Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday March 16, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Mike's Graduation
Season 4, episode 24 W: Don Nicholl D: John Rich With Betty Garrett (Irene Lorenzo). Mike is preparing for his final exams and the family is finally facing the prospect of his college graduation. Mike is having nightmares about failing, Gloria is worried about being a housewife and Edith is saddened by the thought of the kids moving out. Only Archie seems happy.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Pin It On Danny
Season 4, episode 21 W: Art Baer, Ben Joelson D: Richard Kinon With Gary Dubin (Punky Lazaar), Liam Dunn (Salesman), Kathryn Reynolds (Mrs. Bullock), Matilda Calnan (Mrs. Pierson). Danny finds a brooch, gives it to his mother for her birthday, then learns to his dismay that there's a $50 reward for its return.
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: Twice In A Lifetime (1974)
W: Robert Pirosh, Martin Rackin D: Herschel Daugherty With Ernest Borgnine, Della Reese, Vito Scotti, Arte Johnson, Slim Pickens, Eric Laneuville, Warren Vanders, Herb Jeffries. Comedy about the world of tugboats. A retired Navy cook satisfies his longing for his former seagoing life with the purchase of a salvage tug. He then tries to break into the closed world of salvage men. Pilot for a TV series.
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| [CBS 8:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Trial Of Henry Blake
Season 2, episode 8 W: McLean Stevenson, Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks D: Don Weis With Bobbie Mitchell (Nurse Marshall), Hope Summers (Nurse Meg Cratty), Jack Aaron (Maj. Murphy), Robert F. Simon (Gen. Mitchell). Lt. Col. Henry Blake's fitness for command is impugned when Hot Lips and Burns inform on him, charging that he sanctioned improper activities such as gurney races between doctors and nurses. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1973)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Merchant Of Venice (1973)
W: William Shakespeare D: John Sichel With Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Michael Jayston, Anna Carteret, Louise Purnell, Anthony Nicholls. A new, updated version of Shakespeare's comedy-drama, being presented in America for the first time. The setting shifts from Elizabethan times to Venice of the 1880s. The transition follows a new relevance for today's audiences. The story is about the bond that a merchant gives his friend so that a youth may have the money to woo his lovely girl.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Father's Day
Season 4, episode 6 W: Ed Weinberger D: Jay Sandrich With Liam Dunn (Robert Baxter), John Holland (Mr. Caldwell). A phone call from his long-lost father, who had abandoned him as a baby, throws unflappable anchorman Ted Baxter into an emotional turmoil. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/20/1973)
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Mister Emily Hartley
Season 2, episode 8 W: Charlotte Brown D: Jerry London With Claudette Nevins (Hostess), Perry Castellano (Young Boy), Tom Patchett (David Robbins), Jay Tarses (Waiter), Bill Quinn (Ralph Hodiak). Bob suffers an inferiority attack when a test reveals that Emily's IQ is higher than his. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1973)
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| [NBC 9:30] TV Movie: Night Games (1974)
W: E. Jack Neuman D: Don Taylor With Barry Newman, Susan Howard, Albert Salmi, Luke Askew, Joanna Cameron, Anjanette Comer, Jon Cypher, Henry Darrow, Stefanie Powers. Drama about an unconventional lawyer. A Harvard-educated man decides to escape urban living for a law practice in a Southwestern cattle town. He becomes involved in a controversial homicide case. Pilot for the "Petrocelli" TV series.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 23 With Roddy McDowall, The Jackson Five. Carol and Roddy sing a duet -- with him in his "Planet of the Apes" make-up. In "The Family", Eunice (Carol), her husband Ed (Harvey Korman), and Mama (Vicki) don't appreciate the accomplishments of Eunice's brother, Nobel Prize-winning writer Philip (Roddy). Harvey and Lyle Waggoner play chauvinistic carpenters who aren't thrilled about "the new guy" -- Carol; The Jackson Five perform "Dancin' Machine".
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