Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 8, 1975:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Antonio And The Mayor [special]
D: Jerry Thorpe With Diego Gonzales, Gregory Sierra, Claudio Martinez, Pepe Callahan, Xavier Marc, Julio Medina. A poignant story which takes place during Mexico's educational reform, when teachers were first being sent into remote areas. It focuses on a brilliant young boy who comes into conflict with the proud mayor of his tiny village over a bicycle that providence has placed in the mayor's possession and which he is unable to hide.
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[ABC 8:00] That's My Mama [Reg]: The Last Haircut
Season 1, episode 16 W: Larry Siegel D: Bob Lahendro With Gordon Jump (Officer O'Reilly). Clifton and Earl debate what to do with the body of Loanshark Louie, who quietly expired in the barber's chair while waiting for a shave and a haircut.
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[NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: 100 Mile Walk
Season 1, episode 3 W: Ward Hawkins D: William F. Claxton With Rick Hurst (Jacob Jacobsen), Don Knight (Jack Peters), Joe Haworth (Williams), Dee Anne (Peggy Peters), Lance Kerwin (Danny Peters), Bill Zuckert (Tom Cassidy), Eve Brent (Elna Jacobsen), Celia Kaye (Willa Sweeney), Terry Lumley (Connie Faraday). When a severe hail storm levels wheat fields around Plum Creek, Pa Ingalls sets out on foot to find work. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1974)
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[ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Missing Are Deadly (1975)
W: Michael Michaelian, Katharyn Michaelian D: Don McDougall With Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, George O'Hanlon Jr., Gary Morgan, Jose Ferrer, Kathleen Quinlan, Marjorie Lord. A scientist's disturbed son takes a rat infected wath a rare virus from his father's lab.
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[NBC 9:00] Lucas Tanner [Reg]: Bonus Baby
Season 1, episode 12 W: Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum D: Randal Kleiser With Tom Selleck (Bud Moore), Jacqueline Scott (Ardis Leversee), Victoria Vetri (Connie), Lara Parker (Dr. Bruner), Craig Littler (Ted Gilardi), Lou Gossett Jr. (Bobby Koball), Gavan O'Herlihy (Steve Leversee). Tanner has to advise a promising athlete about whether to leave school and accept a lucrative offer from a major league scout.
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[CBS 9:30] TV Movie: Miles To Go Before I Sleep (1975)
W: Judith Parker, Bill Svanoe D: Fielder Cook With Martin Balsam, Mackenzie Phillips, Kitty Winn, Pamelyn Ferdin, Florida Friebus, Elizabeth Wilson, Dorothy Meyer. The drama explores the story of an aging and lonely man whose granddaughter, a counselor in a treatment center for delinquent girls, convinces him to become a foster grandparent for a troubled 14-year-old girl who lives in the center.
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[ABC 10:00] Get Christie Love [Reg]: The Deadly Sport
Season 1, episode 13 W: Glen A. Larson D: Mark Warren With Brenda Scott (Joan Norton), Michael Pataki (Gallagher), James Louis Watkins (Doug), Tony Young (Officer Stokes), Alexander Courtney (Arnold Norton), Doris Dowling (Dr. Bussey), Eric Laneuville (Jack). Christie, assigned to help a cop find his stolen motorcycle, gets mixed up with a cop-killing, dope-stealing junkie who sepcializes in robbing drugstores.
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[NBC 10:00] Tennessee Ernie's Nashville-Moscow Express [special]
Tennessee Ernie Ford, singer Sandi Burnett and a young troupe of singers, dancers and entertainers bring America's unique Nashville musical sound to the Russian people. Highlighted are scenes from hitherto prohibited interiors, including the palaces of Catherine the Great and Peter the Great.
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