ABC Movie of the Week

{{Short description|American TV anthology series (1969–75)}}

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The ABC Movie of the Week is an American weekly television anthology series featuring made-for-TV movies that aired on the ABC network in various permutations from 1969 to 1975.

History

In the 1960s, movie studios viewed television as a second-rate medium but also as a threat to their theatrical revenue, so they charged high fees for the privilege to broadcast their films. The networks experimented with having films made specifically for TV to lower expenses. NBC created the first weekly umbrella for such films with their World Premiere Movie in 1966, running in a two-hour time slot.

Until the late 1960s, ABC ran a distant third behind rivals CBS and NBC, leading to jokes about it coming in fourth among the three networks or about its acronym meaning "Almost Broadcasting Company". Desperation and a looser corporate structure allowed ABC to consider plans that the other two networks would not. Barry Diller, then a junior executive at ABC and later a co-founder of the Fox network, is often cited as the creator of the Movie of the Week (MotW), although the concept was actually originated by producer Roy Huggins. Huggins reasoned that many older theatrical films ran shorter than 90 minutes so requiring a 120-minute time slot was unnecessary. His proposal was rejected by NBC and CBS but became the subject of a cover story in the March 21, 1968 issue of Variety magazine. ABC executives read the article and contacted Huggins, who did not want to sell the idea but could produce the series through Universal, where he was under contract. Universal demanded a larger budget than ABC wanted to spend, as well as the exclusive right to produce all future TV movies for ABC, conditions that pushed ABC to control production on their own, purchasing films from various studios and production companies. As the Variety article had effectively placed the concept into the public domain, ABC continued to develop it without Huggins' permission or involvement.{{Citation |title=Roy Huggins on creating the Movie of the Week concept - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7T27aPiGpA |language=en |access-date=2022-06-19}} ABC consoled Huggins by allowing him to produce several films, including The Young Country, precursor to Alias Smith and Jones. Michael Karol repeated the claim in his book The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series that the Movie of the Week was Diller's idea,{{cite book |last=Karol |first=Michael |title=The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series |date=June 2005 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-0-595-35836-6 |page=19}} but this was based on hearsay.

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The shorter format allowed a smaller budget than two-hour TV movies. At $350,000 per film, it was less than half the budget of NBC's World Premiere movies.p.xxii McKenna, Michael The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen Scarecrow Press, 2013 It featured the work of producers like Aaron Spelling, David Wolper and Harve Bennett (all of whom later developed hit series of their own), and was produced by different production companies such as Bing Crosby Productions and the network's own ABC Circle Films. Spelling was particularly prolific, producing films under his own credit as well as through Spelling-Goldberg Productions and Thomas-Spelling Productions (partly owned by Danny Thomas).

The MotW provided ABC with a ratings hit and, along with Monday Night Football, helped establish the network as a legitimate competitor to rivals CBS and NBC. The films themselves varied in quality and were often escapist or sensationalistic in nature (suspense, horror and melodrama were staples), but some were critically well received. For example, Duel (1971), based on a Richard Matheson short story from Playboy, was director Steven Spielberg's first feature film, catapulting his career and enabling him to move from television to theatrical films.

ABC earned four Emmys, a Peabody Award and citations from the NAACP and American Cancer Society for an airing of Brian's Song in 1972. The 1971–72 season of the series finished as the fifth highest rated series of the year.

The series was documented by Michael Karol in his 2005 book, The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series, which was updated in 2008 ({{ISBN|1-60528-023-2}}), and by Michael McKenna in The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen.

Time slots

The MotW originally aired on Tuesday nights at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central. Established series The Mod Squad acted as a lead-in from 7:30 to 8:30, bringing the younger demographic. The shorter running time of the film freed the 10 p.m. time slot for a full 60-minute program, initially Marcus Welby, M.D. during the first season. Starting earlier at 8:30 could also prevent viewers from switching to competing movies at 9:00. Beginning with the 1971 season, ABC added a second MotW on Saturday night and adjusted the titles of the shows to the Movie of the Week and Movie of the Weekend. The following season, the Saturday installment was moved to Wednesday night, and the titles were adjusted to Tuesday Movie of the Week and Wednesday Movie of the Week.

During the 1973–74 season, ABC added another movie on Saturday nights to their schedule, this time titled the ABC Suspense Movie, and usually consisting of thriller, mystery and horror type films (some of which were reruns of movies which had originally aired as Movies of the Week).

Title sequence

The title sequence was designed by Harry Marks{{Cite web|url = http://www.tvparty.com/vaultmov2.html|title = The ABC Movie of the Week Opening by Harry Marks|work = TVparty|access-date = 2010-01-27}} and animated by Douglas Trumbull using the slit-scan process that he had created for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The accompanying theme music was an orchestral version of "Nikki", a song composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter. The theme was chosen by Marks and arranged by Harry Betts.

Over the music was narration voiced by Dick Tufeld. "The Movie of the Week. Presenting the world premiere of an original motion picture produced especially for ABC (or 'for the Movie of the Week' in some seasons)." That would be followed by a promotional teaser for the movie.

The opening for the Saturday Movie of the Weekend featured footage of a silhouetted "rotating cameraman" operating a 35 mm movie camera ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cckf1FHG-c]). This footage would later be incorporated into the opening of ABC's New York City television station WABC-TV's various movie umbrellas beginning around 1972–73, including and especially their weekday afternoon movie showcase The 4:30 Movie.

TV series pilots

The series was often used as a platform to show pilots for possible series for the network. It allowed the network to air pilots that it had already commissioned and paid for but had not ordered as regular series. As well, pilots that had already been sold as ongoing series or were being tested such as Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky and Hutch, Longstreet, Toma, Alias Smith and Jones and Get Christie Love! premiered here and returned on the regular schedule after minor to major alterations to the premise and/or cast. Other programs are sometimes mistakenly believed to have aired under the Movie of the Week banner. Marcus Welby, M.D., for example, premiered after Seven in Darkness and was the lead-out for the Tuesday installment. Still others, like Earth II and Robert Conrad's version of Nick Carter were actually shown on other movie series, such as The ABC Sunday Night Movie.

Actors

Most of the actors in non-recurring roles appeared only once or twice in the series. Notable exceptions who appeared in three or more films as different characters include Doug McClure, Darren McGavin, Dennis Weaver, Clint Walker, Earl Holliman, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Culp, Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Elizabeth Montgomery, Donna Mills, Ed Nelson, Ken Berry, Connie Stevens, Lee Majors, James Brolin, Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Ricardo Montalbán, Richard Anderson, Lesley Anne Warren, Janet Leigh, John Marley, William Schallert, Ted Bessell Karen Valentine, Ben Murphy, Lee Grant, Barra Grant, Myrna Loy, Carl Betz, Henry Jones and William Windom.

Many of the telefilms had actors credited as guest stars, special guest stars and "special appearance by", even if the movie was not a pilot for a series. Death Race and The Weekend Nun billed their lead actors as special guest stars. In the unique case of Assault on the Wayne, all of the first-billed cast members were credited as guest stars.

End

The series proper ended in 1975 as ABC's ratings collapsed that season. Analysts laid part of the blame on ABC's overreliance on the MotW, which had suffered from ratings fatigue and a perceived drop in quality despite some notable films. The latter was symptomized by an increased number of pilots as well as remakes and variations of established intellectual properties, such as The Swiss Family Robinson, The Mark of Zorro, The Hatfields and the McCoys and Matt Helm.{{Cite book |last=McKenna |first=Michael |title=The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-8108-9157-9}} After that, ABC's made-for-TV movies were aired either as stand-alone specials or shown in time slots that included both original and theatrical movie presentations, notably the ABC Friday Night Movie and the ABC Sunday Night Movie. The Tuesday Movie of the Week would later be incorporated as part of ABC Late Night, a replacement of ABC's Wide World of Entertainment that ran from 1976 to 1982; the late-night version would mainly feature repeats of movies, both made for television and traditional theatrical releases, that were previously seen on ABC and other networks. ABC continued to premiere new TV films on Sunday nights in prime time until 2005.

During the 1970s, ABC's local owned-and-operated stations (in a few of the nation's biggest cities; at the time, they all broadcast on channel 7) featured The 4:30 Movie on weekday afternoons (the actual time varied by city, but generally after ABC's morning/midday game shows and soap operas); it featured mainly major Hollywood theatrical releases, but some installments of the Movie of the Week were also rebroadcast here.

In the mid-1970s, a number of the films were rebroadcast on The CBS Late Movie.{{Cite web |title=The CBS Late Movie (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) |url=https://epguides.com/CBSLateMovie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802145425/https://epguides.com/CBSLateMovie/ |archive-date=2 August 2024 |access-date=20 January 2025 |website=epguides.com}}

Filmography

=Nielsen ratings=

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! Episodes

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! Last aired

! Rank

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| 1

| 25

| September 23, 1969

| March 17, 1970

| #22

| 20.9{{cite web| url=http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/11/1969-70-top-30-cbs-marks-its-15th.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322032419/http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/11/1969-70-top-30-cbs-marks-its-15th.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 22, 2018 |title=The TV Ratings Guide.com|access-date=April 26, 2020}}

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| 2

| 25

| September 22, 1970

| April 6, 1971

| #6

| 25.1{{cite web| url=http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1970-71-top-30-rural-purge-shoots.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511103922/http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1970-71-top-30-rural-purge-shoots.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 11, 2018 |title=The TV Ratings Guide.com|access-date=April 26, 2020}}

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| 3

| 44

| September 14, 1971

| March 7, 1972

| #5

| 25.5{{cite web| url=http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1971-72-ratings-fallout-of-rural-purge.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401212910/http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1971-72-ratings-fallout-of-rural-purge.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 1, 2018 |title=The TV Ratings Guide.com|access-date=April 26, 2020}}

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| 4

| 47

| September 12, 1972

| March 21, 1973

| #17 (Tuesday) #22 (Wednesday)

| 21.4 (Tue) 20.0 (Wed)

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| 5

| 70

| September 11, 1973

| May 7, 1974

| #21 (Tuesday) #48 (Wednesday) #72 (Saturday)

| 21.0 (Tue) 17.2 (Wed) 12.9 (Sat){{cite web| url=http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1973-74-top-30-abc-wrangles-10-entries.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322035416/http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1973-74-top-30-abc-wrangles-10-entries.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 22, 2018 |title=The TV Ratings Guide.com|access-date=April 26, 2020}}

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| 6

| 43

| September 10, 1974

| May 14, 1975

| #47 (Tuesday) #38 (Wednesday)

| 17.6 (Tue) 18.7 (Wed){{cite web| url=http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1974-75-top-30-gunsmoke-ends-20-year.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134911/http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/08/1974-75-top-30-gunsmoke-ends-20-year.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=April 4, 2018 |title=The TV Ratings Guide.com|access-date=April 26, 2020}}

=Cast notes=

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| Credited as "special appearance by"

= Season 1: 1969–70 =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 1

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.01

| RTitle = Seven in Darkness

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|9|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Seven survivors of a plane crash, all of them blind, must make their way out of the wilderness without any help.
Starring: Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Arthur O'Connell, Alejandro Rey, Lesley Ann Warren

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.02

| RTitle = The Immortal

| Aux1 = Science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|9|30}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A man flees from a dying billionaire after his blood is found to provide almost miraculous healing and life extension properties.
Starring: Christopher George, Carol Lynley*, Barry Sullivan*, Jessica Walter*, Ralph Bellamy*


Pilot for the 1970-71 TV series of the same name; nominated for one Emmy Award.

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| EpisodeNumber = 3

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.03

| RTitle = The Over-the-Hill Gang

| Aux1 = Western-comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|10|7}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Four elderly Texas Rangers come out of retirement to oust the corrupt crime boss mayor of a frontier town.
Starring: Walter Brennan, Pat O'Brien*, Edgar Buchanan*, Chill Wills*, Edward Andrews*, Jack Elam*, Andy Devine*, Gypsy Rose Lee*, Ricky Nelson*


Unsold pilot; followed by The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (2.08)

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.04

| RTitle = Wake Me When the War Is Over

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|10|14}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A German baroness hides a bumbling Air Force airman during World War II, then stages an ongoing "war" to keep him from learning that the war has ended.
Starring: Ken Berry, Eva Gabor, Werner Klemperer, Jim Backus**, Danielle De Metz

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 5

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.05

| RTitle = The Monk

| Aux1 = Mystery/Action

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|10|21}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| | ShortSummary = Unlicensed private investigator Gus Monk is entangled in a scheme involving a Mob-connected lawyer who claims his boss is out to kill him.
Starring: George Maharis, Janet Leigh, Rick Jason, Carl Betz*, Jack Albertson**, Raymond St. Jacques***, William Smithers, Jack Soo, Mary Wickes


Unsold pilot. Story by Blake Edwards, based on characters he created.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 6

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.06

| RTitle = The Young Lawyers

| Aux1 = Legal drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|10|28}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A Boston attorney leaves to take control of a legal aid program staffed by students. Their first case is to defend two Black men accused of robbing and beating a cab driver.
Starring: Jason Evers, Judy Pace, Zalman King, Tom Fielding, Anjanette Comer*, Keenan Wynn*, James Shigeta*, Richard Pryor*, Dick Bass*, Michael Parks**, George Macready***, Louise Latham***, Barry Atwater***, Georg Stanford Brown***


Partly recast and returned as a series in the 1970-71 TV season.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.07

| RTitle = The Pigeon

| Aux1 = Crime thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|11|4}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A private investigator tries to protect a woman and her mother who are secretly hiding from the Mob.
Starring: Sammy Davis, Jr., Dorothy Malone, Victoria Vetri, Ricardo Montalbán**, Pat Boone***, Roy Glenn, Patsy Kelly, Norman Alden

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 8

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.08

| RTitle = The Spy Killer

| Aux1 = Espionage thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|11|11}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Former government assassin turned private investigator John Smith finds himself caught in a web of deceit involving a notebook containing a list of names of spies.
Starring: Robert Horton, Jill St. John, Sebastian Cabot, Lee Montague, Eleanor Summerfield, Barbara Shelley


Unsold pilot. Screenplay by and produced by Jimmy Sangster, based on his novel, Private I. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in London. The three main characters were reworked into another pilot, Foreign Exchange (1.17).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.09

| RTitle = The Ballad of Andy Crocker

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|11|18}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A Vietnam veteran returning home finds that he has lost his girlfriend, his business and his sense of purpose.
Starring: Lee Majors, Joey Heatherton, Jimmy Dean*, Bobby Hatfield*, Marvin Gaye*, Agnes Moorhead**, Pat Hingle**


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.10

| RTitle = In Name Only

| Aux1 = Romantic Comedy Anthology

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|11|25}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Struggling wedding consultants desperately try to get three couples legally married after finding out they accidentally had an actor officiate the original weddings.
Starring: Michael Callan, Ann Prentiss, Eve Arden**, Ruth Buzzi**, Christopher Connelly,** Bill Daily**, Elinor Donahue**, Herb Edelman**, Paul Ford,** Elsa Lanchester**


Produced and directed by E.W. Swackhamer. Written by Bernard Slade.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.11

| RTitle = Three's a Crowd

| Aux1 = Romantic comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|12|2}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Believing his wife died, a man remarries, but when she returns years later, the accidental bigamist tries to keep his secret from both wives.
Starring: Larry Hagman, E. J. Peaker, Jessica Walter, Harvey Korman, Farrah Fawcett, Norman Fell

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.12

| RTitle = Daughter of the Mind

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|12|9}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.13

| RTitle = The Silent Gun

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|12|16}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After nearly shooting an innocent, a famed gunslinger gives up violence but has to find a way to save a frontier town.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, John Beck, Ed Begley, Sr., Edd Byrnes, Pernell Roberts, Susan Howard


Based on a concept by Bob Kane.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 14

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.14

| RTitle = Honeymoon with a Stranger

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|12|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An American woman honeymooning in Spain suspects foul play when her wealthy husband disappears, but when the police investigate, a stranger appears, claiming to be the man.
Starring: Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, Cesare Danova, Eric Braeden, Barbara Steele

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 15

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.15

| RTitle = Gidget Grows Up

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1969|12|30}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After breaking up with Moondoggie, Gidget becomes a United Nations tour guide and begins a love affair with an older Australian agriculture consultant.
Starring: Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare, Paul Peterson, Warner Anderson**, Bob Cummings**, Nina Foch**, Paul Lynde**


Unsold pilot; followed by Gidget Gets Married (3.27).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 16

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.16

| RTitle = Black Water Gold

| Aux1 = Adventure/drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|1|6}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Independent scholars try to find a long lost Spanish galleon while an unscrupulous, wealthy thief shadows them to get the treasure for himself.
Starring: Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Aron Kincaid, Lana Wood, Jacques Aubuchon, Paul Hampton, Ricardo Montalbán**


Produced, directed and story by Alan Landsburg. Filmed on location in the Bahamas.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 17

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.17

| RTitle = Foreign Exchange

| Aux1 = Espionage thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|1|13}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Former government agent turned private investigator John Smith agrees to participate in a scheme to be captured by the Soviets and exchanged for a double agent that the West wants to plant high in the KGB.
Starring: Robert Horton, Jill St. John, Sebastian Cabot, Eric Pohlmann, Dudley Foster, Eleanor Summerfield


Unsold pilot. Screenplay by and produced by Jimmy Sangster, based on his novel, Foreign Exchange. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in London. This is a soft reboot of The Spy Killer (1.08) with the events of the earlier pilot completely ignored. John Smith is reintroduced as a traditional spy rather than a counterintelligence assassin.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 18

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.18

| RTitle = Carter's Army

| Aux1 = Action

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|1|27}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A racist commando must lead an all-African-American squad of misfits on a secret mission in Nazi Germany.
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Roosevelt Grier**, Moses Gunn**, Richard Pryor**, Billy Dee Williams**, Glynn Turman**, Paul Stewart**


Also known as Black Brigade.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 19

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.19

| RTitle = Along Came a Spider

| Aux1 = Revenge

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|2|3}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An archeologist creates a fake identity for herself and stages "her" murder in a complicated ploy to frame a physics professor who she believes killed her husband and stole his research.
Starring: Suzanne Pleshette, Ed Nelson, Andrew Prine, Brooke Bundy, Richard Anderson

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 20

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.20

| RTitle = The Challenge

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|2|10}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A disgraced U.S. soldier and big game hunter is recruited to fight a one-on-one war of "surrogates" against his Asian counterpart, the nations vying to win salvage rights to a sunken nuclear-armed satellite.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Mako, Broderick Crawford, James Whitmore**, Skip Homeier, Sam Elliott

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 21

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.21

| RTitle = The Journey of Robert F. Kennedy

| Aux1 = Documentary

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|2|17}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A documentary tracing the political life and career of Robert F. Kennedy.
Starring: John Huston (narrator)


Written by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The only non-fiction Movie of the Week.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 22

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.22

| RTitle = Quarantined

| Aux1 = Medical drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|2|24}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Conflict and crises at a hospital run by a medical patriarch and his three sons – all doctors – including a cholera outbreak and a movie star with kidney failure.
Starring: Gary Collins, John Dehner, Susan Howard, Gordon Pinsent, Dan Ferrone, Wally Cox*, Sam Jaffe*, Terry Moore*, Sharon Farrell**


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 23

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.23

| RTitle = Mister Jerico

| Aux1 = Heist

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|3|3}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Suave con artist Dudley Jerico and his sidekick scheme to steal a $2 million diamond from a tycoon, but they find they have competition.
Starring: Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom, Marty Allen


Unsold pilot. Location filming in Malta with studio filming at Elstree Studios. Theme song sung by Lulu.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 24

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.24

| RTitle = The Love War

| Aux1 = Science fiction/action

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|3|10}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Teams of benevolent and hostile aliens compete in a contest for dominion of Earth, but one falls in love with a woman he meets on a bus.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson**, Daniel J. Travanti (as Dan Travanty), Harry Basch

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 25

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1.25

| RTitle = The Young Country

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|3|17}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Double-crosses abound as various people try to get $38,000 that was embezzled from a Santa Fe bank.
Starring: Roger Davis, Pete Duel, Walter Brennan, Joan Hackett, Wally Cox


Character names were reused with a new premise to create the movie Alias Smith and Jones (2.13).

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= Season 2: 1970–71 =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 26

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.01

| RTitle = How Awful About Allan

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|9|22}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A man blinded by guilt comes home to live with his sister, but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith, Robert H. Harris


Based on a novel by Henry Farrell.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 27

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.02

| RTitle = Night Slaves

| Aux1 = Science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|9|29}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A man with a steel plate in his skull sees everyone else in a town he is visiting leave in a trance-like state every night.
Starring: James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Leslie Nielsen**, Tisha Sterling.


Based on a novel by Jerry Sohl.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 28

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.03

| RTitle = But I Don't Want to Get Married!

| Aux1 = Romantic comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|10|6}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A recent widower with two sons finds himself juggling several women at once.
Starring: Herschel Bernardi, Brandon Cruz, Harry Morgan, Nanette Fabray, Jerry Paris, Shirley Jones**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 29

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.04

| RTitle = The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|10|13}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An elderly man sees a close friend beaten to death, but all witnesses contradict him, the police won't believe him and his son suspects him of paranoia.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Diane Baker, Ruth Roman, Percy Rodrigues, Sam Jaffe, Martin Balsam**, Edward Asner, Martin E. Brooks, Virginia Christine


Martin Balsam and Martin E. Brooks would both later play the role of Dr. Rudy Wells at different times in The Six Million Dollar Man.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 30

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.05

| RTitle = Wild Women

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|10|20}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = With war with Mexico looming, a secret mission to deliver weapons and map a new supply route is run on a wagon train with disguised Army engineers and boisterous female Army prisoners posing as their wives.
Starring: Hugh O'Brian, Anne Francis, Marilyn Maxwell, Marie Windsor, Sherry Jackson


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 31

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.06

| RTitle = The House That Would Not Die

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|10|27}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A woman who has inherited an old Georgetown manor learns that her family property is a breeding ground for the supernatural.
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr., Kitty Winn


Based on the novel Ammie Come Home by Barbara Michaels.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 32

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.07

| RTitle = Tribes

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|11|10}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A Marine drill instructor comes to respect a pacifistic hippie draftee.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Jan-Michael Vincent, Earl Holliman


Directed by Emmy Award winner Joseph Sargent.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 33

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.08

| RTitle = The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

| Aux1 = Western/comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|11|17}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Three of the gang reunite to help a geriatric comrade, especially after he becomes marshal of Waco and has to face down bank robbers.
Starring: Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Chill Wills, Andy Devine, Fred Astaire**, Parley Baer, Walter Burke, Lana Wood


Unsold pilot; the sequel to The Over-the-Hill Gang (1.03).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 34

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.09

| RTitle = Crowhaven Farm

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|11|24}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After inheriting a farm near Salem, a woman learns that she is being targeted for revenge by a coven of witches for the actions of her previous incarnation.
Starring: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine, Cyril Delevanti, Milton Selzer, Patricia Barry

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 35

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.10

| RTitle = Run, Simon, Run

| Aux1 = Revenge tragedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|12|1}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =A Papago man just released from prison seeks revenge on the former partner who murdered his brother and framed him for the crime after the three men found turquoise.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Inger Stevens, Royal Dano, James Best, Rodolfo Acosta, Don Dubbins

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 36

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.11

| RTitle = Weekend of Terror

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|12|8}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Kidnappers accidentally kill their victim before they can collect the ransom, then abduct three nuns from a car to stand-in to convince the victim's father that she is still alive.
Starring: Robert Conrad, Lee Majors, Lois Nettleton, Carol Lynley, Jane Wyatt

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 37

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.12

| RTitle = The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1970|12|15}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A heart surgeon hired to do research by an ailing magnate finds his benefactor wants to steal human hearts to keep on living ... including his own.
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sandy Dennis, Burl Ives**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 38

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.13

| RTitle = Alias Smith and Jones

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|1|5}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Two notorious outlaws work to earn amnesty, but their former gang has other plans for the bank where they are employed.
Starring: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Forrest Tucker, Susan Saint James, James Drury, Jeanette Nolan, Earl Holliman**


Reuses character names from The Young Country (1.25). Pilot for the 1971-73 TV series of the same name that premiered two weeks later.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 39

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.14

| RTitle = Assault on the Wayne

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|1|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Cold War intrigue with traitors trying to steal top secret anti-ballistic missile controls being tested on a U.S. nuclear submarine.
Starring: Leonard Nimoy*, Joseph Cotten*, William Windom*, Keenan Wynn*, Lloyd Haynes*, Dewey Martin*, Malachi Throne, Ron Masak


Reuses submarine footage from Ice Station Zebra, a theatrical film which Ron Masak also appeared in.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 40

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.15

| RTitle = Dr. Cook's Garden

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|1|19}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A medical intern visiting his home town comes to believe his mentor, the town's doctor, is murdering troublesome residents with poison.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Frank Converse, Blythe Danner**, Barnard Hughes, Bethel Leslie


Directed by Ted Post.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 41

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.16

| RTitle = The Feminist and the Fuzz

| Aux1 = Romantic comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|1|26}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A feminist pediatrician and a chivalrous cop butt heads as roommates in San Francisco.
Starring: Barbara Eden, David Hartman, Julie Newmar**, Jo Anne Worley, Farrah Fawcett**, Harry Morgan**, John McGiver**, Herb Edelman**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 42

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.17

| RTitle = The Point!

| Aux1 = Animated Musical

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|2|2}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A bedtime story about a round-headed boy facing intolerance in a society where everything and everyone has a point.
Starring the voices of: Dustin Hoffman (first broadcast), Alan Thicke (third broadcast), Mike Lookinland, Paul Frees, Lennie Weinrib, Bill Martin, Buddy Foster, Joan Gerber


Personal project for Harry Nilsson, who wrote the fable and the songs, co-wrote the story and was one of the producers.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 43

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.18

| RTitle = Love Hate Love

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|2|9}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A former fashion model is stalked by a relentless, violent playboy she had a fling with before her wedding.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Haskell, Henry Jones, Jeff Donnell, Jack Mullaney, Stanley Adams

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 44

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.19

| RTitle = Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|2|16}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A young woman returns to her parents' suburban home after a year of living with hippies and discovers her younger sister is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life.
Starring: Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Jackie Cooper, Lane Bradbury, David Carradine

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 45

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.20

| RTitle = Longstreet

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|2|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Insurance investigator Mike Longstreet searches for the culprit who bombed his home, killing his wife and leaving him blind.
Starring: James Franciscus, Martine Beswick*, Bradford Dillman*, John McIntire*, Jeanette Nolan*, Barry Russo


Pilot for the 1971-72 TV series of the same name that premiered on CBS the following season. Stirling Silliphant was the writer and executive producer. Produced and directed by Joseph Sargent.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 46

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.21

| RTitle = Yuma

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|3|2}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Yuma's new marshal finds himself facing a vengeful rancher, as well as a scheme to steal supplies meant for Indian reservations.
Starring: Clint Walker, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Kathryn Hays, Morgan Woodward, Robert Phillips, Miguel Alejandro

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 47

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.22

| RTitle = River of Gold

| Aux1 = Action adventure

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|3|9}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 48

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.23

| RTitle = In Search of America

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|3|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A college dropout convinces his parents and grandmother to join him in an old bus converted into a motorhome on a journey of self-discovery to a hippie music festival, where he falls in love with gravely ill girl.
Starring: Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Jeff Bridges, Ruth McDevitt, Michael Anderson, Jr.*, Howard Duff*, Kim Hunter*, Renne Jarrett*, Sal Mineo*, Tyne Daly


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 49

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.24

| RTitle = The Sheriff

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|3|30}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An African American sheriff tries to prove that a racist raped a young black girl.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson, John Marley*, Edward Binns*, Lynda Day George*, Ruby Dee*, Moses Gunn*, Ross Martin*, Brenda Sykes*


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 50

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2.25

| RTitle = Escape

| Aux1 = Action/science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|4|6}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A famed escape artist has to find a kidnapped scientist who has developed a biological agent that can turn humanity into mindless slaves.
Starring: Christopher George, Avery Schreiber, Marlyn Mason*, William Windom*, John Vernon*, William Schallert*, Gloria Grahame*


Unsold pilot. Produced by Bruce Lansbury, who would create the similar TV series The Magician for CBS in 1973-74.

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| EpisodeNumber = 51

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.01

| RTitle = The Forgotten Man

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|9|14}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A Vietnam War POW, returning home after five years of captivity and interrogation, finds that his wife has remarried, his whole world has changed and he is beginning to suffer PTSD flashbacks.
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Anne Francis**, Lois Nettleton, Pamelyn Ferdin, Percy Rodriguez, Andrew Duggan, James Hong

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 52

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.02

| RTitle = The Birdmen

| Aux1 = Action adventure

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|9|18}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An OSS officer tasked with smuggling a nuclear physicist out of Nazi Germany plots to fly themselves out of a POW camp located in a mountain castle using a handbuilt glider.
Starring: Doug McClure, Rene Auberjonois, Richard Basehart**, Max Baer Jr.**, Chuck Connors**, Tom Skerritt


Fictionalized story based on the account of the Colditz Cock. Released as a feature film overseas as Escape of the Birdmen.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 53

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.03

| RTitle = Congratulations, It's a Boy!

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|9|21}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A swinging bachelor has to grow up after a young adult illegitimate son that he did not know about shows up and wants to spend time with him.
Starring: Bill Bixby, Diane Baker, Jack Albertson*, Ann Sothern*, Karen Jensen, Darrell Larson, Jeff Donnell, Tom Bosley, Robert H. Harris, Judy Strangis

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 54

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.04

| RTitle = The Deadly Dream

| Aux1 = Suspense

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|9|25}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An overworked researcher questions reality when people, places and events from a recurring dream where he is pursued and persecuted for an unknown crime start appearing in the real world.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Janet Leigh, Leif Erickson, Carl Betz, Don Stroud, Richard Jaeckel

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 55

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.05

| RTitle = Five Desperate Women

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|9|28}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =Former girls' school classmates having a reunion on a private island realize that either of the male staffers may be a murderous escaped convict.
Starring: Robert Conrad**, Anjanette Comer, Bradford Dillman, Joan Hackett, Denise Nicholas, Stephanie Powers, Julie Sommars

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 56

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.06

| RTitle = Sweet, Sweet Rachel

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|2}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An ESP researcher investigates mysterious happenings surrounding a widow to find out if she is being gaslighted by someone with psychic powers.
Starring: Alex Dreier, Stefanie Powers**, Pat Hingle, Louise Latham, Steve Ihnat, Brenda Scott, Chris Robinson


Concept heavily reworked and recast to create the 1972 TV series The Sixth Sense.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 57

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.07

| RTitle = The Last Child

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|5}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = In an overpopulated future U.S. with a one-child policy, an expectant couple who had previously lost a newborn try to flee to Canada with the help of a former US senator.
Starring: Michael Cole, Harry Guardino, Janet Margolin, Edward Asner, Van Heflin**, Barbara Babcock

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 58

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.08

| RTitle = Thief

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|9}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An urbane burglar struggles to raise money to cover his gambling debts and regain custody of his son.
Starring: Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson, Cameron Mitchell, Hurd Hatfield, Robert Webber**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 59

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.09

| RTitle = A Taste of Evil

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After years in a psychiatric hospital, an heiress returns to her family mansion and realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall, William Windom, Arthur O'Connell

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 60

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.10

| RTitle = In Broad Daylight

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|16}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A blinded movie star disguises himself as a sighted man in order to murder his cheating wife and frame her lover for the crime.
Starring: Richard Boone, Suzanne Pleshette, John Marley, Stella Stevens**, Fred Beir, Whit Bissell

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 61

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.11

| RTitle = Suddenly Single

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|19}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A newly divorced middle-aged man finds himself torn between two women, a young free spirit and a mature real estate agent.
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Barbara Rush, Margot Kidder, Agnes Moorehead, Michael Constantine, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 62

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.12

| RTitle = Death Takes a Holiday

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|23}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Death takes human form and falls in love with a woman who was supposed to die, so people stop dying.
Starring: Yvette Mimieux, Monte Markham, Myrna Loy, Bert Convy, Melvyn Douglas


First remake of the 1934 film; followed by Meet Joe Black in 1998.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 63

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.13

| RTitle = The Death of Me Yet

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|27}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A KGB sleeper agent who adopted a new identity finds himself and his wife in jeopardy when his former superior discovers that he is still alive.
Starring: Doug McClure, Richard Basehart*, Darren McGavin**, Rosemary Forsyth, Meg Foster, Dana Elcar

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 64

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.14

| RTitle = A Little Game

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|10|30}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An angry and hostile boy, returning home from military school for the holidays, clashes with his stepfather and sparks suspicions that he killed a schoolmate.
Starring: Ed Nelson, Diane Baker, Katy Jurado, Howard Duff, Mark Gruner, Christopher Shea

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 65

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.15

| RTitle = Two on a Bench

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|2}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Two young people – one buttoned-down and the other free-spirited – are detained together for a day as suspects after they unwittingly encounter a traitorous scientist passing secrets on a park bench.
Starring: Patty Duke, Ted Bessell, Andrew Duggan, John Astin, Alice Ghostley Terry Carter, Dick Balduzzi

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 66

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.16

| RTitle = Revenge!

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|6}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A deranged and vengeful mother imprisons in her basement the man that she believes is responsible for seducing her daughter.
Starring: Shelley Winters, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman, Roger Perry, Gary Clarke

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 67

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.17

| RTitle = Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|9}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Four elderly women create a fake profile at a computer dating service as a prank, but "she" attracts a murderous stalker.
Starring: Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick, Sylvia Sidney, Vince Edwards, John Beradino

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 68

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.18

| RTitle = Duel

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|13}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A driver finds himself inexplicably targeted and harassed by a truck and its mysterious, unseen driver.
Starring: Dennis Weaver


Steven Spielberg's feature-length film directorial debut.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 69

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.19

| RTitle = Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|16}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Facing an unexpected pregnancy, a teenage couple gets married over the objections of their families, one well-off and one middle class.
Starring: Desi Arnaz Jr., Christopher Norris, Dan Dailey*, Dina Merrill*, Tom Bosley*, Lynn Carlin*, Susan Strasberg*, Jessie Royce Landis**, Larry Wilcox, Nicholas Hammond


Based on the novel by Ann Head.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 70

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.20

| RTitle = The Reluctant Heroes

| Aux1 = War drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An Army historian uses his knowledge of historical tactics and languages to lead a unit under attack at a mountain observation post during the Korean War.
Starring: Ken Berry, Jim Hutton, Trini Lopez, Don Marshall, Ralph Meeker, Cameron Mitchell, Warren Oates, Soon-Tek Oh

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 71

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.21

| RTitle = The Failing of Raymond

| Aux1 = Suspense

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|27}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An escaped mental patient stalks the English literature teacher who he blames for failing him in high school.
Starring: Jane Wyman, Dean Stockwell, Dana Andrews**, Paul Henreid, Tim O'Connor, Priscilla Pointer

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 72

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.22

| RTitle = Brian's Song

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|11|30}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Dramatization of professional football player Brian Piccolo's friendship with teammate Gale Sayers and Piccolo's battle with cancer.
Starring: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Shelley Fabares


Eight Emmy nominations, four wins.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 73

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.23

| RTitle = The Devil and Miss Sarah

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|12|4}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A settler couple – the wife having second sight – is tormented by an outlaw prisoner they're escorting, who is also imbued with the gift and a silver tongue.
Starring: Gene Barry, Janice Rule, James Drury, Slim Pickens, Donald Moffat

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 74

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.24

| RTitle = If Tomorrow Comes

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|12|7}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Originally promoted as The Glass Hammer.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 75

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.25

| RTitle = See the Man Run

| Aux1 = Heist

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|12|11}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = After a kidnapper dials the wrong number and calls his phone, a B movie actor secretly impersonates the victim's father in order to steal a cut of the ransom.
Starring: Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, June Allyson


Music by David Shire.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 76

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.26

| RTitle = The Trackers

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|12|14}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An African American U.S. Marshal helps a homesteader track his daughter's abductors, but faces racism at every turn.
Starring: Sammy Davis Jr., Ernest Borgnine**, Jim Davis


Sammy Davis Jr. was an executive producer on this film.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 77

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.27

| RTitle = What's a Nice Girl Like You...?

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1971|12|18}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 78

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.28

| RTitle = Gidget Gets Married

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|4}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Moondoggie gets a job at a defense contractor, but Gidget, bored as a new wife, starts a rebellion against the rigid social structure in the planned community owned by his employer.


Starring: Monie Ellis, Michael Burns, Don Ameche**, Joan Bennett**, Corinne Camacho**, MacDonald Carey**, Elinor Donahue**, Paul Lynde**, Roger Perry**


Unsold pilot; the sequel to Gidget Grows Up (1.15); produced and directed by E. W. Swackhamer.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 79

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.29

| RTitle = The Astronaut

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|8}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = When the first astronaut on Mars mysteriously dies, the space agency tries to save the program by hiring an impersonator to fool the President, the public{{snd}}and his wife.
Starring: Jackie Cooper, Monte Markham, Susan Clark**, Richard Anderson, Robert Lansing, James Sikking


Produced by Harve Bennett, who would later hire Richard Anderson to co-star on The Six Million Dollar Man and Monte Markham to guest star on the same TV series as the Seven Million Dollar Man.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 80

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.30

| RTitle = The Night Stalker

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|11}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak tries to convince the authorities in Las Vegas that a series of murders was committed by a vampire.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Lynley, Claude Akins


Not officially a pilot; but followed by The Night Strangler (4.29) and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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| EpisodeNumber = 81

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.31

| RTitle = Madame Sin

| Aux1 = Spy thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|15}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A wealthy villainess with a brainwashing device plans to steal a Polaris submarine, with help from a disgruntled American agent she recruited.
Starring: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson, Dudley Sutton, Catherine Schell


Filmed on location on the Isle of Mull. Studio filming at Pinewood Studios. Robert Wagner was executive producer.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 82

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.32

| RTitle = Getting Away from It All

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|18}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Two New York City couples pursue imagined bliss by buying and moving to a small, rustic island near Maine.
Starring: Larry Hagman, Barbara Feldon, Gary Collins, E. J. Peaker, Vivian Vance*, Jim Backus*, Burgess Meredith*

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 83

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.33

| RTitle = The People

| Aux1 = Science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|22}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A teacher hired by an insular, Amish-like farming community finds the residents have unusual powers of the mind.
Starring: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 84

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.34

| RTitle = Women in Chains

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|25}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 85

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.35

| RTitle = The Screaming Woman

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|1|29}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A former mental patient is haunted by the cries of a woman that she believes is buried alive on her property. Based on a short story by Ray Bradbury.
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Joseph Cotten, Walter Pidgeon

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 86

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.36

| RTitle = Hardcase

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|1}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A soldier presumed dead who returns from the Moro Rebellion kidnaps the Mexican Revolutionary leader who married his wife, seeking ransom and revenge.
Starring: Clint Walker, Stefanie Powers, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alex Karras


First live action feature film production by Hanna-Barbera.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 87

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.37

| RTitle = When Michael Calls

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|5}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A woman begins receiving phone calls from her supposedly dead nephew Michael and begins to wonder if Michael is really dead, or if she is losing touch with reality.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Marian Waldman, Al Waxman

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 88

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.88

| RTitle = Second Chance

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|8}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A world-weary stockbroker buys a ghost town and invites people who want a second chance in life to populate it.
Starring: Brian Keith, Elizabeth Ashley, Kenneth Mars, William Windom, Avery Schreiber, Rosey Grier, Juliet Prowse**


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 89

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.39

| RTitle = The Hound of the Baskervilles

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|9}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Sherlock Holmes investigates a supposed curse stalking the heir to Baskerville Hall.

Starring: Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner and Jane Merrow.


First pilot for the unsold anthology series Great Detectives.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 90

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.40

| RTitle = Call Her Mom

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|15}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Facing expulsion for lacking a house mother, the rowdy APE fraternity hires a feisty young waitress for the job.
Starring: Connie Stevens, Charles Nelson Reilly*, Jim Hutton*, Van Johnson*


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 91

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.41

| RTitle = Kung Fu

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|22}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A fugitive Shaolin priest in the Old West tries to help oppressed coolies forced to lay railroad tracks under inhumane conditions.
Starring: David Carradine, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, Barry Sullivan*, Albert Salmi*, Wayne Maunder*, Benson Fong, James Hong, Robert Ito, Radames Pera


Pilot for the 1972-75 TV series of the same name premiering in the fall season.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 92

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.42

| RTitle = Two for the Money

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|26}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Two ex-cops starting out as private eyes take their first case – to find a wily young man who murdered a family twelve years earlier then vanished without a trace.
Starring: Robert Hooks, Stephen Brooks, Walter Brennan*, Catherine Burns*, Neville Brand*, Shelley Fabares*, Anne Revere*, Mercedes McCambridge**, Richard Dreyfuss


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 93

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.43

| RTitle = The Eyes of Charles Sand

| Aux1 = Occult thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|2|29}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After his uncle's death, a businessman learns the family trait of clairvoyance has been passed to him, while an heiress who believes her brother is dead seeks his help.
Starring: Peter Haskell, Barbara Rush*, Sharon Farrell*, Bradford Dillman*, Adam West*, Joan Bennett*


Unsold pilot.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 94

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.44

| RTitle = A Very Missing Person

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|3|4}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Amateur sleuth Hildegarde Withers helps the police search for a missing girl, then becomes involved in an investigation of the murder of the girl's cult leader.
Starring: Eve Arden, James Gregory, Julie Newmar*, Ray Danton, Pat Morita, Skye Aubrey


Unsold pilot. Based on the novel Hildegarde Withers Makes the Scene, published a year earlier. Filmed on location in New York City.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 95

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3.45

| RTitle = The Rookies

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|3|7}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Pilot for the 1972-76 TV series of the same name premiering in the fall season.

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| EpisodeNumber = 95

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.01

| RTitle = The Longest Night

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|9|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A wealthy father and the FBI urgently try to save his kidnapped daughter, buried in a box with only a seven day supply of air.
Starring: David Janssen, James Farentino, Phyllis Thaxter, Skye Aubrey, Mike Farrell, Sallie Shockley, Joel Fabiani, Richard Anderson, Jason Bernard (uncredited)


Based on the true story of the kidnapping of Barbara Mackle in 1968.

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| EpisodeNumber = 96

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.02

| RTitle = The Daughters of Joshua Cabe

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|9|13}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A farmer convinces a prostitute, a con artist and a pickpocket to pose as his daughters in order to fend off a rival who is trying to steal his land using the homesteading law.
Starring: Buddy Ebsen, Karen Valentine, Lesley Ann Warren, Sandra Dee**, Jack Elam, Leif Erickson**, Don Stroud, Henry Jones


First pilot for an unsold series, followed by The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (6.29).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 97

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.03

| RTitle = No Place to Run

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|9|19}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 98

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.04

| RTitle = Haunts of the Very Rich

| Aux1 = Folk horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|9|20}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Visitors at a mysterious luxury resort begin to suspect that they're actually in Hell when conditions inexorably deteriorate.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Anne Francis, Tony Bill, Donna Mills, Robert Reed, Moses Gunn

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 99

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.05

| RTitle = Moon of the Wolf

| Aux1 = Mystery/horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|9|26}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = In Louisiana bayou country, a sheriff faces murders committed with supernatural strength, possibly by a werewolf.
Starring: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino, Geoffrey Lewis

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 100

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.06

| RTitle = Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

| Aux1 = Medical drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|9|27}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A recently widowed research doctor joins a Chicago clinic to try to escape her grief, where she befriends a young girl dying of leukemia.
Starring: Susan Hayward, Darren McGavin, Michael Constantine, Michele Nichols, Dane Clark**, Beverly Garland**, Jeanette Nolan**, Richard Anderson


Theme song sung by Dusty Springfield.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 101

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.07

| RTitle = Playmates

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|3}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Two divorced men meet and become friends but unwittingly begin dating each other's ex-wives.
Starring: Alan Alda, Connie Stevens, Barbara Feldon, Doug McClure

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 102

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.08

| RTitle = Rolling Man

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|4}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A man's tortured journey as he tries to find his young sons after spending a stint in prison.
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Jimmy Dean, Slim Pickens, Agnes Moorehead, Sheree North


Directorial debut of Peter Hyams. Coincidentally, Donna Mills and Agnes Moorehead would also appear six days later in the next Movie of the Week.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 103

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.09

| RTitle = Night of Terror

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|10}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A woman is paralyzed and pursued by enforcers for a crime syndicate who are looking for an unknown item left in her possession.
Starring: Donna Mills, Martin Balsam, Chuck Connors, Agnes Moorehead, Catherine Burns


Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Produced by Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis, who would go on to produce successful sitcoms for ABC.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 104

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.10

| RTitle = Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|11}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = When an NYPD lieutenant is murdered and accused of corruption, his widow is determined to find out who set him up and to clear his name.
Starring: Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Don Galloway, Nehemiah Persoff, Eartha Kitt, Paul Burke**


Produced and co-written by Steven Bochco.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 105

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.11

| RTitle = Goodnight, My Love

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|17}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 106

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.12

| RTitle = A Great American Tragedy

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|18}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = The travails and frustrations of a desperate, middle-aged aerospace professional downsized in a tight job market.
Starring: George Kennedy, Vera Miles, William Windom, James Woods, Kevin McCarthy*, Robert Mandan

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 107

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.13

| RTitle = Short Walk to Daylight

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|24}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After an earthquake in New York City collapses a subway tunnel, survivors from a subway train try to find a way out.
Starring: James Brolin, Don Mitchell, James McEachin, Abbey Lincoln, Brooke Bundy, Laurette Spang

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 108

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.14

| RTitle = Family Flight

| Aux1 = Drama/disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|25}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A family in a small plane downed in Baja California during a storm struggles to fix the plane, clear a runway and fly back to civilization.
Starring: Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill, Kristoffer Tabori, Janet Margolin


Produced by Harve Bennett, who would incorporate parts of the plot and footage into "Pilot Error", a 1974 episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, a TV series for which he was executive producer.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 109

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.15

| RTitle = The Bounty Man

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|10|31}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A bounty hunter bringing in a notorious outlaw has to fend off a rival hunter's gang, who also want the bounty.
Starring: Clint Walker, Richard Basehart, John Ericson, Margot Kidder*, Gene Evans

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 110

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.16

| RTitle = That Certain Summer

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|11|1}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Seminal film dealing with homosexuality; seven Emmy nominations, one win.
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker, Scott Jacoby, Hope Lange

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 111

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.17

| RTitle = The Crooked Hearts

| Aux1 = Comedy/mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|11|8}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Two elderly swindlers unwittingly target each other through a dating service, and one may be a lonely hearts killer.
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rosalind Russell, Ross Martin, Michael Murphy, Maureen O'Sullivan

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 112

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.18

| RTitle = The Victim

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|11|14}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Heckart, George Maharis, Jess Walton

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 113

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.19

| RTitle = All My Darling Daughters

| Aux1 = Comedy/drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|11|22}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Unsold pilot; followed by My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (5.23).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 114

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.20

| RTitle = Home for the Holidays

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|11|28}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An aging father is convinced that his second wife is trying to poison him and he summons his four daughters home for protection.
Starring: Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter, Jill Haworth, Walter Brennan

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 115

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.21

| RTitle = The Heist

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|11|29}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 116

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.22

| RTitle = The Couple Takes a Wife

| Aux1 = Romantic comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|12|5}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Marital woes ensue when a busy working couple hires a sexy, young, multi-talented woman as a "wife" to manage their household and children.
Starring: Bill Bixby, Paula Prentiss, Myrna Loy, Valerie Perrine**, Robert Goulet**, Nanette Fabray**, Larry Storch**


Directed by Jerry Paris.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 117

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.23

| RTitle = Pursuit

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|12|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A cunning political extremist plays cat and mouse with a federal agent after stealing a powerful nerve gas to kill the President at a political convention.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, E.G. Marshall, William Windom, Joseph Wiseman, Jim McMullan, Martin Sheen


Michael Crichton's debut as a film director; based on Crichton's novel Binary. Originally promoted by ABC under the title, Explosion!

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 118

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.24

| RTitle = Every Man Needs One

| Aux1 = Romantic comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|12|13}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A chauvinistic architect facing legal action for sexual discrimination agrees to hire a female architect for 30 days.
Starring: Connie Stevens, Ken Berry**, Gail Fisher*, Steve Franken*, Henry Gibson*, Jerry Paris*, Louise Sorel*, Nancy Walker* (voice only), Carol Wayne*, Stanley Adams


Produced and directed by Jerry Paris

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 119

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.25

| RTitle = The Weekend Nun

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1972|12|20}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A cloistered nun has her eyes opened when she enters the outside world to work as a juvenile probation officer during the week.
Starring: Joanna Pettet**, Vic Morrow*, Ann Sothern*, James Gregory*, Beverly Garland*, Kay Lenz


Unsold pilot. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Produced by Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis, who would go on to produce successful sitcoms for ABC. Inspired by the motivational teachings of former nun Joyce Duco. Kay Lenz's professional debut.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 120

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.26

| RTitle = Firehouse

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|2}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A newly-hired Black firefighter faces a serial arsonist and racism from a colleague.
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Andrew Duggan, Richard Jaeckel, Val Avery, Sheila Frazier, Vince Edwards**


Pilot for the 1974 TV series of the same name. Filmed and set in New York City while the series was relocated to Los Angeles.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 121

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.27

| RTitle = The Devil's Daughter

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|9}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A young woman is told by a satanic cult that she is the daughter of Satan and was conceived to be betrothed to a demon.
Starring: Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery*, Robert Foxworth*, Jonathan Frid*, Martha Scott*, Joseph Cotten**, Ian Wolfe


Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Produced by Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis, who would go on to produce successful sitcoms for ABC.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 122

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.28

| RTitle = Trouble Comes to Town

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|10}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 123

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.29

| RTitle = The Night Strangler

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|16}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Carl Kolchak investigates killings in Seattle that seem to be tied to an immortal who needs blood for an elixir to rejuvenate himself every 21 years.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Scott Brady, Wally Cox, Margaret Hamilton, John Carradine


Not officially a pilot; the sequel to The Night Stalker (3.29), followed by the 1974-75 TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 124

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.30

| RTitle = Female Artillery

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|17}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A thief fleeing his former gang helps a wagon train of women and children fight them off.
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Ida Lupino, Sally Ann Howes, Linda Evans, Albert Salmi, Nina Foch

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 125

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.31

| RTitle = Go Ask Alice

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|24}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 126

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.32

| RTitle = A Cold Night's Death

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|30}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Two scientists doing research on monkeys at a remote, snowbound research laboratory where a lone colleague had mysteriously died face strange happenings of their own.
Starring: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach**, Michael Gwynne


Made with the cooperation of White Mountain Research Center.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 127

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.33

| RTitle = Snatched

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|1|31}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Three business executives' wives are held for ransom, including an insulin-dependent diabetic and a conspirator.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Howard Duff, John Saxon, Sheree North, Barbara Parkins, Tisha Sterling, Robert Reed, Anthony Zerbe

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 128

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.34

| RTitle = Divorce His

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|6}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Rashomon-style story with dueling accounts of events leading to a divorce. The first half is from the husband's perspective.
Star vehicle for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 129

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.35

| RTitle = Divorce Hers

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|7}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Continuing from Divorce His the night before. The second half is from the wife's perspective.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 130

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.36

| RTitle = The Great American Beauty Contest

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|13}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Behind the scenes melodrama unfolds for both contestants and officials at the "Miss American Beauty" pageant.
Starring: Eleanor Parker, Bob Cummings, Jo Anna Cameron, Farrah Fawcett, Christopher Norris, Larry Wilcox

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 131

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.37

| RTitle = The Girls of Huntington House

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|14}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A teacher at a school for unwed mothers takes a personal interest in her students.
Starring: Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom, Sissy Spacek

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 132

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.38

| RTitle = A Brand New Life

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|20}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple are surprised to find that they are expecting their first child.
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Martin Balsam, Marge Redmond, Gene Nelson, Mildred Dunnock

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 133

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.39

| RTitle = And No One Could Save Her

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|21}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 134

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.40

| RTitle = The Connection

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|27}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 135

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.41

| RTitle = You'll Never See Me Again

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|2|28}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A woman storms out after a quarrel and her husband desperately searches for her while the police suspect him of killing her.
Starring: David Hartman, Jane Wyatt, Ralph Meeker, Jess Walton, Joseph Campanella**


Based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 136

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.42

| RTitle = The Letters

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|3|6}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Stories of lives changed when mail is lost for a year. A cheating husband writes a breakup letter to his wife before reconciling. A wealthy woman writes her sister about her newfound happiness before she's murdered by the treacherous pianist they competed for. A wrongly accused man chased off by his girlfriend's mother dies after writing of his intent to clear his name.
Starring: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Ida Lupino, Dina Merrill, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Barbara Stanwyck, Lesley Ann Warren, Henry Jones


First unsold pilot for an anthology series from Aaron Spelling, similar to his The Love Boat and Fantasy Island shows; followed by Letters from Three Lovers (5.09).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 137

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.43

| RTitle = The Six Million Dollar Man

| Aux1 = Science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|3|7}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Former astronaut Steve Austin is critically injured in the crash of an experimental aircraft and is given bionic body parts as replacements.
Starring: Lee Majors, Darren McGavin**, Martin Balsam**, Barbara Anderson


First of three TV movies which would lead to the 1973-78 TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 138

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.44

| RTitle = The Bait

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|3|13}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A female police detective volunteers to act as a lure to trap a serial rapist-murderer.
Starring: Donna Mills, Michael Constantine, William Devane, Noam Pitlik, Thalmus Rasulala, June Lockhart


Unsold pilot; based on Dorothy Uhnak's first novel; her third novel, The Ledger, was adapted to become Get Christie Love! (5.44).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 139

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.45

| RTitle = Class of '63

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|3|14}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A college reunion is the setting for a messy love triangle between a successful executive, his wife and her egotistical former boyfriend.
Starring: James Brolin, Joan Hackett, Cliff Gorman**


Rare producing credit for renowned casting director Lynn Stalmaster.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 140

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.46

| RTitle = Beg, Borrow or Steal

| Aux1 = Heist

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|3|20}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Three embittered disabled men - a paraplegic, a double amputee and a blind man - plot to steal priceless jewels off a gold statue in a museum.
Starring: Mike Connors, Kent McCord, Michael Cole**, Joel Fabiani, Russell Johnson

Suspenseful teleplay written by Paul Playdon, who wrote many similar scripts for the 1966-73 TV series Mission: Impossible

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 141

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4.47

| RTitle = Toma

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|3|21}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Pilot for the 1973-74 TV series of the same name premiering on October 4.

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= Season 5: 1973–74 =

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| EpisodeNumber = 142

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.01

| RTitle = Deliver Us from Evil

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|11}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Six backpackers in the northern Rockies kill a parachuting skyjacker and decide to keep the $600,000 ransom, but they gradually fall prey to the brutal conditions of the wilderness.
Starring: George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent, Bradford Dillman, Charles Aidman, Jim Davis, Jack Weston**


Mostly filmed on location at Mount Hood National Forest.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 143

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.02

| RTitle = She Lives!

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|12}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A college couple desperately seek out methods of treatment after the woman is diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Starring: Desi Arnaz, Jr., Season Hubley, Anthony Zerbe**, Michael Margotta, Jack Soo, Jay Robinson


The movie featured the song "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce; his death in a plane crash eight days after the movie premiered eventually drove ABC Records to release it as a single, which subsequently reached #1 on the U.S. music charts.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070683/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv She Lives!] trivia at IMDb

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 144

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.03

| RTitle = Dying Room Only

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|18}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = At an isolated diner, a woman returns from the restroom to find her husband missing and nobody willing to give her an explanation.
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin**, Ned Beatty, Louise Latham, Dabney Coleman

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 145

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.04

| RTitle = Satan's School for Girls

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|19}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
Starring: Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Roy Thinnes, Cheryl Ladd

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 146

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.05

| RTitle = Smile When You Say 'I Do'

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|25}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 147

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.06

| RTitle = Hijack!

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|26}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Two long-haul truckers carrying a secret load for a defense contractor must contend with a mysterious and murderous group who wants to steal their cargo.
Starring: David Janssen, Keenan Wynn, Lee Purcell, William Schallert

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 148

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.07

| RTitle = Runaway!

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|9|29}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A train with nonfunctional brakes coming down a mountain from a ski resort careens toward the end of the line.
Starring: Ben Johnson, Ben Murphy, Darleen Carr, Ed Nelson, Martin Milner**, Vera Miles***

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 149

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.08

| RTitle = Isn't It Shocking?

| Aux1 = Comedy/mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|2}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A small-town sheriff is confronted with an ingenious killer when elderly citizens begin to die mysteriously.
Starring: Alan Alda, Louise Lasser, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Gordon, Will Geer

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 150

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.09

| RTitle = Letters from Three Lovers

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|3}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Tales of lives changed when letters are delayed for a year. A young woman writes to her jailed boyfriend about her continued devotion, who had pushed her away after he was sent to prison. A busy executive's wife begins a monthly affair at a hotel, and her companion is supposed to mail a letter if he cannot attend. Two office workers in the same building mistake each other for wealthy people in Palm Beach, with the man writing a confessional letter declaring his unworthiness and begging her forgiveness.
Starring: June Allyson, Ken Berry, Juliet Mills, Belinda J. Montgomery, Martin Sheen, Robert Sterling, Barry Sullivan, Lyle Waggoner, Henry Jones


Second unsold pilot for an anthology series from Aaron Spelling, similar to his The Love Boat and Fantasy Island shows; follows The Letters (4.42).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 151

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.10

| RTitle = The Alpha Caper

| Aux1 = Heist

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|6}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A parole officer facing mandatory retirement recruits three of his parolees to steal gold bullion from an armored truck.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin, Larry Hagman**, Elena Verdugo, John Marley, Vic Tayback, James Sikking


Unsold pilot; a rare TV appearance by Henry Fonda.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 152

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.11

| RTitle = Shirts/Skins

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|9}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 153

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.12

| RTitle = Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|10}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Starring: Starring: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest, Pedro Armendáriz

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 154

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.13

| RTitle = Double Indemnity

| Aux1 = Crime Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|13}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping her to murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 155

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.14

| RTitle = The Third Girl from the Left

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|16}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 156

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.15

| RTitle = The Man Who Could Talk to Kids

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|17}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 157

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.16

| RTitle = Wine, Women and War

| Aux1 = Action/science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|20}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Reluctant secret agent Steve Austin pursues a black market arms dealer who is offering stolen nuclear missiles to hostile nations.
Starring: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Alan Oppenheimer, Britt Ekland*, Eric Braeden*, Earl Holliman*, David McCallum**, Michele Carey


Sequel to The Six Million Dollar Man, followed by The Solid Gold Kidnapping (5.26).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 158

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.17

| RTitle = The President's Plane Is Missing

| Aux1 = Political drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A news agency reporter suspects a conspiracy when Air Force One crashes during an international crisis, but the President's body is not found.
Starring: Peter Graves, Buddy Ebsen, Arthur Kennedy, Rip Torn, Louise Sorel, Joseph Campanella

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 159

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.18

| RTitle = Money to Burn

| Aux1 = Heist

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|27}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A small group consisting of inmate, ex-cons and family schemes to swap newly counterfeited money for genuine bills marked for incineration.
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Alejandro Rey*, David Doyle*, Charles McGraw*, Cleavon Little**


Also released as Mint Condition.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 160

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.19

| RTitle = Ordeal

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|30}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = When a grating millionaire is injured in the desert, his long-suffering wife and their guide plot to let him die, but he discovers a fierce will to live.
Starring: Arthur Hill, Diana Muldaur, James Stacy, Macdonald Carey**, Michael Ansara

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 161

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.20

| RTitle = Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed?

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|10|31}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A woman's life is upended when her childish ex-husband moves back in, with his second wife and baby in tow.
Starring: Barbara Eden, Dean Jones, Kenneth Mars, Susanne Benton, Reta Shaw, Todd Lookinland, Diana Herbert

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 162

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.21

| RTitle = Linda

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|3}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An engineer struggles to prove his innocence in a small town after his wife and her lover frame him for murder.
Starring: Stella Stevens, Ed Nelson, John McIntire, John Saxon**


Based on a novel by John D. MacDonald

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 163

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.22

| RTitle = The Girl Most Likely To...

| Aux1 = Black comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|6}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A brilliant but homely college girl who becomes beautiful after a car crash and reconstructive surgery creatively murders people who had wronged her.
Starring: Stockard Channing, Ed Asner**, Jim Backus**, Joe Flynn**, Chuck McCann**, Fred Grandy, Ruth McDevitt, Warren Berlinger, Larry Wilcox


Story by Joan Rivers, who also co-wrote the teleplay.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 164

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.23

| RTitle = My Darling Daughters' Anniversary

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|7}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Unsold pilot; the sequel to All My Darling Daughters (4.19).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 165

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.24

| RTitle = Death Race

| Aux1 = War/Action

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|10}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Two American pilots in a P-40 with a damaged wing are pursued across the desert by an obsessed Nazi general in a commandeered Panzer tank.
Starring: Doug McClure**, Roy Thinnes, Lloyd Bridges, Eric Braeden


Also known as State of Division.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 166

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.25

| RTitle = Trapped

| Aux1 = Suspense

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|14}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A man trapped overnight in a department store must fight to survive vicious guard dogs patrolling the store.
Starring: James Brolin, Susan Clark, Earl Holliman, Robert Hooks**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 167

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.26

| RTitle = The Solid Gold Kidnapping

| Aux1 = Action/science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|17}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Bionic man Steve Austin is assigned to find an important treaty negotiator who has been kidnapped for $1 billion in gold bullion.
Starring: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Alan Oppenheimer, Elizabeth Ashley*, Terry Carter*, John Vernon**, Maurice Evans**, Luciana Paluzzi**, Leif Erickson**


Preceded by The Six Million Dollar Man and Wine, Women and War.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 168

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.27

| RTitle = The Affair

| Aux1 = Romance drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|20}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 169

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.28

| RTitle = Scream, Pretty Peggy

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|24}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A sculptor hires a young college girl to take care of his mother and his supposedly insane sister.
Starring: Bette Davis, Ted Bessell, Sian Barbara Allen, Christiane Schmidtmer

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 170

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.29

| RTitle = Cry Rape!

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|27}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 171

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.30

| RTitle = Outrage

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|11|28}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A doctor in an idyllic suburb takes extreme action when nobody wants to stand up to uncontrollable young residents terrorizing the community.
Starring: Robert Culp, Marlyn Mason, Beah Richards, Jacqueline Scott, Ramon Bieri, Mark Lenard, Nicholas Hammond


Based on a true story.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 172

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.31

| RTitle = A Summer Without Boys

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|4}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 173

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.32

| RTitle = Blood Sport

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|5}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 174

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.33

| RTitle = Maneater

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|8}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 175

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.34

| RTitle = The Cat Creature

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|11}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An Egyptology professor helps investigate feline-tinged deaths that stalk everyone who comes in contact with a cursed amulet.
Starring: Meredith Baxter, David Hedison, Gale Sondergaard, John Carradine*, Keye Luke*, Stuart Whitman**


Teleplay credit and story co-credit to Robert Bloch.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 176

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.35

| RTitle = Message to My Daughter

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|12}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 177

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.36

| RTitle = What Are Best Friends For?

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|18}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Muted comedy about a couple trying to get their newly divorced friend to get over his cheating ex-wife.
Starring: Ted Bessell, Larry Hagman, Lee Grant, Barbara Feldon**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 178

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.37

| RTitle = Pioneer Woman

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1973|12|19}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 179

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.38

| RTitle = Indict and Convict

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|6}}

| Aux4 = Sunday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 180

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.39

| RTitle = The Death Squad

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|8}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A disgraced cop is reinstated and recruited to infiltrate a "death squad" within the department that is killing criminals who escaped justice on technicalities.
Starring: Robert Forster, Michelle Phillips, Claude Akins, Mark Goddard, Melvyn Douglas**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 181

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.40

| RTitle = Shootout in a One-Dog Town

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|9}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = After a courier is murdered by a vicious gang, a banker in a tiny town struggles to defend the $200,000 he left in the bank's vault.
Starring: Richard Crenna, Stefanie Powers, Jack Elam, Arthur O'Connell, Michael Ansara, Dub Taylor, Gene Evans, Michael Anderson, Jr., Richard Egan**


Second live action feature film production by Hanna-Barbera.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 182

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.41

| RTitle = Mrs. Sundance

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|15}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A Pinkerton detective leaks a rumor that the Sundance Kid was not killed in Bolivia in order to lure Etta Place out of hiding so that she can lead him to the Wild Bunch.
Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, L. Q. Jones

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 183

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.42

| RTitle = Scream of the Wolf

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|16}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 184

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.43

| RTitle = Skyway to Death

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|19}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A disgruntled former employee's sabotage strands a group of passengers in an aerial tram high above a mountain as high winds approach.
Starring: Bobby Sherman, Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers, Tige Andrews, John Astin**, Joseph Campanella, Ruth McDevitt, Severn Darden


Exteriors filmed at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 185

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.44

| RTitle = Get Christie Love!

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|22}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A female police detective has to convince a drug kingpin's girlfriend to turn over a ledger that details his plans and contacts.
Starring: Teresa Graves, Harry Guardino, Louise Sorel, Paul Stevens


Early TV blaxploitation. Pilot for the 1974-75 TV series of the same name. Based on the novel, The Ledger by Dorothy Uhnak.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 186

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.45

| RTitle = Pray for the Wildcats

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|23}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 187

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.46

| RTitle = Heatwave!

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|26}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Complications upon problems as a young, expectant couple try to escape a brutal heat wave by fleeing to a cabin in the countryside.
Starring: Ben Murphy, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, David Huddleston*, John Anderson*, Robert Hogan, Dana Elcar

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 188

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.47

| RTitle = The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped

| Aux1 = Romantic comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|1|29}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A men's magazine publisher experiencing a midlife crisis falls in love with a naive Wisconsin girl sent to him as a gag "gift" for his birthday.
Starring: Richard Long**, Karen Valentine, Louise Sorel, Tom Bosley, Dave Madden, Reta Shaw, Farrah Fawcett


Richard Long's penultimate role, before Death Cruise (6.14).

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 189

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.48

| RTitle = Killdozer!

| Aux1 = Science fiction/horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|2}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = An extraterrestrial force from a meteorite possesses a bulldozer and starts killing a construction crew working on a remote island.
Starring: Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Neville Brand, James Wainwright**, Robert Urich

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 190

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.49

| RTitle = Can Ellen Be Saved?

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|5}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 191

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.50

| RTitle = Cry Panic!

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|6}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A driver who accidentally hits a man on a dark road finds himself ensnared in a small town's conspiracy to hide the victim's death.
Starring: John Forsyth, Earl Holliman, Ralph Meeker, Norman Alden, Claudia McNeil, Anne Francis**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 192

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.51

| RTitle = The Elevator

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|9}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Tensions rise as a group of people, including a claustrophobic armed robber, are trapped in an overloaded elevator in a skyscraper after hours.
Starring: James Farentino, Roddy McDowell, Craig Stevens, Don Stroud, Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy**, Carol Lynley**, Arlene Golonka**, Barry Livingston

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 193

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.52

| RTitle = I Love You, Goodbye

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 194

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.53

| RTitle = The Morning After

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|13}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A successful public relations writer develops a serious drinking problem that threatens his marriage and his life.
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter, Linda Lavin, Joshua Bryant

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 195

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.54

| RTitle = Live Again, Die Again

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|16}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A young woman is the first person to be revived from cryogenic suspension, but someone wants to ensure that her resurrection is brief.
Starring: Cliff Potts, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Mills, Mike Farrell, Geraldine Page**, Vera Miles**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 196

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.55

| RTitle = Hitchhike!

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|23}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A woman driving to San Francisco picks up a hitchhiker, unaware that he had just murdered his stepmother.
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Michael Brandon, Henry Darrow, Cameron Mitchell, Sherry Jackson

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 197

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.56

| RTitle = Killer Bees

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|26}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A man takes his girlfriend home to his disapproving mother, who has unusual control over a swarm of "killer bees" that reside in her vineyard.
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Kate Jackson, Edward Albert, Craig Stevens**, John Getz


Kate Jackson and Edward Albert would play another romantic couple in another Movie of the Week, Death Cruise (6.14) airing later in 1974.

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 198

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.57

| RTitle = Unwed Father

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|2|27}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 199

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.58

| RTitle = Houston, We've Got a Problem

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|2}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = Fictional tales about family and health problems besetting flight controllers at Mission Control as they labor to bring Apollo 13 home safely.
Starring: Robert Culp, Clu Gulager, Gary Collins*, Sandra Dee**, Ed Nelson***, Steve Franken

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 200

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.59

| RTitle = The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|6}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A young adopted woman tries to find her birth parents, with help from a fellow adoptee she meets at a support group.
Starring: Beau Bridges, Meredith Baxter, Walter Brooke, Neva Patterson, Whitney Blake**

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 201

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.60

| RTitle = Mousey

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|9}}

| Aux4 = Saturday

| ShortSummary = A schoolteacher, frustrated by his ex-wife's refusal to let him see his surrogate son and his own reputation for meekness, becomes an increasingly unhinged and violent stalker.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, John Vernon, Sam Wanamaker


Also known as Cat and Mouse. Star vehicle for Kirk Douglas. Douglas's son Michael would later star in Falling Down, a movie with a similar plot about an estranged father pushed over the edge. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in Montreal.

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 202

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.61

| RTitle = Wonder Woman

| Aux1 = Action

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Wonder Woman races to recover a secret list of American agents from a criminal mastermind.
Starring: Cathy Lee Crosby, Ricardo Montalbán**, Andrew Prine*


Unsold pilot; not related to the 1975-79 TV series of the same name.

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 203

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.62

| RTitle = The Hanged Man

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|13}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A gunfighter who miraculously returned to life after his execution helps a young widow keep her land from a ruthless silver baron.
Starring: Steve Forrest, Dean Jagger**, Will Geer **, Sharon Acker*, Brendon Boone*, Rafael Campos*, Barbara Luna*, Cameron Mitchell*

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 204

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.63

| RTitle = Men of the Dragon

| Aux1 = Action

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|20}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = An American kung fu master and his Chinese blood brother search for his sister, kidnapped by human traffickers in Hong Kong.
Starring: Jared Martin, Katie Saylor, Robert Ito, Joseph Wiseman**


An American-produced chopsocky movie filmed on location in Hong Kong.

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 204

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.63

| RTitle = A Cry in the Wilderness

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|3|26}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Suspecting rabies from a skunk bite, a farmer chains himself in his barn to protect his wife and son, making them promise not to release him, but he doesn't know that a flash flood is coming.
Starring: George Kennedy, Joanna Pettet, Lee Montgomery, Collin Wilcox-Horne

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 206

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.65

| RTitle = The Gun and the Pulpit

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|3}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A headstrong gunslinger assumes the identity of a murdered preacher and convinces a town to stand up against a crime boss.
Starring: Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Geoffrey Lewis, Pamela Sue Martin, Estelle Parsons**, Jeff Corey


Paul Junger Witt was the executive producer.

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 207

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.66

| RTitle = Melvin Purvis: G-Man

| Aux1 = Action Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|9}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Sensationalized story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis's pursuit of Machine Gun Kelly.
Starring: Dale Robertson, Harris Yulin, Margaret Blye*, Matt Clark, Elliott Street, John Karlen, David Canary, Steve Kanaly, Woodrow Parfrey, Dick Sargent**


Paul Junger Witt was the executive producer.

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| EpisodeNumber = 208

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.67

| RTitle = Murder or Mercy?

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|10}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 209

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.68

| RTitle = The Last Angry Man

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|16}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An idealistic but irascible doctor in 1936 Brooklyn fights the frustrations of the medical profession and the world.
Starring: Pat Hingle, Lynn Carlin, Paul Jabara, Tracy Bogart, Sorrell Booke, Andrew Duggan*, John Hillerman

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 210

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.69

| RTitle = Nakia

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|17}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Pilot for the series premiering in the fall. First of two Movies of the Week this night.

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 211

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.70

| RTitle = The Chadwick Family

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|17}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Unsold pilot. Second of two Movies of the Week this night.

| LineColor = 006400

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 212

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.71

| RTitle = Planet Earth

| Aux1 = Science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|4|23}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = 20th-century man Dylan Hunt, awakened from suspended animation in a post-apocalyptic world, visits a female-dominated society to find a missing surgeon.
Starring: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Diana Muldaur*


Second unsold pilot for a Gene Roddenberry concept; a reboot of his 1973 pilot Genesis II on CBS. Another unsold pilot without Roddenberry's involvement followed in 1975, Strange New World, also on ABC but not a Movie of the Week. That final reboot reused the PAX name, a plot point of prolonged suspended animation and had John Saxon return as lead actor, but had a completely different premise and backstory.

| LineColor = 006400

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 213

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5.72

| RTitle = The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|5|7}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

| LineColor = 006400

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}}

= Season 6: 1974–75 =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 214

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.01

| RTitle = Hurricane

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|9|10}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 215

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.02

| RTitle = Savages

| Aux1 = Suspense

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|9|11}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A sadistic hunter recklessly kills a prospector, then torments his young hunting guide and tries to frame him for the crime.
Starring: Andy Griffith, Sam Bottoms, Noah Beery, James Best, Randy Boone, Jim Antonio, Jim Chandler


Based on the novel Death Watch by Robb White.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 216

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.03

| RTitle = The Sex Symbol

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|9|17}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Fictional biography of a Marilyn Monroe-like movie star.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 217

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.04

| RTitle = The Day the Earth Moved

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|9|18}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Aerial photographers race to save the residents of a tiny town when their photos indicate an earthquake is imminent.
Starring: Jackie Cooper, Cleavon Little, Stella Stevens**, William Windom


Bobby Sherman was one of the producers.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 218

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.05

| RTitle = The Great Niagara

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|9|24}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = In Depression era Canada, a man who once survived the plunge over Niagara Falls wants his sons to follow in his footsteps.
Starring: Richard Boone, Michael Sacks, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Salt, Burt Young


Filmed on location in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 219

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.06

| RTitle = The California Kid

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|9|25}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = When a sailor's car is pushed over a cliff by a sadistic sheriff at a speed trap, his hot rodder brother comes to town to investigate and to get revenge.
Starring: Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips, Nick Nolte, Stuart Margolin


Produced by Howie Horwitz.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 220

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.07

| RTitle = The Stranger Within

| Aux1 = Science fiction

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|1}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = An expectant mother begins to suspect that her actions and emotions are being controlled by her unborn baby.
Starring: Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Joyce Van Patten, David Doyle, Nehemiah Persoff

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 221

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.08

| RTitle = Death Sentence

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|2}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Starring: Cloris Leachman, Laurence Luckinbill, Nick Nolte, Alan Oppenheimer, William Schallert

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 222

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.09

| RTitle = Hit Lady

| Aux1 = Suspense

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|8}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A seductive assassin wants to leave her lethal profession behind and goes on the run with her lover.
Starring: Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Campanella, Clu Gulager, Dack Rambo, Keenan Wynn


Written by Yvette Mimieux.

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 223

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.10

| RTitle = Locusts

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|9}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =During World War II, a young Navy pilot who washed out of training returns to his farming community, where he's shunned by his father and neighbors and faces an impending locust swarm.
Starring: Ben Johnson, Ron Howard, Katherine Helmond, Lisa Gerritsen

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 224

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.11

| RTitle = Trapped Beneath the Sea

| Aux1 = Disaster

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|22}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Fictional Coast Guard inquest into the failed rescue of four men trapped in a civilian research submersible entangled in a sunken wreck.
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Joshua Bryant*, Paul Michael Glaser*, Barra Grant*, Warren Kemmerling*, Cliff Potts*, Laurie Prange*, Martin Balsam**, Howard K. Smith (voiceover narration)


Inspired by the Johnson Sea Link accident.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 225

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.12

| RTitle = Bad Ronald

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|23}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Ronald's ill mother builds a hiding place inside their house to fool the police after he accidentally kills a neighborhood girl, but when she unexpectedly dies, Ronald spies on the family who moves into the house.
Starring: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter, Lisa Eilbacher, Cindy Eilbacher, Cindy Fisher, John Fiedler

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 226

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.13

| RTitle = The Mark of Zorro

| Aux1 = Adventure

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|29}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Don Diego, returning from Madrid, secretly takes up the mantle of Zorro after finding that his father has been usurped as alcalde of Los Angeles by an oppressive despot.
Starring: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalbán, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel, Robert Middleton, Anne Archer, Yvonne De Carlo


Unsold pilot, remake of The Mark of Zorro, with the teleplay adapted from John Taintor Foote's screenplay and music adapted from Alfred Newman's score.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 227

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.14

| RTitle = Death Cruise

| Aux1 = Drama/mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|10|30}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Three couples given free tickets to a Caribbean cruise experience marital problems before they are murdered one by one.
Starring: Richard Long, Polly Bergen, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Tom Bosley, Celeste Holm, Michael Constantine, Cesare Danova


Produced by Aaron Spelling, with the non-mystery aspects very similar to his later 1977-86 TV series The Love Boat; Richard Long's final role before his sudden death.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 228

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.15

| RTitle = The Great Ice Rip-Off

| Aux1 = Caper

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|11|6}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A gang of thieves separately pull diamond heists along the West Coast and gradually assemble on a Greyhound bus with their spoils, but they have to contend with a dogged retired cop on board who is obsessed with the case and beginning to see a pattern.
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Gig Young, Matt Clark, Robert Walden, Geoffrey Lewis, Grayson Hall**

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 229

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.16

| RTitle = All the Kind Strangers

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|11|12}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A photojournalist finds himself a captive of an orphaned family in a remote farmhouse who want new parents.
Starring: Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage, Robby Benson

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 230

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.17

| RTitle = The Gun

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|11|13}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A pistol passes from frightened homeowner to potential workplace shooter, barrio family, theater robbery, police disposal and, finally, a child's accident.
Starring: Stephen Elliot, David Huffman, John Sylvester White


Anthology of stories about a single firearm.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 231

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.18

| RTitle = It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|11|19}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A middle-aged family man hitchhiking home is abducted and molested by a beautiful young woman, then finds himself disbelieved and ridiculed.
Starring: Paul Sorvino, Michael Learned, Adam Arkin, Bob Dishy, Jo Anna Cameron, Graham Jarvis

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 232

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.19

| RTitle = Panic on the 5:22

| Aux1 = Crime drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|11|20}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Three armed men rob a private lounge car full of wealthy passengers on a Metro-North commuter train.
Starring: Bernie Casey, Lynda Day George, Andrew Duggan, Dana Elcar, Laurence Luckinbill, James Sloyan, Robert Walden, Eduard Franz, Reni Santoni, Linden Chiles, Robert Mandan, Ina Balin


Produced by Quinn Martin.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 233

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.20

| RTitle = The Godchild

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|11|26}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Remake of 3 Godfathers.

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 234

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.21

| RTitle = Betrayal

| Aux1 = Crime thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|12|3}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 235

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.22

| RTitle = Only With Married Men

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|12|4}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A girl decides that she will only date married men, and she runs into a bachelor who tells women that he is married in order to avoid long-term commitments.
Starring: David Birney, Michele Lee, John Astin, Judy Carne, Dom DeLuise, Gavin MacLeod

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 236

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.23

| RTitle = The Tribe

| Aux1 = Historical drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|12|11}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A Cro-Magnon clan struggles against misfortune, sparse prey and hostile Neanderthals.
Starring: Victor French, Warren Vanders, Henry Wilcoxon, Adriana Shaw, Stewart Moss


Music by David Shire.

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 237

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.24

| RTitle = Roll, Freddy, Roll!

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1974|12|17}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A mild-mannered father tries to regain the admiration of his young son by setting the Guinness world endurance record on roller skates.
Starring: Tim Conway, Barra Grant, Jan Murray, Scott Brady, Robert Hogan, Henry Jones, Ruta Lee


Written and produced by Bill Persky and Sam Denoff (That Girl).

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 238

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.25

| RTitle = Let's Switch!

| Aux1 = Comedy

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|1|7}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A harried housewife and a frazzled women's magazine editor-in-chief swap careers and families for a week to experience how the other half lives.
Starring: Barbara Eden, Barbara Feldon, Barra Grant, Penny Marshall, Joyce Van Patten, Richard Schaal, Pat Harrington, Ron Glass

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 239

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.26

| RTitle = The Missing Are Deadly

| Aux1 = Thriller

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|1|8}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A teenage boy steals a lab mouse from his father's virology institute to get attention, not knowing it is infected with contagious, deadly bacteria.
Starring: Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Morgan, Kathleen Quinlan, Marjorie Lord, José Ferrer**

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 240

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.27

| RTitle = Satan's Triangle

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|1|14}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A Coast Guard team answering a distress call in the Bermuda Triangle finds a sole survivor on a boat and possibly demonic forces at work.
Starring: Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Ed Lauter, Jim Davis, Michael Conrad

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 241

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.28

| RTitle = The Hatfields and the McCoys

| Aux1 = Western/drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|1|15}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Condensed but relatively faithful retelling of the legendary Hatfield–McCoy feud.
Starring: Jack Palance, Steve Forrest, Richard Hatch, Karen Lamm, James Keach, Robert Carradine, John Calvin, Gerrit Graham, Morgan Woodward

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 242

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.29

| RTitle = The Abduction of Saint Anne

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|1|21}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 243

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.30

| RTitle = The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return

| Aux1 = Western

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|1|28}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = The "daughters" settle down to life on the Cabe farm, but the real father of one of the women – a treacherous deserter – arrives with a scheme to use her.
Starring: Dan Dailey, Dub Taylor, Ronne Troup, Christina Hart, Brooke Adams, Kathleen Freeman, Carl Betz**


Second unsold pilot for a TV series; the first of two sequels to The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (4.02), followed by The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe (which, unlike the other two movies, was not an ABC Movie of the Week).

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 244

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.31

| RTitle = All Together Now

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|2|5}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision.
Starring: John Rubinstein, Glynnis O'Connor, Brad Savage, Helen Hunt, Dori Brenner, Bill Macy, Jane Withers

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 245

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.32

| RTitle = The Trial of Chaplain Jensen

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|2|11}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = The story of the only Naval chaplain and officer ever court-martialed on charges of adultery after accusations by two Navy wives.
Starring: James Franciscus, Joanna Miles, Lynda Day George, Dorothy Tristan, Harris Yulin, Charles Durning**


Based on the autobiographical account by Andrew Jensen, with Martin Abramson.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 246

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.33

| RTitle = A Cry for Help

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|2|12}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = A cynical radio talk-show host who insults his audience changes his behaviour when he receives a call from a suicidal teenage girl.
Starring: Robert Culp, Elayne Heilveil, Ken Swofford, Julius Harris, Michael Lerner

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 247

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.34

| RTitle = The Family Nobody Wanted

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|2|19}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants, and soon they find themselves with a family of more than a dozen kids.
Starring: Shirley Jones, James Olson, Katherine Helmond, Woodrow Parfrey, Beeson Carroll, Claudia Bryar, Ann Doran, C. Lindsay Workman

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 248

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.35

| RTitle = You Lie So Deep, My Love

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|2|25}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get them, even murder.
Starring: Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Angel Tompkins, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Schedeen, Russell Johnson, Virginia Gregg.

| LineColor = 500050

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 249

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.36

| RTitle = Someone I Touched

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|2|26}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 250

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.37

| RTitle = Trilogy of Terror

| Aux1 = Horror

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|3|4}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Self-contained anthology with Karen Black in three unrelated roles. Followed by two sequels, Dead of Night (1977) and, years later, Trilogy of Terror II (1996) (neither of which, unlike the first movie, was an ABC Movie of the Week). The first two movies were unsold pilots for a horror anthology TV series to be called Dead of Night.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 251

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.38

| RTitle = The Desperate Miles

| Aux1 = Drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|3|5}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
Starring: Tony Musante, Joanna Pettet, Jeannette Nolan, Lynn Loring, John Larch

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 252

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.39

| RTitle = Dead Man on the Run

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|4|2}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 253

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.40

| RTitle = The Swiss Family Robinson

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|4|15}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = The shipwrecked Robinsons are endangered when a greedy Englishman leads a pirate expedition to the island, in search of a priceless golden idol.
Starring: Martin Milner, Pat Delaney, Michael-James Wixted, Eric Olsen, Cindy Fisher, Cameron Mitchell, John Vernon*, George DiCenzo, John Crawford


Pilot for Irwin Allen's 1975-76 TV series The Swiss Family Robinson, wherein two of the children were recast.

| LineColor = FFD700

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 254

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.41

| RTitle = Returning Home

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|4|29}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary = Remake of The Best Years of Our Lives.

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 255

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.42

| RTitle = Starsky & Hutch

| Aux1 = Police drama

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|4|30}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Two unorthodox LAPD detectives set out to find a pair of hit men responsible for the murders of two teenage lovers.
Starring: Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, Michael Lerner, Michael Conrad


Pilot for the 1975-79 TV series of the same name premiering in September.

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 256

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.43

| RTitle = Matt Helm

| Aux1 = Mystery

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|5|7}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary = Matt Helm, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with gun runners.
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Ann Turkel, Laraine Stephens, Patrick Macnee, John Vernon


Pilot for the 1975-76 TV series of the same name premiering in September.

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 257

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.42

| RTitle = The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|5|13}}

| Aux4 = Tuesday

| ShortSummary =

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 258

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6.44

| RTitle = Promise Him Anything

| Aux1 = —

| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1975|5|14}}

| Aux4 = Wednesday

| ShortSummary =

| LineColor = FFD700

}}

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See also

References

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