Saturday May 17, 1975
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 17, 1975:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS All In The Family: All's Fair (R) The Jeffersons: Lionel The Playboy (R) The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite (R) The Bob Newhart Show: We Love You... Good-Bye (R) Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant
ABC Where's The Fire? Movie: Duel In The Sun (1946)
NBC Emergency!: Daisy's Pick (R) Movie: The Great Escape (1963), part one


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: All's Fair
Season 5, episode 18
W: Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell   D: H. Wesley Kenney
Archie has more problems when Mike and Gloria teach Edith a new method on how married people can fight fair. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/18/1975)

[ABC 8:00] Where's The Fire? [special]
With Dave Ketchum, Gregory Sierra, Johnny Brown, John Fink, Danny Fortus. A comedy pilot about a wild group of firemen who hold a beauty contest, hoping to attract a lot of pretty girls, but the plan backfires when demands for "special consideration" are made.

[NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Daisy's Pick
Season 4, episode 7
W: John Groves   D: Don Richardson

With Ann Morgan Guilbert, Brit Lind (Daisy), Dolores Mann (Ruth Goldberg), Bill Couch (Victim), Steve Franken (Bernard Goldberg), John Carradine (Jonas Larson). The bachelor members of Squad 51 are in competition for the first date with a beautiful new nurse at Rampart General. The paramedics rescue an engineer frozen to refrigeration equipment, a man whose hands are glued to his model ship, a comatose child, and an injured man trapped in a theater fire.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/2/1974)

[CBS 8:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Lionel The Playboy
Season 1, episode 4
W: Roger Shulman, John Baskin   D: Jack Shea

With Ronnell Bright (Piano Player). Louise is upset over Lionel's new "playboy" attitude. George, on the other hand, loves the idea of his son rubbing elbows with the rich, but quickly changes his point of view about Linoel's new lifestyle when he learns his son is quitting school.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1975)

[ABC 8:30] Movie: Duel In The Sun (1946)
W: David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht   D: King Vidor

With Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Butterfly McQueen, Walter Huston, Herbert Marshall, Sidney Blackmer. Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

[CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Ted Baxter Meets Walter Cronkite
Season 4, episode 21
W: Ed Weinberger   D: Jay Sandrich

With John Gabriel (Andy Rivers), Walter Cronkite (Himself), John Pringle (Male Presenter), Patricia Wilson (Female Presenter), Nanci Beck (Miss "Teddy Award"). Ted Baxter always dreamed that some day he'd meet his idol, Walter Cronkite, and that would lead to fame and fortune. Ted finally gets his chance, but the occasion is not as auspicious as he'd hoped.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/9/1974)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: The Great Escape (1963), part one
W: James Clavell, W.R. Burnett   D: John Sturges

With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, David McCallum, James Donald. The greatest team of Allied escape artists of World War II -- unwittingly assembed by the Germans -- plan a mass breakout from a maximum-security prison.

[CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: We Love You... Good-Bye
Season 3, episode 12
W: Charlotte Brown   D: Peter Bonerz

With Rhoda Gemignani (Joan Rossi), Ann Weldon (Adele Sinclair), Inge-Maria (Ingrid), Joan Tompkins (Mrs. Cowens), Renee Lippin (Michelle Nardo). Bob gets kicked out of the all-women consciousness-raising group he's formed after Emily joins and inadvertently points up some of the unliberated aspects of their marriage.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1974)

[CBS 10:00] Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant [special] Bob Barker and Helen O'Connell host, live from Niagara Falls.



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