Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 19, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: Island In The Desert (2)
Season 20, episode 12 W: Jim Byrnes D: Gunnar Hellstrom With Strother Martin (Ben Snow), Regis Cordic (Sheriff Grimes), Hank Brandt (John Lipon), William Watson (Gard Dixon). Festus is carrying gold across a barren desert where he encounters a killer who once left him for dead, but who now is in the same predicament at the hands of an old hermit. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/9/1974)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Take Over
Season 3, episode 14 W: Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum D: E.W. Swackhamer With Vic Tayback (Brakow), Harold J. Stone (Al Steinman), Vincent Baggetta (Dr. Marco), Barbara Baxley (Clara), Sandy Kenyon, Ray Walston (Melrose), Joseph Bernard (Ellis). Lt. Ryker and his men become prisoners in their own precinct when a band of well-organized mobsters invade the station to get a syndicate chief released. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/30/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Smothers Brothers Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 13 W: Mickey Rose With Linda Ronstadt, Hoyt Axton. Highlights include the brothers singing "Big Time Crime"; Axton offers "Sweet Misery"; Ronstadt sings "Heart Like a Wheel" and teams with Axton for "Lion in the Winter". (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 9:00] Emmy Awards [special]
With Beatrice Arthur, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Cher, Teresa Graves, Michael Learned, Mary Tyler Moore, Susan Saint James, Jean Stapleton, Karen Valentine. The 27th annual Emmy Awards ceremony, honoring television's best of 1974, will be presented live from the Hollywood Palladium.
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| [ABC 9:00] S.W.A.T. [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Great Escape (1963), part two
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. Conclusion of the film story of Allied prisoners during World War II who attempt a daring escape from a German prison camp.
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| [ABC 10:00] Caribe [Reg]: The Plastic Connection
Season 1, episode 1 W: Ed Waters With Jack Ging (Polachek), Julie Adams (Millicent Blasdell), Ray Danton (Reese), Ellen Weston (Geri Adgate), Paul Jenkins (Dan Purcell), Rudy Challenger (Dr. Grovner). Stacy Keach stars in his first television series as a lieutenant on a two-man Caribbean police force. In tonight's episode, a middle-aged accountant becomes the victim of two syndicate hitmen, who are able to track him down despite plastic surgery. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1975)
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