Video: 'The Waltons s01e01 - The Foundling'
(Thursday, September 14, 1972, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Waltons, a drama about a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II, debuted as a regular series tonight on CBS-TV (it first aired as a TV movie entitled The Homecoming: A Christmas Story on Dec. 19, 1971). It starred Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby and Will Geer.
Video: 'The Rookies'
(Monday, September 11, 1972, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Rookies, a crime drama television series that follows the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD), debuted tonight on ABC-TV.
Video: 'Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids - Episode 1'
(Saturday, September 9, 1972, 12:30 p.m. EDT) — Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, an animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, based on Cosby’s remembrances of his childhood gang, debuted today on CBS-TV.
Video: 'The New Price Is Right - episode 01 - VTR Aug 19th 1972'
(Monday, September 4, 1972, Labor Day, 10:30 a.m. EDT) — The (New) Price Is Right, a game show that revolved around contestants competing to identify the pricing of merchandise to win cash and prizes, debuted today on CBS-TV (taped Aug. 19, 1972, at CBS Television City in Hollywood) with Bob Barker as host.
(Thursday, June 8, 1972) — Film director and producer Alfred Hitchock appeared on tonight’s ‘The Dick Cavett Show’ on ABC-TV, making the memorable quote: “Puns are the highest form of literature.” (Click here to watch complete interview, part 1 | part 2? | part 3? | part 4?
(Saturday, March 25, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Endora tries to test out Darrin’s honesty by giving him a pin with a spell that makes him tell the truth, concluding the eighth and final season of the ABC-TV situation comedy series Bewitched.
Video: 'TV or Not TV' (part 1)
(Friday, March 24, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Fred wants a new color television set and Lamont wants a new car on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV sitcom Sanford and Son. Continue reading ‘TV or Not TV’ episode airs on ‘Sanford and Son’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)
(Saturday, March 18, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — John is convinced that weird things will happen on their shift on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV series Emergency!.
(Saturday, March 4, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Tabitha has to take a test to prove her intelligence and is very nervous on tonight’s episode of the ABC-TV situation comedy series Bewitched.
(Wednesday, March 1, 1972, 10:00 p.m. ET) — A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice–an earwig–in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV anthology series Night Gallery.
