Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 26, 1974:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Gunsmoke: Waste (2) (R)		Here's Lucy (R)	The New Dick Van Dyke Show: Mr. Dazzle (R)	Medical Center: The World's A Balloon (R)
ABC	The Rookies: Eyewitness (R)		Preseason Football
NBC	Monday Night Baseball

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Comedy

Program details:

[CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Waste (2)
Season 17, episode 4
W: Jim Byrnes D: Vincent McEveety
With Jeremy Slate (Ben Rodman), Shug Fisher (Jed Rascoe), Ken Swofford (Speer), Ellen Burstyn (Amy Waters), Ruth Roman (Maggie Blaisedell), Johnny Whitaker (Willie Hubbard), David Sheiner (Preacher), George Chandler (Silas Hubbard). An outlaw gang corners Matt Dillon and a band of women near an old fort. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1971)

[ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Eyewitness
Season 2, episode 19
W: Frank Telford D: Barry Shear
With Wendell Burton (Larry West), Lurene Tuttle (Aunt Lou), Don 'Red' Barry (Officer Kelogg), Dick Crockett (Officer Foley), Robert Harland (Sgt. Older). A young man who has gunned down several police officers responding to phony calls becomes friendly with Lt. Ryker. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/11/1974)

[NBC 8:00] Monday Night Baseball Cincinnati Reds at Philadelphia Phillies.

[CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg] Lucy gets caught in a romantic triangle. (Repeat program)

[ABC 9:00] Preseason Football Detroit Lions vs. Cincinnati Bengals. Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Fred Williamson report.

[CBS 9:30] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: Mr. Dazzle
Season 3, episode 13
D: Jerry Paris
With Richard Dawson (Richard Richardson), Richard Dreyfuss (Tony Injijikian). Dick's producer insists on an explanation when he sees Dick as "Mr. Dazzle", the singing and dancing representative of a bathroom cleaner in a television commercial. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/17/1973)

[CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The World's A Balloon
Season 5, episode 22
W: Martin Roth D: Michael Caffey
With Beverly Garland (Kay), Dom DeLuise (Max), Norman Fell (Frank), Lee H. Montgomery (Jerry), Karen Morrow (Norma), Anne Seymour (Judge), Dale Tarter (Dr. Wayburn). An aging, lackluster but ever-ambitious ventriloquist finds his dearest pal and manager -- his 14-year-old orphaned nephew -- about to be separated from him by the court after the boy is found to be seriously ill. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/25/1974)