The scheduled premiere of the TV-movie The Challengers was pre-empted for a network news special on the death of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Originally, the unsuccessful one-hour TV pilot project Crisis (1968) was scheduled. The other hour was anticipated by the CBS network to feature the Apollo 13 astronauts walking and exploring the Moon's surface. The mission, however, was aborted in mid-flight earlier that week, so the 60-minute pilot was replaced by the 2-hour Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows.
This news special offered an interview with former president Lyndon B. Johnson, followed by "A Night in Jail, A Day in Court," a documentary on the American justice system.
The network substituted an entry from its CBS Children's Film Festival series, the Peabody Award-winning J.T. (1969), followed by a CBS Reports segment on The Elusive Peace, about the ongoing Vietnam War.
This was a 90-minute made-for-TV comedy-drama that duplicated the plot situation from the 1971 James Garner/Lou Gossett satire Skin Game. It was followed by Slither (1974), a 30-minute unsold pilot project, based on the 1973 James Caan/Sally Kellermanmovie comedy.
Terror on the Beach was a 90-minute TV-movie that had premiered the previous September on the New CBS Tuesday Night Movie. Its rerun here was followed by a 30-minute pilot project Mr. and Mrs. Cop, starring Anthony Costello and Marianne McAndrew.
Substitute programming consisted of (1) "The Shape of Things", an entertainment special made by and for women and (2) a CBS Reports documentary, "The Israelis."
The 90-minute pilot project for the short-lived CBS-TV series Sons and Daughters. This broadcast was followed by a half-hour projected pilot episode for a series that failed to acquire a sponsor. It was titled If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?
A half-hour unsold TV pilot Evel Knievel, not to be confused with the George Hamilton 1971 biopic, Evel Knievel. It featured actor Sam Elliott as the notorious daredevil/showman who becomes involved in a battle-of-the-sexes competition with a female stunt-rider. This show was followed by a 30-minute TV pilot, Aces Up. The remainder of the 2-hour time slot was occupied by a one-hour CBS News Reports program entitled "The Colleges."
This 90-minute film was followed by a half-hour TV pilot for a projected series, The Michelle Lee Show.
Rerun of a 90-minute TV-movie that premiered the previous September on the New CBS Tuesday Night Movie. It was followed by a half-hour pilot project Young Love with Meredith Baxter and Michael Burns.
Followed by the rerun of the 1974 30-minute pilot project Mr. and Mrs. Cop
Rerun of a 90-minute TV-movie that aired originally on CBS in April 1974. On this night, it was followed by Stat!, a 30-minute failed pilot project with Frank Converse.
Premiere of the two-hour drama special Foster and Laurie (1975), based on a real-life incident resulting in the brutal murder of two New York policemen. Starring Perry King and Dorian Harewood.
Excerpts from interviews with ex-Presidents of the United States were edited and spliced together for the documentary "Five Presidents on the Presidency", followed by a 60-minute presentation, "You and the Commercial".
The Thursday Night Movie was pre-empted for a taped holiday presentation, The House Without a Christmas Tree, followed by a CBS Reports documentary, "The Corporation", about the workings and political influence of Philips Petroleum.
A two-hour CBS Reports documentary on past and current members of the American family dynasty, "The Rockefellers".
The Thursday Night Movie was pre-empted for (1) "The Great One", a one-hour musical-comedy revue starring Jackie Gleason; and (2) A CBS Reports 60-minute documentary, "A Boy Named Terry Egan", a case-study of infantile autism. (See Part 1 of the documentary here.)
A 60-minute documentary about the city of "New York, New York", followed by Democratic senate majority leader Mike Mansfield's response to President Nixon's 1974 State of the Union address.
Four Portraits in Black, a documentary depicting the lives and struggles of four African-American families. Live commentary was provided by panelists Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Representative Andrew Young (D-Georgia).
