Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 25, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Cher [special]
With Flip Wilson, Bette Midler, Elton John. Rebroadcast of the variety hour featuring Cher. Highlights include John performing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"; the cast singing a medley of rock hits and reminiscing about "the good old days"; Cher and Midler duet "Trashy Ladies"; Cher as Laverne reviving the old high school spirit with Wilson as Geraldine. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: An Ugly Way To Die
Season 3, episode 1 W: Dan Ullman D: Phil Bondelli With Jesse Vint (Pete 'Wolf' Gray), Larry Pennell (Henry Glass), Kim Hamilton (Irene), Claire Brennan (Bella), Lou Antonio (Jack Lembo), Stephen Manley. The series begins its third season with the story of an arsonist-sniper whose targets are only firemen. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/9/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] Monday Night Baseball
Baltimore Orioles vs. Kansas City Royals.
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| [CBS 9:00] Beacon Hill: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 A new dramatic series depicting the intertwined relationships of a rich, influential Boston family and its staff of servants -- inspired by the BBC's award-winning 'Upstairs, Downstairs'. The program focuses on the Benjamin Lassiter family, moving in the social circles of 1920s America. In the premiere episode, Benjamin and his wife Mary return home from Europe to a family gathering -- on the eve of Prohibition.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Legend Of Lizzie Borden (1975)
W: William Bast D: Paul Wendkos With Elizabeth Montgomery, Fionnuala Flanagan, Ed Flanders, Fritz Weaver, Don Porter, Katherine Helmond. Dramatization based on the murder case in which a New England spinster was accused of murdering her father and stepmother.
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