Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 7, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 1, episode 7 With Danny Thomas, Ruth Buzzi. Ruth plays the wife of a jealous butcher and a distressed woman who files a missing person report at a police station. Everyone joins in the musical sketch "Ya Gotta Give the People Hope". Tony sings "Until It's Time For You to Go", Dawn performs"I'm a Woman" and team up with Tony for "Personality". (Repeat program, originally aired 1/22/1975)
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| [ABC 8:00] That's My Mama [Reg]: Clifton's Con
Season 1, episode 9 W: Thad Mumford, Dan Wilcox D: Bob Lahendro With Ron Gist (Floyd). Mama fumes when Clifton gives a job to a friend, an ex-convict, in spite of the family economic pinch. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Founder's Day
Season 1, episode 23 W: John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins D: William F. Claxton With Forrest Tucker (Jim Tyler), Tracie Savage (Christy Kennedy), Bonnie Bartlett (Grace Snider), Wayne Heffley (Mr. Kennedy), Ann Doran (Helen Tyler), Georgia Schmidt (Mrs. Grady). An aging logger, once "bull of the woods", goads Pa into a log-chopping contest and beats him.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Matt Helm (1975)
W: Sam Rolfe D: Buzz Kulik With Tony Franciosa, Ann Turkel, Laraine Stephens, John Vernon, Gene Evans, Val Bisoglio, James Shigeta, Patrick Macnee, Catherine Bach, Michael C. Gwynne. A former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners. Pilot for the series.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Hit Man
Season 4, episode 2 W: Robert Heverly D: William Wiard With Richard Kiley (Bishop Harrigan), Christopher Connelly (Father Joseph), Ray Danton (Alex), Richard O'Brien (Chief Ames), Val Avery (Leo Crothers), Michael Bell (Delaney), Paul Stewart (Lester Cain). A Catholic bishop's life depends upon Cannon posing as a hired gunman. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/18/1974)
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| [NBC 9:00] Flip Wilson Special [special]
With Cher, Kenny Rankin, Richard Pryor, Marie Bryant, McLean Stevenson. Flip's fourth and final show of the season. The highlight will be about Geraldine's Charm School.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dan August [Reg]: Murder In A Small Town
Season 1, episode 2 W: Robert Dozier D: Harvey Hart With Ricardo Montalban (Manuel Acaba), John Marley (Sam Mirakian), Anna Navarro (Consuelo), Cal Bellini (Jose). At the height of tension between Chicano field hands and Anglo growers, the death of a little Mexican-American girl in a bus crash threatens the community with an outbreak of violence. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1970)
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| [ABC 10:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Five And A Half Pound Junkie
Season 1, episode 2 W: Peter S. Fischer D: Don Medford With Ayn Ruymen (Sue Lee), Sarah Cunningham (Jessie Perino), Rudolph Willrich (Randy Cole), Mario Roccuzzo (Joey Perino), James Louis Watkins (Abe Polo), Simmy Bow (Lowell Petrie), Mike Lieberman (Police Captain), Richard Branda (Koppleman), Harry Caesar (Cliff Johnson), Victor Argo (Deacon), Gerrit Graham (Rich Parrish), Alan Oliney (Royal Curtis). An old friend of Baretta's is killed and he has to take care of the widow, who is both pregnant and addicted to heroin, while he searches for the murderer. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1975)
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: By Reason Of Madness
Season 1, episode 3 W: William Kelley D: James Sheldon With Lynda Day George (Vickie Richardson), John Vernon (Barney Majors), Loretta Swit (Ella Knox), James McEachin (Dr. Shoate), Rory Calhoun (Edgar Richardson), Rudy Bond (Dr. Starnberg). Tony Petrocelli agrees to defend a woman, charged with having murdered her husband, a slaying which the prosecuting attorney claims was prompted by jealousy of her husband's mistress. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1974)
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