Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday March 6, 1975:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Venture
Season 3, episode 25 W: Joseph Bonaduce D: Ralph Waite With Rance Howard (Dr. McIvers), James Gammon (Zack Rosswell), M. Emmet Walsh (David Fletcher), John Carter (Walt Cutlett), Craig Hundley (Joseph), Claudia Bryar (Nurse Howard), Herbert Anderson (Mr. Bennett), Celia Bonaduce (Barbara), Jerry Crews (Music Judge). John Walton is elated at winning a large lumber contract, but Grandpa comes down with the flu and John insists on doing the work of both men -- until Olivia finds him unconscious.
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[ABC 8:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Bureaucrat
Season 1, episode 7 W: Richard Baer, Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward D: Bob Finkel With David Wayne (E.J. Heiss), Milt Kogan (Officer Kogan), Elliott Reid (Wayne Boley), Claudio Martinez (Manolo Reyes), Milton Selzer (Murray Grossman). A hard-drinking Washington, D.C. bureaucrat gets loaded and becomes an overnight guest in the squad-room cell.
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[NBC 8:00] Sunshine [Reg]: Sweet Misery
Season 1, episode 1 W: Carol Sobieski D: George Eckstein With Michael Greer (Big Mama), Evelyn Russell (Mrs. Ellis). A series built around the life of a young aspiring singer-musician and the 5-year-old daughter of his deceased wife. In the first show, Sam Hayden tries to be a good father while attempting to succeed as lead singer in a group.
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[ABC 8:30] Karen [Reg]: Hartford Revisited
Season 1, episode 6 W: Richard Baer D: Gene Reynolds With Bob Hastings (Dave Blyden), Carol Arthur (Beverly Blyden), Aldine King (Cissy Peterson). Congressman Hartford asks Karen to marry him and wants her answer within 24 hours.
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[NBC 8:30] The Bob Crane Show [Reg]: Mid-Term Blues
Season 1, episode 1 W: Martin Donovan D: Norman Powell With Will Seltzer (Schmidt), Gene Blakely (Professor), Robert Riesel (Delivery Man), Kenneth Mars (Jack). Bob Crane returns to TV in a series, playing a former insurance company vice president who has chosen in his early 40s to make a second career start by returning to medical school. In the first show, he's fearful of being unable to make the grade scholastically and wonders if his old job is still open.
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[CBS 9:00] Twigs [special]
W: George Furth D: Alan Arkin, Clark Jones With Alex Rocco, Edward Asner, Conrad Bain, Pat Hingle, Jack Gilford, Liam Dunn, Gary Burghoff. Carol Burnett stars in the one-woman, seven-man Broadway show. In four segments, Carol plays three sisters and their mother in playlets loosely woven together by family connections.
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[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Love Among The Ruins (1975)
W: James Costigan D: George Cukor With Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Robert Harris, Richard Pearson, Joan Sims, Leigh Lawson. In London in 1911, a wealthy retired actress turns to a man who has loved her from afar for 40 years when she is sued for breach of promise by a younger man she decided not to marry.
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[NBC 9:00] Archer [Reg]: The Vanished Man
Season 1, episode 5 W: Harold Livingston D: Arnold Laven With Don Porter (Robert Lawrence), Anne Francis (Angela Lawrence), Karen Carlson (Judith Prescott), Victoria Young (Tara Nason). Lew is hired by a wealthy businessman to find a missing body. His wife accidentally hits a man on a desolate canyon road, but the body disappears when she returns with her husband.
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[NBC 10:00] Movin' On [Reg]: The Price Of Loving
Season 1, episode 22 W: Eugene Price D: Seymour Robbie With Frank Campanella (Wheels), Anne Francis (Abby), John Schuck (Teddy Brown), Sean Maley (Leroy), Jay Robertson (Stevie), Chris Valentine (Junior), Christopher Crew (Bumper), Kelly Jean Peters (Betsy). Sonny and Will volunteer to help an ailing friend deliver his San Francisco-to-Reno cargo and discover the trucker has wives in both cities.
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[CBS 10:30] We'll Get By [Reg]
(Preview episode) There's promise in this new situation comedy series which aims at delineating characters and their behavior rather than subject matter. Created by Alan Alda, this episode concerns son Kenny who tries to quiz his family for his school paper while George and Liz Platt, his parents, are discussing a friend's marital problem and begin to dig into aspects of their own marriage.
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