Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 8, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Air Mail Man
Season 2, episode 14 W: Peter L. Dixon, Sarah Dixon D: Robert Butler With Julie Cobb (Sue Cooper), Paul Michael Glaser (Todd Cooper). A U.S. mail plane, flying at night, develops engine trouble, but with the aid of lanterns from the family the pilot makes an emergency landing on their property. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] Temperature's Rising [Reg]: Three Faces Of Edwina
Season 2, episode 17 W: Joseph Bonaduce, Johnny Bonaduce D: Herbert Kenwith With Joshua Shelley (Jonas), Robert Colbert (Bessemer), Jerry Fujikawa (Japanese Man), Ned Wertimer (Dudley), Anne Meara (Harriet). Edwina is convinced that she needs plastic surgery and she borrows the money for the operation from her brother.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Mac Davis Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5 With Raymond Burr, Olivia Newton-John, Jerry Van Dyke, Gabe Kaplan.
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| [ABC 8:30] Just For Laughs: Ernie, Madge And Artie [special]
With Frank Sutton, Cloris Leachman, Dick Van Patten. Beginning a four week comedy anthology series, tonight's program concerns a recently married middle aged couple haunted by the spirit of the wife's dead first husband.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Looking Glass War (1970)
W: Frank Pierson D: Frank Pierson With Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Pia Degermark, Avery Hopkins, Susan George, May McAnally, Robert Urquhart, Anna Massey, Vivian Pickles. In John Le Carre's story of international intrigue, security chief Leclerc discovers that the Soviets are hiding a rocket in an East German city and he employs Leiser, a young Polich defector, to find the missile.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Nature Of Evil
Season 2, episode 21 W: Gerald Sanford D: Robert M. Lewis With Morgan Woodward (The Adversary), Shelly Novack (Bascomb), John Carradine (Serenity Johnson), Barbara Colby (Josie), Kelly Thordsen (Mule Jesse), James Gammon (Jake), Robert Donley (Sam), Bartlett Robinson (Max). Caine tests his strength against three elements of evil -- death, ugliness and fear -- in dealing with an unusual adversary. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/21/1974)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: A Taste Of Ashes
Season 7, episode 18 W: Dick Nelson D: Alvin Ganzer With Kim Hunter (Joanna), Scott Hylands (Philip), Gretchen Corbett (Gail), James McCallion (Hobbs), Whit Bissell (Simon Cole), Anne Seymour (Lily), James Keach (Walter), June Christopher (Nurse). A wealthy widow contacts Ironside when she receives a series of postcards from her supposedly deceased daughter, the victim of a fire 10 years ago. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1974)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Act Of Duty
Season 1, episode 16 W: Robert Malcolm Young D: Lawrence Dobkin With Fred Sadoff (Dr. Murchison), Judith McConnell (Evelyn), Brenda Vaccaro (Officer Sherry Tate), Michael Burns (Rapist), Keith Andes (Colonel Frawley), Anne Collings (Nancy Connors), James B. Sikking (Major Frank Kramer). A policewoman acts as bait for a rapist-murderer and almost becomes his next victim. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/18/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] Dean Martin's Comedy World [Reg]
With Rodney Dangerfield, Mary Batten, Jud Strunk. A clip from the film "The Three Musketeers" is shown.
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