Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday April 17, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 44 - Season Premiere
Season 3, episode 1 D: Art Fisher With Chuck Connors, Howard Cosell, Amanda Jones. The third season starts with new segments: "Lady Luck", in which Cher, as Fate, deals strange hands to the players; "Dirty Linen", with Cher and a guest discussing world situations; "Leading Couples", satirizing popular show business teams. Tonight the guests and the show's regulars spoof life on a desert island, romances between company employees, life in ancient Greece, the White House, a Japanese space shot, strip teasers, football heroes and the All Volunteer Army. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/12/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] TV Movie: Nakia (1974)
W: Christopher Trumbo, Michael Butler, Sy Salkowitz, Mark Saha D: Leonard Horn With Robert Forster, Arthur Kennedy, Linda Evans, Stephen McNally, George Nader, Taylor Lacher, Joe Kapp, Robert Donner. An Indian deputy sheriff in New Mexico aids an Indian girl's civic group in its battle to save an old mission town from destruction by a large corporation. Pilot movie for the series.
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| [NBC 8:00] Chase [Reg]: Vacation For A President
Season 1, episode 17 W: William Driskill D: Arthur H. Nadel With Henry Darrow (Amaros), Arlene Golonka (Joy), Rex Holman (Riker), Don Keefer, Sidney Clute (Settles). A carefree foreign dignitary causes Chase and his undercover unit frustrating moments in their duties to protect him from an assassin. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/6/1974)
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: He Who Digs A Grave (1)
Season 3, episode 1 W: Stephen Kandel D: Richard Donner With Anne Baxter (Mayor Helen Blyth), David Janssen (Ian Kirk), Tim O'Connor (Martin Ross), Murray Hamilton (Arthur Gibson), Louise Troy (Louise Gibson), Barry Sullivan (Sheriff Luke), Virginia Gregg (Emma), Robert Hogan (Deputy), Royal Dano (Dr. Binns), Dabbs Greer (Windom Salter), Lee Purcell (Marian Luke), R.G. Armstrong (Denning), Cathy Lee Crosby (Irene Kirk). William Conrad returns for his third season as portly private eye Frank Cannon. Tonight, Cannon faces the hostitlity of a small cattle community as he attempts to clear an old friend of two murder charges. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/12/1973)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Judgement At Nuremberg (1961), part two
W: Abby Mann D: Stanley Kramer With Spencer Tracy, Maximillian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Werner Klemperer, William Shatner, Edward Binns. At a post-World War II trial of minor Nazi jurists charged with atrocities, there emerges a realization about the mental attitude many Germans had under the Hitler regime.
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| [ABC 9:30] TV Movie: The Chadwick Family (1974)
W: John Gay, David Victor D: David Lowell Rich With Fred MacMurray, Kathleen Maguire, Darleen Carr, Jane Actman, Lara Parker, Alan Fudge, Frank Michael Liu, John Larch, Barry Bostwick, Walter Brooke, Stephen Nathan, Bruce Boxleitner. A father's inner strength is tested by a shattering emotional crisis threatening to tear his family apart.
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