Saturday August 17, 1974
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 17, 1974:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS All In The Family: Gloria's Boyfriend (R) M*A*S*H: Mail Call (R) The Mary Tyler Moore Show: I Gave At The Office (R) The Bob Newhart Show: The Modernization Of Emily (R) Barnaby Jones: Dark Legacy (R)
ABC The Partridge Family: Keith And Lauriebelle (R) TV Movie: Murder Or Mercy (1974) Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law: House Of Friends (R)
NBC Emergency!: How Green Was My Thumb? (R) Preseason Football


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Gloria's Boyfriend
Season 4, episode 19
W: Bud Wiser, Don Nicholl   D: John Rich

With Joseph Mascolo (Mr. Bushmill), Richard Masur (George Bushmill). Archie becomes concerned when the retarded box boy at the local supermarket becomes interested in Gloria.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1974)

[ABC 8:00] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Keith And Lauriebelle
Season 4, episode 19
W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield   D: Roger Duchowny

With Sherry Miles (Karen), Jack Stauffer (George), Lindsay V. Jones (Betty), Colby Haines (Claire). As a last resort, Keith asks Laurie to be his date at a party he's giving to impress a new girl in school.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/2/1974)

[NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: How Green Was My Thumb?
Season 3, episode 18
W: John Groves   D: Christian I. Nyby II

With Pamela Hensley (Wanda), Donald Mantooth (Paramedic 95), George Wallace (Sgt. Thomas), Helen Clark (Emma), William Wintersole (Julius), Eric Shea (Clyde), Will Hutchins (Curtis Murdock), Jack Kosslyn (Harry), Kim Richards (Melissa), Don Chastain (Chaplain Miller), Leigh Christian (Mrs. Johnson). The care and feeding of house plants for a widow injured while tending greenery occupies paramedic DeSoto as his buddies rib him unmercifully. The men also treat a man who swallowed his partial denture, and rescue a tour group.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1974)

[CBS 8:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Mail Call
Season 2, episode 23
W: Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks   D: Alan Alda

With Dennis Troy (Corpsman), Sheila Lauritsen (Nurse Sheila). The arrival of a new batch of mail leaves Trapper depressed and thinking of desertion despite Hawkeye's efforts to dissuade him. Meanwhile, Hawkeye learns that he has successfully tricked Frank into buying stocks in a fictitious company, Pioneer Aviation.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1974)

[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Murder Or Mercy (1974)
W: Douglas Day Stewart   D: Harvey Hart

With Bradford Dillman, Denver Pyle, Melvyn Douglas, Mildred Dunnock, Don Porter, David Birney, Robert Webber, Bonnie Bartlett. A famous attorney comes out of retirement to aid his son in the defense of a noted doctor accused of taking the life of his terminally ill wife.

[CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: I Gave At The Office
Season 4, episode 13
W: Don Reo, Allan Katz   D: Jay Sandrich

With Tammi Bula (Bonnie Slaughter), Bruce Boxleitner (Rick). Mary gets in trouble with Lou when she hires Murray's teenage daughter to help with filing and typing.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1973)

[NBC 9:00] Preseason Football Cincinnati Bengals vs. Atlanta Falcons in the first of three preseason telecasts. Grant Field, Atlanta, Ga. is the site. Jim Simpson and John Brodie report.

[CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: The Modernization Of Emily
Season 2, episode 17
W: Charlotte Brown   D: Peter Baldwin

With Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman), Sharon Gless (Rosalie Shaeffer), Billy Miller (Roy), J.J. Barry (Man in Market), Erica Hagen (Miss Carmichael). Feeling that middle age is creeping up faster than she realized, Emily decides to update her image with a kicky new wardrobe that she says is youthful and Bob feels is childish.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/12/1974)

[CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Dark Legacy
Season 2, episode 21
W: Robert W. Lenski   D: Gene Nelson

With Eileen Heckart (Virginia Lennox), David Wayne (Raymond Lennox), Nick Nolte (Paul Barringer), Meg Wyllie (Housekeeper), Paul Fix (Amos Barringer), Barbara Stanger (Marilyn Barringer), Mark Goddard (Frank Halliday), Bill Zuckert (Guard), Roy Engel (Salesman), Hal Riddle (Motel Manager). A seemingly nice middle class couple murder a stockbroker for apparently no reason, and the dead man's widow hires Jones to pursue the case.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/3/1974)

[ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: House Of Friends
Season 3, episode 14

With Joyce Van Patten (Ruth), David Hartman (Dr. Evans), Paul Shenar, Kathleen Quinlan (Jill), Barbara Baxley. Owen defends a losing cause legally, but possibly a victory morally, when he defends a doctor friend in his stand against a private hospital for not admitting a dying boy.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/19/1974)

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