Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 16, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Edith's Conversion
Season 4, episode 9 W: Ray Taylor D: John Rich, Bob Lahendro With Betty Garrett (Irene Lorenzo), Phyllis Avery (Sister Theresa), Barnard Hughes (Father John Majeski). Archie's Protestant blood begins to boil when Edith takes to wearing a religious medal and attending Catholic services. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/10/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] Kolchak: The Night Stalker [Reg]: The Werewolf
Season 1, episode 5 W: Paul Playdon, David Chase D: Allen Baron With Eric Braeden (Bernhardt Stieglitz), Dick Gautier (Mel Tarter), Nita Talbot (Paula Griffin), Henry Jones (Captain Julian Wells), Bob Hastings (Hallem), Ray Ballard (Bernie Efron), Barry Cahill (Dr. Ross), Lewis Charles (George Levitt), Dort Clark (Gribbs), Lyn Guild (Lois Prysock), Jimmy Hawkins (Father James Jay Remy), Jackie Russell (Wendy). Kolchak covers the last cruise of a grand old luxury liner and watches the excursion turn into a voyage of horrors when the full moon brings out a werewolf. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Smoke Eater
Season 4, episode 16 W: Edwin Self D: Joseph Pevney With Burt Mustin (Old Man), Anne Whitfield (Betty Johnson), Lin McCarthy, Sid Haig (Spike), Lee H. Montgomery (Billy), John Anderson, Sharon Farrell (Catherine). A senior fire captain is skeptical of new methods until he sees the paramedics rescue an asthmatic child. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/11/1975)
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: Doc
Season 1, episode 1 W: David Lloyd D: Howard Storm With Herbie Faye (Ben Goldman). Barnard Hughes stars in the title role as an old-fashioned New York neighborhood general practitioner. Pilot for the fall series.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: You Can't Lose 'Em All
Season 5, episode 22 W: David Lloyd D: Marjorie Mullen With Larry Wilde (Emcee), Fred Grandy (Rev. Dannenbrink), Lee Vines (Lew Stuart), Judy Reich (Model). A wave of trepidation sweeps the newsroom when Ted fails to receive a nomination in a local television awards competition, and someone has to break the news to him. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/15/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Rookies [Reg]: S.W.A.T. (1)
Season 3, episode 20 W: Robert Hamner D: E.W. Swackhamer With Steve Forrest (Dan "Hondo" Harrelson), Donna Mills (Gwen DeWitt), Robert Walden (Kevin), Jaime Lyn Bauer (Susan), Dick Van Patten (Waldon), Arte Johnson (Justin), Lloyd Bochner (Giraud), Leslie Nielsen (Larry Neal). The rookies are assigned to temporary duty on the Special Weapons and Tactics team, a unit trained to handle unusually volatile situations, to rescue the tenants of a posh apartment building seized by a gang of armed robbers. This episode served as the pilot for the "S.W.A.T." series. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
W: George Axelrod D: John Frankenheimer With Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Leslie Parrish, Henry Silva, James Gregory, John McGiver, Khigh Dhiegh, Albert Paulsen. A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: The Ceiling Hits Bob
Season 3, episode 24 W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Alan Rafkin With Lucien Scott (Mr. Vickers), Jess Nadelman (Bud Brey), Don Nagel (Waiter), Bill Quinn (Eddie), Pat Finley (Ellen Hartley). Bob becomes the "oldest permanent floating psychologist in Chicago" when the ceiling in his office collapses and he has to set up shop wherever he can find the space. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Dick Cavett Show [Reg]
With Liza Minnelli, Doug Henning, Henry Gibson. Cavett hosts a variety show with regulars Imogene Coca and Leigh French.
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