Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday February 19, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Dr. Seuss' The Hoober-Bloob Highway [special]
W: Dr. Seuss D: Alan Zaslove With Hal Smith, Mel Blanc, Bob Holt, June Foray, Lennie Weinrib. Animated fantasy of an imaginary thoroughfare down which new creatures are dispatched to the world after having been briefed on the pros and cons of Earthbound living by Mr. Hoober-Bloob, chief dispatcher. Written by Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel.
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| [ABC 8:00] That's My Mama [Reg]: The Hero
Season 1, episode 22 W: Erik Tarloff D: Norman Abbott With Hilly Hicks (Hank Craig), Roger E. Mosley (Doc Green), Ray Vitte (Freddie Hampton), Jayne Kennedy (Girl). Earl talks Clifton into sheltering his cousin Hank overnight when he returns to town for his father's funeral, even though a vengeance-bent dope gang is after Hank.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Money Crop
Season 1, episode 20 W: Ward Hawkins D: Leo Penn With Ted Gehring (Ed Stacey), Alan Fudge (Joseph Coulter), Art Lund (Tom Jorgensen), Julie Cobb (Trudy Coulter), Lew Brown (Leadbettor), Wayne Heffley (Mr. Kennedy), John Pickard (Constable), Jocelyn Brando (Woman). Faced with the fear of losing their seed money when a young farmer fails to return after convincing the local farmers -- with Pa Ingalls' help -- to replace wheat with corn because of depressed wheat prices, the locals turn on Pa and the other man's pregnant wife.
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| [CBS 8:30] Really Rosie [special]
W: Maurice Sendak D: Maurice Sendak With Carole King, Dale Soules, Alice Playten, Baillie Gerstein, Mark Hampton, Louise Goffin, Sherry Goffin. Animated story of an imaginative little dynamo named Rosie who enchants her young friends into making musical film screen tests.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
W: Suzanne Clauser D: Ralph Senensky With Shirley Jones, James Olson, Katherine Helmond, Woodrow Parfrey, Beeson Carroll, Claudia Bryar, Ann Doran, C. Lindsay Workman, Willie Aames. The true story of a minister and his wife who face many complications when they adopt 12 racially mixed children.
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| [CBS 9:00] Doris Day Today [special]
With John Denver, Tim Conway, Rich Little, The Lockers (Improvisational rock dancers). The guests join Doris in her first TV special in four years -- a music and comedy look at what's happening in the "new" world, plus a few glances back over the past. Doris and Denver duet on "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", "You Are My Sunshine" and "Sunshine".
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| [NBC 9:00] Lucas Tanner [Reg]: Shattered
Season 1, episode 18 D: Richard Benedict With William Windom (Ed Michaelson), Samantha Eggar (Angela Bowman), Marian Collier (Dorothy Michaelson), John David Carson (Tom Michaelson), Eddie Quillan (Mr. Krebbs). A woman teacher's emotional stability is threatened when she has an affair with one of her students.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Manhunter [Reg]: The Death Watch
Season 1, episode 20 W: Robert I. Holt With Robert Hogan (Paul Tate), Susan Oliver (Liz Butler), Simon Scott (Howard Cantwell), Collin Wilcox (Ellen Cantwell), Mark Jenkins, Steve Sandor, Lin McCarthy. Barrett seeks the killer who set off an explosion in which his friend Paul Tate was critically hurt, and he learns that a beautiful woman fears the blast was meant for her.
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| [ABC 10:00] Get Christie Love [Reg]: The Big Rematch
Season 1, episode 18 W: Howard Berk D: Gene Levitt With Rosemary Casals (Herself), Bobby Riggs (Himself), Keith Atkinson (Robert Miles), James G. Richardson (Joe Madison), Phillip Pine (Emmet Reese), Karen McMahon (Elaine Harris), Rick Jason (Walt Harris), Kenneth Tobey (Sheriff Baxter). Christie and her partner are loaned to a small town desert resort to help control crowds during a $250,000 tennis tournament which is hit by murder and the disappearance of the prize money.
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: A Lonely Victim
Season 1, episode 17 W: Leonard Katzman D: Irving J. Moore With Anjanette Comer (Mary Thoppe), Madlyn Rhue (Ellen Walker), Simon Scott (Carson), Don Dubbins (Joseph Bear), Fred Beir (Raymond Walker), Mark Goddard (Perry Brooks), David Huddleston (Lt. Ponce). A woman who has been having an affair wth her boss becomes the prime suspect when he is slain.
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