Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 12, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Island In The Desert (1)
Season 20, episode 11 W: Jim Byrnes D: Gunnar Hellstrom With Strother Martin (Ben Snow), Hank Brandt (Sheriff Lipon), Regis Cordic (Sheriff Grimes), William Watson (Gard Dixon). A half-crazed desert hermit saves Festus' life, only to use him later as a human pack animal. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/2/1974)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Prelude To Vengeance
Season 3, episode 8 W: Skip Webster D: Phil Bondelli With Ronne Troup (Laurie Scott), Andrew Robinson (Billy Kempson), Titos Vandis (Nick), Penny Santon (Theresa), Gerrit Graham (Eric), Bernard Barrow (Scott). A young unwed mother, being held as an accomplice in a robbery shooting, names her newborn son after Terry Webster, causing the infant's cop-hating father to go berserk. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/11/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Smothers Brothers Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 12 W: Mickey Rose With Florence Henderson, David Gates. Highlights include Miss Henderson singing "The Entertainer"; Gates sings "Part Time Love"; Pat Paulsen delivers a lecture on sex education.
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| [CBS 9:00] Maude [Reg]: A Night To Remember
Season 3, episode 8 W: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf D: Hal Cooper Maude and Walter are both having sleepless nights: Walter because of the snowstorm which might ruin his annual appliance sale, and Maude, who finally admits that her insomnia is due to her doctor's advice that she have a hysterectomy. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1974)
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| [ABC 9:00] S.W.A.T. [Reg]: Blind Man's Bluff
Season 1, episode 11 W: Walter Black D: George McCowan With Richard Evans (Arly), Andrew Rubin (Bud), Frank Aletter (Lt. Purcell), Byron Morrow (Doctor), Ellen Weston (Betty Harrelson), Richard O'Brien (Chief Roman), Joan Shawlee (Parlor Owner), Kay Stewart (Nurse), Rose Marie (Hilda), Ann Sidney (Regina), Ilona Wilson (Loreen). Lt. Harrelson tries to conceal the fact that a superficial wound, a bullet crease across his temple, has affected his vision. Finally forced to step aside, he turns the SWAT team over to another commander whose methods are decidedly different.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Buck And The Preacher (1972)
W: Ernest Kinoy D: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent With Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell. Poitier directs this comedy-drama about a pair of escaped slaves who head West, with a villainous man in pursuit.
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| [CBS 9:30] Rhoda [Reg]: Strained Interlude
Season 1, episode 18 W: Coleman Mitchell, Geoffrey Neigher D: Robert Moore With Candy Azzara (Alice Barth), Allen Garfield (David Bloom). Rhoda and Joe work very hard at being the perfect modern couple -- but the facade breaks when Rhoda's ex-boyfriend asks her out to dinner. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/20/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: The Prisoners
Season 6, episode 7 With James Wainwright (Ben Wade), Shelby Grant (Diana Richmond), Frank Maxwell (Warden Silver), Dennis Robertson (Day Guard), Eddie Garrett (Night Guard). An unrepentent convict becomes the only hope for saving the life of a rich young woman who is dying of cancer. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/28/1974)
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| [ABC 10:00] Caribe [Reg]: Assault On The Calavera
Season 1, episode 13 With Sheila Larken, Chris Robinson (Monkato), Fay Spain (Connie James), Robert Emhart, Richard O'Brien (Gen. Desmond), Anya Ormsby (Peggy James). Logan and Walters are alerted when a hotel is taken over by armed bandits who hold six people hostage and demand a $3 million ransom from the hotel's owner. (Last show of the series.)
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