Friday May 16, 1975
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Friday May 16, 1975:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Movie: Don't Drink The Water (1969) Movie: Going Home (1971)
ABC Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Bad Medicine (R) ABC Sports Special
NBC Sanford And Son: Sanford And Niece (R) Chico And The Man: Natural Causes (R) The Rockford Files: The Big Ripoff (R) Police Woman: Fish (R)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Movie: Don't Drink The Water (1969)
W: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock   D: Howard Morris

With Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Joan Delaney, Michael Constantine. American tourists in Europe are mistaken as spies.

[ABC 8:00] Kolchak: The Night Stalker [Reg]: Bad Medicine
Season 1, episode 8
W: L. Ford Neale, John Huff   D: Alexander Grasshoff

With Richard Kiel (The Diablero), Alice Ghostley (Dr. Temple), Victor Jory (Charles Rolling Thunder), Ramon Bieri (Captain Baker), Marvin Kaplan (Albert Delgado), James Griffith (George Schwartz), Dennis McCarthy (Ballistics Man), Morris Buchanan (Night Watchman), Marilyn Clark (Hostess), Lois January (Adele Saperstein), Barbara Morrison (Mrs. Addison), Riza Royce (Mrs. Van Piet). Kolchak discovers a creature that uses its hypnotic eyes to to transfix and kill wealthy matrons for their jewels.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/29/1974)

[NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Sanford And Niece
Season 4, episode 9
W: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein   D: Norman Abbott

With Lynn Hamilton (Donna Harris), Tina Andrews (Elizabeth), Berlinda Tolbert (Delores), Ray Vitte (Lewis), Robin James (Joan). Fred's young niece comes to town and asks to stay a few days while she gets set up to go to school. Because she looks like his deceased wife, Fred becomes attached to her.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1974)

[NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Natural Causes
Season 1, episode 11
W: Steve Gordon   D: Peter Baldwin

With Bill McLean (Alfred), Luis de Cordova (Doctor), Shirley O'Hara (Betty). Ed reads about a friend dying of natural causes and gets help from Chico and a doctor to help fight off this "dreaded disease".
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/20/1974)

[ABC 9:00] ABC Sports Special Muhammad Ali vs. Ron Lyle in Las Vegas. Howard Cosell reports.

[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Big Ripoff
Season 1, episode 7
W: Robert Hamner, Jo Swerling Jr.   D: Vincent McEveety

With Jill Clayburgh (Marilyn Polonski), Norman Burton (Melvyn Moss), Fred Beir (Steve Nelson / Dennis Rains), Bruce Kirby (Carl LeMay), Nedra Dean (Nancy Frazer), Warren Vanders (Earl Pitt), Kelly Thordsen (Sheriff Neal), Suzanne Somers (Ginny Nelson), Jack Garner (Man in Airport), Jenny Maybrook (Ticket Clerk). Rockford believes that an insurance company was taken for $400,000 in settling with the lone survivor of a plane crash.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1974)

[CBS 9:30] Movie: Going Home (1971)
W: Lawrence B. Marcus   D: Herbert B. Leonard

With Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Kirkland. A boy witnesses his father kill his mother. Years later, when the father is released from prison, the now-grown youth seeks revenge.

[NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Fish
Season 1, episode 7
W: Frank Telford   D: Bernard McEveety

With Dr. Joyce Brothers (Dr. Esther Howell), Morgan Woodward (Maury Ziegler), Marian Mercer (Jo Enders), Conny Van Dyke (Binnie Blye), John Alvin (Mr. Finley), Burr Smidt (Doctor), Ray Young (Bo), Sarina Grant (Corine), Lester Rawlins (Hoss Wilson). Sgt. Anderson poses as a convict in a women's prison to convince a gangster's girlfriend to testify against him.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1974)

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