Week 7 of the 1972-1973 season started on Monday, October 23rd, 1972 and ended on Sunday, October 29th, 1972. The highest-rated program was All in the Family on CBS with a 32.1/51 Nielsen rating/share. Here are the 10 lowest-rated programs:
## | Program | Network | Rating |
---|---|---|---|
52 | Dean Martin | NBC | 14.9/25 |
53 | “Yellow Submarine” [Special] | CBS | 14.8/22 |
54 | Banyon | NBC | 14.7/27 |
55 | Owen Marshall | ABC | 13.9/23 |
56 | Julie Andrews | ABC | 13.4/23 |
57 | Streets of San Fran. | ABC | 13.4/21 |
58 | The Men | ABC | 12.9/19 |
59 | Sixth Sense | ABC | 11.3/19 |
60 | Night Gallery | NBC | 11.2/19 |
61 | Alias Smith & Jones | ABC | 10.2/16 |
For the record, program titles are written exactly the way they were published in 1972.
Source:
“All in the Family Leads Nielsen Again.” Los Angeles Times. 8 Nov. 1972: D22.
“Yellow Submarine” ‘s low rating is a bit of a surprise considering it took 4 years for this movie to get on TV and Beatlemania was still going strong. The reason you don’t really see either this film or “Let It Be” on TV now has to with Apple Corp’s partial ownership of both.
Though “Yellow Submarine” is the only one of the two on D.V.D. and Blu ray.
Yes, because the Beatles had no problems with “Submarine”. On the other hand Yoko, Paul, and Ringo hate “Let It Be” because it casts a negative light on the Beatle legacy. Remember, it was shot during the break-up period.