Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 10, 1975:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 2, episode 1 With Lucie Arnaz, Reverend Ike, Art Carney.
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| [ABC 8:00] When Things Were Rotten [Reg]: The Capture Of Robin Hood
Season 1, episode 1 W: Mel Brooks, John Boni, Norman Steinberg D: Jerry Paris With Jane A. Johnston (Princess Isabelle), Jimmy Martinez (Chester), Ira Miller (Peasant #1), Barry Hamilton (Peasant #2), Tom Deur (Henchman #1), Marty Zagon (Merwin). A comedy version of the Robin Hood legend, created by Mel Brooks. Tonight, Robin's life hangs in the balance as he is imprisoned in a dungeon -- a condemned man awaiting rescue by his Merry Men.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Richest Man In Walnut Grove
Season 2, episode 1 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Kelly Thordsen (Baker Makay). As the series starts its second year, the Ingalls family learns the meaning of wealth when a company owing them money goes bankrupt, leaving them in debt.
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| [ABC 8:30] That's My Mama [Reg]: The Birthday Party
Season 2, episode 1 W: Lloyd Garver D: Arnold Margolin With Ernestine Wade (Laura). The series begins its second season. Mama receives a practical but bizarre birthday present from son-in-law Leonard -- a burial plot. The ghoulish gift sends the household, particularly Clifton, into a dither.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: Nightmare
Season 5, episode 1 W: Robert Lenski D: Paul Stanley With John McMartin (Senator "Buck" Andrews), Elizabeth Allen (Arlene Thompson Richards), John McLiam (Captain Corday), Janet Ward (Wanda Backus), Harry Townes (Steve), Joe De Santis (Benito Conforte), Robert Doyle (Sterling), Sidney Clute (Carl Pesky). The fifth season opens with the most painful chapter in Cannon's life, when he hears the deathbed confession of a hit man who admits having killed Cannon's wife and infant son 14 years earlier -- but the man dies before explaining his motive.
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Good-Bye Orphan Annie Blues
Season 2, episode 1 W: Paul Magistretti D: Bernard L. Kowalski With Kim Darby (Anne), Barbara Baldavin (April), Paul Williams (Sandy), Norman Burton (Councilman), Al Ruscio (Leader), Robert Ray Sutton (Breezy). Beginning its first full season, Baretta becomes more and more aware that his close friend and helper may be the person selling the dope which is causing a series of overdose deaths in the city.
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| [NBC 9:00] Doctors' Hospital [Reg]: Point Of Maximum Pressure
Season 1, episode 1 W: Barry Oringer D: Leo Penn With Hillary Thompson (Rita Hagen), Cristina Raines (Dr. Terry Antonelli), Bruce Kimmel (Dr. Andrew Hoppe), Joseph George (Ken Garrett), Jeff Corey (Dr. Arthur Wilson), James Whitmore Jr. (Dr. Hagen), Victor Campos (Ortega). Debut of a series that concerns the staff and patients of a large metropolitan hospital. In tonight's segment, a new set of interns starts work on Dr. Goodwin's staff and begins to fulfill his prophecy that most will not make it.
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| [CBS 10:00] Kate McShane [Reg]: The Best Possible Defense
Season 1, episode 1 W: Milt Rosen D: Robert Scheerer With Sian Barbara Allen, Priscilla Pointer, Allan Miller, Stacy Keach Sr.. Anne Meara stars as a feisty but warm-hearted lawyer whose fighting spirit embroils her in legal and personal battles for her clients. Tonight, Kate is stunned as a friend is charged with conspiracy to commit murder stemming from a terrorist bombing during her days as a student militant.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Savage Sunday
Season 1, episode 1 W: Fred Freiberger D: Jack Starrett With Edward Walsh (Wilbur Sloane), Bob Delegall (Gregg Morton), Arthur Peterson (Henny Wilson), Hope Summers (Sarah Wilson), Ray Vitte (Tony), Tom Castronova (Marty), Dick Wesson (Ed), Suzanne Somers (Sally Ann Sloane), Eric Kilpatrick (Huey), Dave Shelley (Geoffrey), Louis James Oliver (Ted), Skip Lowell (Billy). Starsky and Hutch spend a frantic Sunday afternoon in pursuit of two homicidal robbers who don't know their car contains a powerful time bomb set to explode later that day.
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: Shadow Of Fear
Season 2, episode 1 W: Katharyn Michaelian, Michael Michaelian D: Irving J. Moore With Diana Ewing (Dusty Stevens), Ned Beatty (Gage Hurley), John Crawford (Billy Elwood), Michael Bell (Frank Kaiser), Ford Rainey (Hank Stevens), Don 'Red' Barry (Vern Baker), Gerald McRaney (Cliff Rediger). A clown is accused of homicide when a rodeo star with whom he had an argument is found slain, as the series starts its second season.
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