Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 8, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Zig Zag (1970)
W: John T. Kelley D: Richard A. Colla With George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Steve Ihnat, William Marshall, Joe Maross, Dana Elcar. The story of a man who fakes his involvement in a kidnap-and-murder crime and finds he's caught in his own trap.
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| [ABC 8:00] Movie: The Cowboys (1972)
W: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, William D. Jennings D: Mark Rydell With John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. A rancher takes a group of schoolboys and turns them into men on a cattle drive.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Golden Boy
Season 4, episode 19 W: George Yanok, Bob Garland D: Norman Abbott With David Doyle (Clancy Fitzgerald), Hank Rolike (Yerby), Barry Wright (Junior). For $50, Yerby sells Fred "a million-dollar deal", co-management of Junior Joe Louis, a 300-pounder who eats better than he fights. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1975)
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| [NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Long Live The Man
Season 1, episode 22 W: Michael Morris D: Jack Donohue With Roger C. Carmel (Priest). A newspaper death notice lists Ed Brown, but his return from a weekend trip sets the neighborhood into a flurry, prompting Chico to conduct a "living" memorial to his partner. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Counter Gambit
Season 1, episode 16 W: Juanita Bartlett, Howard Berk D: Jackie Cooper With Mary Frann (Valerie Thomas / Maria Heller), Eddie Fontaine (Moss Williams), Burr DeBenning (Harry Crown), Ford Rainey (Manny Tolan), M. Emmet Walsh (Edgar Burch), Garry Walberg (Arnold Cutter), Eric Server (Daniel Kramer), Barbara Collentine (Miss Bolting). A convict hires Rockford under the pretext that he wants to find his girl, when he actually is after her jewelry. Rockford then gets into a battle of wits over a pearl necklace and a pretty woman. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/24/1975)
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| [CBS 9:30] Movie: They Call Me Trinity (1970)
W: Enzo Barboni D: Enzo Barboni With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkle, Gisela Hahn. Two quick-on-the-trigger cowboy brothers have differing plans for the future and for the property they hope to steal.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: The Company
Season 1, episode 19 W: Gregory K. Scott D: Alvin Ganzer With John Crawford (Deputy Chief Parks), Frank DeKova (Vito Angelo), Joel Lawrence (Proctor), Jack Ryland (Doug), Marjorie Battles (Margo), Sheldon Allman (Captain Miller), Cedric Hardman (Cedric), Victor Holchak (Johnny), Jack Sheldon (Jeff), Timothy Blake (Susan), Johnny Seven (Gino Di Roma), Kaz Garas (Frankie Benson), Rick Jason (Vincent Phillips), Shelley Berman (Eddie Bender), Paula Kelly (Linda Summers). The police investigate three gangland executions surrounding the organization of a new syndicate. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1975)
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| [ABC 10:30] PGA Championship
Coverage of the second round of this golf tournament from Akron, Ohio.
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