Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 7, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gorilla [special]
David Niven narrates a close-up look at the habits and daily life of a family of mountain gorillas, the largest of all apes. Filmed entirely in the dense rain forests of Zaire, the program shows how a park leader gained the trust of the 450-pound leader of the gorilla family.
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| [ABC 8:00] Kolchak: The Night Stalker [Reg]: The Knightly Murders
Season 1, episode 18 W: David Chase, Michael Kozoll D: Vincent McEveety With John Dehner (Captain Vernon Rausch), Hans Conried (Mendel Boggs), Shug Fisher (Pop Stenvold), Robert Emhardt (Roger), Jeff Donnell (Maura), Don Carter (Lester Nash), Sidney Clute (Bruce Krause), Lieux Dressler (Minerva Musso), Jim Drum (Leo Ramutka), Bryan O'Byrne (Charles Johnson), William O'Connell (Brewster Hawking), Gregg Palmer (Sergeant Buxbaum). Kolchak's investigation of a series of Chicago deaths takes him on a crusade against a 12th century "Knight of the Black Cross".
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: The Older Woman
Season 4, episode 23 W: Ted Bergman D: Alan Rafkin With Kim Hamilton (Grace), Brenda Sutton (Louise), Kathryn Jackson (Mabel), Lillian Randolph (Lady Customer). Fred starts scheming when Lamont falls for Grace, a woman several years his senior. To show Lamont he is being ridiculous, Fred brings his own older woman to the house to meet Lamont.
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| [NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Louie's Retirement
Season 1, episode 21 W: Ben Joelson, Art Baer D: James Komack With Herbie Faye (Bernie), Damian London (Garbage Man). Louie, the garbage man, "retires" and spends all his spare hours at Ed's garage getting in the way while trying to be helpful.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Soylent Green (1973)
W: Stanley Greenberg D: Richard Fleischer With Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Paula Kelly, Brock Peters. In the near future, nothing is left in abundance on the planet except people who face housing and feeding problems. Survival depends solely on government-rationed food. A detective investigating a murder uncovers the gruesome knowledge that a plan is underway to resolve the food problem by taking man back to his most primitive stages.
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| [ABC 9:00] Hot L Baltimore [Reg]: The Deportation Of Suzy
Season 1, episode 7 W: Elias Davis, David Pollock D: Bob Lahendro With Graham Jarvis (Officer Adams). Suzy faces deportation when the immigration department labels her an undesirable alien.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Roundabout
Season 1, episode 22 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Lou Antonio With Jesse Welles (Nancy Wade), Ron Rifkin (Tom Robertson), Mills Watson (Edward Moss), Frank Michael Liu (Kenneth Mamato), Virginia Gregg (Eleanor Wainwright), George Wyner (Strock), Joe E. Tata (Agent Hanzer), Fred Lerner (Freeman), Robert Ward (Hotel Clerk). Jim is hired to deliver an insurance check to a recording artist, but discovers she is the prisoner of a syndicate who is exploiting her.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Felix Remarries
Season 5, episode 22 W: Sidney Reznick, Larry Rhine D: Jack Donohue With Janis Hansen (Gloria Unger), Leif Garrett (Leonard Unger), Doney Oatman (Edna Unger), Bartlett Robinson (Minister). In order to win back his ex-wife, Felix changes his finicky ways with Oscar's help. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 10:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Coppelli Oath
Season 1, episode 7 W: Michael Butler D: Don Medford With George DiCenzo (Sal Bodine), Kathleen Beller (Carla), Tony Charnota (Coxie), Michael Lembeck (Phil Coppelli), John Friedrich (Niki Coppelli), L. Randy Martin (Parky), Jason Ronard (Chisel), Lew Palter (Grover), Michael Goodrow (Mike), Marie Lillo (Mrs. Coppelli), Joe Stefano, Richard Cox (Pogo). When Baretta unwillingly kills a young dope pusher in a shootout, the man's younger brother then vows to kill the detective.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Bloody Nose
Season 1, episode 21 W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Leonard Horn With Joe Kapp (Visic), Jack Soo (Red Star), Joyce Jameson (Mrs. Dougherty), Eddie Egan (Brock), Joan Goodfellow (Hilary Barry), David Birney (Sean Barry), Helene Winston (Sylvia), Bill McKeever (Trucker), Hal Baylor (Trucker), Isiah Robertson (Trucker), Paul Pepper (Trucker), Al Stellone (Trucker). While Sgt. Crowley is a counterman in a cafe, hoping to entrap a gang of truck hijackers, Pepper poses as a waitress at a neighboring cafe.
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