Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 14, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: The Bunkers And Inflation (1)
Season 5, episode 1 W: Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernie West D: H. Wesley Kenney With Betty Garrett (Irene Lorenzo), Mike Evans (Lionel Jefferson), Isabel Sanford (Louise Jefferson), Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson), Billy Halop (Bert Munson). The fifth season starts with a four-part episode. The Bunker family's ability to cope with the high cost of living is sorely tested. Archie and Edith's 26th anniversary is marred by the chance that Archie's union may strike.
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| [ABC 8:00] The New Land [Reg]: The Word Is: Persistence
Season 1, episode 1 W: William Blinn D: Philip Leacock With James Olson, Mike Farrell, Sally Carter. The hardships and triumphs of a courageous immigrant Scandinavian family trying to carve out a life in America during the 1850s is depicted in this new series. Starring are Bonnie Bedelia, Kurt Russell, Donald Moffat and Gwen Arner. In the first show, the Lundstroms suffer a major setback in establishing their farm when lightning destroys their barn and kills their oxen.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Screenwriter
Season 4, episode 1 W: Eric Brown D: Georg Fenady With Shelley Berman (Art Fromish), Terence O'Connor (Anne Porter), Kyle Anderson (Admitting Nurse), Del Monroe (Policeman), Larry Csonka (Al), Bennye Gatteys (Laurie Coleman), Brendon Boone (Motorcyclist), Carol Wayne (Miss October). The third season starts with the paramedics faced with a nightmare by having an insensitive screenwriter following them around, aiding a motorcycle accident victim, assisting in the delivery of a baby and subduing a man suffering from a chemical hangover.
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| [CBS 8:30] Paul Sand In Friends And Lovers [Reg]: Getting To First Bass
Season 1, episode 1 W: Steve Pritzker D: Jay Sandrich With Andrea Marcovicci, Henry Winkler. A bass player with the Boston Symphony, a bachelor with an overprotective brother and sister-in-law, falls in love with the prima ballerina of the city ballet in the first episode.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Will Mary Richards Go To Jail?
Season 5, episode 1 W: Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels D: Jay Sandrich With Barbara Colby (Sherry), James Randolph (Harrison), Mary Ann Chinn (Kim), Darlene Conley (Matron), Charles Woolf (Mr. Everett), Don Macon (Reporter). The fifth season starts with Mary facing a possible term in jail when she refuses to reveal her source of a story about graft in high places.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: Blood Of The Dragon (1)
Season 3, episode 1 W: John T. Dugan D: Richard Lang With Patricia Neal (Sara Kingsley), Eddie Albert (Dr. Baxter), Clyde Kusatsu (Han Su Lok), Season Hubley (Margit McLean), Tom Reese (Sheriff), Kay E. Kuter (Vinnie), Kerry MacLane (Richie), Jake Sheffield (Perkins), Kam Yuen (Wong Ti), Wilbur Chang (Sun Lo). The third season begins with a two-hour episode. A woman with power in high sources and filled with hate sends Caine's own cousin to kill him, not knowing that three Chinese specialists are in America for the same purpose.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Klute (1971)
W: Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis D: Alan J. Pakula With Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam. When a research scientist vanishes, the only clue to his disappearance is a letter from him to a call girl. A private detective decides to conduct his own inquiry.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Big Brother Is Watching
Season 3, episode 1 W: Charlotte Brown D: Robert Moore With Pat Finley (Ellen Hartley). The third season begins with Bob getting both good and bad news about his sister's new romantic plans. Ellen moves out of the Hartleys' apartment and into boyfriend Howard Borden's apartment.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 8, episode 1 With Jim Nabors. Jim Nabors helps Carol launch her eighth season as guest star. Carol plays a bungling change clerk in a carny show who gets Nabors involved in a shootout with the Ringo Kid (Harvey Korman). Carol plays a cabaret singer who puts down an old boyfriend. The finale salutes old time vaudeville.
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