plays a customer in a sidewalk cafe routine in which Flip is the owner and Kiley is Flip's partner; the Pointer Sisters sing "Yes, We Can Can", "Wang Dang Doodle" and take part in a show business sketch with Flip as their agent.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Don't Drink The Water (1969)
W: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock D: Howard Morris With Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Joan Delaney, Michael Constantine. Husband and wife tourists are mistaken for dangerous spies behind the Iron Curtain who think that Greece is the last stop on their European tour. But their itinerary changes in midair and their plane is forced to fly to Smetana, the heartland of Vulgaria. It would have still remained a pleasant stopover if their daughter hadn't taken them on a snapshot binge.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Gunman
Season 2, episode 12 W: Robert Newin D: Richard Lang With James Weatherill (Deputy), Andrew Prine (White), Katherine Woodville (Nedra Chamberlain), Jack Riley (Jed Royal), Sandy Kenyon (Sheriff), Alan Fudge (Bob Gardner), Herbert Nelson (Sam Cogan). Caine helps a man being tracked by a bounty hunter and puts his own life in jeopardy.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Friend Or Foe
Season 7, episode 13 W: David P. Harmon D: Jerry Jameson With Sandy Ward (Sgt. Don Borden), Jean Allison (Helen Borden), Kenneth O'Brien (Tommy), Maria O'Brien (Cindy). When a five-pound package of heroin disappears, suspicion falls on the last man to handle it, a longtime Ironside coworker. In place of the heroin, which was to be used as evidence against an underworld figure, police discover sugar.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Commitment
Season 2, episode 15 W: John D.F. Black D: Richard Donner With Darleen Carr (Jeannie Stone), Reuben Collins (Inspector Tanner), Geoffrey Deuel (Inspector Decker), Tyne Daly (Mrs. Carlino), William Smith (Mickey Sims), William Watson (Sgt. Dedini). After 23 years on the force, Det. Lt. Stone is suspected of killing a fellow officer and is suspended from the department.
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| [NBC 10:00] The College Money Crunch
Edwin Newman reports on the increasing rate of vacant chairs in the classrooms of the nation's private colleges. The declining enrollment, much heavier in private colleges than in public institutions, is traceable to the inability of students and their families to meet rising educational costs, which in turn adds to the financial difficulties of colleges already affected by inflation. Rev. Edmund Ryan, executive vice president for educational affairs at Georgetown University, is one of the college administrators who appears on the program and he offers at least a partial solution.
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